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11:10 AM ET, December 21, 2016

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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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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
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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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.
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.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:   The Note: Donald Trump's Family Ties
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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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 …
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.
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans  —  President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Monday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from future offshore oil and gas drilling.
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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 …
Discussion: Jezebel and Daily Kos
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Offer of access to Trump and family at fundraiser is pulled back, but ties remain
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.
Discussion: alan.com, The Root 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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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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 …
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
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.
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.”
Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze
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 …
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 …
Theda Skocpol / New York Times:
Trump Is Going After Health Care.  Will Democrats Push Back?  —  Where should Democrats head after their recent electoral rout?  As it happens, coming fights about federally subsidized health insurance offer the party a golden opportunity to engage people far beyond its urban strongholds …
 
 
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 More Items: 
Brad Todd / The Federalist:
The New Swing Voters Are Suburbanites And Populist, And Both Lean Right
Discussion: Instapundit
Anneta Konstantinides / Daily Mail:
CNN commentator shares video of invasive TSA pat-down which included her dress being lifted …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media
Julia Fioretti / Reuters:
EU accuses Facebook of misleading it in WhatsApp takeover probe
Discussion: New York Times
Libby Hill / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Arnold claims he has footage of Donald Trump saying ‘every dirty, every offensive, racist thing ever’
Discussion: The Guardian and Mother Jones
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Tech companies ‘profit from ISIS,’ allege families of Orlando shooting victims in federal lawsuit
Discussion: The Root, RedState and Jezebel
 Earlier Items: 
Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
Flight controller accidentally sends jet on course toward Mt. Wilson after LAX takeoff
Discussion: abc7.com, The Root and KTLA
Nic Smith / Washington Post:
I make $2.35 an hour in coal country. I don't want handouts. I want a living wage.
Jolene Almendarez / The Ithaca Voice:
Man accused of Ithaca homicide: ‘I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly’
Discussion: Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Luxury Travel Group Gives Trump's DC Hotel a Brutal Review
Discussion: Raw Story
Henry Bodkin / Telegraph:
Sex will be just for special occasions in the future as robots will satisfy everyday needs
Discussion: New York Post
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Keith Olbermann: We Can Still Delegitimize Trump By Not Calling Him “President Trump”
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Townhall.com
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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