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11:45 PM ET, December 20, 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: Occupy Democrats and Politicus USA
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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
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 …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, Comey's Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought  —  Apart from the question of its impact on the 2016, we now have confirmation of just how bad a decision, how unjustified a decision James Comey made when he rocked the presidential election a week before election day.  Every bit as bad as you thought.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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The White House:
United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement  —  In March, President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau announced a new partnership to embrace opportunities and confront challenges in the changing Arctic, with Indigenous and Northern partnerships, and responsible, science-based leadership.
Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans  —  President Barack Obama on Tuesday moved to indefinitely block drilling in vast swaths of U.S. waters.  —  The president had been expected to take the action by invoking a provision in a 1953 law …
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him  —  Plus, his national security advisor met with an Austrian far-right leader.  —  The Center For Public Integrity, which is probably hiring at a frenzied pace at the moment, would like you all to sing along.  —  Gimme the beat, boys …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Offer of access to Trump and family at fundraiser is pulled back, but ties remain
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump transition seeks distance from conservation fundraiser
Discussion: ABC News
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: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Glover Park Group
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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
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
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.
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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 …
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.
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
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.
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:
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.
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP  —  You only think you know what won the election for Donald Trump.  —  Hillary's corruption?  The betrayal of the American Dream?  Vladimir Putin?  Wrong.  Wrong.  Wrong.  Let me tell you the real story, and the person behind it.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
A Tangerine Wig and a Tightrope Walk: Alec Baldwin as Donald J. Trump  —  It takes seven minutes.  —  A dusting of Clinique Stay-Matte powder in honey.  A hand-stitched wig.  Eyebrows glued up into tiny peaks.  The rest is left to Alec Baldwin: the puckered lips, a studied lumbering gait …
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 …
Fox News Insider:
Gun Sales Surge in CA Ahead of Sweeping New Gun Control Laws  —  California is seeing a big surge in gun sales as the Golden State gets ready to enact sweeping gun control measures.  —  Some Californians are rushing to get their hands on the AR-15, which is America's most popular rifle and a longtime target of gun control proponents.
Nic Smith / Washington Post:
I make $2.35 an hour in coal country.  I don't want handouts.  I want a living wage.  —  The white working class doesn't need a savior at the ballot box.  We need decent pay in the jobs we already have.  —  I grew up in Dickenson County, Va. Like many who were raised in the heart of Appalachia …
Elwood Brehmer / Alaska Journal:
Murkowski: House chose party over policy  —  By:  —  Alaska Journal of Commerce  —  Post date:  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski accused House leaders of forgoing negotiations on her overarching energy policy bill to begin holiday celebrations early.  —  Still steaming more than a week …
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
 
 
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Keith Ellison's one-man march
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and Townhall.com
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Russian Cyberforgers Steal Millions a Day With Fake Sites
Bloomberg:
Ex-U.S. Attorney Yang Is Trump's Top Contender for SEC
Discussion: TheStreet.com
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
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Priorities USA positions itself as center of gravity for the left in the Trump era
Discussion: Political Wire
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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: JustOneMinute and Vox Popoli
Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Baptist Figure Faces Backlash Over His Criticism of Donald Trump
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump adviser: Don't take Trump literally, ‘take him symbolically’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Exclusive: Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Twitter and Google