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11:15 AM ET, December 27, 2016

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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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Report: Israel to build more settlements in defiance of UN  —  The Israeli government says it plans to build thousands of settlements in East Jerusalem despite a U.N. Security Council vote last week to condemn such settlements.  —  Jerusalem will approve 600 units Wednesday …
Discussion: RedState and Townhall.com
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Israel will share ‘evidence’ of Obama-UN collusion with Trump, ambassador says
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:   Reid: Dem 2020 class looks like an ‘old folks’ home'
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 …
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 …
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
Progressives Have Let Inner Cities Fail for Decades.  President Trump Could Change That.  —  When Donald Trump described the “devastating” conditions in America's inner cities, emphasizing poor schools and lack of jobs, he was widely denounced for portraying our urban centers in a demeaning …
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.
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
William Turton / Gizmodo:
Senior Facebook Employee Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting Unprotected Sex From Underage Girl  —  Dov Katz, the head of computer vision at Oculus VR, was arrested near Seattle on December 21 for allegedly soliciting sex from an underage girl.  According to charging records …
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/rss.xml:
US Government Can Legally Access Your Facebook Data (And Now We Know How)  —  The end of the year is approaching, and data concerning government abuses of power has begun pouring in.  —  According to Facebook's Global Government Requests Report, government's requests for Facebook account data rose 27 percent in the first half of 2016.
Gareth Davies / Daily Mail:
Seven migrants arrested after a sleeping homeless man was set on fire on Christmas Eve at a Berlin subway station  —  Seven migrants have been arrested after a homeless man was set on fire on Christmas Eve at a Berlin subway station.  —  The men, aged 15 to 21, are suspected of torching …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obama Says He Would Have Defeated Trump for a Third Term  —  HONOLULU — President Obama expressed confidence that, if he had run for a third term, he would have defeated Donald J. Trump, according to an interview released Monday with David Axelrod, his friend and former adviser.
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Obama: I'm going to keep to myself when I leave the White House
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
The meals your parents made for you are now too calorific for modern lifestyles  —  Globalisation has been a health disaster, creating a generation of people who expend so little energy each day that they no longer need to eat the same calories as their parents, a new study by the London School of Economics suggests.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Taps Bossert as Homeland Security Aide  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  President-elect Donald Trump is tapping an experienced national security adviser to serve as assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.
Discussion: Politico
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 …
Evan MacDonald / Plain Dealer:
Fight at Beachwood Place mall ends with officers using pepper spray to disperse crowd  —  Shoppers stand outside the Beachwood Place mall on Monday evening after officers were called to the scene for a disturbance.  (Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com)  —  BEACHWOOD, Ohio — Officers used pepper spray …
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Drexel Condemns Professor's Tweet  —  University issues statement on Christmas Day over post that said “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.”  Update: Professor criticizes response to “satirical” comment.  —  Drexel University issued a statement on Christmas Day to condemn a tweet …
Discussion: Heat Street
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DrexelNow:
Response to Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's Tweet
 
 
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Maria Konnikova / New Yorker:
The Psychological Research That Helps Explain the Election
Discussion: Althouse and Hullabaloo
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Miracle on the Old Lincoln Highway
Peter Nickeas / Chicago Tribune:
61 shot, 11 fatally, over Christmas weekend
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
Angela Merkel is destroying Europe
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Charged a Fee for Getting Arrested, Whether Guilty or Not
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Mucking Out the Justice Department
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
When One Party Has the Governor's Mansion and the Other Has the Statehouse
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Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath
Jori Finkel / New York Times:
‘The Fashion of Islam’ to Arrive at de Young in 2018
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Daily Mail:
‘NO WAY’: Trump mocks Obama for saying he could have beaten him if he were allowed to run again …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
Obama Blames The Media For Trump's Landslide Win In Rural America
Media Matters for America:
AS INAUGURATION APPROACHES, NRATV SAYS DISSENT AGAINST TRUMP IS AN “ASSAULT” ON THE CONSTITUTION
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Deroy Murdock / New York Post:
Obama's legacy is a devastated Democratic Party
 

 
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