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2:35 PM ET, December 27, 2016

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Lindsay Kimble / People.com:
Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60: ‘She Was Loved by the World and She Will Be Missed Profoundly’  —  Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Star Wars' Princess Leia Organa, has died after suffering a heart attack.  She was 60.  —  Family spokesman Simon Halls released …
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Carrie Fisher, ‘Star Wars’ Royalty, Dies at 60
Discussion: alan.com
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Defying U.N., Israel Prepares to Build More Settlements  —  JERUSALEM — Undeterred by a resounding defeat at the United Nations, Israel's government said Monday that it would move ahead with thousands of new homes in disputed areas and warned nations against further action, declaring that Israel does not “turn the other cheek.”
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Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
The United Nations Gets KRAUTHAMMERED: Trump Should ‘Turn It Into Condos’ [VIDEO]
Discussion: Fox News Insider and TheBlaze
USA Today:
Israel plans more settlements; Abbas looks to Paris summit
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
Who Will Do What Harry Reid Did Now That Harry Reid Is Gone?  —  Nevada's departing senator would have fought Trump with a ruthlessness perhaps no other Democratic leader has.  —  Harry Reid was searching for someone to take a stand.  It was a Tuesday morning in early December …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:   Top 15 Democratic presidential candidates in 2020
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:   Reid: Dem 2020 class looks like an ‘old folks’ home'
Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate:
Farewell for 12/27/2016  —  Even the best things come to an end.  After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop.  Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at it so long.
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Trump picks Tom Bossert as homeland security adviser  —  President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Tom Bossert, a former national security aide to President George W. Bush, will serve as his homeland security adviser in the White House.  —  Bossert, currently a fellow …
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Associated Press:
NY AG: Trump can't dissolve foundation during investigation
Discussion: The Week, Washington Times and The Root
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Taps Bossert as Homeland Security Aide
Discussion: ABC News
David Paul Kuhn / New York Times:
Sorry, Liberals.  Bigotry Didn't Elect Donald Trump.  —  Donald J. Trump won the white working-class vote over Hillary Clinton by a larger margin than any major-party nominee since World War II.  Instead of this considerable achievement inspiring introspection, figures from the heights of journalism …
Discussion: The Guardian
Shaun Towne / WPRI-TV:
Full interview: Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Last week it was announced that Barrington native Sean Spicer was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be the new White House press secretary and communications director.
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Spicer: Twitter will be ‘really exciting part’ of Trump's presidency
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump adviser on lack of star power at inauguration: ‘This is not Woodstock’  —  Donald Trump's inaugural committee is having no problems finding celebrities to attend his inauguration because that's not who the committee is looking for, Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn said Tuesday.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
These coal country voters backed Trump.  Now they're worried about losing Obamacare.  —  Last night, CNN aired a terrific segment on people from coal country who voted for Donald Trump — but are now worried that his vow to repeal Obamacare will deprive them of crucial protections that enable them to stay afloat financially.
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Jonathan M. Katz / Politico:
In North Carolina, Some Democrats See Their Grim Future  —  In the end, even Phil Berger, the powerful Republican leader of North Carolina's Senate, couldn't stop the debacle.  A state law that effectively banned legal protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people …
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump rewards big donors with jobs and access  —  More than a third of the almost 200 people who have met with President-elect Donald Trump since his election last month, including those interviewing for administration jobs, gave large amounts of money to support his campaign and other Republicans this election cycle.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Thanks to no-drama Obama, American leadership is gone  —  If Dec. 7, 1941, is the day that Franklin D. Roosevelt said “will live in infamy,” then Dec. 20, 2016, has got to be a close second.  No Americans died that day as they did at Pearl Harbor, but the American Century …
New York Times:
‘Abandoned’ in New Jersey, Chris Christie Returns to a Changed Landscape  —  Chris Christie's job approval is at a career low.  —  Nearly three-quarters of New Jersey voters, and half his fellow Republicans, said in a recent poll that he should have been a defendant in the trial …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
National Journal:
How Analytical Models Failed Clinton  —  Her campaign was so confident in its data that it opted not to do tracking polls in states that decided the election.  —  The Novem­ber elec­tions pit­ted Demo­crats against Re­pub­lic­ans, con­ser­vat­ives …
Patrick Sawer / Telegraph:
George Michael died alone boyfriend reveals as he battled a secret heroin addiction  —  It is a haunting image, a famous music star staring out from the window of his country home as the village Christmas procession passed by - life going on without him.  —  To his fans he was the defining pop idol …
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
GOP eyes 2018 Senate race against Tammy Baldwin  —  Emboldened by last month's triumphs in Wisconsin, Republicans are already sizing up their next big target, taking on Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2018.  —  The race against Baldwin is expected to be among the fiercest in the next election cycle.
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Journalist David Gregory: Obama has ‘elitist’ view of media
Ken Doctor / Politico:
‘Profitable’ Washington Post adding more than five dozen journalists
Gwen Florio / Missoulian:
White supremacist site offers to call off armed march in Whitefish
Gareth Davies / Daily Mail:
Seven migrants arrested after a sleeping homeless man was set on fire on Christmas Eve at a Berlin subway station
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/rss.xml:
US Government Can Legally Access Your Facebook Data (And Now We Know How)
Maria Konnikova / New Yorker:
The Psychological Research That Helps Explain the Election
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The meals your parents made for you are now too calorific for modern lifestyles
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Miracle on the Old Lincoln Highway
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
Progressives Have Let Inner Cities Fail for Decades. President Trump Could Change That.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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