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3:30 PM ET, November 26, 2016

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Marc Erik Elias:
Listening and Responding To Calls for an Audit and Recount  —  Over the last few days, officials in the Clinton campaign have received hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton.
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Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Clinton campaign to join Wisconsin recount  —  After a period of public silence about the results of the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton's top campaign lawyer said the campaign will play a role in the Wisconsin recount initiated Friday by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Clinton Campaign Will Participate in Stein's State Recounts  —  Little chance to overturn results seen but ‘principle’ remains  —  Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan could redo vote counts  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign lawyer announced plans to participate in vote recounts of Wisconsin …
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:   Clinton Campaign to Participate in Recount Sought by Green Party's Stein
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Officials Defend Integrity of Vote, Despite Hacking Fears
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   Clinton Will Join Wisconsin Recount
Eric Geller / Politico:
White House insists hackers didn't sway election, even as recount begins
Discussion: The Hill and TheBlaze
The White House:
Statement by the President on the Passing of Fidel Castro  —  At this time of Fidel Castro's passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people.  We know that this moment fills Cubans - in Cuba and in the United States - with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways …
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Prime Minister / pm.gc.ca:
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro  —  The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro:  —  “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba's longest serving President.
Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90  —  Mr. Castro brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, bedeviled 11 American presidents and briefly pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.  —  Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Rubio blasts Obama's ‘pathetic’ Castro statement  —  (R-Fla.) lashed out at President Obama on Saturday for not taking a harsher stance against Fidel Castro in a statement issued after the former Cuban leader's death.  —  “President Obama issued a pathetic statement on death of dictator #FidelCastro …
BBC:
Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90  —  Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced.  —  It provided no further details.  —  Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century …
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:
Ros-Lehtinen Comments on Death of Fidel Castro  —  Miami, Florida - Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Chair of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, commented today on the death of the dictator Fidel Castro:
Glenn Garvin / miamiherald:
Fidel Castro is dead
Jeremy Berke / Business Insider:
TRUMP: ‘Fidel Castro is dead!’
Carlos Eire / Washington Post:
Farewell to Cuba's brutal Big Brother
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Putin: Castro was a ‘reliable friend of Russia’
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
In Havana, Castro's Death Lays Bare a Generation Gap
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator, dies at 90
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump supporter calls passengers ‘Hillary b—  es’ during rant on plane  —  supporter yelled at fellow passengers on a Delta flight on Tuesday night, calling some people “Hillary bitches.”  —  “Didn't take long to notice that I'm back in 'Merica...,” a Facebook user captioned the 45-second video.
Discussion: BuzzFeed, alan.com and RedState
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Daily Mail:
‘We got some Hillary b****es on here?’ …
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Obama Must Save the Courts to Save America From Trump  —  Can President Obama appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court now that the Senate's term is ending?  Should he?  —  The answer to the first question is yes: The constitution gives him that power.
Eric Chenoweth / Washington Post:
Americans keep looking away from the election's most alarming story  —  Eric Chenoweth is co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe.  —  In assessing Donald Trump's presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election's most alarming story …
New York Times:
Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President  —  MANILA — On Thanksgiving Day, a Philippine developer named Jose E. B. Antonio hosted a company anniversary bash at one of Manila's poshest hotels.  He had much to be thankful for.
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Can the Democratic Party rise again?  Yes — and here's the first big thing to watch.  —  If you care about whether the Democratic Party can rebuild itself anytime soon out of the smoking wreckage left behind by the disastrous 2016 elections, something very important is happening a lot sooner than you think.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Chelsea Hawkins / Stand With Standing Rock:
Army Corp Closes Public Access to Oceti Sakowin Camp on Dec. 5th  —  Tribe calls on President Obama again to deny easement and honor treaty  —  Cannon Ball, N.D. — The following statement from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Chairman, Dave Archambault II, can be quoted in part or in full.
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