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3:00 PM ET, December 16, 2016

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Ties Loss to Russian Hacking and Comey Letter  —  Hillary Clinton on Thursday night attributed her defeat to a convergence of two “unprecedented” events: the release of a letter by James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, shortly before the election, and what she called an …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republican National Committee Security Foiled Russian Hackers  —  Investigation calls it a less aggressive and much less persistent effort than the hacks of the Democratic National Committee  —  Russian hackers tried to penetrate the computer networks of the Republican National Committee …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Useful Idiots Galore  —  On Wednesday an editorial in The Times described Donald Trump as a “useful idiot” serving Russian interests.  That may not be exactly right.  After all, useful idiots are supposed to be unaware of how they're being used, but Mr. Trump probably knows very well how much he owes to Vladimir Putin.
John Podesta / Washington Post:
Something is deeply broken at the FBI  —  John Podesta was chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.  —  The more we learn about the Russian plot to sabotage Hillary Clinton's campaign and elect Donald Trump, and the failure of the FBI to adequately respond, the more shocking it gets.
Adam Entous / Washington Post:
FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win election  —  FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. have backed a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump has been lying about the Russian hack.  He just accidentally admitted it himself.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  In recent days, Donald Trump has been spinning a new narrative about CIA charges of Russian interference in our election: The administration did not leak the news of this finding until …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Obama didn't retaliate against Russia because he thought Clinton would win: report  —  The Obama administration decided not to retaliate against Russia for interfering in the presidential election because they did not want to start a cyber war and they expected Hillary Clinton  —  to win, NBC News reported Thursday.
Scott Detrow / NPR:
Obama On Russian Hacking: ‘We Need To Take Action.  And We Will’  —  President Obama says the United States will respond to Russian cyber-attacks that the intelligence community has concluded were part of an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
CNN:
Gloves-off White House creates rift between Obama and Trump teams
Discussion: Hot Air
CNN:
Russian hacking activity continues unabated
Discussion: alan.com and Hot Air
Barbara Starr / CNN:
US Defense official: Chinese warship stole US underwater drone  —  (CNN)A US oceanographic vessel Thursday had its underwater drone stolen by a Chinese warship literally right in front of the eyes of the American crew, a US defense official told CNN Friday.  —  In the latest encounter …
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
China's Navy seizes American underwater drone in South China Sea  —  A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal demarche from the United States and a demand for its return …
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Pentagon: Chinese naval ship seized an unmanned U.S. ocean glider in South China Sea
Discussion: Mediaite
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Demands Return of Drone Seized by Chinese Warship
Discussion: CNBC, The Verge and CBS New York
Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC legislators wrap up work on controversial bills  —  RALEIGH  —  State legislators wrapped up their work Friday on a pair of controversial bills that would deprive the incoming governor of a substantial part of his power to make appointments, and reshuffle the regulation of lobbyists, ethics complaints and elections.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:   Here's how Republicans plan to repeal Obamacare within weeks of Trump taking office
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Power Grab Would Make NC Guv One Of The Weakest In The Country
Discussion: CBS News
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Tegna / WFAA-TV:
No record of ‘faithless elector’ Chris Suprun as a 9/11 first responder  —  Christopher Suprun portrays himself as a hero, but now his alleged decorated past is coming into question.  Jason Whitely reports. … DALLAS - The Republican elector who has gotten national attention for refusing …
Jonathan Lemire / WHP:
Trump keeps reveling in election win at Pennsylvania rally  —  HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump's barnstorming tour across the states that won him the White House continues to feature far more taunts of triumph than notes of healing after a bruising election.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Nobody Is Getting Fooled!’:  Face-Off Between Tucker Carlson, Newsweek Writer Goes Off the Rails  —  Fox News' Tucker Carlson faced off with Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald tonight and it didn't take long for things to blow up.  —  Right off the bat, Carlson made it clear …
New York Times:
Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?  —  Donald J. Trump's election has raised a question that few Americans ever imagined asking: Is our democracy in danger?  With the possible exception of the Civil War, American democracy has never collapsed; indeed, no democracy as rich or as established as America's ever has.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump finds an unlikely partner: Chuck Schumer  —  Hours after Sen. Chuck Schumer delivered a hopeful speech to anxious Democrats gathered at the Javits Center on Election Night, the dealmaker was already recalibrating to his new, less powerful reality.  —  Schumer was not displaying any signs …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Inmate turns down Obama clemency offer  —  A federal inmate in Texas has declined President Obama's offer for clemency, USA Today reported Friday.  —  Arnold Ray Jones applied for the president's clemency program for low-level drug offenders, and was accepted on August 3.
Discussion: alan.com
Ruth Everhart / Washington Post:
Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary.  As a rape victim, that hurts me.  —  This opinion piece is by the Rev. Ruth Everhart, a pastor and the author of two spiritual memoirs.  —  Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I'm tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary.
Discussion: Mediaite and twitchy.com
ESPN:
Minnesota players' boycott could affect lead-up to Holiday Bowl  —  Minnesota football players announced Thursday night that they were boycotting all football activities in the wake of the suspensions this week of 10 teammates.  —  The school did not specify the reasons for the suspensions in Tuesday's announcement.
Francis Menton / Manhattan Contrarian:
The Impending Collapse Of The Global Warming Scare  —  Over the past three decades, the environmental movement has increasingly hitched its wagon to exactly one star as the overwhelming focus of the cause, namely “climate change.”  Sure, issues of bona fide pollution like smog and untreated sewage …
Discussion: The Guardian
Megan Cassidy / USA Today:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio renews birther claims about Obama's birth certificate … Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says a new video analysis shows that parts of Obama's birth certificate were copied from another certificate.  After arguing his point for five years, Arpaio says he will turn this new evidence over to the fed.
Discussion: RedState and The Right Scoop
 
 
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Plans to Replace Health Care Law With ‘Universal Access’
Andy Newman / New York Times:
Captured Harlem Deer Gets a Reprieve, but Faces Death Hours Later
Discussion: New York's PIX11
Associated Press:
UPS Accidentally Delivers Assault Rifle Instead Of Toy Airplane
Discussion: alan.com
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Cops: Couple Made Illicit Animal Videos
Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Brazil just enacted the harshest austerity program in the world
Discussion: RT and Katehon think tank …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
DC-area venue faces harassment for declining to host Trump supporters' ‘DeploraBall’
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
The Local:
12-year-old attempted to bomb Christmas market in south Germany: prosecutors
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Who said what inside the Trump tech meeting: Immigration, paid maternity leave and becoming the ‘software president’
Discussion: ABC News and CNBC
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump is going to be mad when he hears what his appointees think about the TPP
Discussion: The Nation and Equitable Growth
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
At the center of the pitch for Tillerson: Richard Cheney and Marco Rubio
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
On Climate Change, Who Will Censure the Censors?
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The biggest Pinocchios of 2016  —  It's time for our annual roundup …
Discussion: Althouse
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Langley: Trump not planning to divest himself from his businesses
Discussion: CNBC and Business Insider
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
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