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9:50 AM ET, December 5, 2016

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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump's Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved  —  Donald Trump's protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwan's leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past, according to interviews with people involved in the planning.
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Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
Taiwan City Planning a Makeover Says a Trump Agent Showed Interest
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
China protests Trump call to Taiwan leader
U.S. Army / army.mil:
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing  —  Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil  —  The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota …
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Business Wire:
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners Respond to the Statement from the Department of the Army  —  DALLAS & NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL) announced that the Administration's statement today …
Discussion: USA Today, The Verge and The Root
Devin Henry / The Hill:
Feds deny permit for Dakota Access pipeline
Discussion: The Resurgent, The Week and Daily Kos
James MacPherson / NBC4 Washington:
Federal Government Blocks Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Route
Washington Post:
D.C. Police detain suspect with an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong restaurant  —  D.C. Police responding Sunday to a report of a gunman at a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington detained a man armed with an assault rifle, according to a police spokeswoman.
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Politico:
Incoming national security adviser's son spreads fake news about D.C. pizza shop  —  The son of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, embraced a baseless conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton on Sunday after a man who claimed to be investigating …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Armed man arrested at DC pizzeria targeted by conspiracy theory
Evan McMullin / New York Times:
Trump's Threat to the Constitution  —  WASHINGTON — On July 7, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, met privately with House Republicans near the Capitol.  I was present as chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
Discussion: Politico
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Agents of Idiocracy  —  Last week when Donald Trump began his so-called Thank You Tour in Cincinnati, he had yet another opportunity to be magnanimous and conciliatory, to step beyond the division and acrimony of his campaign and into the unity and healing necessary to be president of a strained nation.
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Dancing with insanity  —  One-hundred and thirty-four House Democrats collectively lost their minds last week.  —  That is how many of Nancy Pelosi's colleagues it took to vote her back into power despite having lost her third consecutive chance at winning back the majority from the Republicans.
Elana Schor / Politico:
Democrats to give Trump Cabinet picks the Garland treatment  —  Senate Democrats are preparing to put Donald Trump's Cabinet picks through a grinding confirmation process, weighing delay tactics that could eat up weeks of the Senate calendar and hamper his first 100 days in office.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP wagers Americans don't care about Trump's conflicts  —  Republicans see the same ethically challenged complications lurking in Donald Trump's business portfolio that Democrats are squawking about.  They just think Americans don't care about these entanglements anymore.
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The war on ‘fake news’ is all about censoring real news  —  MORE FROM:  —  Scrambling for an explanation for Donald Trump's victory, many in the media and on the left have settled on the idea that his supporters were consumers of “fake news” — gullible rubes living in an alternate reality made Trump president.
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD  —  Ben Carson, who took Donald J. Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by Mr. Trump to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Taps Ben Carson For Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Detroit News:
Judge orders Mich. presidential recount to begin Monday  —  Detroit — A federal judge has ordered Michigan election officials to begin a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday.  —  U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued a ruling …
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Trying to imitate Trump's victory, Italy's Beppe Grillo could help throw Europe into crisis  —  When Beppe Grillo started to make headlines at the leader of Italy's biggest protest party more than six years ago, it was hard to avoid the puns.  A comedian turned politician, Grillo was laughed at and branded a “clown.”
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Reuters:
Italy PM Renzi facing big referendum defeat: exit polls
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Associated Press:
4 quit after Oklahoma veteran with maggots in wound dies  —  The Oklahoma veterans center in Talihina.  —  TALIHINA, Okla. - Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma veterans facility rather than face the possibility of getting fired, after a resident was found to have maggots in a wound.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A fitting end: Castro's hearse breaks down  —  The vehicle carrying Fidel Castro's remains during his funeral parade broke down yesterday.  Soldiers had to push it through the streets.  —  How symbolic!  What could be more fitting, given the broken down nature of the antique Cuban state produced by Castro?
Discussion: The American Mirror
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New York Post:
The disclosure that could end Eric Schneiderman's career
Wall Street Journal:
Exxon CEO Now a Contender for Donald Trump's Secretary of State
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Soble / New York Times:
Shinzo Abe to Become First Japanese Leader to Visit Pearl Harbor
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
States' Rights for the Left
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Ryan: Trump understands there's a Constitution
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Business Since Birth: Trump's Children and the Tangle That Awaits
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Exclusive: Snowden says Petraeus disclosed ‘far more highly classified information than I ever did’
Discussion: Mediaite and Hot Air
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
A Problem Like Keith Ellison
Discussion: CNN
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Watch Mike Pence try to defend Trump's false claim that ‘millions’ voted illegally
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech
 
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