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10:05 PM ET, December 18, 2016

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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company  —  Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Americans Believe Trump Will Bring Change but Are Divided Over What Kind
Discussion: AOL
Elana Schor / Politico:
ExxonMobil helped defeat Russia sanctions bill
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’  —  Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable  —  President-elect Donald Trump during a “thank you” rally in Alabama tonight.  —  President-elect Donald Trump  —  HARRISBURG — Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day.
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Washington Post:
A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote  —  Amid the speculation on whether the electoral college will refuse to make Donald Trump president, many Trump opponents are pinning their hopes on one glaring fact: Hillary Clinton's sizable win in the popular vote.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
Discussion: Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Vox
New York Times:
Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Week
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million. Most Republicans are convinced he won.
Discussion: alan.com
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald Trump: The Russian Poodle  —  In 1972, President Richard Nixon's White House dispatched burglars to bug Democratic Party offices.  That Watergate burglary and related “dirty tricks,” such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout …
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Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Priebus: Trump not yet ready to accept Russian election tampering
Discussion: Daily Kos and AOL
Fox News:
Priebus: Trump ready to accept Russia hacking report, if CIA, FBI get on same page
Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town  —  A call to action in the Daily Stormer describes Jews as a “vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.”  —  A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana—home of white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother …
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Keila Szpaller / Missoulian:
White supremacist website calls for action in Montana  —  A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “TAKE ACTION” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99  —  Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Discussion: New York Magazine, TMZ.com and Jezebel
Eric Bradner / CNN:
McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Russian election-related hacks threaten to “destroy democracy” and faulted the American response as “totally paralyzed.”  —  McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
Discussion: Political Wire and Vox
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 12-18-16: Donna Brazile  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on December 18, 2016 and it will be updated.  —  MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: Let's take that straight to Donna Brazile, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which took the brunt of Russia's cyber hack.
Discussion: Althouse, AOL, Politicus USA and Politico
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
On New York's Fifth Avenue, Trump's White House North  —  NEW YORK — The world's power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which a cop in combat armor — his fingers on an assault rifle — took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city's best pizza.
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump holds off record session with reporters  —  held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening.  —  While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report.  It's been more than 140 days since Trump has held a press conference.
Discussion: Mediaite
Ryan Felton / The Guardian:
Michigan unemployment agency made 20,000 false fraud accusations - report  —  Automated system erroneously accused claimants in 93% of cases, state review finds: 'It's balancing the books on the backs of the poorest,' lawyer says  —  A Michigan government agency wrongly accused individuals …
Erica Goode / New York Times:
Polar Bears' Path to Decline Runs Through Alaskan Village  —  The bears that come here are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they rely on for hunting seals is receding.  —  KAKTOVIK, Alaska — Come fall, polar bears are everywhere around this Arctic village, dozing on sand spits …
Fox News:
Reince Priebus on war of words with White House over Russia  —  This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 18, 2016.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace.  —  With the Electoral College set to meet tomorrow …
Discussion: Althouse and Politicus USA
 
 
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
White House faces exodus of foreign policy experts ahead of Trump's arrival
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Ryan Carter / L.A. Daily News:
Hack of LA County emails exposes personal data of nearly 800,000 people
Discussion: The Guardian and FOX40
Jeff Bergner / Weekly Standard:
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