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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's doctor: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’  —  Donald Trump's campaign and its supporters spent a good portion of the 2016 campaign arguing that Hillary Clinton was secretly very ill and not up to the task of being president.
Discussion: ACASignups.net
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump's doctor on health: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’
Discussion: Raw Story
NPR:
Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitoring  —  Donald Trump should deal with how to handle his business holdings before he takes office, says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an adviser to the president-elect.  But Gingrich says it would be “an absurdity” to put Trump's holdings in a blind trust.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump doesn't want to ‘drain the swamp’ anymore  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a new interview that Donald Trump  —  has taken a different tone as president-elect and may be leaving behind his campaign promise to “drain the swamp.”  —  Gingrich told NPR's “Morning Edition” …
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump posse browbeats Hill Republicans  —  In early December, Rep. Bill Flores made what seemed like an obvious observation to a roomful of conservatives at a conference in Washington.  Some of Donald Trump's proposals, the Texas Republican cautioned, “are not going to line …
CBS News:
Tunisian man identified as new suspect in Berlin Christmas market attack  —  A new suspect in the deadly terror attack on a Christmas market in Berlin has been identified.  —  Law enforcement sources told CBS News that police are searching for Anis Amri, a native of Tunisia.
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Daily Mail:
Berlin's most wanted: Police hunt ‘armed and dangerous’ Tunisian asylum seeker, 23, after his ID is found under lorry driver's seat at scene of Christmas market massacre  — ID belonging to Anis Amri, 23, who was born in Tataouine, Tunisia, in 1992, found in killer truck's footwell
Jim Newell / Slate:
How fitting for the 2016 election to end with the dashed hopes and incompetence of liberals.  —  Few people in the galaxy aren't in need of a nice, long holiday after the deaths, the elections, and the deaths by election that have characterized 2016.  These past 12 months have been taxing.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Bill O'Reilly rose to the defense of white privilege in America's presidential voting process
Discussion: Fox News
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
REPORT: Passengers on Delta Flight Disputing Adam Saleh's Story About Phone Call  —  Someone else on the same Delta flight as YouTube prankster/hoaxer Adam Saleh told a reporter Wednesday that those on the plane say he did not make a phone call to his mother, supposedly the reason Saleh was booted from the flight.
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Schumer Says Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan ‘Sounded Good to Me’  —  Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says he likes the sound of President-elect Donald Trump's proposal of a major infrastructure plan, as long as it meets certain Democratic criteria.  —  “We think it should be large.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Schumer: Trump's trillion dollar infrastructure plan sounds good to me
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Michael Falcone / ABC News:   The Note: Donald Trump's Family Ties
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump team discussing ‘half-blind’ trust for conflicts of interest  —  Donald Trump's aides are considering a business arrangement that critics say would allow him or his appointees to sidestep conflict-of-interest laws governing the incoming administration and large investments in private-sector business.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Lewandowski to open political consulting firm  —  Close confidants of President-elect Trump are establishing a new government relations and political consulting firm in Washington, D.C., the Washington Examiner has learned.  —  Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager …
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Chris Kirkham / Wall Street Journal:
Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High  —  Household formations by millennials lag behind other economic recoveries; high rents, mortgage standards cited  —  Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015 …
Natasha Geiling / ThinkProgress:
The Arctic could end a year of record-breaking temperatures with a heat wave  —  Another sign that not all is well in the Arctic.  —  In a year of record-high temperatures and record-low sea ice, the Arctic appears poised to witness another frightening scenario: temperatures at the North Pole …
Jacqueline Howard / CNN:
Black men are nearly three times as likely to die from police use of force, a study shows  —  (CNN)Gregory Gunn.  Alton Sterling.  Philando Castile.  Terence Crutcher.  Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016.
Discussion: The Root, alan.com and news.osu.edu
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish  —  The White House is encouraging researchers to copy government data on Obamacare out of concern that President-elect Donald Trump might hit the delete key when he takes office.  —  Spooked by Trump's rhetoric and pledge to repeal Obamacare …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Katie Couric will fill in as co-anchor on NBC's ‘Today’ show in January  —  Katie Couric, shown last January, was co-anchor of “Today” from 1991 to 2006.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)  —  Katie Couric is returning to NBC's “Today” show for a weeklong fill-in stint at the morning program's anchor desk next month.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why the author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is moving home to Ohio  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  If you haven't read it, the book is a 32-year-old's memoir about his hardscrabble upbringing in the Rust Belt.  With his mom battling addiction, and his father absent, his grandparents mainly raised him.
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Walmart to stop selling “Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter” shirts after police protest  —  The president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the country's largest police organization, on Tuesday asked Walmart to stop selling t-shirts and sweatshirts which say “Black Lives Matter” and …
Murray Weiss / DNAinfo New York:
Mysterious Manhattan Military Flyover Was Trump Rescue Exercise: Sources  —  MANHATTAN — A military airplane and two huge helicopters doing loops over Midtown last week were conducting an “emergency relocation” planning mission in case they needed to extract President-elect Donald Trump during …
Discussion: Gothamist
Bob Susnjara / Daily Herald:
Lawsuit: McDonald's Extra Value Meal too big on price … A McDonald's Extra Value Meal didn't live up to its name at a franchisee's stores in Lake and Cook counties, according to a lawsuit filed by an unhappy customer.  —  James W. Gertie of Des Plaines is seeking class-action status …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News Insider
Tim Alberta / National Review:
Conservatism in the Era of Trump  —  Where does the Right go from here?  —  Mick Mulvaney's friends in the House Freedom Caucus couldn't believe what they were hearing.  —  It was the Monday night following Election Day, and lawmakers were trickling back into Washington to resume their congressional duties.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
FBI director under pressure to explain Clinton bombshell  —  's surprise loss in the presidential election, FBI Director James Comey is under pressure to justify the bombshell announcement that rocked the final days of the campaign.  —  Democrats, still smarting from the Nov. 8 loss …
Anneta Konstantinides / Daily Mail:
CNN commentator shares video of invasive TSA pat-down which included her dress being lifted up and her genitals getting hit twice  —  A CNN commentator has shared a video that shows her bursting into tears during an aggressive TSA pat-down in which her dress was lifted up and her genitals were hit.
 
 
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Libby Hill / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Arnold claims he has footage of Donald Trump saying ‘every dirty, every offensive, racist thing ever’
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid