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8:55 PM ET, December 20, 2016

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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI warrant that shook Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in its final two weeks has been unsealed, and the lawyer who requested it says it offers “nothing at all” to merit the agency's actions leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Occupy Democrats
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, Comey's Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought  —  Apart from the question of its impact on the 2016, we now have confirmation of just how bad a decision, how unjustified a decision James Comey made when he rocked the presidential election a week before election day.  Every bit as bad as you thought.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe  —  The FBI told a federal judge that it needed to search a computer to resume its investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server because agents had found correspondence …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton allies rip into FBI after search warrant unsealed
Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic  —  President Obama announced on Tuesday what he called a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard as he tried to nail down an environmental legacy that cannot quickly be reversed by Donald J. Trump.
Discussion: The FADER and The Week
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic  —  Obscure statute would grant permanent protection to areas  —  Restrictions on new oil leases may provoke legal challenge  —  President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights …
Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him  —  Plus, his national security advisor met with an Austrian far-right leader.  —  The Center For Public Integrity, which is probably hiring at a frenzied pace at the moment, would like you all to sing along.  —  Gimme the beat, boys …
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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Poll: Women Should Be Punished for Abortions, Say 39 Percent of Trump Voters  —  In an online survey, 39 percent of 2,000 self-identified Donald Trump voters reported that they thought women should be punished for seeking abortions if the procedure is ever banned in the U.S. A full 60 percent …
Discussion: Raw Story and Glover Park Group
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists  —  To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.'s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days.  —  Mac upgrades, once a frequent ritual, are few and far between.  The Mac Pro, Apple's marquee computer, hasn't been refreshed since 2013.
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
This Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE  —  Roman Fedortsov is a deep sea fisherman in Russia.  And he's been taking photos of OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?  —  Seriously, I just took a quick three-minute scroll through Fedortsov's Twitter page …
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Luxury Travel Group Gives Trump's DC Hotel a Brutal Review  —  Before the Trump International Hotel opened, Donald Trump liked to brag that the business he and his family built inside the Old Post Office would be “one of the great hotels of the world.”  —  But according to a year-end list …
Discussion: Raw Story
Foreign Policy:
Russia Missing from Trump's Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo  —  Meanwhile, Pentagon brass say Moscow is the No. 1 threat to the United States.  —  A Pentagon memo outlining the incoming Trump administration's top “defense priorities” identifies defeating the Islamic State …
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
The head of Trump's inauguration explains what's going on with Andrea Bocelli  —  Donald Trump did not ask his friend Andrea Bocelli to perform at his inauguration, the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee said Tuesday in response to reports that the singer turned the president-elect down.
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Jolene Almendarez / The Ithaca Voice:
Man accused of Ithaca homicide: ‘I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly’  —  ITHACA, N.Y. — An Ithaca man accused of killing a UPS driver from Candor said in court Monday afternoon that not only did he believe he shot and killed Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Twitter will hand over data on the user who sent a seizure-inducing tweet to a journalist  —  Four days ago, an unidentified Twitter user tweeted a seizure-inducing animation at Newsweek and Vanity Fair writer Kurt Eichenwald, who has epilepsy.  Now, Eichenwald has taken the first step toward identifying the user.
Annals of Internal Medicine:
The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review FREE  —  Jennifer Erickson, RD (*); Behnam Sadeghirad, PharmD, MPH (*); Lyubov Lytvyn, MSc; Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD; Bradley C. Johnston, PhD … Abstract  —  Background:
Kate Scanlon / TheBlaze:
Lena Dunham: 'I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had'  —  Actress Lena Dunham announced during the most recent episode of her podcast “Women of the Hour” that she wishes she had undergone an abortion in order to combat “stigma around this issue.”  —  Dunham said that …
Mirror.co.uk:
Russian diplomat 'found dead from gunshot wounds hours after ambassador's death'  —  WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Petr Polshikov was reportedly discovered with a bullet wound to his head at his flat in Moscow's Balaklavsky Prospekt
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Vox Popoli
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP  —  You only think you know what won the election for Donald Trump.  —  Hillary's corruption?  The betrayal of the American Dream?  Vladimir Putin?  Wrong.  Wrong.  Wrong.  Let me tell you the real story, and the person behind it.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Vanessa Londino / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud  —  In this episode, stories of reproductive choice.  We hear from a woman with no children, a mother of ten children, and everything in between!  —  Ms. Dunham, you lack wisdom, maturity, compassion, and perspective.  I've observed this in you for some time.
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
A Tangerine Wig and a Tightrope Walk: Alec Baldwin as Donald J. Trump  —  It takes seven minutes.  —  A dusting of Clinique Stay-Matte powder in honey.  A hand-stitched wig.  Eyebrows glued up into tiny peaks.  The rest is left to Alec Baldwin: the puckered lips, a studied lumbering gait …
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump plots two-for-one assault on Obama regs  —  is setting out to gut the Obama administration's regulations, starting with a mandate that would slowly chip away at the number of rules on the books.  —  In a video message mapping out his first 100 days, Trump said he would issue …
Discussion: RedState
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Exclusive: Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Twitter and Google  —  Mourners embrace outside the wake for Pulse shooting victim Javier Jorge Reyes in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 15, 2016 (Reuters)  —  Families of the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting …
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Russian Cyberforgers Steal Millions a Day With Fake Sites  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In a twist on the peddling of fake news to real people, researchers say a Russian cyberforgery ring has created more than half a million fake internet users and 250,000 fake websites to trick advertisers …
Henry Bodkin / Telegraph:
Sex will be just for special occasions in the future as robots will satisfy everyday needs  —  Sex between married couples will increasingly be saved for special occasions as robots step in to satisfy everyday needs, experts have predicted.  —  Use of artificial intelligence (AI) …
Discussion: New York Post and alan.com
Dan Hopkins / FiveThirtyEight:
Voters Really Did Switch To Trump At The Last Minute  —  Donald Trump's somewhat surprising win has forced many political analysts to wonder: Were we wrong all along in thinking Hillary Clinton had the upper hand, or was late-breaking movement to Trump part of the reason why polling averages missed his upset Electoral College victory?
Don Kaplan / New York Daily News:
Roger Ailes calls The News to complain, seek apology for ‘Gropey old men’ headline  —  Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes called the Daily News' MediaBlast Monday — to complain about a headline.  —  “I was hoping you would be a gentleman and apologize,” Ailes said, citing MediaBlast's Sunday column …
Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
TRUMP'S PICK FOR INTERIOR SECRETARY WAS CAUGHT IN “PATTERN OF FRAUD” AT SEAL TEAM 6  —  A Montana lawmaker tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be secretary of the interior committed travel fraud when he was a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, according to three former unit leaders and a military consultant.
 
 
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Nic Smith / Washington Post:
I make $2.35 an hour in coal country. I don't want handouts. I want a living wage.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump transition seeks distance from conservation fundraiser
Discussion: ABC News
Bloomberg:
Ex-U.S. Attorney Yang Is Trump's Top Contender for SEC
Discussion: TheStreet.com
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Keith Olbermann: We Can Still Delegitimize Trump By Not Calling Him “President Trump”
Discussion: Townhall.com
Elwood Brehmer / Alaska Journal:
Murkowski: House chose party over policy
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jeff Green / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
FedEx discount for NRA members draws LGBT, anti-gun activist ire
Discussion: Bearing Arms and Hot Air
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Wisconsin's red realignment
Discussion: Hot Air
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Wild cards add drama to Trump's West Wing picks
Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Baptist Figure Faces Backlash Over His Criticism of Donald Trump
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump adviser: Don't take Trump literally, ‘take him symbolically’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Schumer fires video unit staff
Jane E. Brody / New York Times:
Beware: Winter Is Coming
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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