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8:40 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:
Trump rages as Clinton helps recount  —  Just when you thought it was over, the acrimonious presidential race is back.  —  Nearly three weeks after Election Day, the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns went back into battle mode Saturday in the wake of Wisconsin's pending recount.
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 …
Eric Geller / Politico:
White House insists hackers didn't sway election, even as recount begins  —  The Obama administration said it has seen no evidence of hackers tampering with the 2016 presidential election, even as recount proceedings began in Wisconsin.  —  “We stand behind our election results …
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:   Clinton Campaign to Participate in Recount Sought by Green Party's Stein
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump calls recount effort a ‘scam’
Discussion: RedState
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Clinton Will Join Wisconsin Recount
Discussion: Politico and alan.com
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.
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Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
Trump's Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He's No Obama  —  President-elect Donald Trump called now deceased former Cuban president Fidel Castro a “brutal dictator” whose legacy represents decades of death and oppression.  —  That's a stark contrast from President Barack Obama's statement …
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 …
Jeremy Berke / Business Insider:
TRUMP: ‘Fidel Castro is dead!’  —  President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning after the longtime former Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, died Friday at the age of 90.  —  “Fidel Castro is dead!”  Trump tweeted.  —  In an official statement released later Saturday morning …
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 …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trudeau expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over Castro's death
Discussion: CNN, alan.com and twitchy.com
The Independent:
Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Fidel Castro as a “champion of social justice”, following the announcement …
Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90
miamiherald:
Cuban exiles pour onto Miami streets to celebrate Fidel Castro's death
BBC:
Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90
Carlos Eire / Washington Post:
Farewell to Cuba's brutal Big Brother
Discussion: Hot Air and Power Line
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Putin: Castro was a ‘reliable friend of Russia’
Discussion: Politico
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump is ‘going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews’: California mosque threatened  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Police in San Jose, California are investigating a letter threatening a local mosque and telling members of the religious center to …
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Brooke Edwards Staggs / Orange County Register:
3 California mosques threatened in letter praising Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
Lilian Kim / abc7news.com:
San Jose police investigating hate letter reported by Islamic center
Discussion: Mercury News, alan.com and Law News
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
Ralph Ellis / CNN:
Dakota Pipeline: Army Corps orders protesters out  —  (CNN)A new confrontation is brewing over the Dakota Access Pipeline.  —  Protesters fighting pipeline construction must vacate property near the Cannonball River in North Dakota — the location of a large campsite for demonstrators …
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