memeorandum: Former Cuban Castaway Elian Gonzalez Remembers Fidel Castro as a Father Figure-Turned-Friend (David Caplan/ABC News)

5:20 PM ET, November 27, 2016

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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:

Conway unloads on Romney — Appointing Mitt Romney as secretary of state would be viewed by many supporters of President-elect Donald Trump as a major betrayal, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN on Sunday. — “It's just breathtaking in scope and intensity,” …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Vox Popoli

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:

Trump advisers hit Mitt — Top advisers to President-elect Donald Trump escalated their attacks on Mitt Romney on Sunday, catapulting their long-simmering frustrations onto cable news in an extraordinary public airing of grievances. — In a series of interviews on the Sunday political talk shows …

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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Conway: Trump backers feel ‘betrayed’ by Romney consideration

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Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump spent Thanksgiving asking: Mitt or Rudy?

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ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Kellyanne Conway and Sen. Bernie Sanders — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on November 27, 2016 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: And for more now, let's turn to Republican senator and former presidential candidate, Ted Cruz of Texas.

Discussion: Associated Press, Politicus USA, Politico and Mediaite

David Caplan / ABC News:
Former Cuban Castaway Elian Gonzalez Remembers Fidel Castro as a Father Figure-Turned-Friend

Discussion: Associated Press and Law News

Michael J. Totten / City Journal:
The Last Communist City — A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see

Discussion: RedState and Althouse

Greg Grandin / The Nation:
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 — The Cuban revolutionary almost outlasted 11 US presidents.

Discussion: Power Line, Cafe Hayek and Washington Post

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Castro wanted nuclear war [UPDATED]

Discussion: National Review

David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump condemns Castro as ‘brutal dictator’

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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:

Trump falsely claims millions voted illegally — Donald Trump tweeted without evidence on Sunday that millions of people voted illegally in November's presidential election. — “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, ABC News, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post and The Guardian

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won — “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump tweeted. — Donald Trump took some time off from staffing his White House and enjoying Thanksgiving to go on a series of Twitter rampages this weekend.

Discussion: Washington Post, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Gothamist

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:

Trump: ‘I won the popular vote if you deduct’ illegal votes — declared Sunday he would have won the popular vote if “illegal” votes were discounted. — “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

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Jonathan Bullington / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

In Bourbon Street mass shooting, here is what we know so far — One person is dead and nine others wounded after a Bourbon Street shooting early Sunday (Nov. 27), New Orleans police said. The gunfire started shortly before 1:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Bourbon, between Canal and Iberville streets.

Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh

Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:

Trump is ignoring daily intelligence briefings, relying on ‘a number of sources’ instead — His spokeswoman thinks he is getting enough information through phone calls with world leaders. — Last week, the Washington Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump had only received …

Discussion: YouTube and alan.com

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

GOP senators wary of nuking filibuster — Senate Republicans are wary of making a historic move to nix the filibuster despite growing pressure from conservatives. — Roughly two weeks after Donald Trump — 's White House win, GOP lawmakers are already facing calls to overhaul Senate rules …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Week and New York Times

Nick Juliano / Politico:

Obama's agencies push flurry of ‘midnight’ actions — Federal agencies are rushing out a final volley of executive actions in the last two months of Barack Obama's presidency, despite warnings from Republicans in Congress and the reality that Donald Trump will have the power to erase much of their handiwork after Jan. 20.

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Katherine Lam / New York's PIX11:

Google fixes NYC Trump Tower name after changed to ‘Dump Tower’ on Google Maps — NEW YORK — Google has fixed Trump Tower's name after an unknown person changed the midtown building's label on Google Maps for several hours on Saturday. — A search for Trump Tower on Google Maps brought …

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New York Post:

Trump administration will pressure foreign states to probe Clinton Foundation — More On: — Foreign governments will be encouraged to investigate the Clinton Foundation's finances, as many are already turning off money spigots to the scandal-scarred group, The Post has learned.

Discussion: Infowars, RedState, Fox News Insider and No More Mister Nice Blog

CNN:

CNN/ORC poll: A nation divided, and is it ever — (CNN)After a bruising presidential election featuring the two least liked major-party candidates in recent history, more than 8-in-10 Americans say the country is more deeply divided on major issues this year than in the past several years, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

Discussion: The Week, The Daily Caller and RedState

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

The Pretend Populism of Donald Trump — For a politician who won the White House by railing against the elites and demonizing the establishment, Donald Trump presented an odd argument for why Americans should believe, as he does, that his adviser Steve Bannon is no racist, anti-Semitic ally of the alt-right.

Discussion: The Mahablog

Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com: A look at Steve Bannon and his years at Harvard Business School

Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times:

Letters threatening genocide against Muslims and praising Trump sent to multiple California mosques — Hussam Ayloush, seen here in May, is the Los Angeles director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Muslim civil liberties organization. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)