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2:40 PM ET, December 1, 2016

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Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders: Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump  —  We need a president who can stand up to big corporations, not fold to their demands.  —  Today, about 1,000 Carrier workers and their families should be rejoicing.  But the rest of our nation's workers should be very nervous.
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Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
Indiana Gives $7 Million in Tax Breaks to Keep Carrier Jobs  —  The move will keep about 1,000 jobs in the state; Trump and Pence to announce the deal later today  —  Indiana officials have agreed to give United Technologies Corp. $7 million worth of tax breaks over 10 years to encourage …
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Trump promised he'd make Carrier ‘pay a damn tax.’ Instead he's doing the exact opposite.  —  Candidate Trump talked tough.  President-elect Trump isn't following through.  —  On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to hold a news conference touting …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory, explained  —  A huge PR coup for the Trump Show that's almost certainly economically irrelevant.  —  Carrier, the HVAC company that since 1979 has been a subsidiary of the larger United Technologies conglomerate, announced several months ago …
Discussion: Politico, NBC News, Slate and RedState
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 …
Brandon Ambrosino / Washington Post:
BuzzFeed's hit piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines is dangerous  —  This piece is by Brandon Ambrosino, a writer living in Delaware.  —  I'm currently planning my wedding, and I've never been happier.  I believe God brought me and Andy together and that God celebrates our love.
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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 …
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Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
A year after the San Bernardino terror attack, the FBI is still struggling to answer key questions
Discussion: AOL and KTLA
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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Christie throws his hat in the ring for RNC chair  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expressing interest in the job of Republican National Committee chairman.  —  Christie told senior members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team on Thursday morning that he is interested in the post …
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
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Wall Street Journal:
Do Illegal Votes Decide Elections?
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Rep. Keith Ellison faces renewed scrutiny over past ties to Nation of Islam, defense of anti-Semitic figures  —  (CNN)Rep. Keith Ellison's past ties to the Nation of Islam and his defense of its anti-Semitic leader, Louis Farrakhan, are resurfacing as he campaigns to lead the Democratic National Committee.
Discussion: New York Times and Booman Tribune
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) …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dem senator to meet with Trump  —  , a Democrat about to face a difficult reelection in 2018, will meet with President-elect Donald Trump  —  in New York as he continues to take meetings to shape his Cabinet.  —  Trump transition aide Jason Miller confirmed the meeting on a Thursday call …
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 …
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.
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Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Wins Again as Trump Picks Bankers, Billionaires
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
Julia Terruso / Philly.com:
City attorney identified in connection with anti-Trump graffiti  —  The surveillance footage shows two men ambling casually along a tony stretch of Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.  One wears a blue blazer, khakis, and a rakishly tied scarf.  He carries a glass of wine.
Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Brown taps California's Rep. Xavier Becerra to be state's first Latino attorney general  —  Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) to be the next attorney general of California.  He will succeed Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November.
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 …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
CNN's Cooper clashes with Warren: ‘No evidence’ Bannon is a white supremacist … CNN host Anderson Cooper and Sen. Elizabeth Warren  —  (D-Mass.) clashed Wednesday over whether one of President-elect Donald Trump  —  's key appointments is a white supremacist.
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.
Mfuneko Toyana / Reuters:
Soyinka shreds U.S. greencard in anger over Trump victory  —  Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has torn up his United States green card and renounced his American residency in protest at Donald Trump's U.S. election win, the writer told news channel eNCA on Thursday.
Christopher J. Eberhart / lohud.com:
Police: Putnam man said he ‘wants to shoot all Spanish-speaking people’  —  The investigation led to the man's arrest on a weapons possession charge.  —  CONNECT  —  PATTERSON - A 56-year-old Patterson man who told two employees of a local grocery store that he “wants to shoot all Spanish-speaking people” …
Discussion: Raw Story and Law News
New York Times:
North Carolina's Sore Loser  —  As early voting exit polls in North Carolina trickled in just before Election Day, state Republican Party officials could hardly contain their glee.  They issued a statement hailing early results that suggested “the once dynamic Obama Coalition” was “crumbling and tired.”
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: FDIC, Mediaite, Daily Kos and The Week
 
 
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