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8:00 AM ET, November 29, 2016

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
War Is Peace.  Freedom Is Slavery.  Trump Won In A Landslide.  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway — perhaps seeking to push back on the increasing attention to Hillary Clinton's widening lead in the national popular vote — has been touting her boss's margin of victory in the Electoral College.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin rejects hand recount mandate; Stein to sue
New York Post:
Trump debuts presidential hat
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Stein moves for Pennsylvania recount
New York Times:
Challenging the Boss in Public?  For Kellyanne Conway, It's Part of the Job  —  WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, one of President-elect Donald J. Trump's senior advisers, was about to board a flight back to New York on Monday morning when she caught a glimpse of the headline crawling across television screens in the terminal.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump keeps eye on Romney for State Dept. despite scorn from some loyalists  —  President-elect Donald Trump is for now unswayed by the extraordinarily public revolt by some of his top advisers and allies over the possible choice of Mitt Romney as secretary of state and continues to see his foe …
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Conway plays the outside game  —  Kellyanne Conway's Sunday broadsides against Mitt Romney have exacerbated an increasingly strained relationship with Donald Trump and his senior advisers, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to more than a half-dozen sources involved in the transition efforts.
U.S. ELECTIONS:
Trump drama rolls on: Disputes, falsehoods hit transition
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Trump picks Congressman Tom Price as health and human services secretary … President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), an orthopedic surgeon who has been one of Capitol Hill's fiercest critics of President Obama's health care law, to be secretary of health and human services …
Discussion: Jezebel, AOL, The Daily Caller and The Week
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
By picking Tom Price to lead HHS, Trump shows he's absolutely serious about dismantling Obamacare  —  Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Health and Human Services secretary, already has a plan for how to abolish Obamacare.  —  The Washington Post reported late Monday …
Tamar Hallerman / Political Insider:
Sources: Tom Price close to being named top health official in Donald Trump's cabinet
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Said to Be Trump's Choice for Health Secretary
Discussion: New York Magazine and alan.com
NBC News:
1 Suspect Dead, 9 in Hospital After Ohio State Car-and-Knife Attack  —  Officials: Attack appears to be planned 2:46  —  An Ohio State University student plowed into a campus crowd with a car, then jumped out and started stabbing people with a butcher knife before being shot dead by police Monday morning, officials said.
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Jay Panandiker / The Lantern:
From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’
Associated Press:
TERRORISM SUSPECTED IN CAR-AND-KNIFE ATTACK AT OHIO STATE
Associated Press:
US investigating leak related to Petraeus case  —  David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP) (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.  All rights reserved.)  —  The Defense Department is conducting a leaks investigation related to the sex scandal that led to the resignation …
Discussion: RedState and alan.com
Noah Michelson / The Huffington Post:
Dear Trump Supporter Who Sent Me Hate Mail For Being A ‘Stupid Jewish Faggot’  —  As scary as it is to know that people like you exist, I refuse to be afraid of you.  —  Editorial Director, The Huffington Post Voices  —  I returned to work on Sunday to find three envelopes from you on my desk.
Discussion: Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Melania Trump — Threatens Suit Over False Barron ‘Autism’ Video ... And Says Rosie O'Donnell Made it Worse  —  Melania Trump — Threatens Suit Over False Barron ‘Autism’ Video And Says Rosie Made it Worse  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Melania Trump has hired a famous lawyer who is now threatening …
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Issa declared winner after reelection battle  —  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was announced the winner of his reelection race by a razor-thin margin after nearly three weeks of the results being too close to call.  —  Issa fended off Marine Col. Doug Applegate (D), a political newcomer …
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Associated Press:
California GOP Congressman Darrell Issa narrowly wins seat
Sarah Larimer / Washington Post:
This airline passenger's pro-Trump rant was caught on video.  Now he's banned from Delta.  —  The video, shot aboard a Delta flight earlier this month, shows a man in a ball cap standing in the aisle of an airplane.  —  “We got some Hillary b—  on here?” the man shouts.  —  “Come on, baby!” he continues.
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The Definitive Source:
Writing about the ‘alt-right’  —  Recent developments have put the so-called “alt-right” movement in the news.  They highlight the need for clarity around use of the term and around some related terms, such as “white nationalism” and “white supremacism.”
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
AP: Avoid using ‘alt-right’ without context
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Vox Popoli
Cathy Young / The Hill:
‘Fake news’ isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is  —  “Fake news” has been a big news story for the past week.  Hoaxes and fabrications hatched by clickbait-hungry websites — or, some reports say, by the Kremlin propaganda machine—have been blamed for Donald Trump  —  's election victory.
Discussion: Salon, Hullabaloo and Shadowproof
Tegna / WBIR-TV:
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge … GATLINBURG - 11 PM UPDATE: Motorists fleeing wildfires in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge packed roads in and out of the towns Monday night as flames and choking smoke driven by wind swept across the area.
Discussion: WAVY-TV
GovExec.com:
GSA's Trump Hotel Lease Debacle  —  As the clock ticks down towards President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the window is rapidly closing on the General Services Administration's opportunity to extricate itself from the Trump Organization's lease of the historic Post Office Pavilion.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP eyes best chance in years to defund Planned Parenthood  —  Congressional Republicans are aiming to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood early next year, according to GOP sources on and off the Hill, as social conservatives press for a milestone win under Donald Trump's presidency …
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘I voted for Trump — so there’: White shopper melts down after black workers ask her to pay for bag  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A shopper erupted in fury and claimed anti-white discrimination after she was asked to purchase a $1 reusable bag at a Chicago-area arts and crafts store.
Discussion: Death and Taxes and Hullabaloo
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column Fidel Castro died as he lived — praised by useful idiots
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘Trump Effect’ Is Already Shaping Events Around the World
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
DNC Chair Candidate Keith Ellison Once Called For Separate Country for Black Americans
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Understanding Colin Kaepernick
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Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
America Must Recognize Palestine
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas to implement rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Kolker / Bloomberg:
Paul Manafort Is Back  —  The King of K Street is ready for the new Washington.
Toni Clarke / Reuters:
Wide-ranging U.S. health bill expected to sail through House vote
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Trump's attempt to ‘drain the swamp’ will make matters worse in Washington
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Fermino / New York Daily News:
How a serious opponent could beat Mayor de Blasio in upcoming re-election bid
Discussion: Political Wire
Tim Skoczek / CNN:
Goodwin says Trump won, in part, because of his story
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Ari Fleischer / Wall Street Journal:
Trump vs. the White House Press Corps
 

 
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