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4:35 PM ET, November 18, 2016

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New York Times:
Donald Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Senator Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama who became a close adviser after endorsing him early in his campaign, to be the attorney general of the United States …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Building Team of Racists  —  Donald Trump's presidential campaign bludgeoned modern norms about the acceptability of racism.  The candidate proposed a religious test for immigrants, and called a federal judge unfit on the grounds of his heritage.
New York Times:
Michael Flynn, Anti-Islamist Ex-General, Offered Security Post, Trump Aide Says  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has offered the post of national security adviser to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, potentially putting a retired intelligence officer who believes Islamist militancy poses …
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director  —  President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, the first selections to his Cabinet …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
10 things to know about Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick for attorney general  —  In Donald Trump's world, most roads, it seems, lead back to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), President-elect Trump's pick for attorney general.  —  After Sessions became one of the first members of Congress …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump poised to learn the Pottery Barn rule of governing  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  A more apt reference, especially after Trump's inauguration, might be the Pottery Barn Rule.  Colin Powell popularized this doctrine in the foreign policy context.
Bloomberg:
Jeff Sessions Said to Be Trump's Pick for Attorney General  —  Alabama lawmaker was an early and ardent Trump supporter  —  Sessions was also under consideration for Defense secretary  —  President-elect Donald Trump has settled on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, according to two people familiar with the matter.
New York Times:
Mike Pompeo Is Trump's Choice as C.I.A. Director  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Representative Mike Pompeo, a hawkish Republican from Kansas and a former Army officer, to lead the C.I.A., his transition team said Friday.  —  Mr. Pompeo, who has served …
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Michael Flynn, Trump's reported pick for national security adviser, sat in on intel briefings …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Can Democrats stop Jeff Sessions — or any Trump nominee? It would be almost unprecedented.
Discussion: RT and Independent Journal Review
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jeff Sessions, Trump's Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley: GOP can't forget immigrants, people of color
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots “An Entirely New Political Movement” (Exclusive)  —  “I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist.  I'm an economic nationalist,” Bannon tells THR media columnist Michael Wolff as the controversial Breitbart …
Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump nearing settlement in Trump University fraud case  —  ALBANY — In a complete turnaround from his previous position, President-elect Donald Trump is nearing a settlement of the fraud cases brought in New York and California involving his now defunct for-profit Trump University, the Daily News has learned.
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Reuters:
Trump agrees to settle real estate seminar lawsuits: source
Discussion: Daily Wire and Hot Air
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Trump University agrees to settle lawsuit for $25 million, NY AG announces
Discussion: Law News and Infowars
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Is in Advanced Talks to Settle Trump University Fraud Allegations
Discussion: Gothamist and Political Wire
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Trump fans take his name to Starbucks  —  Latte-loving fans of President-elect Donald Trump  —  may not be willing to give up Starbucks, but they're putting his name on their drinks.  —  Trump supporters had objected when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz endorsed then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP could nuke filibuster for Supreme Court nominees  —  Top Senate Republicans are drawing a hard line on the Supreme Court, guaranteeing that no matter what tactics Democrats deploy, they will be forced to swallow Donald Trump's imminent nominee to the high court.
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Cruz doesn't close door on Supreme Court seat  —  (R-Texas) is not ruling out the possibility of filling the Supreme Court's open seat.  —  Asked Friday at a National Lawyers Convention event whether he'd accept a high court nomination, Cruz responded, “What I will say is that history is long and can take unexpected paths.”
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Donald Trump Takes Credit for Helping to Save a Ford Plant That Wasn't Closing  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump claimed credit on Thursday night for persuading Ford to keep an automaking plant in Kentucky rather than moving it to Mexico.  The only wrinkle: Ford was not actually planning to move the plant.
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Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Trump just took credit for stopping Ford from moving a plant to Mexico. But it wasn't planning to.
Mark Lilla / New York Times:
The End of Identity Liberalism  —  It is a truism that America has become a more diverse country.  It is also a beautiful thing to watch.  Visitors from other countries, particularly those having trouble incorporating different ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off.
Esther Whieldon / Politico:
Obama cuts Arctic waters from five-year drilling plan  —  President Barack Obama is throwing up roadblocks to Donald Trump's pledges to expand offshore drilling, with a new plan that will declare parts of the Arctic off-limits.  —  Obama's Interior Department on Friday issued …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Suggests Meeting With Trump Wasn't All It Was Cracked Up To Be  —  President Barack Obama acknowledged in a New Yorker profile published online Thursday that his first meeting with Donald Trump may not have actually lived up to its sunny official description.
 
 
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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
How Van Jones Became a Star of the 2016 Campaign
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Mother Jones:
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Talladega police officer fired for sharing racist posts on Facebook
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Washington Republican proposes charging protestors with ‘economic terrorism’
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Dems hit new low in state legislatures
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