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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | How the GOP Flipped and Stripped Yet Another American Election 
Voting rights. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) 
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News 
Excerpt: "Hillary Clinton has won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election by well over a million votes. But her impending defeat in the Electoral College comes with familiar signs that yet another American election has been stripped and flipped." 
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NSA Turmoil Could Threaten Chief's Job - and Expand Trump's Power 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "A potential structural change to the US surveillance apparatus has thrown the tenure of the National Security Agency director, Michael Rogers, into doubt and increased the likelihood that Donald Trump will have a chance to substantially reshape the US intelligence agencies." 
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7 Big Areas Where Jeff Sessions Could Change Policy at DOJ 
Danny Vinik, Politico 
Vinik writes: "Sen. Jeff Sessions was an instantly divisive figure when President-elect Donald Trump named him as his next attorney general: conservatives and immigration hardliners welcomed the choice, while civil-rights groups and Democrats spent the day attacking the pick, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren saying his selection would be a 'compromise with racism.'" 
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Congressional Phones Jammed by Calls for Trump Conflict-of-Interest Investigation 
Elise Viebeck, The Washington Post 
Viebeck writes: "If you're trying to call the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, you might find yourself on hold for ... the afternoon." 
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Corporate America Is Failing on Paid Family Leave 
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress 
Covert writes: "The United States is the only developed country in the world that doesn't require its employers to give new parents time off for the arrival of their child. That, of course, doesn't preclude employers from doing it voluntarily, and some have made headlines for offering generous policies." 
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Turkey: Refugees Set Deportation Center on Fire, Escape 
Al Jazeera 
Excerpt: "Around 50 refugees have escaped from a repatriation centre in central Istanbul after starting a fire inside the building, according to Turkish media." 
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No New Federal Oil and Gas Leases in the Arctic Ocean for the Next Five Years 
Rebecca Hersher, NPR 
Hersher writes: "The Obama Administration has removed the Arctic Ocean from any new offshore oil and gas leasing for the next five years." 
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