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1:20 PM ET, December 14, 2016

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip  —  Larry Lessig, a Harvard University constitutional law professor who made a brief run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, claimed Tuesday that 20 Republican members of the Electoral College are considering voting against Donald Trump …
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The Hill:
Electoral College voters in spotlight
Discussion: Politico
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump tells Wisconsin: Victory was a surprise
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
The Latest: Judge Says Colorado Electors Can't Switch Votes
Discussion: Politico
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election  —  Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.  So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers …
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Rex Tillerson's 3 a.m. phone call  —  It was nearly 3 o'clock in the morning when the phone rang in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, an impoverished, war-torn country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.  —  Hours earlier, Rex Tillerson, then a young, up-and-coming country manager at Exxon …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump recruits army of chief executives to battle with the system in Washington
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
The problem with Rex Tillerson's nine-figure nest egg
Daniel Wagner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Must Give Up Hotel Before Inauguration, Agency Tells Lawmakers  —  Major development in dispute over Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: The government agency that leases a taxpayer-owned landmark for Trump's Washington hotel has told lawmakers that the president-elect will be in breach …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Federal Agency Warns Trump He Must Give Up DC Hotel Before Inauguration  —  The President-elect has been warned by federal authorities that he will be in breach of a government lease if he does not revoke ownership of his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. before Inauguration Day, Democratic lawmakers revealed Tuesday.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Agency Has Ruled Trump Will Be In Violation of Washington Hotel Lease, Democrats Say
Discussion: Political Wire
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission, files show  —  A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” …
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Washington Post:
Read the military investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers”  —  After a stunning election loss, the knives appear to be out in Clintonworld.  —  “Maybe I'm just pissed off, but I really don't give a s**t about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Don Trump Jr. involved in INTERIOR search — WAYNE BERMAN up for TRADE REP — TRUMP'S TECH SUMMIT — SPOTTED AT DAVID RUBENSTEIN'S PARTY — B'DAY: Kirsten Powers  —  By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) with DANIEL LIPPMAN …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump's son involved in Interior secretary hunt: report
Discussion: RedState, CNN and The Week
Jason Kurtz / CNN:
NFL great Brown on meeting Trump: ‘I fell in love with him’  —  Jim Brown on Trump: He has “my admiration”  —  (CNN)NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he “fell in love” with President-elect Donald Trump.
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
White males dominate Trump's top cabinet posts
Discussion: RedState and BizPac Review
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Divisions deepen inside Trump Tower  —  Donald Trump's White House-in-waiting is already being roiled by divisions, with the conservative outsiders who helped power his historic victory colliding with a Republican Party establishment muscling its way in.  —  Insiders paint a picture …
Discussion: Political Wire
Noah Browning / Reuters:
Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings  —  Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings.
S.P. Sullivan / New Jersey Online:
N.J. trooper pulled over women to ask them out, covered it up, state says  —  TRENTON — A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended without pay after an internal investigation found he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and falsifying police records to cover it up, authorities said.
Discussion: Law News, New York's PIX11 and The Root
TMZ.com:
Alan Thicke — Dead at 69  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  5:50 AM — Robin Thicke posted on Instagram about his father's passing.  —  TV icon Alan Thicke has died ... TMZ has learned.  —  We're told Alan had a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter.
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Administration Bars States From Withholding Federal Money From Planned Parenthood  —  WASHINGTON — Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration on Wednesday issued a final rule to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Kos
CNN:
Philippines President Duterte admits killing suspects  —  (CNN)Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted killing suspected criminals during his time as mayor of Davao City.  —  “In Davao, I used to do it personally.  Just to show the guys that, if I can do it, why can't you?”
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
GOP Leaders Ignored Repeated Requests To Go Further In Condemning Russia's Hacking  —  The Speaker, Majority Leader and RNC Chair each turned down calls for help from their Democratic counterparts.  —  In mid-October, as the presidential campaign turned daily over the release of hacked emails …
Alexis McAdams / Fox 59:
Indiana town without a police department after every Bunker Hill officer quits  —  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - An entire Indiana town has no police officers after every single one walked off the job.  The officers blame the Bunker Hill Town Council for the situation.
Discussion: AOL and The Daily Caller
Sydney Finkelstein / BBC:
Algorithms are making us small-minded  —  Your life is mapped out for you but, not in the way that you think.  How predictive algorithms narrow your perspective - and ultimately your choices.  —  We live in a world of curation.  The internet — aided by algorithms that predict what we search …
Discussion: Daily Mail
Matthew Sheffield / Salon:
Rise of the alt-right: How mainstream conservatives' obsession with purity fueled a new right-wing radicalism  —  The GOP's endless battles over who is or isn't a “true conservative” created a movement it couldn't control … Faced with the emergence of the new racist political movement known as the …
 
 
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Obama shrugs off Russian cyberattacks — until Trump elected president
Henry Farrell / Washington Post:
Thomas Schelling has died. His ideas shaped the Cold War and the world.
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Modern-Day Civil War Drama Pilot ‘Civil’ Not Going Forward At TNT
Pamela Duncan / The Guardian:
Europeans greatly overestimate Muslim population, poll shows
NJ Spotlight:
All in the Family: The Canadian Clan Behind the American Dream Mall
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
POLITICO survey: Ellison no lock for DNC chair
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Jacob T. Levy / Niskanen Center:
The Defense of Liberty Can't Do Without Identity Politics
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Disgrace under pressure
 Earlier Items: 
Manu Raju / CNN:
Bob Corker plans to launch new Russia hacking inquiry
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Pageant Silences Beauty Queen, a Critic of China, at U.S. Contest
Discussion: New York Magazine
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate already bickering over Sessions
Mike Males / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Why do California's whites vote so differently than whites elsewhere?
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump team working to remove top NATO official
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding

Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times:
LAist initiates a voluntary buyout program for staff to avoid layoffs as it faces a “significant budget shortfall” ranging from $4M-$5M in the next two years

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Spotify's head of podcast studios Julie McNamara is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify's reduced ambitions in podcasts
 
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