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10:05 AM ET, December 5, 2016

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Politico:
Incoming national security adviser's son spreads fake news about D.C. pizza shop  —  The son of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, embraced a baseless conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton on Sunday after a man who claimed to be investigating …
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Washington Post:
D.C. Police detain suspect with an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong restaurant  —  D.C. Police responding Sunday to a report of a gunman at a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington detained a man armed with an assault rifle, according to a police spokeswoman.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Man Motivated by ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy Theory Arrested in Washington Gunfire
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Armed man arrested at DC pizzeria targeted by conspiracy theory
Evan McMullin / New York Times:
Trump's Threat to the Constitution  —  WASHINGTON — On July 7, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, met privately with House Republicans near the Capitol.  I was present as chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Agents of Idiocracy  —  Last week when Donald Trump began his so-called Thank You Tour in Cincinnati, he had yet another opportunity to be magnanimous and conciliatory, to step beyond the division and acrimony of his campaign and into the unity and healing necessary to be president of a strained nation.
U.S. Army / army.mil:
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing  —  Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil  —  The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota …
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Business Wire:
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners Respond to the Statement from the Department of the Army  —  DALLAS & NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL) announced that the Administration's statement today …
Discussion: USA Today, The Verge and The Root
Devin Henry / The Hill:
Feds deny permit for Dakota Access pipeline
Discussion: The Resurgent, The Week and Daily Kos
James MacPherson / NBC4 Washington:
Federal Government Blocks Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Route
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump's Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved  —  Donald Trump's protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwan's leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past, according to interviews with people involved in the planning.
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Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
Taiwan City Planning a Makeover Says a Trump Agent Showed Interest
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD  —  Ben Carson, who took Donald J. Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by Mr. Trump to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Taps Ben Carson For Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development  —  President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development in his incoming administration.  —  The famed retired neurosurgeon is an unorthodox pick to lead the agency …
Discussion: The Atlantic, alan.com and The Guardian
David Wright / CNN:
Trump taps Ben Carson for HUD secretary
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Dancing with insanity  —  One-hundred and thirty-four House Democrats collectively lost their minds last week.  —  That is how many of Nancy Pelosi's colleagues it took to vote her back into power despite having lost her third consecutive chance at winning back the majority from the Republicans.
Elana Schor / Politico:
Democrats to give Trump Cabinet picks the Garland treatment  —  Senate Democrats are preparing to put Donald Trump's Cabinet picks through a grinding confirmation process, weighing delay tactics that could eat up weeks of the Senate calendar and hamper his first 100 days in office.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP wagers Americans don't care about Trump's conflicts  —  Republicans see the same ethically challenged complications lurking in Donald Trump's business portfolio that Democrats are squawking about.  They just think Americans don't care about these entanglements anymore.
Detroit News:
Judge orders Mich. presidential recount to begin Monday  —  Detroit — A federal judge has ordered Michigan election officials to begin a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday.  —  U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued a ruling …
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The war on ‘fake news’ is all about censoring real news  —  MORE FROM:  —  Scrambling for an explanation for Donald Trump's victory, many in the media and on the left have settled on the idea that his supporters were consumers of “fake news” — gullible rubes living in an alternate reality made Trump president.
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Trying to imitate Trump's victory, Italy's Beppe Grillo could help throw Europe into crisis  —  When Beppe Grillo started to make headlines at the leader of Italy's biggest protest party more than six years ago, it was hard to avoid the puns.  A comedian turned politician, Grillo was laughed at and branded a “clown.”
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Reuters:
Italy PM Renzi facing big referendum defeat: exit polls
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In an anti-recount filing, Trump's lawyers say the election was ‘not tainted by fraud or mistake’  —  Three leading Republicans were asked over the weekend whether or not they agreed with Donald Trump's tweeted assertion that millions of voters had cast illegal ballots (part of Trump's effort to rebut his popular vote loss).
Discussion: Politico, Law News, Hot Air and The Guardian
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A fitting end: Castro's hearse breaks down  —  The vehicle carrying Fidel Castro's remains during his funeral parade broke down yesterday.  Soldiers had to push it through the streets.  —  How symbolic!  What could be more fitting, given the broken down nature of the antique Cuban state produced by Castro?
Discussion: The American Mirror
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Wall Street Journal:
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Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
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