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10:35 AM ET, November 17, 2016

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Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Son-in-Law Could Get Key White House Role  —  Real-estate developer Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, mulls prospect of being senior adviser or special counsel  —  President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is poised to play a powerful position in Trump's presidency …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Team Makes Overtures to Democrats as Transition Push Ramps Up  —  President-elect meets with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio; support for public-works program signaled  —  President-elect Donald Trump is making overtures to Democrats as his transition efforts ramp up …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mother Jones
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Hoekstra: I'd take CIA director job if offered
Discussion: Mediaite
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Rick Perry considered for Energy Secretary: report
Discussion: RedState
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Scott to visit Trump Tower on Thursday
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, rival powers and whispers in the president's ear
Discussion: Towleroad
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Jared Kushner weighing White House role
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Transition's Going ‘Smoothly,’ Disputing Disarray Reports
Rush Limbaugh:
Trump Transition: Getting Set to Kick Ass
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’  —  What do the Amish lobby, gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common?  For starters, they're all make-believe — and invented by the same man.  —  Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario …
NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Makes First Public Appearance Since Conceding the Election  —  Hillary Clinton urges supporters to ‘stay engaged’ in first speech since election 2:35  —  Hillary Clinton, making an emotional plea, urged supporters “not to give up” and to “stay engaged” in politics at a charity gala in Washington D.C. Wednesday night.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton, in first formal talk since conceding: ‘There is common ground to build upon’
Discussion: Politico, The Week and The Hill
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Washington girds for role reversal on executive power  —  Washington's massive about-face on executive power is underway.  —  Donald Trump's election has triggered a whiplash-inducing role reversal in D.C. legal circles, as liberals who spent the past eight years defending President Barack Obama's use …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump's Muslim registry wouldn't be illegal, constitutional law experts say
Scott Alexander / Slate Star Codex:
You Are Still Crying Wolf  —  [Content warning: hate crimes, Trump, racism.  I have turned off comments to keep out bad people who might be attracted by this sort of thing.  Avoid sharing in places where this will attract the wrong kind of attention, as per your best judgment.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election  —  A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.  —  BuzzFeed Founding Editor, Canada
Ben White / Politico:
Bankers celebrate dawn of Trump era  —  NEW YORK — Christmas has arrived early for Wall Street in the early days of the Donald Trump era.  —  A populist candidate who railed against shady financial interests on the campaign trail is now putting together an administration that looks like an investment banker's dream.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Associated Press:   End Dodd-Frank? Unlikely, but Consumer Agency in Crosshairs
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Democrats Won't Autopsy Their Own Corpse  —  The Democrats already know the cause of their utter electoral humiliation: all those flyover people who had voted for Obama last time were actually racists who demonstrated their racism by not voting for the tired old white lady too.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
New York Times:
As the Democrats Lick Their Wounds  —  Re “Where the Democrats Go From Here,” by Bernie Sanders (Op-Ed, Nov. 12): Senator Sanders may have “campaigned hard” for Hillary Clinton, as he put it, but he campaigned much harder against her in the primaries.  He was entitled to do that …
Discussion: Guardian, AOL, Truthdig, Slate and Vox
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. inflation, labor market data bolster Fed December rate hike  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices recorded their biggest increase in six months in October on rising gasoline costs and rents, suggesting a pickup in inflation that potentially clears the way for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in December.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sanders won't join Democratic Party  —  (I-Vt.) won't officially join the Democratic Party even though he was appointed to a leadership position within the Senate Democratic caucus this week.  —  “I was elected as an Independent and I will finish this term as an Independent,” …
Discussion: Political Wire
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
The Clinton Campaign Was Undone By Its Own Neglect And A Touch Of Arrogance, Staffers Say  —  In key battleground states, calls for help weren't taken seriously enough.  —  WASHINGTON In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's staff in key Midwest states sent out alarms to their headquarters in Brooklyn.
Discussion: Power Line and AOL
John Carreyrou / Dow Jones Newswires:
The only reason I have taken so much time away from work to address this personally is because you are Mr. Shultz's grandson.  —  Tyler Shultz, now 26 years old, was among several Theranos employees who tried to voice concerns inside the company about what they saw as troubling practices …
Henry Grabar / Slate:
The President-Elect Is Suing Washington, D.C., So His Luxury Hotel Can Pay Less in Taxes  —  The president-elect is suing the nation's capital over hotel taxes.  —  Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox.  —  Lawyers for an LLC owned by Donald Trump and his children will try again …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
GOP learning wrong lessons from Trump win, Republicans fear  —  Republican operatives spent four years warning that the party needed to diversify — or risk a blowout at the ballot box.  Donald Trump spent the campaign trafficking in divisive racial rhetoric — and he won anyway.
The Hill:
Clinton: ‘All I wanted to do was just to curl up’ this past week  —  said Wednesday that in the week since her stunning electoral loss, there have been times when she's wanted to hole up at home and “never leave the house again.”  —  But she urged her supporters to stay engaged and fight for the values that propelled her campaign.
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senate Democrats' Surprising Strategy: Trying to Align With Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, divided and struggling for a path from the electoral wilderness, are constructing an agenda to align with many proposals of President-elect Donald J. Trump that put him at odds with his own party.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cruz: Dems seem to be getting ‘nuttier and nuttier’ … (R-Texas) says Democrats appear to be getting “nuttier and nuttier,” blasting protests against Donald Trump  —  after the left's calls to respect the presidential election's results.  —  “We have seen hypocrisy on rank display from the left …
Discussion: RedState
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
FBI's decision to reopen Clinton email probe enabled Donald Trump to win election, says former aide Corey Lewandowski  —  The FBI's controversial decision to re-examine Hillary Clinton's emails enabled Donald Trump to win the election, his former campaign manager has claimed.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
 
 
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David Dayen / New Republic:
Obama Can and Should Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court
CNN:
Will Trump's favorite general become his national security adviser?
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Jacob Carpenter / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
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Joseph Serna / Los Angeles Times:
Fliers advertising ‘UCLA White Students Group’ removed from campus
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The Hill:
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
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Katie Mansfield / Daily Express:
Christians sentenced to 80 lashes by Sharia court for drinking communion wine
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Jim Norman / Gallup:
Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Makes a U-Turn
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The Hill:
Dems recruiting New York rep to challenge Pelosi
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Ann Coulter / Townhall.com:
Literally Shaking  —  Until the nationwide protests …
David Jesse / Detroit Free Press:
Jesse Jackson: Obama should pardon Hillary Clinton