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4:30 PM ET, December 29, 2016

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Punishes Russia for Election Hacking, Ejecting Operatives  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia's …
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The White House:
Statement by the President on Actions in Response to Russian Malicious Cyber Activity and Harassment  —  Today, I have ordered a number of actions in response to the Russian government's aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election.
Reuters:
Obama orders Russia expulsions, sanctions for interference in 2016 election  —  President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and sanctioned Russian intelligence officials who Washington believes were involved in hacking U.S. political groups in the 2016 presidential election.
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Resource Center  —  Home » Resource Center » Financial Sanctions » OFAC Recent Actions » Issuance of Amended Executive Order 13694; Cyber-Related Sanctions Designations  —  Issuance of Amended Executive Order 13694; Cyber-Related Sanctions Designations
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:   Trump on Russian hacking: ‘Computers have complicated lives very greatly’
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump His Chump  —  For those of you confused over the latest fight between President Obama and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, let me make it simple: Barack Obama and John Kerry admire and want to preserve Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the Land of Israel.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
White House On Defense After Being Exposed as Architect of Anti-Israel U.N. Action
Discussion: Hot Air, Israel Matzav and RedState
Peter Martin / Sydney Morning Herald:
Julie Bishop backs Israel rather than the US over UN resolution
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
How the U.S. came to abstain on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Discussion: Jezebel, Haaretz and Associated Press
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
What's really bugging Trump about Obama  —  Donald Trump can't decide whether he thinks the transition of power is going well or not.  —  But he knows he doesn't like how much attention Barack Obama is getting and is also bothered by what Trump and his closest advisers see as an active effort …
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Sean Spicer On The New Administration And The Press
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos Strikes $250K Book Deal (Exclusive)  —  “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off.  Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened,” says Yiannopoulos.  —  Milo Yiannopoulos has parlayed his ban from Twitter — and some controversial appearances on college campuses …
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Readies Swift Obamacare Repeal With No Replacement in Place  —  Senate will start in early January to repeal health-care law  —  Republicans split over how long to delay replacement plan  —  The first major act of the unified Republican government in 2017 will be a vote in Congress to begin tearing down Obamacare.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Didn't Fail Because It's Timid
Discussion: New York Magazine and Instapundit
Bristol Palin:
11 A-list artists that refused to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration  —  If Donald Trump were still just a regular old billionaire and threw a party at Trump Tower in New York City, celebrities would be lined up out the door, and the most famous artists would be pining for a chance to perform.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Gun-loving conservative columnist accidentally killed after letting teen boy hold his firearm  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  M.D. Harmon, a conservative columnist who frequently wrote in favor of gun ownership rights for the Portland Press Herald, died this week after being accidentally shot by a teenage boy.
George Soros / Project Syndicate RSS-Feed:
Open Society Needs Defending  —  Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies - from fascist dictatorships to mafia states - are on the rise.  Because elected leaders failed to meet voters' legitimate expectations and aspirations, electorates have become disenchanted …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
George Soros: Trump a ‘would-be dictator’
Discussion: Zero Hedge, Raw Story and alan.com
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
A Preview of Obama's Post-Presidency  —  He's grumbling about Fox News and talk radio while feigning that he isn't partisan.  —  In two interviews over the holidays, President Obama signaled how he's likely to conduct himself once out of office: whiny, self-justifying and bursting with excuses.
Discussion: Power Line
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Report: 8 years of Obama vacations cost $85 million
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
Lee Bergquist / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
DNR purges climate change from web page  —  The state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change.  —  The DNR now says the subject is a matter of scientific debate.
New York Times:
Trump Takes Credit for Sprint Plan to Add 5,000 Jobs in U.S.  —  By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and MICHAEL J. de la MERCEDDecember 28, 2016  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump took credit on Wednesday for a decision by Sprint to add 5,000 jobs in the United States, as he tried to deliver on his promise …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Americans — especially but not exclusively Trump voters — believe crazy, wrong things  —  Many Americans believe a lot of dumb, crazy, destructive, provably wrong stuff.  Lately this is especially (though not exclusively) true of Donald Trump voters, according to a new survey.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The good that could come from a Trump presidency  —  Gloom is a terrible way to ring out the old, and despair is of no help in trying to imagine the new.  —  So let us consider what good might come from the political situation in which we will find ourselves in 2017.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US military could carry out first execution in over 50 years  —  (CNN)A former US Army soldier who has been on death row since 1988 for raping and murdering several women could now face execution after a judge denied his bid for another stay of execution.  —  Judge J. Thomas Marten …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
CNN:
Syria ceasefire deal reached between regime and rebels, Russia says  —  Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)The Syrian government and opposition rebels have agreed terms for a ceasefire in the country's long-running civil war, Vladimir Putin announced.  —  According to Russian state media TASS …
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CNN:
Kim Jong Un has executed over 300 people since coming to power
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Sarah Palin: President Trump Should ‘Call for the Unshackling of the Political Bands Tying Us to the UN’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
Earthquakes close beloved California ghost town of Bodie
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and KTLA
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Considers Moving VA Toward Privatization
New York Times:
A Majority Agreed She Was Raped by a Stanford Football Player. That Wasn't Enough.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Jezebel
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Democrats Have a Religion Problem
Tatiana Sanchez / Mercury News:
DMV licensed 800,000 undocumented immigrants under 2-year-old law
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
What counties that flipped from Romney to Clinton have in common
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
An obscure E.U. regulation may have saved lives in the Berlin Christmas market attack
Discussion: RT, Mother Jones and Gizmodo
Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal:
Nevada's voter-OK'ed gun background checks blocked
Discussion: Bearing Arms and Hot Air
Carmel Dagan / Variety:
Debbie Reynolds, ‘Singin’ in the Rain' Star and Carrie Fisher's Mother, Dies at 84
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security

Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge from TikTok, ByteDance, and TikTok users on January 10 to the law that could lead to the US banning the app on January 19

Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally
 
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