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5:25 PM ET, December 22, 2016

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TMZ.com:
Ivanka Trump Accosted by Passenger on JetBlue Flight (PHOTO + UPDATE)  —  Ivanka Trump — Accosted by Passenger on JetBlue Flight  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Ivanka Trump just had a bumpy start to her Xmas holiday ... an out-of-control passenger on her flight began verbally berating her and “jeering” at her 3 kids.
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Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
Screaming lawyer chases down Ivanka Trump and yells at her as she sits with her kids on flight to Florida - and his Hillary supporter husband BOASTS about the verbal attack before they're kicked off  — A passenger on a JetBlue flight to Palm Beach, Florida accosted Ivanka Trump on Thursday morning
Newt Gingrich / Facebook:
I goofed earlier, so to clarify, draining the swamp is in, Donald J. Trump is going to do it, and the alligators should be worried.  #DTS
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David Wright / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway lands top WH job in Trump administration  —  Conway on terror: ‘Everything is on the table’  —  (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump tapped former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as “counselor to the president,” the presidential transition announced Thursday morning.
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Conway: Trump will not pursue immigration ban based solely on religion
Discussion: Hit & Run and TheBlaze
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Conway Coming to the White House
Discussion: Politico
Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY poll: There's a clear Democratic front-runner for 2020  —  WASHINGTON — On the theory that it's never too early to launch the next campaign, the new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll has identified an overwhelming front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
New York Times:
Obama to Dismantle Visitor Registry Before Trump Can Revive It  —  The Obama administration is dismantling a dormant national registry program for visitors from countries with active terrorist groups — a program that President-elect Donald J. Trump has suggested he is considering resurrecting.
The Hill:
Trump names RNC strategist Spicer to press secretary  —  has named Republican National Committee strategist Sean Spicer to be his press secretary, the transition team announced in a statement Thursday.  —  In addition, Hope Hicks was named assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Communications …
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Trump chooses Sean Spicer for press secretary, rounds out communications staff
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Trump picks Sean Spicer as White House press secretary, Jason Miller as communications director
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
Washington Post:
The photos you haven't seen of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail  —  Hillary Clinton — former first lady, senator, secretary of state and now Democratic presidential candidate — speaks to a packed room of supporters at the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan after she won New York's Democratic primary election on April 19, 2016.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails.  Here's why she didn't.  —  Twelve days before the presidential election, FBI Director James B. Comey dispatched a senior aide to deliver a startling message to the Justice Department.
Itay Hod / The Wrap:
Trump Inauguration Panic: Mark Burnett Throws ‘Hail Mary’ Staff Shake-Up (Exclusive)  —  “Trump is very unhappy,” a person with knowledge of the situation tells TheWrap  —  Donald Trump is so displeased with his team's inability to lock in A-list talent for his inauguration events next month …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump team asked State Department for info on women's issues programs, sparking fears of another witch hunt  —  The Trump transition team instructed the State Department to turn over all information Wednesday about “gender-related staffing, programming, and funding,” setting off alarm bells among …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Transition Team's Request on Gender Equality Rattles State Dept.
Discussion: NPR, Jezebel and Political Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats aim to launch comeback with Cabinet showdown  —  Senate Democrats are approaching the January confirmation battle over Donald Trump's Cabinet as a chance to launch their political comeback and expose the president-elect as a fraud.  —  Lawmakers know they're unlikely, at best …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
What it takes to get a meeting with Trump  —  Carl Paladino, the upstate New York developer and local political gadfly, was interested in catching up with Donald Trump in early December, so he rang up the president-elect's private security guard.  The next day, on Dec. 5 …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Reid: DNC was ‘worthless’ under Wasserman Schultz  —  Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid  —  tore into the Democratic National Committee (DNC), calling it a “worthless” organization that doesn't do enough to help state parties.  —  “I believe one of the failures of Democratic Party …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Bloomberg:
Trump May Have a $300 Million Conflict of Interest With Deutsche Bank  —  Concern about conflict of interest given bank's federal probes  —  Deutsche Bank faces huge potential fines from U.S. government  —  For years, Donald Trump has used a powerful tool when dealing with bankers: his personal guarantee.
New York Times:
North Carolina Fails to Repeal Bathroom Law That Prompted Boycotts  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — After more than nine hours of closed-door meetings, jawboning and complicated legislative stratagems, North Carolina legislators went home in frustration Wednesday after failing to repeal the state law …
Bloomberg:
Trump Summons Contractors to Mar-a-Lago Over Spending  —  Boeing CEO says new Air Force One will cost under $4 billion  —  Pentagon has rebutted Trump's reproach of F-35 fighter costs  —  The two largest U.S. defense contractors said Wednesday they would seek to control their costs …
Discussion: Sputnik International
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Donald Trump says he wants to ‘greatly strengthen and expand’ U.S. nuclear capability, a radical break from U.S. foreign policy  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called for the United States to expand its nuclear arsenal, which would be a radical shift in U.S. policy dating back decades.
Basma Atassi / CNN:
Saddam Hussein's daughter: Trump has ‘political sensibility’  —  Basma Atassi, CNN  —  (CNN)On the morning of Eid al-Adha in December 2006, Raghad Saddam Hussein, her sister and their children squeezed together in front of the television in Raghad's home in Amman and wept as they watched footage …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: What if? 94 questions that still keep some Democrats up at night  —  THE BIG IDEA: The more time that passes, the more that the outcome of every presidential election feels inevitable in retrospect - even the close ones.  That's the way the frosted glass of human memory works.
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BuzzFeed:
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Some Trump Voters Will Be ‘Pissed Off As Hell’ If He Defunds Planned Parenthood
Discussion: Jezebel and The Right Scoop
Jason Furman / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Eight Years of Macroeconomic Progress and the Third Estimate of GDP for the Third Quarter of 2016
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Nina Agrawal / Los Angeles Times:
The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Inside Scalia's Lost Conflict-of-Interest Memo
Discussion: TheBlaze
John Eligon / New York Times:
Bored, Broke and Armed: Clues to Chicago's Gang Violence
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
One Problem for Democratic Leaders Is Democratic Voters
Discussion: EPIC JOURNEY
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Exchange Enrollment Jumps, Even as G.O.P. Pledges Repeal