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7:15 AM ET, December 21, 2016

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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI warrant that shook Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in its final two weeks has been unsealed, and the lawyer who requested it says it offers “nothing at all” to merit the agency's actions leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Occupy Democrats
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The Huffington Post:
The Subpoena That Rocked The Election Is Legal Garbage, Experts Say  —  The warrant assumes that the mere existence of emails from or to Hillary Clinton is probable cause that a crime occurred.  —  National Reporter, The Huffington Post Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton allies rip into FBI after search warrant unsealed  —  Hillary Clinton's allies blasted the FBI on Tuesday after court filings were unsealed showing more details about the law enforcement agency's basis for renewing its probe into Clinton's private email setup and roiling the presidential race …
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe  —  The FBI told a federal judge that it needed to search a computer to resume its investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server because agents had found correspondence …
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Unsealed Search Warrant in Hillary Clinton Email Probe Reveals Little New
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, Comey's Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Access to Donald Trump, for $500,000: Pitfalls for Presidents' Families  —  The invitation made an extraordinary offer: Donors willing to write a check for $500,000 to $1 million would be granted access to Donald J. Trump the day after he is sworn in as president, along with the opportunity …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Offer of access to Trump and family at fundraiser is pulled back, but ties remain  —  The initial invitation from Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump dangled a rare opportunity for donors willing to pony up $500,000 and more: a private reception with the new president the day after his inauguration …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic  —  President Obama announced on Tuesday what he called a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard as he tried to nail down an environmental legacy that cannot quickly be reversed by Donald J. Trump.
Discussion: twitchy.com, The FADER and The Week
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid  —  Texas health officials on Tuesday delivered a final legal notice to nix the funding Planned Parenthood receives through the Medicaid program.  —  After more than a year of delays, Texas is officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of the state's Medicaid program.
Jolene Almendarez / The Ithaca Voice:
Man accused of Ithaca homicide: ‘I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly’  —  ITHACA, N.Y. — An Ithaca man accused of killing a UPS driver from Candor said in court Monday afternoon that not only did he believe he shot and killed Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
Bill O'Reilly: “Abolishing The Electoral College” Is “All About Race”  —  BILL O'REILLY: Abolishing the Electoral College, that is the subject of tonight's Talking Points Memo.  After Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, the left in America is demanding that the Electoral College system put into place in 1787 be scrapped.
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
Metallica singer James Hetfield says he moved out of San Francisco because he was ‘sick of the elitist attitudes’ and 'showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn't fly in Marin County'  —  James Hetfield, the co-founder and lead singer for the successful heavy metal band Metallica …
Henry Bodkin / Telegraph:
Sex will be just for special occasions in the future as robots will satisfy everyday needs  —  Sex between married couples will increasingly be saved for special occasions as robots step in to satisfy everyday needs, experts have predicted.  —  Use of artificial intelligence (AI) …
Discussion: New York Post
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Manchin on WV opioid abuse: ‘We need to declare a war on drugs’  —  Manchin: opioid pills prescribed 'like M&M's'  —  Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called for a new “war on drugs” Tuesday to combat the opioid crisis striking his state of West Virginia, eagerly adopting …
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Luxury Travel Group Gives Trump's DC Hotel a Brutal Review  —  Before the Trump International Hotel opened, Donald Trump liked to brag that the business he and his family built inside the Old Post Office would be “one of the great hotels of the world.”  —  But according to a year-end list …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Arango / New York Times:
In Turkey, a Capstone to a Violent Year.  In Germany, a Realization of Fears.  —  ISTANBUL — A trim and well-dressed man, dapper in a black suit, flashes a badge to enter the most genteel of events — an exhibition of travel photographs — pulls out a pistol and guns down an ambassador …
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
This Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE  —  Roman Fedortsov is a deep sea fisherman in Russia.  And he's been taking photos of OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?  —  Seriously, I just took a quick three-minute scroll through Fedortsov's Twitter page …
Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
Flight controller accidentally sends jet on course toward Mt. Wilson after LAX takeoff  —  In this Nov. 27 photo, a plane takes off at Los Angeles International Airport.  On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating another plane that flew north instead of south.
Discussion: abc7.com, The Root and KTLA
Libby Hill / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Arnold claims he has footage of Donald Trump saying ‘every dirty, every offensive, racist thing ever’  —  Actor Tom Arnold is making waves with recent claims that he has outtakes from “The Apprentice” that feature President-elect Donald Trump using inflammatory language.
Discussion: The Guardian and Mother Jones
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Congress: Obama AdminFired Top Scientist to Advance Climate Change Plans  —  A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda …
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
The head of Trump's inauguration explains what's going on with Andrea Bocelli  —  Donald Trump did not ask his friend Andrea Bocelli to perform at his inauguration, the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee said Tuesday in response to reports that the singer turned the president-elect down.
Discussion: New York Times, BizPac Review and AOL
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Tech companies ‘profit from ISIS,’ allege families of Orlando shooting victims in federal lawsuit  —  In June, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a horrific spate of violence at a gay nightclub in Orlando.  Now, the families of some of the victims are suing Google …
Discussion: The Root, RedState and Jezebel
Annals of Internal Medicine:
The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review FREE  —  Jennifer Erickson, RD (*); Behnam Sadeghirad, PharmD, MPH (*); Lyubov Lytvyn, MSc; Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD; Bradley C. Johnston, PhD … Abstract  —  Background:
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Russian Cyberforgers Steal Millions a Day With Fake Sites  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In a twist on the peddling of fake news to real people, researchers say a Russian cyberforgery ring has created more than half a million fake internet users and 250,000 fake websites to trick advertisers …
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Poll: Women Should Be Punished for Abortions, Say 39 Percent of Trump Voters  —  In an online survey, 39 percent of 2,000 self-identified Donald Trump voters reported that they thought women should be punished for seeking abortions if the procedure is ever banned in the U.S. A full 60 percent …
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Twitter will hand over data on the user who sent a seizure-inducing tweet to a journalist  —  Four days ago, an unidentified Twitter user tweeted a seizure-inducing animation at Newsweek and Vanity Fair writer Kurt Eichenwald, who has epilepsy.  Now, Eichenwald has taken the first step toward identifying the user.
 
 
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Fox News Insider:
Gun Sales Surge in CA Ahead of Sweeping New Gun Control Laws
Discussion: Mediaite and TheBlaze
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Keith Ellison's one-man march
Discussion: Hot Air, Power Line and Townhall.com
Nic Smith / Washington Post:
I make $2.35 an hour in coal country. I don't want handouts. I want a living wage.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump transition seeks distance from conservation fundraiser
Discussion: ABC News
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Keith Olbermann: We Can Still Delegitimize Trump By Not Calling Him “President Trump”
Discussion: Townhall.com
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump plots two-for-one assault on Obama regs
Discussion: RedState
Elwood Brehmer / Alaska Journal:
Murkowski: House chose party over policy
Discussion: Daily Kos and Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP
Discussion: BizPac Review
Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
TRUMP'S PICK FOR INTERIOR SECRETARY WAS CAUGHT IN “PATTERN OF FRAUD” AT SEAL TEAM 6
Mirror.co.uk:
Russian diplomat 'found dead from gunshot wounds hours after ambassador's death'
Discussion: Vox Popoli and JustOneMinute
Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Baptist Figure Faces Backlash Over His Criticism of Donald Trump
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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