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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:

Melania and Barron Trump won't be moving to the White House — More On: — Future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump's inauguration in January, The Post has learned. — The president-elect's 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son …

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:

Trump to live in White House — President-elect Donald Trump will live in the White House, he said Sunday, ending speculation about whether he might opt to stay in New York City and reside in Trump Tower or at one of his other properties. — His wife, Melania, and 10-year-old son, Barron …

Discussion: Political Wire

Alex Swoyer / Breitbart:
Trump, Pence Attend Church, Hold 12 Meetings on Sunday Per Transition Team

Discussion: The Last Refuge

Ben Brantley / New York Times:

‘Hamilton’ Duel: Addressing the President-Elect on His Own Blunt Terms — “The theater must always be a safe and special place.” — When I read that Donald J. Trump had tweeted those words on Saturday morning, my gut response was to wish that the great American playwright Edward Albee …

Discussion: CNN, USA Today, Daily Wire, Hot Air, TheBlaze, Liberal Values, Raw Story and New York's PIX11

Alan Henry / BroadwayWorld.com:
Trump Supporter Shouts Profanities And Interrupts HAMILTON In Chicago

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, RedState, Slate, The Gateway Pundit, alan.com and New York Times

New York Times:
Trump Turns Staid Process Into Spectacle as Aspirants Parade to His Door

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Wire, NBC News, ABC News, CNBC, Towleroad, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, Mediaite, The Week, Althouse and BizPac Review

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Pence: I 'wasn't offended' by Hamilton message

Discussion: Townhall.com, RedState and EW.com

CNN:

San Antonio officer shot to death during traffic stop — (CNN)A San Antonio police officer was shot to death during a traffic stop Sunday in what the department's chief described as a targeted killing similar to recent police shootings in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine, Independent Journal Review, Q13 FOX News and Mediaite

USA Today:
San Antonio police detective shot, killed outside of HQ

Discussion: The Week, Hot Air, CBS New York and Vox Popoli

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Obama says he may take on Trump — President Barack Obama on Sunday started mapping out his vision of Democrats' path back—and all but pledged to be part of it himself. — In his fourth press conference in a week of sounding out to Americans and world leaders what he thinks …

Discussion: Instapundit

John Bresnahan / Politico:

House GOP maps out ambitious start to Trump presidency — House Republican leaders, looking to jump-start Donald Trump's presidency, have already begun to map out an ambitious agenda for early next year. On the early to do-list, according to leadership insiders: repealing a host …

Discussion: TheBlaze

Christina Coleburn / NBC News:

Reince Priebus on Muslim Registry: ‘Not Going to Rule Out Anything’ — Priebus on Muslim Registry: ‘Not Going to Rule Out Anything’ 1:51 — Incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said Sunday on NBC's “Meet The Press” that President-elect Donald Trump's team is not planning …

Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, TheBlaze, greatagain.gov, The Daily Caller, The Week and Politicus USA

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Reince Priebus laughably claims Trump's ‘Muslim registry’ is not ‘based on religion’

Discussion: RedState

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:

How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study — Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study — How a misinformed Twitter post the night after the election fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory and became a talking point for a world leader — even as it was being proved false. — THE UPSHOT

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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

Michael Flynn, on trip to Russia, said ‘who knows’ whether Syria gas attack was a ‘false flag’ — (CNN)During a 2015 trip to Russia, Donald Trump's pick to be national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, said he didn't know whether the 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria was conducted …

Discussion: alan.com

Bill Chappell / NPR:

Ret. Army Gen. Jack Keane Says He Declined Offer To Be Defense Secretary — President-elect Donald Trump asked him to serve as secretary of defense, retired four-star general Jack Keane tells NPR's Rachel Martin — but Keane declined the offer, citing personal reasons.

Discussion: NBC News, BizPac Review, ABC News, CNN, The Week and RedState

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: Jack Keane declined offer to be Defense secretary: report

Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:

Kanye West Calls Out Beyoncé and Praises Trump in Onstage Tirade — Kanye West likened himself to Donald J. Trump at a concert on Saturday in California before tumbling into a 17-minute, free-associative speech addressing radio programmers, MTV, his friends and collaborators Jay Z and Beyoncé …

Discussion: Heat Street

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

Christie re-emerges after his falling out with Trump. But is he back on the inside? — He was in. And then he was out. And now, he's — well, it's hard to tell exactly where New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stands in the intrigue-filled orbit of those who surround the president-elect of the United States.

Discussion: Associated Press

New York Times:
The In-Law in the Trump Inner Circle: Jared Kushner's Steadying Hand

Discussion: The Guardian and Mother Jones

Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:

Reporter to Obama: Will You Be Like Bush And Not Criticize Your Successor? ; Obama: I Will If “Necessary” — President Obama is asked if he will be like former President George W. Bush and pledge to stay out of politics and not criticize decisions made by his successor.

Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:

Rob Reiner Calls Out Jared Kushner: 'He's Turning His Back on His Religion and His Heritage' — In June of last year, then Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump received his first—and one of his only—endorsements from a publication. It came courtesy of The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist website.

Discussion: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Oscar Contreras / TheDenverChannel.com:

Denver elementary school defaced with swastika over the weekend — Community comes together with messages of hope — DENVER — Neighbors in one Denver neighborhood woke up to a horrible sight this weekend: A swastika, spray-painted on one of the doors of an elementary school in Stapleton.

Discussion: Raw Story