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3:45 PM ET, December 8, 2016

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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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New York Times:
Trump's Likely Labor Pick, Andrew Puzder, Is Critic of Minimum Wage Increases  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that operates the fast food outlets Hardee's and Carl's Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted …
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump to name fast-food CEO as labor secretary: report
Discussion: TheStreet.com, RedState and alan.com
Cogan Schneier / Politico:
Puzder is likely pick for labor secretary
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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CNNMoney:
Trump unleashes tweet on Carrier union boss who blasted him
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Carrier union boss gets threatening calls after Trump's tweets
Discussion: RedState
Suzanne Monyak / Slate:
Kellyanne Conway Suggests That Women With Kids Shouldn't Take Jobs in the White House  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said that mothers should not accept high-powered career opportunities—a standard that does not apply to fathers, in Conway's opinion.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Trump Takes to the Bully Pulpit
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Valerie Jarrett: I urged Kellyanne Conway to take a job in Trump's White House
Discussion: alan.com and Mediaite
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 …
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John Bacon / USA Today:
Has U.S. life expectancy maxed out? First decline since 1993
Discussion: The Week
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.
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Harry Reid / New York Times:
Farewell, Fair Senate
Discussion: NBC News
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Plays the DC Press Corps Like a Fiddle  —  Millions of people's lives and livelihoods are on the line.  So it's not funny.  But if there weren't such dire real world consequences, Paul Ryan's current flimflam would be straight up hilarious.  Repealing Obamacare has immediate real world consequences.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Won't Say How Long GOPers Will Take To Replace Obamacare After Repeal
Discussion: ACASignups.net
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
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.
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’  —  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Amanda Delekta, a sophomore at the University of Michigan and political director of the College Republicans, was ecstatic when her candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the presidential election.
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
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 …
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.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds Earn More Than Their Parents  —  As wages stagnate in the middle class, it becomes hard to reverse this trend  —  Barely half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents did at a similar age, a research team found, an enormous decline from the early 1970s …
CNN:
Biden: I'm ‘embarrassed’ by the campaign  —  (CNN)This year's presidential contest was a substance-free spectacle, Vice President Joe Biden lamented on Thursday.  —  “This has been a very tough election.  It's been ugly, it's been divisive, it's been coarse, it's been dispiriting.
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Navy admiral's Pearl Harbor speech trolls Colin Kaepernick  —  A decorated US Navy admiral took the time to troll Colin Kaepernick during the 75th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration ceremony on Wednesday — saying those who died on that fateful day “never took a knee and never failed to stand” during the national anthem.
Joe DiSipio / The Hill:
With Trump, conservatives hope for ally in ‘War on Christmas’  —  Conservatives are hoping that Donald Trump  —  will be a strong ally in the “War on Christmas.”  —  The president-elect, who repeatedly promised his supporters “we're going to say ‘merry Christmas’ again,” …
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 …
Discussion: Power Line and neo-neocon
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Low Approval of Trump's Transition but Outlook for His Presidency Improves  —  Growing numbers see ‘strong’ partisan and racial conflicts  —  Nearly a month after Donald Trump's election as president, the public views his transition to the White House less positively than those of past presidents-elect.
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox
Bloomberg:
Facebook's Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest  —  In a lawsuit, shareholders say Andreessen was advising Facebook's CEO when he was supposed to be representing investors.  —  by  —  Jef Feeley  —  Earlier this year, Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg came …
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Verge
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Reid: Trump ‘not as bad as I thought he would be’  —  Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid  —  is “not as bad as I thought he would be.”  —  The Nevada Democrat specifically mentioned the president-elect's decision not to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton
Discussion: RedState and NPR
The Guardian:
German court rules Muslim girls must take part in swimming lessons  —  Constitutional judges say schoolgirl cannot be excused mixed classes on grounds of Islamic dress codes  —  Germany's highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school …
Jonathan Oosting / Detroit News:
Strict voter ID law approved in Michigan House  —  Lansing — Michigan's Republican-led House on Wednesday night approved a strict voter identification proposal over strenuous objections from Democrats who argued the plan could disenfranchise properly registered voters.
 
 
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BREAKING NEWS: Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger becomes a father for the EIGHTH …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Trump's Carrier deal is the opposite of conservatism
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Koch Industries Says House GOP's Tax Plan ‘Could Be Devastating’
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The Guardian:
Marine Le Pen says no free education for children of ‘illegal immigrants’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Christopher Wilson / Yahoo:
Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher defends Russia, denounces China
CNN:
Michigan recount halted
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