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1:35 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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Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Israel will build new homes in defiance of UN resolution to end settlements  —  Israel will not “turn the other cheek.”  —  Israel escalated tensions Monday by announcing plans to build more settlements in East Jerusalem.  The announcement followed a United Nations Security Council resolution …
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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:   Reid: Dem 2020 class looks like an ‘old folks’ home'
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
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 …
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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Thomas Sowell / WND:
My farewell column  —  Thomas Sowell looks back at quarter century …
Discussion: Power Line and Vox Popoli
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, Vox and The Week
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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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 …
Ken Doctor / Politico:
‘Profitable’ Washington Post adding more than five dozen journalists  —  Twenty-sixteen was the year The Washington Post came of age — again.  In its audience growth, in the ambitiousness of its journalism, in its impact on the American conversation, the Post became the U.S.'s fourth national …
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 …
 
 
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Gwen Florio / Missoulian:
White supremacist site offers to call off armed march in Whitefish
New York Times:
‘Abandoned’ in New Jersey, Chris Christie Returns to a Changed Landscape
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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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
The meals your parents made for you are now too calorific for modern lifestyles
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Miracle on the Old Lincoln Highway
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Charged a Fee for Getting Arrested, Whether Guilty or Not
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Mucking Out the Justice Department
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath