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9:00 AM ET, December 8, 2016

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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Donald Trump just insulted a union leader on Twitter.  Then the phone started to ring.  —  Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn't see the tweet.  His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and said: The president-elect is smearing you on Twitter.
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New York Times:
Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist, to Lead E.P.A.  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling Mr. Trump's determination …
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
Dems, greens gear up for fight against Trump EPA pick  —  Democrats and environmentalists are laying the groundwork for a fight against President-elect Donald Trump  —  's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  —  Trump will nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt …
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Trump names Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general suing EPA on climate change, to head the EPA
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump taps Oklahoma attorney general to lead EPA
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Federal judge kills recount effort in Michigan  —  A federal judge has stopped the hand recount of nearly 5 million ballots in Michigan, a decision that seems to secure Donald Trump  —  's narrow victory in the traditionally blue state.  —  U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith …
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Jason Stein / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Trump's lead in Wisconsin barely changes as Wisconsin's recount continues
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Recount Roundup: Jill Stein's Embarrassing Stunt Puts Trump Further Ahead
New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Said to Intend to Keep a Stake in His Business  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering formally turning over the operational responsibility for his real estate company to his two adult sons, but he intends to keep a stake in the business and resist calls to divest …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
The RNC Is Hosting Its Christmas Party This Year At Donald Trump's Hotel  —  Trump runs the party now.  And his hotel will benefit.  —  The Republican National Committee will host its Christmas Party this year at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., the newest property of its newfound leader.
Wall Street Journal:
How Donald Trump's Web of LLCs Obscures His Business Interests  —  The opacity of his holdings makes it impossible to gauge the full extent of potential conflicts he may face as president  —  President-elect Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland.  —  To be more precise …
David Bernstein / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court oral argument that cost Democrats the presidency  —  The presidential election was so close that many factors were “but-for” causes of Donald Trump's victory.  One that's been mostly overlooked is Trump's surprising success with religious voters.
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Empowered by Trump, Ohio legislature passes ‘heartbeat’ bill that would ban most abortions
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Jennifer Palmieri / Washington Post:
Our campaign lost the election.  But Trump's team must own up to how he won.  —  Jennifer Palmieri was communications director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.  —  I know how to be a gracious loser.  —  I could have let it go last week when Kellyanne Conway …
Discussion: Politico, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Meet the Democrats' proto-Trumps  —  Four weeks out from Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Democrats may soon be launching a few unorthodox, mega-rich candidates of their own.  —  In three major states with a governor's mansion up for grabs in 2018, a big-name …
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Associated Press:   Ellison Says He'll Resign From Congress If Elected DNC Chair
J. Freedom du Lac / Washington Post:
Two juveniles charged with arson in Tennessee wildfires that left 14 people dead  —  Two juveniles have been charged with aggravated arson in connection with the East Tennessee wildfires that killed 14 people last week and left nearly 150 others injured, authorities said Wednesday.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Reid predicts death of filibuster  —  Senate Democrats are about to get rolled on Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.  They could spend years in the minority.  And instead of the GOP collapse that many expected on Nov. 8, it's now Democrats soul-searching about what went wrong.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Democrats wave the white flag on Mattis
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Dems push Obama to use pardon power to prevent deportations  —  Democrats are amplifying their calls for President Obama to pardon undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and protect them from the threat of deportation under President-elect Donald Trump
Daniel Berehulak / New York Times:
‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’  —  YOU HEAR A MURDER SCENE before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow.  The piercing sirens of approaching police cars.  The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla.
Discussion: Truthout Stories and Hit & Run
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993  —  For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year — a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States.  —  Rising fatalities from heart disease …
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Two Klan Leaders Are Charged in a North Carolina Stabbing  —  Two Ku Klux Klan leaders, including a California man who organized a violent “White Lives Matter” rally in Anaheim earlier this year, were arrested in North Carolina over the weekend in connection with a stabbing before a Klan parade celebrating …
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama officials alarmed at slow pace of agency-level transition  —  Donald Trump is beating President Barack Obama on the pace of splashy cabinet announcements, but the president-elect is lagging his predecessor when it comes to other transition efforts critical to fulfilling his campaign promises.
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