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7:45 PM ET, December 24, 2016

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New York Times:
Denying Conflict, Trump Family Tries to Resolve Potential Problems  —  WASHINGTON — Realizing that his presidency could face potentially crippling questions over conflicts of interest, Donald J. Trump and his family are rushing to resolve potential controversies — like shuttering foundations …
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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
President-elect plans to dissolve his charitable Donald J. Trump Foundation  —  President-elect Donald Trump plans to shutter his contentious charitable foundation and distribute its assets, according to a report Saturday.  —  The billionaire is taking steps to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation …
Discussion: The Week
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Trump planning to close charity foundation: report
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 …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's Betrayal of Israel Is a Black Day for American Diplomacy
Discussion: New York Times
Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Disgraceful and Harmful Legacy on Israel
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Jason Miller backs out of Trump White House job  —  Jason Miller, who was tapped only two days ago to be White House communications director, announced Saturday that he will not join Donald Trump's administration.  —  In a statement to POLITICO, Miller said the decision to back out of the job stemmed …
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 …
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Obama's last Christmas a season of disappointment  —  Sunday marks President Obama's last Christmas while in office.  Though he'll spend it in Hawaii rather than at the White House, it must be a bittersweet Yuletide.  —  Obama's handiwork is being returned to the store like unwanted Christmas presents.
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.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Stein pushes Justice Dept. for investigation of electoral system  —  Jill Stein is continuing her push to investigate the integrity of the U.S. electoral system, with lawyers for the former Green Party presidential candidate asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to probe the issue.
Discussion: Raw Story
Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Reading Fake News, Pakistani Minister Directs Nuclear Threat at Israel  —  A fake news article led to gunfire at a Washington pizzeria three weeks ago.  Now it seems that another fake news story has prompted the defense minister of Pakistan to threaten to go nuclear.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Is Trump Becoming a Conservative? [with comment by Paul]  —  Conservatives have been pretty universally delighted by President-elect Donald Trump's appointments so far.  With Jeff Sessions, Rick Perry, Gen. James Mattis, Mick Mulvaney, Betsy DeVos, Ryan Zinke, Tom Price and others slated …
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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.
Di Stefania Maurizi / Repubblica.it:
Julian Assange: “Donald?  It's a change anyway”  —  The interview.  The Wikileaks cofounder: “Our source Chelsea Manning tortured in Usa”  —  di STEFANIA MAURIZI  —  LONDON - When they appeared on the scene for the first time in 2006, few noticed them.
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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Julia Moskin / New York Times:
Mark Ladner to Leave Del Posto for a Pasta Start-Up
Paula McMahon / Sun-Sentinel:
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Discussion: Infowars, Mediaite and Law News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Five Republicans who could buck Trump in 2017
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Discussion: Washington Post
Eric Schlosser / New Yorker:
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Liberal prof ‘watchlist’ is McCarthyism for the bullying age