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The president-elect met with intelligence officials Friday about Russian hacking, but still didn't seem convinced of Russia's role in the election. Instead, he stressed none of it changed the outcome.

Republicans have embraced many of Trump's stances on key issues like trade and the deficit. On Russia, however, they couldn't be more divided.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov went on state TV Friday to announce plans for a tit-for-tat response to U.S. sanctions on Russia. But President Vladimir Putin says it's not happening.

The White House announced Thursday a number of actions in response to what it calls cyber-attacks aimed at the U.S. "All Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions," President Obama said.

John Brennan told NPR some retaliation techniques are "beneath this country's greatness." On the war in Syria, Brennan said he does not believe the violence will end, despite the fall of Aleppo.

Intelligence sources tell NPR that the FBI agrees with the leaked CIA assessment that Russia interfered with the U.S. election, in part to help Donald Trump become president.

The president also warned Russia, whom U.S. intelligence is accusing of interfering in the presidential election, "We can do stuff to you."

President Obama tells NPR in a new interview that the U.S. response to Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 election may be both "explicit" and not.

The company says the intruders accessed names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and even security questions. This is the second major hack announced by Yahoo in less than three months.

NPR has confirmed that intelligence officials say it's now "quite clear" Russian hackers worked to tip the presidency in Donald Trump's favor. Trump's transition team has dismissed the assessment.