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12:10 PM 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
Discussion: RedState and Townhall.com
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 …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Reid: Dem 2020 class looks like an ‘old folks’ home'  —  The prospective class of Democrats who could run for president in 2020 is shaping up as an “old-folks' home,” according to retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid  —  (D-Nev.).  —  Reid made the remark earlier this month when asked …
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 …
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Obama: I'm going to keep to myself when I leave the White House
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:
The Latest: Trump Taps Bossert as Homeland Security Aide
Discussion: ABC News
Associated Press:
NY AG: Trump can't dissolve foundation during investigation
Discussion: The Week and The Root
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
NY Attorney General Hinders Trump Plan to Shutter Foundation
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
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 …
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: Common Dreams, Law News and Daily Kos
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 …
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.
Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times:
Comedian Ricky Harris, known for roles in ‘Dope’ and ‘Everybody Hates Chris,’ dies at 54  —  Ricky Harris at the BET Comedy Icon Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in 2005.  (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)  —  Ricky Harris, a comedian known for both his racy stand-up act …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Thomas Sowell / WND:
My farewell column  —  Thomas Sowell looks back at quarter century …
Discussion: Power Line and Vox Popoli
New York Times:
‘Abandoned’ in New Jersey, Chris Christie Returns to a Changed Landscape
Maria Konnikova / New Yorker:
The Psychological Research That Helps Explain the Election
Discussion: Althouse and Hullabaloo
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
The meals your parents made for you are now too calorific for modern lifestyles
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Miracle on the Old Lincoln Highway
Peter Nickeas / Chicago Tribune:
61 shot, 11 fatally, over Christmas weekend
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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
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