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1:25 PM ET, December 15, 2016

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NBC News:
U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack  —  Vladimir Putin personally involved in US election hack, intelligence officials say 2:36  —  U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved …
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Officials: Master Spy Vladimir Putin Now Directly Linked to US Hacking
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for ‘disgusted’ Democratic whistleblowers  — Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and associate of Julian Assange …
Ed Klein / Townhall.com:
Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn't Influence the Election
Discussion: TheBlaze
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
North Carolina G.O.P. Moves to Curb Power of New Democratic Governor  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans in the North Carolina legislature on Wednesday took the highly unusual step of moving to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor after a bitter election that extended years of fierce ideological battles in the state.
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ncleg.net:
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOURTH EXTRA SESSION 2016
Discussion: The Atlantic
Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America  —  And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.  —  Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through …
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New York Times:
Trump Questions Russia's Election Meddling on Twitter — Inaccurately  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump was back on Twitter on Thursday morning, questioning Russia's involvement in the election; targeting an old nemesis, the magazine editor Graydon Carter; and defending his business interests.
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Celebrities beg electors to be ‘heroes’ and vote against Trump  —  More On:  —  Celebrities are teaming up to beg Republicans in the Electoral College to vote against President-elect Donald Trump, pledging their “respect” for potential “heroes.”  —  A slew of other has-been and B …
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Electors are being harassed, threatened in bid to stop Trump
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Law News
Anthony L. Fisher / Hit & Run:
Why ‘Hamilton Electors,’ Who Would Make Hillary Clinton President, Are as Dead as Their Namesake
BBC:
EgyptAir crash: Explosives found on victims, say investigators  —  Traces of explosives have been found on victims of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May, Egyptian investigators say.  —  A criminal investigation would now begin into the crash of the Airbus A320, the civil aviation ministry said.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Jamie Schram / New York Post:
Traces of explosives found on bodies in EgyptAir crash
Rocco Parascandola / New York Daily News:
Muslim college student who claimed Trump supporters attacked her on the subway under arrest for making story up  —  She made it all up — and now she's under arrest.  —  The Muslim college student who claimed she was harassed on the subway by three men who shouted “Donald Trump,” …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news  —  You can't blame Macedonian teens for disastrously email-centric coverage.  —  Speaking in early December at a ceremony to honor Harry Reid's retirement from the US Senate, Hillary Clinton took aim at a target …
Pew Research Center:
Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes  —  9/11, Obama election and the tech revolution among those with greatest impact on the country  —  Shared experiences define what it means to be an American.  The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were such a unifying event for modern Americans.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jack McElroy / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Story of Santa Claus with dying child can't be verified  —  Last Sunday, the News Sentinel published the story of a Campbell County Santa Claus actor, Eric Schmitt-Matzen, who said a terminally ill child had died in his arms.  —  Immediately, the story went viral.
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
It's official: Marijuana is legal in Massachusetts  —  It was 1911.  The New England Watch and Ward Society (née the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice) was battling against drugs and other “special evils.”  And in April of that year, the group's leaders successfully petitioned …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
RNC E-Mail Was, In Fact, Hacked By Russians  —  Despite party denials, evidence shows breach of party server  —  Despite vehement denials from Republican Party officials, there is evidence that the GOP's e-mail system was breached by the same Russian hackers responsible for ransacking …
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump to get office in WH space reserved for first lady: report  —  A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump  —  is pushing back on a report that Ivanka Trump will get an office in the space typically reserved for the first lady.  —  “This is false.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems rolling out bill to force Trump to shed conflicts of interest  —  A group of Senate Democrats will introduce legislation requiring President-elect Donald Trump  —  to divest any financial assets that pose a conflict of interest and place the money into a blind trust.
Discussion: RedState
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats open to replacing Obamacare  —  Senate Democrats will never vote to repeal Obamacare.  But once the deed is done, a surprising number of them say they're open to helping Republicans replace it.  —  “If it makes sense, I think there'll be a lot of Democrats who would be for it,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
Discussion: The Week
CBS News:
Do Americans think Donald Trump will be a good president?  —  With the inauguration a little over a month away, just over a third of Americans (34 percent) think President-elect Trump will be a good or very good president, and another 23 percent think he will be average.
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Griping about the popular vote?  Get over it.  —  What an outrage: On Sunday, the National Football League awarded the Tennessee Titans a win over the Denver Broncos because they scored more points, even though the Broncos got more total yards than the Titans.
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
“Prevent Tragedy Before It's Too Late”: Read the Statement 1,200 Scholars Just Released About Trump  —  Concerned by the hateful rhetoric that has accompanied President-elect Donald Trump's transition to the White House, a group of 1,200 historians and other scholars have put …
Discussion: Libraries Home and Raw Story
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
To Combat Trump, Democrats Ready a G.O.P. Tactic: Lawsuits  —  One attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is already investigating Donald J. Trump over possible violations of New York State law at his charity foundation.  —  Another, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, has joined Mr. Schneiderman …
 
 
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Fox Business:
Study: Premium hikes add $10B to taxpayers' health law tab
Discussion: Hot Air
David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC chairman to step down, handing GOP a majority
NJ Spotlight:
Putting a Price Tag on the American Dream
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Critics bash Trump children's presence at tech meeting
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
His appointments are wrecking balls and swamp creatures, and his supporters won't care.
Tim Weiner / Esquire:
What Was James Comey Thinking?
Discussion: Above the Law and emptywheel
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Notes on the Macroeconomic Situation
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Emma O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Dollar on Top on Hawkish Fed as Bonds, Stocks Outside Japan Fall
Discussion: The Guardian
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information
Discussion: New York Times, Daily Mail and The Week
New York Times:
G.O.P. Resistance Builds to John Bolton as State Dept. Deputy
Discussion: RedState, New York Magazine and Hot Air
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Nominees Are Likely to Face Heavy Senate Vetting
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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