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<i>The Atlantic </i> Politics & Policy Daily: Not With a Bang, but With a Tweet

The president-elect tweeted that the U.S. should “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.”
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President-elect Donald Trump Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee’s communications director, to serve as White House press secretary, and his former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, to serve as counselor to the president. On Twitter, Trump the United States to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability,” but did not offer more detail. The Obama administration a national the rebel-held city of Aleppo, according to state media.

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