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1:00 PM ET, December 24, 2016

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Washington Post:
The Obama administration fires a dangerous parting shot  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA'S decision to abstain on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements reverses decades of practice by both Democratic and Republican presidents.  The United States vetoed past resolutions …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama, Trump and the Turf War That Has Come to Define the Transition  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump and President Obama have been unfailingly polite toward each other since the election.  But with Mr. Trump staking out starkly different positions from Mr. Obama on Israel …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump team seeks names of officials working to counter violent extremism  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has asked two Cabinet departments for the names of government officials working on programs to counter violent extremism, according to a document seen by Reuters and U.S. officials.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, RedState and The Hill
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's Betrayal of Israel Is a Black Day for American Diplomacy  —  It is Islamist-leftist dogma that Israel's millennia of attachment to its homeland count for nothing.  —  Adding a final shameful chapter to a foreign-policy record that already runneth over with them …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Why Obama broke with Israel at UN
Discussion: RedState and MichelleMalkin.com
Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Disgraceful and Harmful Legacy on Israel
Discussion: Victory Girls Blog and Power Line
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Obama rhymes-with-bucks Israel
Discussion: Tablet Magazine
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump warns UN after Israel vote: ‘Things will be different’ soon
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Obama marks start of Hanukkah
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Teen Vogue Writer Battles Tucker Carlson: 'You're Actually Being a Partisan Hack'  —  Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca faced off with Fox's Tucker Carlson tonight in what became a mesmerizing and fierce back and forth about Ivanka Trump and various things that Duca has written.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Five Republicans who could buck Trump in 2017  —  's biggest hurdles next year might not come from Democrats but from within his own party.  —  With a narrow 52-seat majority in the Senate, the president-elect will need to keep Republicans unified if he wants to clear nominations …
Discussion: alan.com
Susan Snyder / Philly.com:
Bryn Mawr student hounded after asking to share ride to Trump event  —  Andi Moritz couldn't get the comments out of her head.  A Facebook post the Bryn Mawr College freshman made on the school's ride-share page earlier that September day had drawn harsh backlash from dozens of students, most of whom she didn't know.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's unpopularity threatens to hobble his presidency  —  President-elect Donald Trump will descend on Washington next month, buoyed by his upset victory and Republican control of Congress to implement his agenda.  —  But he's facing a major obstacle: Trump will enter the White House …
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a ‘cardiac episode’ on flight from London to L.A.  —  Actress Carrie Fisher, shown in 2007, was taken to a hospital Friday after a “cardiac episode” on a flight from London to Los Angeles.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The very bad reason Jeff Sessions is ‘very unhappy’  —  “The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. .   . .  The worst thing in the world varies from individual to individual.”  —  PHILADELPHIA  —  For Christos and Markela Sourovelis …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
John Wagner / Washington Post:
The chaos theory of Donald Trump: Sowing confusion through tweets  —  Donald Trump's sudden embrace this week of a nuclear arms race — and his staff's scramble to minimize the fallout — underscored an emerging modus operandi for the president-elect: governance by chaos.
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Liberal prof ‘watchlist’ is McCarthyism for the bullying age  —  Anthea Butler thought she'd heard it all before.  —  A religious studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a black woman who teaches a class about the religious right in America and has a fiery liberal persona on social media …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump praises Putin's criticism of Democrats in tweet  —  Trump tweeted his praise for Russian president Vladimir Putin's criticism of Hillary Clinton  —  Friday night, agreeing with a statement he made earlier in the day that it was “humiliating” Democrats did not “lose with dignity.”
Jon Campbell / USA Today:
N.Y. developer Carl Paladino's ‘gorilla’ remark spurs outrage  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Former New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is facing backlash on social media for a racist remark about first lady Michelle Obama published Thursday in a Buffalo alt-weekly publication.
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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump team: NY co-chair's remarks about Obamas ‘reprehensible’
Discussion: The Huffington Post and RedState
 
 
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Paula McMahon / Sun-Sentinel:
Facebook threats against Trump land Broward man in jail, feds say
Discussion: Infowars and Law News
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Putin: Nobody believed Trump would win ‘except us’
Discussion: Yahoo! News and The Gateway Pundit
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / The Atlantic:
A Prayer for Peace in Bethlehem
Discussion: Washington Post
Camilla Turner / Telegraph:
Some of Britain's top universities are becoming no-go zones for Jews, Baroness Deech claims
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Eric Schlosser / New Yorker:
World War Three, by Mistake
Victoria Craw / NEWS.com.au:
French woman wants to marry a robot as expert predicts sex robots to become preferable to humans
Discussion: Daily Mail, Raw Story, Jezebel and alan.com
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Why Did Planned Parenthood Supporters Vote Trump?
Wall Street Journal:
Sam Brownback Calls on Donald Trump to Mimic His Kansas Tax Plan
Discussion: Mother Jones
 

 
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