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12:35 PM ET, December 15, 2016

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NBC News:
U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack  —  Vladimir Putin personally involved in US election hack, intelligence officials say 2:36  —  U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for ‘disgusted’ Democratic whistleblowers  — Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and associate of Julian Assange …
Brian Ross / ABC News:
Officials: Master Spy Vladimir Putin Now Directly Linked to US Hacking
Ed Klein / Townhall.com:
Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn't Influence the Election
Discussion: TheBlaze
Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America  —  And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.  —  Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through …
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New York Times:
Trump Questions Russia's Election Meddling on Twitter — Inaccurately  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump was back on Twitter on Thursday morning, questioning Russia's involvement in the election; targeting an old nemesis, the magazine editor Graydon Carter; and defending his business interests.
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
North Carolina G.O.P. Moves to Curb Power of New Democratic Governor  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans in the North Carolina legislature on Wednesday took the highly unusual step of moving to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor after a bitter election that extended years of fierce ideological battles in the state.
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ncleg.net:   GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOURTH EXTRA SESSION 2016
Raleigh News & Observer:
Lawmakers look to limit Cooper's power as governor
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Griping about the popular vote?  Get over it.  —  What an outrage: On Sunday, the National Football League awarded the Tennessee Titans a win over the Denver Broncos because they scored more points, even though the Broncos got more total yards than the Titans.
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Anthony L. Fisher / Hit & Run:
Why ‘Hamilton Electors,’ Who Would Make Hillary Clinton President, Are as Dead as Their Namesake
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news  —  You can't blame Macedonian teens for disastrously email-centric coverage.  —  Speaking in early December at a ceremony to honor Harry Reid's retirement from the US Senate, Hillary Clinton took aim at a target …
Rocco Parascandola / New York Daily News:
Muslim college student who claimed Trump supporters attacked her on the subway under arrest for making story up  —  She made it all up — and now she's under arrest.  —  The Muslim college student who claimed she was harassed on the subway by three men who shouted “Donald Trump,” …
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Pew Research Center:
Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes  —  9/11, Obama election and the tech revolution among those with greatest impact on the country  —  Shared experiences define what it means to be an American.  The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were such a unifying event for modern Americans.
Discussion: Washington Post
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Critics bash Trump children's presence at tech meeting  —  's adult children attended a Wednesday meeting the president-elect convened with top Silicon Valley executives, prompting backlash from critics with questions about conflicts of interests.  —  The meeting was meant as an olive branch …
Discussion: New York Times
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Trump Talks Tech
Discussion: New York Magazine and Politico
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump to get office in WH space reserved for first lady: report  —  A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump  —  is pushing back on a report that Ivanka Trump will get an office in the space typically reserved for the first lady.  —  “This is false.
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats open to replacing Obamacare  —  Senate Democrats will never vote to repeal Obamacare.  But once the deed is done, a surprising number of them say they're open to helping Republicans replace it.  —  “If it makes sense, I think there'll be a lot of Democrats who would be for it,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
Discussion: The Week
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
“Prevent Tragedy Before It's Too Late”: Read the Statement 1,200 Scholars Just Released About Trump  —  Concerned by the hateful rhetoric that has accompanied President-elect Donald Trump's transition to the White House, a group of 1,200 historians and other scholars have put …
Discussion: Libraries Home and Raw Story
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
To Combat Trump, Democrats Ready a G.O.P. Tactic: Lawsuits  —  One attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is already investigating Donald J. Trump over possible violations of New York State law at his charity foundation.  —  Another, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, has joined Mr. Schneiderman …
CBS News:
Do Americans think Donald Trump will be a good president?  —  With the inauguration a little over a month away, just over a third of Americans (34 percent) think President-elect Trump will be a good or very good president, and another 23 percent think he will be average.
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
His appointments are wrecking balls and swamp creatures, and his supporters won't care.  This is what white populism looks like.  —  You don't have to look carefully to see the pattern in President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet.  To run the government, he has picked men and women …
Jack McElroy / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Story of Santa Claus with dying child can't be verified  —  Last Sunday, the News Sentinel published the story of a Campbell County Santa Claus actor, Eric Schmitt-Matzen, who said a terminally ill child had died in his arms.  —  Immediately, the story went viral.
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information  —  FBI, CIA, NSA, White House workers among hacking victims  —  Former intelligence officers say leak could aid foreign spies  —  More than 150,000 U.S. government and military employees are among the victims of Yahoo! …
Discussion: New York Times, Daily Mail and The Week
 
 
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Lucian Kim / NPR:
Trump's Men In Moscow: Trump Disciples Suddenly Showing Up In Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
It's official: Marijuana is legal in Massachusetts
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
RNC E-Mail Was, In Fact, Hacked By Russians
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Putting a Price Tag on the American Dream
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New York Times:
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Tim Weiner / Esquire:
What Was James Comey Thinking?
Discussion: Above the Law and emptywheel
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Notes on the Macroeconomic Situation
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Emma O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Dollar on Top on Hawkish Fed as Bonds, Stocks Outside Japan Fall
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
G.O.P. Resistance Builds to John Bolton as State Dept. Deputy
Discussion: New York Magazine and Hot Air
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Nominees Are Likely to Face Heavy Senate Vetting
Discussion: Political Wire and Mother Jones
 

 
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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: after closing several video game studios, Microsoft plans more cuts, as the massive Activision acquisition has ramped up scrutiny on the Xbox division

Wall Street Journal:
In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Dell warns customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data for ~49M customers, but says financial and payment data was not stolen
 
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