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3:15 PM ET, December 2, 2016

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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Trump allies try to freeze recount efforts  —  Allies of Donald Trump are trying to freeze recount efforts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — three states in which the president-elect narrowly beat Hillary Clinton — as they seek to preserve the legitimacy of Trump's win.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Exults in Victory and Mocks Critics at Cincinnati Rally
Discussion: Daily Kos
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Trump super PAC files federal lawsuit to block Wisconsin recount
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Lewandowski: Times editor Dean Baquet ‘should be in jail’ for publishing Trump tax docs  —  Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's first campaign manager, said Thursday that New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet “should be in jail” because the newspaper published parts of the president-elect's tax returns during the race.
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Washington Post:
Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The raw, lingering emotion of the 2016 presidential campaign erupted into a shouting match here Thursday as top strategists of Hillary Clinton's campaign accused their Republican counterparts of fueling and legitimizing racism to elect Donald Trump.
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway Dodges Question on Trump's Claim That ‘Millions’ Voted Illegally
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump & Hillary Aides Tussle in ‘Goddamn Foodfight’ Screaming Match
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Campaign operatives blast Jeff Zucker over CNN coverage at Harvard event
Reuters:
Philippines' Duterte gets Trump White House invite during ‘animated’ call  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a “very engaging, animated” phone conversation, a Duterte aide said on Friday, amid rocky relations between their two countries.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump won the Electoral College (though not the popular vote) on the strength of overwhelming support from working-class whites, who feel left behind by a changing economy and society.  And they're about to get their reward — the same reward that …
Austin Wright / Politico:
Democrats could block Mattis nomination  —  Gen. James Mattis will need a supermajority to win confirmation from the Senate.  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) will require a vote at a 60-vote threshold to allow Mattis to become the defense secretary, an aide said.
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Stanton S. Coerr / The Federalist:
I Served With James Mattis.  Here's What I Learned From Him  —  This article is slightly amended and reprinted, with permission, from The Strategy Bridge.  —  America knows Gen. James Mattis as a character, Mad Dog Mattis, the font of funny quotes and Chuck Norris-caliber memes.
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Employment Situation Summary  —  Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-16-2233 8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, December 2, 2016  —  Technical information:  —  Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
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Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls Rose 178,000 in November; Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.6%
Discussion: New York Times and Oliver Willis
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Carrier Shakedown  —  Workers don't prosper when politicians force companies to make noneconomic decisions.  —  A giant flaw in President Obama's economic policy has been the politicized allocation of capital, from green energy to housing.  Donald Trump suffers from a similar …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Pence denied request to help Carrier in 2014
Discussion: TIME, Salon and Politico
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump's Breezy Calls to World Leaders Leave Diplomats Aghast  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump inherited a complicated world when he won the election last month.  And that was before a series of freewheeling phone calls with foreign leaders that has unnerved diplomats at home and abroad.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Wahlberg: Celebs should stop talking about politics  —  Mark Wahlberg has a message for Hollywood stars who get political: Zip it.  —  “A lot of celebrities did, do, and shouldn't,” Wahlberg said in an interview published this week on the military veterans news site Task & Purpose.
Scott Jones / FTVLive:
CNN Crew Jokes about Donald Trump's Plane Crashing  —  CNN Correspondent Suzanne Malveauxjoke was covering the Carrier press conference, that featured both Donald Trump and Mike Pence.  —  Carrier was able to negotiate huge tax breaks for their company, if they promised not to move all their jobs to Mexico.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Paul Ryan: I've discussed Constitution ‘extensively’ with Trump  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan and President-elect Donald Trump have discussed the Constitution “extensively” in their almost daily conversations.  —  In an excerpt of a “60 Minutes” interview to air Sunday, Ryan was asked whether …
Discussion: CBS News and The Week
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Associated Press:
Senate GOP Shies From Fight Over Medicare
Discussion: Politico
TechCrunch:
Reports of a Facebook fake news detector are apparently a plugin  —  Update: The feature appears to be an implementation of the Chrome plugin B.S. Detector, which some users took as a test by Facebook itself.  We'll continue to investigate but for now it looks like this is not a Facebook feature.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Facebook exec: “We resisted having standards” on fake news. “That was wrong.”
Discussion: Business Insider
Alison Daye / CNN:
Young cancer victim's wish to ‘blow stuff up’ comes true  —  Boy with cancer granted ‘blow stuff up’ wish  —  (CNN)The Make-A-Wish Foundation is in the business of making dreams come true — even when the dream is to blow stuff up.  —  And that was great news for Declan McLean-Pauley, a 12-year-old who is in remission from lukemia.
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Economic Stupidity of the Carrier Bailout  —  It's not conservative, but rather a rejection of economic reality.  —  One particularly tough and indigestible nugget of talk-radio stupidity afflicting the guts of conservatism is the idea that there is some sort of fundamental difference between bribing …
Linda Trischitta / Sun-Sentinel:
Dead man found inside SUV with pile of parking tickets on windshield  —  Sun Sentinel … For four days, city parking officers slapped tickets on an SUV parked three blocks from the Broward County Courthouse.  When Carolyn White noticed the pile of citations, she wondered what was going on.
Discussion: Associated Press
Brad Plumer / Vox:
Trump has endorsed the Dakota Access Pipeline.  The next move is up to Obama.  —  For the first time, Donald Trump has said he supports finishing construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which is currently being held up by both the Obama administration and (more significantly) …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Decline of America's white population accelerating, study finds  —  A rapidly aging white population and fast-growing younger minority groups are speeding demographic changes across the nation, hastening a political divide likely to have long-term ramifications.
Discussion: AOL
Michael McConnell / Hoover Institution:
A Question Of Prerogative  —  Next week the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will hear arguments in the most important constitutional case in modern European history.  At issue is whether Prime Minister Theresa May has authority to exercise Britain's right to exit the European Union (EU) without a vote of Parliament.
Liz Sawyer / Star Tribune:
Mall of America welcomes its first black Santa  —  Visiting for just four days, Larry Jefferson is the first black Santa to listen to kids' wish lists at the Mall of America.  —  Video (01:57) : After 24 years, the Mall of America celebrated a new first Thursday: Its first black Santa.  —  TEXT SIZE
 
 
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Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
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Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic:
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Donald Trump makes surprise call to Al Sharpton
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