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8:20 AM ET, November 15, 2016

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Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed:
Renegade Facebook Employees Form Task Force To Battle Fake News  —  The group is hoping to challenge the position by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the platform has no responsibility to address the issue following the election of Donald Trump.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook employees have formed …
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Bans Fake News Sites From Using Its Advertising Network  —  Google made a similar move earlier Monday  —  Facebook Inc. on Monday banned fake news sites from using the company's advertising network to generate revenue, a Facebook spokesman said, following a similar move by its rival Alphabet Inc.'s Google
New York Times:
Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites  —  Over the last week, two of the world's biggest internet companies have faced mounting criticism over how fake news on their sites may have influenced the presidential election's outcome.  —  On Monday, those companies responded by making …
Reuters:
Google, Facebook move to restrict ads on fake news sites
Discussion: Gizmodo, CNBC and The Verge
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
3 Thoughts On Steve Bannon As White House ‘Chief Strategist’  —  So, in a not-unexpected move, Donald Trump has elevated former Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon to chief strategist of the White House.  —  When I left Breitbart back in March, I accused Bannon of turning Breitbart News into Trump Pravda …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Glenn Beck: Bannon has ‘clear tie’ to white nationalism  —  Conservative commentator Glenn Beck called President-elect Donald Trump  —  's choice for a top adviser a “nightmare” who has ties to the white nationalist movement.  —  “You know, if people really want to in the press …
Discussion: Politico, RedState and AOL
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
America's Emerging Nationalism Crisis  —  Progressives managed not to see the nose on their face  —  The election of Donald Trump as our next president heralds a new political epoch for the United States.  Whatever his shortcomings as a candidate, the Republican nominee, a political neophyte …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Praise for Reince Priebus is another sign of how we're lowering the bar for Trump
CNN:
White nationalists see advocate in Steve Bannon who will hold Trump to his campaign promises
Wall Street Journal:
Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton Are Leading Candidates for Next Secretary of State  —  Aides to President-elect Trump are focusing on former New York City mayor and former U.S. ambassador to U.N.  —  WASHINGTON—Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are focusing on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani …
Discussion: Reuters and The Week
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Rudy Giuliani Says Defeating ISIS to Be Early Focus of Donald Trump's Foreign Policy
Discussion: Political Wire and Washington Post
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:   Rudy Giuliani Crushes Pre-Election Chatter About His Alleged Demise
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
THE MYTHS DEMOCRATS SWALLOWED THAT COST THEM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION  —  THE SCOOP 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEMOCRATIC PARTY  —  On Friday, I almost assaulted a fan of my work.  I was in the Philadelphia International Airport, and a man who recognized me from one of my appearances on a television news show approached.
Ben Weyl / Politico:
GOP and Trump put deficit on back burner  —  A serious case of fiscal amnesia may soon be sweeping the GOP.  —  For eight years, Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for exploding the national debt.  But now a GOP-led spending spree is coming, with Donald Trump riding to the White House …
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Associated Press:
House GOP Seems Ready to Renew Ryan, Other Leaders for 2017
Discussion: ABC News
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:   House Speaker Paul Ryan's immigration policy is not “in the best interest of America,” says Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks.
CBS News:
Trump team seeks top-secret security clearances for Trump's children  —  President-elect Donald Trump is potentially seeking top secret security clearances for his children, sources tell CBS News.  —  The Trump team has asked the White House to explore the possibility of getting his children the top secret security clearances.
Jatara McGee / WSAZ-TV:
Non-profit director and mayor under fire after First Lady Facebook post  —  CLAY COUNTY, W.Va (WSAZ) — Two Clay County women are under intense criticism after a Facebook post launched outrage on social media.  Screenshots of the post have been shared thousands of times.
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Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
‘Ape in heels’: W.Va. officials under fire after comments about Michelle Obama
Discussion: RT, Jezebel and Charleston Gazette-Mail
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Sessions leading choice for defense secretary  —  Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is the leading contender for Donald Trump's secretary of defense, sources close to the transition say — a choice that would reward the president-elect's most outspoken congressional loyalist but offer few olive branches …
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Rehema Figueiredo / Daily Express:
Trump to bring back Churchill statue SHAMEFULLY removed from White House by Barack Obama  —  NIGEL FARAGE has revealed that Donald Trump will re-install a bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office by Barack Obama - in a clear sign of the friendship the new President wishes to foster with Britain.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Chris Kleponis / Talking Points Memo:   President Obama On Trump: 'I Don't Think He's Ideological'
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Short list emerges for RNC chair  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, Mitt Romney's niece, and a host of other GOP officials are all in the running to become the next chair of a Republican Party that is at the peak of its power.  —  Reince Priebus …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump's Choice of Stephen Bannon Is Nod to Anti-Washington Base  —  WASHINGTON — In naming Stephen K. Bannon to a senior White House post, President-elect Donald J. Trump has elevated the hard-right nationalist movement that Mr. Bannon has nurtured for years from the fringes of American politics …
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Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
ADL scorns Trump choice of Breitbart chief Stephen Bannon as top adviser
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Critics See Stephen Bannon, Trump's Pick for Strategist, as Voice of Racism
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Putin and Trump Talk on Phone and Agree to Improve Ties, Kremlin Says  —  MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke by telephone for the first time on Monday, agreeing to review what both consider the poor state of relations between the two countries …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD will not help deport immigrants under Trump, chief says  —  Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that he did not intend to change the LAPD's approach to immigration enforcement, despite pledges by President-elect Donald Trump to toughen federal immigration laws and increase deportations.
Kate Bellows / The Cavalier Daily:
Professors ask Sullivan to stop quoting Jefferson  —  Many student groups believe Jefferson shouldn't be included in emails  —  Several groups on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9.
Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
The Years of Living Dangerously  —  I have held off posting anything publicly on the election because with an event which combines this level of surprise with this traumatic a nightmare, I wanted to take some time to reflect, analyze, and hear what others were thinking before I rushed in and vomited my emotions all over my desktop.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Bloomberg:
Apple Considers Wearables Expansion With Digital Glasses  —  Early product testing comes as company searches for next hit  —  Similar Google Glass project flopped as a consumer product  —  Apple Inc. is weighing an expansion into digital glasses, a risky but potentially lucrative area …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Gwen Ifill dead at age 61  —  Gwen Ifill, the longtime PBS news anchor who had served as a co-host of PBS's NewsHour and as moderator of “Washington Week,” has died after a battle with cancer, PBS has confirmed.  She was 61.  —  “It is with extremely heavy hearts that we must share …
 
 
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Newsroom Rankled By ‘Offensive’ Election Night Party Stunt
Discussion: Jezebel and Mediaite
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Keith Ellison makes DNC bid official, rolls out 40 endorsements
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Root
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Far-Flung Holdings Raise Potential for Conflicts of Interest
Esther Whieldon / Politico:
Steyer calls on Obama to ban offshore drilling in Arctic, Atlantic
Discussion: The Hill and Hot Air
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Monday in Pictures: The Epic Trumpening Supplemental
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama to team: You can mope for two weeks
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 Earlier Items: 
Rush Limbaugh:
Obama and Hillary Must Shut Down Their Riots: The Democrat Party's Illusion Is Shattered …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
The presidential election was a referendum on gender and women lost
Discussion: naked capitalism
Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:
Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump's America
Discussion: Jezebel and The Week
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump Slump Coming?
Discussion: Guardian and The Daily Caller
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CBS News under fire for holding clip of Trump telling supporters not to attack minorities
Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:
What's Mike Pence hiding in his emails?