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2:50 PM ET, December 20, 2016

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New York Times:
A Historic Number of Electors Defected, and Most Were Supposed to Vote for Clinton  —  The Electoral College on Monday voted for Donald J. Trump to win the presidency.  Seven electors, the most ever, voted for someone other than their party's nominee.  —  Of 306 electors pledged to vote for Donald J. Trump
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
How Liberals Got the Electoral College Wrong  —  They never should have promoted it as democracy's savior.  —  A strange thing happened in the weeks between the presidential election and Monday's meetings of the electors who have now anointed Donald Trump as our 45th president …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Law News and RT
New York Times:
Time to End the Electoral College
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Schumer fires video unit staff  —  Incoming Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer cleaned house last week in the Senate Democrats' internal video department, firing nearly all its employees amid plans to revamp the unit with a new digital operation aimed at creating viral social media content.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Ed Rogers / Washington Post:   The Russians weren't that good; the Obama administration was that bad
Brendan Bordelon / Morning Consult:
Almost Half of U.S. Voters Not Sure Russia's Behind Election-Related Hacks
Alison Smale / New York Times:
Austria's Far Right Signs a Cooperation Pact With Putin's Party  —  BERLIN — The leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party has signed what he called a cooperation agreement with Russia's ruling party and recently met with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the designated national security adviser …
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Nick Baumann / The Huffington Post:
Trump National Security Adviser Met With Leader Of Party Founded By Nazis
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Austrian Far-Right Politicians Travel to Moscow to Grease Ties Between Trump, Putin
Discussion: The Week and Bloomberg
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists  —  To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.'s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days.  —  Mac upgrades, once a frequent ritual, are few and far between.  The Mac Pro, Apple's marquee computer, hasn't been refreshed since 2013.
Jack Date / ABC News:
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed  —  The search warrant that authorized the FBI to examine a laptop computer in connection with Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state was released today.  —  A federal judge in New York ordered the warrant …
Discussion: Associated Press and Hot Air
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court releases search warrant in Clinton email probe
Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Wildcards add drama to Trump's West Wing picks  —  Donald Trump's transition team is planning to announce a number of key senior White House staff appointments imminently, but — perhaps befitting a president-elect who grew his fame on reality television — there is suspense around a few big names and positions.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   Michelle Obama: ‘We are gonna be there for the next president’
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Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Facebook, Twitter, Google sued by Orlando shooting victims' families
Discussion: Techdirt and AOL
Foreign Policy:
Russia Missing from Trump's Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo  —  Meanwhile, Pentagon brass say Moscow is the No. 1 threat to the United States.  —  A Pentagon memo outlining the incoming Trump administration's top “defense priorities” identifies defeating the Islamic State …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Desperate, Year-Long Hunt to Find Donald Trump's Rumored Apprentice Outtakes  —  Throughout the election, both the media and the Clinton camp were obsessed by outtakes from the reality show, amid allegations of hair-raising things said by the now president-elect.
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic  —  Obscure statute would grant permanent protection to areas  —  Restrictions on new oil leases may provoke legal challenge  —  President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama Expected to Ban Offshore Drilling in Some Federal Waters
Discussion: Grist
New York Times:
Germany Releases Man in Deadly Berlin Market Attack  —  BERLIN — A horrific terrorist attack using a tractor-trailer to mow down a crowd at a Christmas market in central Berlin set off painful mourning across Germany on Tuesday as the authorities scrambled to determine who was behind the nation's bloodiest assault in decades.
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John Sharp / al.com:
Mobile official apologizes for Christmas tree at Trump rally removed from public park  —  President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Mobile, Ala. In the background is a large cedar tree that was cut down at Public Safety Memorial Park …
Ed White / Associated Press:
Emergency Managers Charged Over Flint's Lead-Tainted Water  —  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general filed more criminal charges Tuesday in the investigation of lead-tainted water in Flint, targeting two former state-appointed emergency managers who were running the troubled city …
Discussion: The Root
Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Donald Trump's sons behind nonprofit selling access to president-elect  —  New Texas-based group not legally required to disclose its donors  —  A new Texas nonprofit led by Donald Trump's grown sons is offering access to the freshly-minted president during inauguration weekend …
Dan Hopkins / FiveThirtyEight:
Voters Really Did Switch To Trump At The Last Minute  —  Donald Trump's somewhat surprising win has forced many political analysts to wonder: Were we wrong all along in thinking Hillary Clinton had the upper hand, or was late-breaking movement to Trump part of the reason why polling averages missed his upset Electoral College victory?
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Poll: Dems more likely to unfriend people due to political posts  —  Democratic voters are almost three times as likely to have “blocked, unfriended, or stopped following someone on social media” after Donald Trump  —  's victory, according to a study released Monday.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Bernie: Hillary ‘F*cking Ignored’ Us in Swing States  —  Ever since election night—when Hillary Clinton tanked and Donald Trump became the next leader of the free world—the most prominent allies and alumni of Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign have maintained a succinct message for Team Hillary: We.
Discussion: Althouse
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Democrats Had a Knife, and the G.O.P. Had a Gun  —  President Obama and Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina don't agree on many policy questions.  But they have found themselves facing a similar political situation this year.  And their very different reactions capture the deep — and alarming …
Discussion: The Progressive Pulse
Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Can Republican senators get to 60 seats in 2018?  —  (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)  —  The GOP's strong 2016 election showing raises a crucial question: Do Republicans have any chance of netting eight Senate seats - and a filibuster-proof majority - in 2018?
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Outcry at Loyola after students learn athlete accused of rape was enrolled for three years
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
If Not Obamacare, Then What?  —  GETTYSBURG, Pa. …
Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Baptist Figure Faces Backlash Over His Criticism of Donald Trump
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump team asks State Dept. what it spends on international environmental efforts
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
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