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4:35 AM ET, November 27, 2016

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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 …
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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.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Castro wanted nuclear war [UPDATED]  —  In my post about Fidel Castro's death I wrote: “It has never been clear to me whether Castro asked the Soviets for missiles or whether the Soviets initiated the idea and Castro agreed (as the New York Times says).”  But wherever that idea originated …
Jeremy Berke / Business Insider:
TRUMP: ‘Fidel Castro is dead!’
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Rubio blasts Obama's ‘pathetic’ Castro statement
Carlos Eire / Washington Post:
Farewell to Cuba's brutal Big Brother
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.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump calls recount effort a ‘scam’
Discussion: RedState
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:   Clinton Campaign to Participate in Recount Sought by Green Party's Stein
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Clinton Will Join Wisconsin Recount
Discussion: Politico
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)
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump is ‘going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews’: California mosque threatened
Discussion: Law News and abc7news.com
CAIR CALIFORNIA:   CAIR-SFBA Calls for Protection of Mosques After Anti-Muslim, Pro-Trump Letter Sent to San Jose Islamic Center
Brooke Edwards Staggs / Orange County Register:
Mosques threatened in letter praising Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump spent Thanksgiving asking: Mitt or Rudy?  —  More On:  —  The talk at Donald Trump's Thanksgiving dinner at his Florida club was all about if he should pick Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani for secretary of state.  —  The president-elect held court on Thursday at his Palm Beach, Fla. …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Already Happening: Media Normalization of Trumpism  —  In the children's short story “The Emperor's New Clothes,” by Hans Christian Andersen, what kept the fiction of the naked emperor's sartorial splendor alive was nothing in particular about the emperor.  True, he was vain and plainly foolish …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
A look at Steve Bannon and his years at Harvard Business School  —  From the very first day, Steve Bannon made an impression.  —  In a Harvard Business School classroom of about 90 people in 1983, he took a seat in the “skydeck” — a spot at the top giving him a view of the entire class.
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.
Nick Gutteridge / Daily Express:
Regretting something, Angela?  Germany's Merkel announces plan to deport 100,000 migrants  —  ANGELA MERKEL today announced plans to deport 100,000 migrants who arrived in Germany last year as she continues to backtrack on her controversial open door asylum policy.
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
Jan M. Olsen / Military Times:
DoD releases name of service member killed Thursday in Syria  —  The Defense Department announced Friday evening the identity of the service member killed in northern Syria while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.  —  Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott Cooper Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge …
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Moderate Voice
 
 
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