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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Expected to Name Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary — Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, likely to peel back regulations — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.
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New York Times:
Trump's Likely Labor Pick, Andrew Puzder, Is Critic of Minimum Wage Increases — President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that operates the fast food outlets Hardee's and Carl's Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted …
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Signal, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, twitchy.com and rubber hose
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump to name fast-food CEO as labor secretary: report
Trump to name fast-food CEO as labor secretary: report
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TheStreet.com, TheBlaze, RedState and alan.com
Ned Resnikoff / ThinkProgress:
Trump's pick for Labor Secretary is a big ‘screw you’ to the Fight for $15
Trump's pick for Labor Secretary is a big ‘screw you’ to the Fight for $15
Discussion:
Hit & Run, Common Dreams and alan.com
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump's labor secretary pick really likes his company's sexist burger ads
Trump's labor secretary pick really likes his company's sexist burger ads
Discussion:
Vox, New York Magazine and Washington Times
Cogan Schneier / Politico:
Puzder is likely pick for labor secretary
Puzder is likely pick for labor secretary
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CNNMoney, Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, The Federalist, Mother Jones and NBC News
Joe Hallett / The Columbus Dispatch:
John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95 — His legend is other-worldly and now, in his 95th year, that's where John Glenn has gone. — An authentic hero and genuine American icon, Glenn died this afternoon surrounded by family at the Ohio State University …
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Russell Lewis / NPR:
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 — The first American to orbit the Earth has died. John Glenn was the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts. He would later have a long political career as a U.S. senator, but that didn't stop his pioneering ways.
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alan.com
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 …
Discussion:
Liberty Unyielding and ThinkProgress
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Centers for Disease Control:
Mortality in the United States, 2015
Mortality in the United States, 2015
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Mother Jones, AOL, The Daily Caller, New York's PIX11, alan.com and The Atlantic
Rob Stein / NPR:
Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds
Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds
Discussion:
RedState
John Bacon / USA Today:
Has U.S. life expectancy maxed out? First decline since 1993
Has U.S. life expectancy maxed out? First decline since 1993
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The Week
Suzanne Monyak / Slate:
Kellyanne Conway Suggests That Women With Kids Shouldn't Take Jobs in the White House — Donald Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said that mothers should not accept high-powered career opportunities—a standard that does not apply to fathers, in Conway's opinion.
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Townhall.com, RedState, Mediaite, Politico, BizPac Review, Independent Journal Review, TheBlaze and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Trump Takes to the Bully Pulpit
The Note: Trump Takes to the Bully Pulpit
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Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Week
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Plays the DC Press Corps Like a Fiddle — Millions of people's lives and livelihoods are on the line. So it's not funny. But if there weren't such dire real world consequences, Paul Ryan's current flimflam would be straight up hilarious. Repealing Obamacare has immediate real world consequences.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Won't Say How Long GOPers Will Take To Replace Obamacare After Repeal
Ryan Won't Say How Long GOPers Will Take To Replace Obamacare After Repeal
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ACASignups.net
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Trump's Transition Team ‘Is Like Game of Thrones’ — As the least experienced, least ideological, and therefore perhaps most malleable president-elect in history prepares to take office, all eyes are on who is influencing his decisions. And so far, Donald Trump's administration is shaping …
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The Week
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:
Townhall.com, Vox, Hot Air, neo-neocon, The Week and Political Wire
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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’ — ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Amanda Delekta, a sophomore at the University of Michigan and political director of the College Republicans, was ecstatic when her candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the presidential election.
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hot Air and Althouse
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Post and Daily Kos
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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CNN:
Biden: I'm ‘embarrassed’ by the campaign — (CNN)This year's presidential contest was a substance-free spectacle, Vice President Joe Biden lamented on Thursday. — “This has been a very tough election. It's been ugly, it's been divisive, it's been coarse, it's been dispiriting.
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Political Wire and Business Insider
Alexandra Clough / Palm Beach Post:
Exclusive: Judge to Trump: No getting out of Jupiter golf club lawsuit — President-Elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-A-Lago on Palm Beach — U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra on Wednesday refused yet another request by Donald Trump to toss a 2013 lawsuit filed against his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter.
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Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Law News
Washington Post:
The populist revolt to ‘The System Worked’ — Some intellectual cleanup in Bret Stephens' aisle — There's been a lot of talk about “peak trade” and the collapse in cross-border capital flows in recent years. I seriously doubt that Donald Trump or any of the other recently elected populists …
Discussion:
Crooked Timber and Bloomberg
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:
Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, twitchy.com, FOX News Radio and Politico
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Low Approval of Trump's Transition but Outlook for His Presidency Improves — Growing numbers see ‘strong’ partisan and racial conflicts — Nearly a month after Donald Trump's election as president, the public views his transition to the White House less positively than those of past presidents-elect.
Discussion:
Washington Post and Vox
Jack Coleman / NewsBusters:
Quite Possibly the Funniest Thing That Brian Williams Has Ever Said — For years I've wondering if former NBC news anchor Brian Williams is an aspiring stand-up comic. What he said last night on The 11th Hour sealed it — this guy can make people laugh, albeit not always intentionally.
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Navy admiral's Pearl Harbor speech trolls Colin Kaepernick — A decorated US Navy admiral took the time to troll Colin Kaepernick during the 75th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration ceremony on Wednesday — saying those who died on that fateful day “never took a knee and never failed to stand” during the national anthem.
Discussion:
twitchy.com, BizPac Review, Washington Free Beacon and The American Mirror
Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds Earn More Than Their Parents — As wages stagnate in the middle class, it becomes hard to reverse this trend — Barely half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents did at a similar age, a research team found, an enormous decline from the early 1970s …
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FiveThirtyEight, Mashable, The Week, Washington Post and Equitable Growth
Joe DiSipio / The Hill:
With Trump, conservatives hope for ally in ‘War on Christmas’ — Conservatives are hoping that Donald Trump — will be a strong ally in the “War on Christmas.” — The president-elect, who repeatedly promised his supporters “we're going to say ‘merry Christmas’ again,” …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Even anti-Trump working-class voters are having second thoughts — INDIANAPOLIS — Robert James stood outside the Carrier plant just before the president-elect addressed workers at the refrigeration and heating assembly plant. — “I feel a great swing of emotions that go from disbelief …
Discussion:
Power Line and neo-neocon