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1:25 PM ET, November 25, 2016

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Report: Trump team wants Romney to apologize  —  Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump  —  's transition team wants Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for railing against the president-elect during the campaign.  —  According to Mediaite, a transition official told Fox's Ed Henry …
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
REPORT: Mitt Romney May Be Forced to Publicly Apologize to Trump in Exchange For Sec of State Bid  —  According to Fox News' Ed Henry, President-elect Donald Trump may make things a little more difficult for Mitt Romney if he hopes to become our nation's next Secretary of State.
New York Times:
Republicans Divided Between Romney and Giuliani for Secretary of State
James Rosen / miamiherald:
Since his election win, Trump has talked to Putin more than any other world leader  —  WASHINGTON  —  In the scarcely two weeks since Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken at least twice by phone.  —  Their aides have had additional contacts.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Russia tells U.S. to get out of the way in Syria  —  If the U.S. won't fight terrorists in Syria, it should stop getting in the way, said Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.  —  Konashenkov was responding to the U.S. State Department's calls to other countries …
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
First U.S. service member killed in Syria fighting the Islamic State
Discussion: The Daily Caller and NPR
Lawrence Lessig / Washington Post:
The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner.  They should choose Clinton.  —  Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of “Republic, Lost: Version 2.0.” In 2015, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say  —  Ethics lawyers for the last two presidents are in agreement.  —  Members of the Electoral College should not make Donald Trump the next president unless he sells his companies and puts …
Discussion: Business Insider
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say  —  The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton …
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Florence Henderson, Upbeat Mom of ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Dies at 82  —  Florence Henderson, who began her career as an ingénue soprano in stage musicals in the 1950s but made a more lasting impression on television, as the perky 1970s sitcom mom on “The Brady Bunch,” died Thursday.  She was 82.
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Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna / Politico:
Steve Bannon's First Pick For President  —  Steve Bannon thought he had found his perfect presidential candidate.  This person was “an outsider,” someone who was “not part of the political establishment,” “not for sale,” with “an ‘America First’ foreign policy approach” and “a ‘Drain the Swamp’ mentality about Washington, DC.”
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Trump Tower security may take over 2 floors — and cost millions  —  More On:  —  The Secret Service is in negotiations with the Trump Organization to take over two vacant floors in the gilded 68-story Fifth Avenue tower, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Pence reportedly takes lead on Carrier negotiations  —  is mainly handling the Trump administration's negotiations to keep a Carrier air conditioning plant in Indianapolis, according to a Friday report from CNBC.  —  Carrier announced earlier this year it would move the factory to Monterrey …
Discussion: RedState
Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump inspires scramble on spying powers  —  Tech and civil liberties advocates are imploring the Obama administration to rein in the government's massive surveillance apparatus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, fearful he will carry out his campaign promises to register Muslims …
Discussion: Political Wire and CANNONFIRE
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump Stock In Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Raises Questions  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump holds stock in the company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline, and pipeline opponents warn that Trump's investments could affect any decision he makes on the $3.8 billion project as president.
Discussion: alan.com and Law News
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump taps K.T. McFarland to be deputy national security adviser  —  Donald Trump has selected K.T. McFarland to be his deputy national security adviser, a transition aide confirmed.  —  McFarland, a Fox News analyst, served as an official in the Reagan White House.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
New York Times:
Donald Trump and the Lawsuit Presidency  —  Donald Trump will take office as president facing a tsunami of litigation over his business practices and personal behavior.  He may have settled the fraud suits involving Trump University, but at least 75 other lawsuits are underway against him or his companies, according to USA Today.
Discussion: alan.com
Kelly J. Baker / New York Times:
White-Collar Supremacy  —  Tallahassee, Fla. — Richard B. Spencer is one of the main figures of the alt-right movement, a former doctoral student from Duke whose movement supports the creation of “an ethno-state” for white Europeans and “peaceful ethnic cleansing.”
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Discussion: Independent Journal Review and NPR
CBS Philly:
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Discussion: The Guardian and Mediaite
CNN:
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 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Trump Expected to Pick Ross for Commerce Job, Person Says
New York Times:
One by One, ISIS Social Media Experts Are Killed as Result of F.B.I. Program
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Yahoo:
Terror gang was set to hit Paris on Dec 1: source
The American Interest:
Licensing Laws Continue to Drain U.S. Economy
Laura Hughes / Telegraph:
Brexit can be stopped, insists Tony Blair as he rules out return to frontline politics
Discussion: Sputnik International
Sarah Knapton / Climate Depot:
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Massachusetts college won't fly US flag on campus