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4:00 PM ET, December 16, 2016

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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.
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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 …
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 …
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.
Politico:
Obama talks Russian hacking and other key moments from the president's year-end news conference  —  As the White House spars with Donald Trump over Russian hacking of the American electoral system, President Barack Obama is giving what is likely to be his last news conference of the year.
Discussion: ABC News
John Podesta / Washington Post:
Something is deeply broken at the FBI
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Useful Idiots Galore
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
President Obama Calls Out Russia, Syria During Year-End News Conference
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Scott Detrow / NPR:
Obama On Russian Hacking: ‘We Need To Take Action. And We Will’
CNN:
Russian hacking activity continues unabated
Discussion: alan.com
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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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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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.
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Michelle Obama: ‘We are feeling what not having hope feels like’
Discussion: RedState, The Right Scoop and theGrio
New York Times:
G.O.P. Plans to Replace Health Care Law With ‘Universal Access’  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans, responding to criticism that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, said on Thursday that their goal in replacing President Obama's health law was to guarantee …
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 …
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 …
Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
White Nationalist Who Yelled ‘Hail Trump!’  Thinking About Congressional Run  —  It's just an idea at this point, but Richard Spencer is “taking it very seriously.”  —  WASHINGTON White nationalist Richard Spencer, riding a post-Trump wave of media fame, is entertaining the idea of running for U.S. Congress.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Republicans plan to repeal Obamacare within weeks of Trump taking office  —  In the weeks following the presidential election, there's been some debate about whether Republicans would actually go through with repealing Obamacare as opposed to getting cold feet.
Discussion: Hot Air
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.
 
 
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David Dayen / The Intercept:
Wells Fargo Is on a Losing Streak, But Still Has Some Trump Cards
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
Andy Newman / New York Times:
Captured Harlem Deer Gets a Reprieve, but Faces Death Hours Later
Associated Press:
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Discussion: alan.com
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump finds an unlikely partner: Chuck Schumer
Discussion: Daily Kos
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Cops: Couple Made Illicit Animal Videos
Megan Cassidy / USA Today:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio renews birther claims about Obama's birth certificate
Discussion: RedState and The Right Scoop
ESPN:
Minnesota players' boycott could affect lead-up to Holiday Bowl
 Earlier Items: 
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Inmate turns down Obama clemency offer
Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Brazil just enacted the harshest austerity program in the world
Discussion: RT and Katehon think tank …
Ruth Everhart / Washington Post:
Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary. As a rape victim, that hurts me.
Discussion: Mediaite and twitchy.com
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
DC-area venue faces harassment for declining to host Trump supporters' ‘DeploraBall’
Discussion: RedState
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
Francis Menton / Manhattan Contrarian:
The Impending Collapse Of The Global Warming Scare
Discussion: The Guardian
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
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