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6:30 AM ET, November 23, 2016

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Activists Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States  —  Hillary Clinton is being urged by a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers to call for a recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump, New York has learned.
New York Times:
Trump, in Interview, Moderates Views but Defies Conventions  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump tempered on Tuesday some of his most extreme campaign promises, dropping his vow to jail Hillary Clinton, expressing doubt about the value of torturing terrorism suspects and pledging to have an open mind about climate change.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's New York Times Interview: Full Transcript  —  Following is a transcript of President-elect Donald J. Trump's interview on Tuesday with reporters, editors and opinion columnists from The New York Times.  The transcription was prepared by Liam Stack, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Karen Workman and Tim Herrera of The Times.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Donald Trump at The New York Times: Live on Twitter  —  Trump gets asked about his commitment to first amendment, says, “I think you'll be happy.”  — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016  —  Open up the libel laws?  Trump says someone told him, “You know, YOU might be sued a lot more.' I said …
New York Times:
Less Defiant Trump at The Times: ‘I Hope We Can All Get Along’
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:   ‘An Erosion of Democratic Norms in America’
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Gingrich: Romney, Trump not compatible on foreign policy  —  Newt Gingrich suggested Tuesday evening that Mitt Romney, a contender to be Donald Trump  —  's secretary of State, would not be compatible with the president-elect's vision for foreign policy.  —  “Romney wanted to be in President …
Discussion: The Week
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Wall Street Journal:
Mitt Romney Leads Donald Trump's Picks for Secretary of State  —  President-elect leans toward the former governor but advisers' tug of war delays decision  —  President-elect Donald Trump is leaning toward asking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to be his secretary of state, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Gov. Nikki Haley picked to become UN ambassador, sources say … COLUMBIA — President-elect Donald Trump is picking South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to become his U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, The Post and Courier has learned.  —  The move, expected Wednesday …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Gov. Nikki Haley tapped to be Trump's U.N. ambassador
Discussion: The Week
Reuters:
Judge blocks Obama rule extending overtime pay to 4.2 million U.S. workers  —  A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million salaried workers from taking effect, imperiling one of the outgoing president's signature achievements for boosting wages.
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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Texas judge blocks Obama administration's new overtime rule from taking effect  —  A Texas judge blocked President Obama's bid to expand overtime pay protections to millions of Americans on Tuesday, thwarting a key presidential priority just days before it was set to take effect.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Democrat Harold Ford Jr. emerging as potential Trump pick  —  Former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. is emerging as a possible contender for transportation secretary, or another Cabinet post, in Donald Trump's budding administration.  —  The telegenic Ford — who served five terms …
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TMZ.com:
Kanye West — Dr. Says He Tried to Assault Staff ... Warned of Violence Against Cops  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Kanye West's personal physician is the one who called 911, warning the dispatcher Kanye was not violent but would become violent when police arrived to help him.
Jonah Bennett / The Daily Caller:
Politico Editor RESIGNS After Publishing Home Addresses Of Alt-Right Icon Richard Spencer, Advocating For ‘Baseball Bats’  —  National editor at Politico Michael Hirsh resigned after publishing the home addresses of alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer Tuesday morning and advocating for serious violence.
Edmund Kozak / LifeZette:
CNN Guest Drops ‘N’ Word in Live, On-Air Smear of Bannon  —  The mainstream media's transparent quest to tarnish President-Elect Trump's image by insisting his adviser and former Breitbart executive Stephen Bannon is a bigot has reached absurd new levels.  —  CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin asserted …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Major Advertising Technology Company Bars Breitbart News for Hate Speech  —  AppNexus takes a stand as bigger rivals, Google and Facebook, face scrutiny over their handling of ‘fake news’  —  AppNexus Inc., a major advertising technology provider, has barred Breitbart News from using …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Dems Can't Afford to Say Yes to Trump  —  So Chuck Schumer started saying over the weekend that he would oppose Donald Trump's infrastructure bill, assuming it looks roughly the same as Trump's campaign proposal.  Good.  It's a sham.  Or, as Ron Klain called it in an absolute must-read …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Guy Faulconbridge / Yahoo:
Britain to Trump: ‘No vacancy’ for Farage as ambassador  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday dismissed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's unprecedented expression of support for Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage to be made British ambassador to Washington, saying pointedly that there is no vacancy for the job.
Discussion: Daily Wire, Telegraph and Instapundit
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Kyle Arnold / Orlando Sentinel:
Sanford mall Santa reassigned after putting Hillary on naughty list  —  After making a joke about Hillary Clinton being on his naughty list, a mall Santa working at the Seminole Towne Center was sent to sensitivity training and reassigned to another mall.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.  He has paid multiple visits to the country to meet its top internet executives.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump says that if the president does it, it's not illegal  —  Keep on draining that swamp.  —  Since Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump encouraged foreign diplomats to stay at his hotels, pressed British politicians to oppose a wind farm that could block the view from his golf course …
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ABC News:
House Republican Criticizes Donald Trump Over Potential Business Conflicts of Interest
Discussion: Politico
WNDU-TV:
Notre Dame football team placed on academic probation; 2012, 2013 wins vacated  —  The Notre Dame football team has been placed on probation by the NCAA, and the team's wins from the 2012 and 2013 seasons will be vacated.  —  It all stems from an academic scandal involving a student athletic trainer.
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump's supposed ‘Muslim registry’ is just more fake news  —  MORE FROM:  —  The first thing to know about Donald Trump's alleged proposal for a Muslim registry is that it isn't a Muslim registry.  —  This has been lost in a freakout that has some brave souls already promising acts …
Discussion: Infowars
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow closes above 19,000 as stocks notch record closing highs; telecoms spike 2%  —  U.S. equities closed higher on Tuesday, hitting new all-time highs, as investors digested housing data and kept an eye on President-elect Donald Trump's policy agenda.  —  The Dow Jones industrial average rose …
Discussion: Infowars
 
 
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Michael Sullivan / NPR:
Who's The New Philippine Envoy? The Man Building Trump Tower Manila
Josh Sanburn / TIME:
How Mayors Across the U.S. Are Defying Donald Trump on Immigration
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump
Elena Schneider / Politico:
North Carolina governor files for recount
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Washington Won't Have Last Word on Climate Change
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:
Living in Trump's Soviet Union
CBS Detroit:
Report: Driver Asked Kids ‘Are You Ready To Die’ Before Crashing Bus In Chattanooga
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Report: Presidential electors planning to undermine Electoral College
Jessica Wick / Facebook:
11/20/16.  —  So.  Today I met Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: AOL, RedState and New York Post
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Personally Blasts the Press
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US

 
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