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12:35 PM ET, December 21, 2016

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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's doctor: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’
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
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  —  At the core of the current debate over the role of the electoral college is whose needs should be at the center of American politics.  In an unexpected monologue on Tuesday night …
Discussion: Fox News
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
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
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.
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
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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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.”
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 …
 
 
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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’
Discussion: The Guardian and Mother Jones
Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
Flight controller accidentally sends jet on course toward Mt. Wilson after LAX takeoff
Discussion: abc7.com, KTLA and The Root
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