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2:40 PM ET, November 18, 2016

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New York Times:
Donald Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Senator Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama who became a close adviser after endorsing him early in his campaign, to be the attorney general of the United States …
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New York Times:
Michael Flynn, Anti-Islamist Ex-General, Offered Security Post, Trump Aide Says  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has offered the post of national security adviser to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, potentially putting a retired intelligence officer who believes Islamist militancy poses …
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director  —  President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, the first selections to his Cabinet …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Building Team of Racists  —  Donald Trump's presidential campaign bludgeoned modern norms about the acceptability of racism.  The candidate proposed a religious test for immigrants, and called a federal judge unfit on the grounds of his heritage.
Bloomberg:
Jeff Sessions Said to Be Trump's Pick for Attorney General  —  Alabama lawmaker was an early and ardent Trump supporter  —  Sessions was also under consideration for Defense secretary  —  President-elect Donald Trump has settled on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, according to two people familiar with the matter.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump poised to learn the Pottery Barn rule of governing  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  A more apt reference, especially after Trump's inauguration, might be the Pottery Barn Rule.  Colin Powell popularized this doctrine in the foreign policy context.
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Michael Flynn, Trump's reported pick for national security adviser, sat in on intel briefings — while advising foreign clients  —  Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who has reportedly been offered the role of national security adviser in Donald Trump's White House, began receiving classified …
New York Times:
Mike Pompeo Is Trump's Choice as C.I.A. Director  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Representative Mike Pompeo, a hawkish Republican from Kansas and a former Army officer, to lead the C.I.A., his transition team said Friday.  —  Mr. Pompeo, who has served …
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jeff Sessions, Trump's Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Team Dodges On Anti-Muslim, Racist Comments From Flynn, Sessions
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge.  He Might Become Trump's Attorney General.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump picks conservative loyalists for top security, law enforcement jobs
Discussion: Hot Air and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Michael Flynn's son and chief of staff pushed conspiracy theories, obscene memes online
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Jezebel
Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump nearing settlement in Trump University fraud case  —  ALBANY — In a complete turnaround from his previous position, President-elect Donald Trump is nearing a settlement of the fraud cases brought in New York and California involving his now defunct for-profit Trump University, the Daily News has learned.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Source: Trump nearing settlement in Trump University fraud cases
Discussion: Politico
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
President-elect Trump nears settlement in Trump University lawsuit
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots “An Entirely New Political Movement” (Exclusive)  —  “I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist.  I'm an economic nationalist,” Bannon tells THR media columnist Michael Wolff as the controversial Breitbart …
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Suggests Meeting With Trump Wasn't All It Was Cracked Up To Be  —  President Barack Obama acknowledged in a New Yorker profile published online Thursday that his first meeting with Donald Trump may not have actually lived up to its sunny official description.
Discussion: Daily Kos, New Century Times and AOL
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Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
Obama's Never-Ending Lecture Tour
Discussion: New York Times
Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Trump just took credit for stopping Ford from moving a plant to Mexico.  But it wasn't planning to.  —  President-elect Donald Trump claimed credit on Thursday for keeping a Ford plant in Kentucky from moving to Mexico.  But the company never planned to move the entire plant, only one of its production lines.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Donald Trump Takes Credit for Helping to Save a Ford Plant That Wasn't Closing
The Independent:
Chaos, projectile shoes at Kanye show as he give pro-Trump speech  —  Kanye West has always been something of a provocateur and a nihilist, and is staunchly anti-political correctness.  Last night he stirred a maybe unprecedented level of controversy, however, declaring at a Saint Pablo Tour show …
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CNN:
Kanye West: I didn't vote but if I did, ‘I would have voted for Trump’
Mark Lilla / New York Times:
The End of Identity Liberalism  —  It is a truism that America has become a more diverse country.  It is also a beautiful thing to watch.  Visitors from other countries, particularly those having trouble incorporating different ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP could nuke filibuster for Supreme Court nominees  —  Top Senate Republicans are drawing a hard line on the Supreme Court, guaranteeing that no matter what tactics Democrats deploy, they will be forced to swallow Donald Trump's imminent nominee to the high court.
Michael Gerstein / Detroit News:
Michigan electors cite threats over Trump vote  —  Michael Banerian wants to show that young adults still have faith in the political system, but he said his selection as one of Michigan's 16 Electoral College voters has prompted emails urging him to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton and even threatening death.
 
 
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Washington Republican proposes charging protestors with ‘economic terrorism’
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Intel chairman: Pentagon plagiarized Wikipedia in report to Congress
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Dems hit new low in state legislatures
Discussion: Politico and neo-neocon
John Markoff / New York Times:
Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Family Political Business
Discussion: The Week
Joseph R. Murray II / The Hill:
Memo to the LGBT community: Donald Trump is not your enemy
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