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Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
A company Trump attacked will receive state tax breaks to keep jobs in the U.S.  —  Carrier, the company that changed its plans to shutter a plant in Indianapolis and shift production to Mexico after talks with President-elect Donald Trump, confirmed Wednesday that it would receive financial assistance …
David E. Hoffman / Washington Post:
What happens if Trump keeps interfering with the free market? Look at the Soviet Union.
Discussion: The Week, The Resurgent and twitchy.com
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Carrier victory bolsters Trump's economic chops
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP may delay Obamacare replacement for years  —  Prepare for the Obamacare cliff.  —  Congressional Republicans are setting up their own, self-imposed deadline to make good on their vow to replace the Affordable Care Act.  With buy-in from Donald Trump's transition team …
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kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: November 2016  —  Ashley Kirzinger, Elise Sugarman, and Mollyann Brodie  —  KEY FINDINGS:  — The November Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted one week after the 2016 presidential election, finds health care played a limited role in voters' 2016 election decisions …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump, climate czar?  —  In September, as Donald Trump railed against the media and sold himself as the candidate of the forgotten man, Ivanka Trump ventured into the lair of the liberal media and power elite that was laughing at her father.  —  She jetted off to Aspen with her husband …
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Wins Again as Trump Picks Bankers, Billionaires  —  Mnuchin would be third Goldman Treasury secretary since 1990s  —  Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson was feeling happy Wednesday morning.  —  After Donald Trump ridiculed Wall Street on the campaign trail …
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Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is assembling the richest administration in modern American history  —  When George W. Bush assembled his first cabinet in 2001, news reports dubbed them a team of millionaires, and government watchdogs questioned whether they were out of touch with most Americans' problems.
Megan Christie / ABC News:
Christmas Party May Have Triggered San Bernardino Terror Attack: Police  —  One year after the terror attacks in San Bernardino, the ABC News Investigative Unit and Nightline are looking back, revealing never-before-seen photos and videos, and hearing from the first responders …
Discussion: RedState and Heat Street
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Tired Dem donors feel like their money got burned  —  Democratic donors stung by Hillary Clinton  —  's upset loss in the presidential race feel like they just set their money on fire.  —  The sore feelings are a huge problem for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Count Those Votes!  Again!  —  Presidential recount underway.  What's your take on it? … Wow, happy holidays.  —  Yes, it's true the postelection nation is still divided, this time between the folks who don't want to believe Trump is going to be president and the ones who don't want to hear …
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Gabriel Malor / Ricochet:
BuzzFeed Targets HGTV Hosts for Attending Christian Church  —  So Buzzfeed reporter Kate Aurthur wrote a post about popular HGTV hosts Chip and Joanne Gaines which informed the world that the Gaineses' have a pastor who is opposed to same-sex marriage.  This post had one purpose and one purpose alone: to harm the couple.
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Brandon Ambrosino / Washington Post:
BuzzFeed's hit piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines is dangerous
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump already winning — and he's not even president yet  —  MORE FROM:  —  Donald Trump has come a long way from the “disarray” and “chaos” the media claimed to spy before his transition even got started.  Such a long way that it's fair to say that Trump is having just about the best 24 hours a president-elect could have.
Discussion: Hit & Run and New York Magazine
Molly Hendrickson / TheDenverChannel.com:
Doctor, CU professor Michelle Herren under fire for racially-charged Facebook post  —  DENVER — It's the Facebook post Joann Nieto calls “entirely unacceptable.”  —  “I think it's sad,” Nieto said.  —  It depicts a picture of a yelling Michelle Obama with the comment …
Discussion: Denver Post, Raw Story and The Root
Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
McDonald's To Install Ordering Kiosks Instead Of Paying People $15/Hour  —  A former McDonald's CEO is laying the blame on the “Fight for $15” movement as for why the company is embracing automation in its restaurants.  McDonald's will install self-serve kiosks in its restaurants around the country to replace human cashiers.
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump Treasury pick made millions after his bank foreclosed on homeowners  —  Donald Trump wasn't the only person to see opportunity in the 2008 housing collapse.  As the economy recovered from the rubble of failed banks, foreclosed homes and government bailouts, Steven Mnuchin emerged a winner.
Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos, FDIC and The Week
Bloomberg:
Trump's Business Is Not Too Big to Sell  —  Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to hint at how he will avoid conflicts of interest after he trades in his hat as the Trump Organization's chief deal-maker for that of the U.S. commander in chief.  —  Trump said he recognizes that it's …
Tim Barber / WJLA-TV:
Pride flags pop up in VP-elect Pence's temporary Northwest D.C. neighborhood  —  Christmas decorations are popping up left and right, but one street in NW Washington has a different kind of decoration this season—rainbow flags.  —  “A respectful message showing, in my case …
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Rare
abc11.com:
State board orders recount of 94,000 Durham County votes  —  The Durham County Board of Election chairman told ABC11 a recount could take as long as a week and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Discussion: Mediaite and myfox8.com
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Partial Recount Ordered in North Carolina Governor's Race
Discussion: The Week
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Ambassador: ‘Mexico is not paying for the wall’  —  gets closer to inauguration day, Mexican leaders are looking to remind him they will not pay for the president-elect's promised wall along the U.S.'s southern border.  —  “We have said time and again Mexico is not paying for the wall,” …
Discussion: USA Today and alan.com
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Urge Obama To Declassify Info On Russia And US Election  —  Several Senate Democrats are calling on President Barack Obama to declassify information related to the Russian government and the U.S. election.  —  “We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian Government …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Atlantic and WPRI-TV
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There have been just 4 documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election  —  Three weeks ago, the votes of more than 135 million Americans were counted, and Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election.  It was a surprising result, given that polling in the run …
Discussion: Associated Press and Rewire
Politico:
Why Marine Le Pen won't win  —  In France, the protest vote is less attractive now that the Americans and Brits have already pulled the trigger.  —  The British and American press are full of alarm and excitement.  After the triumph of the nationalist populism that swept Donald …
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Conway eyes top spot in Trump's outside political operation  —  Kellyanne Conway is considering taking the helm of the external political operation that will support Donald Trump  —  during his tenure as president, according to sources familiar with the private deliberations.
Discussion: Political Wire
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Separation anxiety: Trump's management style poses challenges in Oval Office  —  It has proven one of Donald Trump's greatest strengths in building a worldwide luxury brand: An obsessive attention to detail, down to the curtains hanging in hotel rooms and the marble lining the lobby floor.
Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press:
Studies: ‘Magic Mushroom’ Psychedelic Drug May Ease Anxiety, Depression  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The psychedelic drug in “magic mushrooms” can quickly and effectively help treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients, an effect that may last for months, two small studies show.
Discussion: STAT
 
 
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Matthew Sheffield / Salon:
Nancy Pelosi breezes to victory again — but don't expect House Democrats to start singing “Kumbaya”
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
What do Trump's latest Cabinet nominees have in common?  They all represent big money that backed him.
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
SHOCK: Amnesty International Blasts Kellogg's for Using Child Labor-Produced Ingredients
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton campaign seeking volunteers for recount
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
US businesses ramp up hiring after election
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
Researchers may have ‘found’ many of China's 30 million missing girls
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Sheryl Sandberg is donating more than $100 million in Facebook stock to charity
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