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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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Hot Air, RedState, Q13 FOX News and WCCO | CBS Minnesota
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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
Discussion:
Power Line, Instapundit and PoliPundit.com
Ike Swetlitz / STAT:
One-on-one with Trump's doctor: Hecklers, house calls, and why Obamacare must be shut down — NEW YORK — On a frigid December afternoon, Dr. Harold Bornstein was talking about his most famous patient, President-elect Donald Trump. — He hadn't spoken with Trump since the election …
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Politico, Jezebel, Political Wire, The Week and Balloon Juice
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump's doctor on health: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’ — 's personal doctor said he's not worried about the president-elect's health once he takes office. — Dr. Harold Bornstein, who has treated Trump since 1980, said in an interview with STAT News …
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Raw Story
NPR:
Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitors — 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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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Political Wire, Washington Times, Common Dreams, The New Americana and Outside the Beltway
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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
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 …
Discussion:
EPIC JOURNEY and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Discussion:
The Week and Washington Free Beacon
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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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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
The White House:
United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement
United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement
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Los Angeles Times, Jamie Dupree, The Daily Caller, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Right Scoop, abc11.com, NPR, Grist and Bloomberg
Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans
Discussion:
Zero Hedge, Engadget, Independent Journal Review and nrdc.org
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Unsealed Search Warrant in Hillary Clinton Email Probe Reveals Little New — Revelation of FBI search into Anthony Weiner's laptop computer upended final days of 2016 election — A newly unsealed search-warrant application confirms the Federal Bureau of Investigation found thousands …
Discussion:
Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Political Wire and Politico
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The Huffington Post:
The Subpoena That Rocked The Election Is Legal Garbage, Experts Say
The Subpoena That Rocked The Election Is Legal Garbage, Experts Say
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Washington Post, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Hullabaloo and Opinion Today
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe
Discussion:
New York Times, The Week, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton
Discussion:
Daily Kos, Politicus USA and Occupy Democrats
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.
Discussion:
Political Wire, The Week and alan.com
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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Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Schumer Says Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan ‘Sounds Good to Me’ — Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says he likes the sound of President-elect Trump's proposal of a major infrastructure plan as long as it meets certain Democratic criteria. — “We think it should be large.
Discussion:
Politico, Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
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 …
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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 …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Giuliani: Administration job 'just didn't work out' — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday said President-elect Donald Trump — didn't forget about him when forming his administration. — “He offered me some cabinet positions, which I'm very very thankful for,” Giuliani said on “Fox & Friends.”
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.
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The Root and news.osu.edu
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.
Discussion:
STAT, Los Angeles Times and The Geller Report
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
New questions complicate Ellison's bid for DNC chair — Opponents of Rep. Keith Ellison's bid to be the next Democratic National Committee chairman are raising new questions about the Minnesota Democrat's past to make the case that he's unfit to be the party's next leader.
Discussion:
Hot Air
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.
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LifeNews.com, Austin Chronicle, Associated Press, Off the Kuff, New York Magazine, Jezebel, RedState and Refinery29
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.
CBO's Publications:
Challenges in Estimating the Number of People With Nongroup Health Insurance Coverage Under Proposals for Refundable Tax Credits — Some policymakers have expressed interest in developing proposals to replace the current tax-based subsidies for the purchase of private health insurance in the nongroup …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, ACASignups.net and Morning Consult
Fox News:
Tomi Lahren: ‘Unloving and intolerant left’ still hasn't accepted Trump's win — “The Blaze” commentator Tomi Lahren told Fox News' “The O'Reilly Factor” Tuesday that many liberal Americans “fail to understand that Donald Trump will be our 45th president, that he will be inaugurated on January 20.”
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 …
Discussion:
The Geller Report and The Gateway Pundit