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11:00 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  —  The Carrier union boss who criticized Donald Trump  —  is receiving threatening phone calls, he told MSNBC late Wednesday.  —  Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers local 1999, which represents workers …
Discussion: RedState
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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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Federal judge kills recount effort in Michigan
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump to pick oil ally Pruitt to head EPA
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
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, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
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.
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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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Dems push Obama to use pardon power to prevent deportations  —  Democrats are amplifying their calls for President Obama to pardon undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and protect them from the threat of deportation under President-elect Donald Trump
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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.
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, Raw Story, Law News 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: The Week
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.
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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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Meet the Democrats' proto-Trumps  —  Four weeks out from Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Democrats may soon be launching a few unorthodox, mega-rich candidates of their own.  —  In three major states with a governor's mansion up for grabs in 2018, a big-name …
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Associated Press:   Ellison Says He'll Resign From Congress If Elected DNC Chair
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama officials alarmed at slow pace of agency-level transition  —  Donald Trump is beating President Barack Obama on the pace of splashy cabinet announcements, but the president-elect is lagging his predecessor when it comes to other transition efforts critical to fulfilling his campaign promises.
Discussion: alan.com
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: Political Wire
 
 
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Those Pesky Principles  —  Trump's bid to keep Carrier …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan: Trump Can Steal All He Wants As Long As I Get Tax Cuts
Discussion: Politico
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Putting the Minimum Wage Debate into Context
Discussion: Forbes and bradford-delong.com
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Two Klan Leaders Are Charged in a North Carolina Stabbing
The White House:
The Cabinet  —  Established in Article II, Section 2 …
Discussion: Mother Jones and AOL
Daniel Berehulak / New York Times:
‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’
Discussion: Truthout Stories and Hit & Run
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David Bernstein / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court oral argument that cost Democrats the presidency
The Texas Tribune:
At A&M, protests, big crowds and tension over white nationalist's speech
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