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11:50 AM ET, December 8, 2016

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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Donald Trump just insulted a union leader on Twitter.  Then the phone started to ring.  —  Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn't see the tweet.  His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and said: The president-elect is smearing you on Twitter.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Carrier union boss gets threatening calls after Trump's tweets
Discussion: RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Expected to Name Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary  —  Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, likely to peel back regulations  —  President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump to name fast-food CEO as labor secretary: report  —  will name Andy Puzder, CEO of a major fast-food chain, to serve as Labor secretary, according to Bloomberg.  —  Puzder, who's the CEO of CKE Restaurants, met with Trump for the second time on Wednesday.
Discussion: alan.com
Alexandra Clough / Palm Beach Post:
Exclusive: Judge to Trump: No getting out of Jupiter golf club lawsuit  —  President-Elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-A-Lago on Palm Beach  —  U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra on Wednesday refused yet another request by Donald Trump to toss a 2013 lawsuit filed against his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter.
CNN:
Michigan recount halted  —  (CNN)A federal judge has ordered Michigan's Board of Elections to stop the state's electoral recount.  —  US District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued the order late Wednesday — dissolving a previous temporary restraining order against the Board of Elections that allowed the recount to continue.
Discussion: Law News, TheBlaze, Mediaite and twitchy.com
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Wall Street Journal:
How Donald Trump's Web of LLCs Obscures His Business Interests  —  The opacity of his holdings makes it impossible to gauge the full extent of potential conflicts he may face as president  —  President-elect Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland.  —  To be more precise …
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Reid predicts death of filibuster  —  Senate Democrats are about to get rolled on Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.  They could spend years in the minority.  And instead of the GOP collapse that many expected on Nov. 8, it's now Democrats soul-searching about what went wrong.
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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Harry Reid / New York Times:
Farewell, Fair Senate
Discussion: NBC News
Jennifer Palmieri / Washington Post:
Our campaign lost the election.  But Trump's team must own up to how he won.  —  Jennifer Palmieri was communications director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.  —  I know how to be a gracious loser.  —  I could have let it go last week when Kellyanne Conway …
Discussion: Politico and Mother Jones
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Even anti-Trump working-class voters are having second thoughts  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Robert James stood outside the Carrier plant just before the president-elect addressed workers at the refrigeration and heating assembly plant.  —  “I feel a great swing of emotions that go from disbelief …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
The Comet Ping Pong Gunman Answers Our Reporter's Questions  —  WASHINGTON — Edgar M. Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C., was arrested Sunday after firing a gun inside a pizza restaurant in Washington as he investigated false claims in online articles that the pizzeria was at the center of a child sex slave ring, the police said.
Jack Coleman / NewsBusters:
Quite Possibly the Funniest Thing That Brian Williams Has Ever Said  —  For years I've wondering if former NBC news anchor Brian Williams is an aspiring stand-up comic.  What he said last night on The 11th Hour sealed it — this guy can make people laugh, albeit not always intentionally.
New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Said to Intend to Keep a Stake in His Business  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering formally turning over the operational responsibility for his real estate company to his two adult sons, but he intends to keep a stake in the business and resist calls to divest …
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The Guardian:
Marine Le Pen says no free education for children of ‘illegal immigrants’  —  'If you come to our country, don't expect that you will be taken care of,' says French far-right leader  —  French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed that children of immigrants who are in the country illegally …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Trump Appears to Soften on Deporting Thousands of Young Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday appeared to soften his stance on whether to deport the more than 700,000 young people who entered the country illegally as children and were permitted to stay by President Obama.
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Dems push Obama to use pardon power to prevent deportations
CBS New York:
CBS2 Exclusive: Giants' Nikita Whitlock Has Home Vandalized With Hateful Graffiti  —  MOONACHIE, N.J. — The Bergen County home of a local athlete was broken into Tuesday evening.  Several items were taken, but what's more disturbing is what the suspects left behind.
Discussion: AOL, Law News, Raw Story and ProFootballTalk
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993  —  For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year — a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States.  —  Rising fatalities from heart disease …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
House Progressives Rail Against Trump's Cabinet Picks  —  Members of the House progressive caucus on Thursday railed against President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks.  Caucus co-chair Keith Ellison (D-MI), who is also running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee …
Discussion: alan.com
Christopher Wilson / Yahoo:
Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher defends Russia, denounces China  —  Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said in an interview Wednesday that the United States cooperating with Russia is a good thing and that China is not America's friend.
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Those Pesky Principles  —  Trump's bid to keep Carrier from moving jobs out of the country was terrible economic policy.  Naturally, voters love it.  —  That sounds cynical and biting.  But I think there is actually a powerful underlying logic to this dynamic, one that we classical liberal …
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist, to Lead E.P.A.  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling Mr. Trump's determination …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan: Trump Can Steal All He Wants As Long As I Get Tax Cuts  —  Faced with the extraordinary circumstance of a president who refuses either to release his tax returns or to divest his business holdings, Republicans have devised a series of creative explanations for why Donald Trump is entitled to behave like a kleptocrat.
Discussion: Politico
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
Washington Post Appends “Russian Propaganda Fake News” Story, Admits It May Be Fake  —  In the latest example why the “mainstream media” is facing a historic crisis of confidence among its readership, facing unprecedented blowback following Craig Timberg November 24 Washington Post story …
Discussion: The Last Tradition and Infowars
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Jonathan Oosting / Detroit News:
Strict voter ID law approved in Michigan House
Suzanne Monyak / Slate:
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Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg:
Koch Industries Says House GOP's Tax Plan ‘Could Be Devastating’
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