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9:35 AM ET, December 28, 2016

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Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Britain Pulled the Strings and Netanyahu Warned New Zealand It Was Declaring War: New Details on Israel's Battle Against the UN Vote  —  The British secretly worked the Palestinians and urged New Zealand to move ahead with the resolution, and a call from Netanyahu to Putin triggered a real drama …
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Bloomberg:
Kerry Plans Middle East Speech as Israel Retaliates Over UN Snub  —  Speech follows U.S. absention on UN Security Council Vote  —  Paris conference in January could ramp up pressure on Israel  —  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will offer a “comprehensive vision” for how Middle East peace …
The Times of Israel:
Transcript claims to show US worked with Palestinians on UN resolution  —  Report published in Egypt has Kerry and Rice advising senior Palestinians on strategy at UN and after Trump takes power  —  An Egyptian paper has published what it claims are the transcripts of meetings between top US …
Vladislav Davidzon / Tablet Magazine:
Biden Call Said to Precipitate Ukraine's UN Vote
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: Obama ‘lost’ in key swing states for Clinton  —  argued Tuesday that President Obama did not help Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  win key swing states in the November election.  —  In a tweet, Trump doubled-down on his belief that he would have defeated Obama …
Discussion: TheBlaze, CNN, Post On Politics and Infowars
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Obama confesses he was ‘wildly pretentious’ in college  —  President Obama recalled his college years in an interview with his longtime friend and former adviser, telling David Axelrod that he used to be “wildly pretentious.”  —  In an hourlong interview for Axelrod's CNN podcast “The Axe Files …
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
Former Trump staffer gets 30 days in jail after being convicted on 10 counts of election fraud  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Failed Michigan State House candidate Brandon Michael Hall—who was a prominent volunteer with the Donald Trump campaign—was sentenced to 30 days …
Discussion: Detroit News
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference  —  The Obama administration is close to announcing a series of measures to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election, including economic sanctions and diplomatic censure, according to U.S. officials.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
SEIU plans 30 percent budget cut during Trump admin.  —  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is planning to cut 30 percent of its budget by Jan. 1, 2018, the end of President-elect Donald Trump  —  's first year in office.  —  “Because the far right will control all three branches …
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Belief in conspiracies largely depends on political identity  —  Belief in conspiracy theories depends largely on which side of the spectrum you fall on … Sometimes it seems that Americans will believe anything.  And what we know as true or not true these days can depend on our political point of view.
Discussion: Hot Air and Raw Story
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
HGTV Will Never Upset You: How the Network Beat CNN in 2016  —  Without news, sports or A-listers, HGTV thrives on repetition  —  Nikki Justice doesn't seem like she'd be a big fan of HGTV's show “Property Brothers.”  A first-year astronomy and physics major at Ohio State University, she's never owned a home, let alone flipped one.
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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Matt Vella / TIME:
Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: ‘I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her’
Discussion: Washington Post and Refinery29
Kaitlin Menza / Marie Claire:
A Rockette Speaks Out  —  Amidst the media storm about the pressure to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, one dancer breaks rank for an exclusive MarieClaire.com interview about the turmoil behind the scenes.  —  The dancer next to Mary was crying.
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Rockette on Trump Inauguration Gig: My Castmates Feel ‘Forced to Perform for this Monster’
Tom Cotton / New York Times:
Fix Immigration.  It's What Voters Want.  —  Donald J. Trump smashed many orthodoxies on his way to victory, but immigration was the defining issue separating him from his primary opponents and Hillary Clinton.  President-elect Trump now has a clear mandate not only to stop illegal immigration …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Warren stirs talk of 2020 White House run  —  is set to bolster her Senate resume next year, sparking early talk about a 2020 presidential bid.  —  The Massachusetts Democrat will join the Armed Services Committee in 2017, branching out beyond the tough-on-Wall Street message that made her a liberal favorite.
Discussion: alan.com and New York Magazine
CNN:
Steven Mnuchin, Tom Price turn over tax returns to Senate committee  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's picks to be treasury secretary and the head of the Department of Health and Human Services have both turned over their tax returns for the past three years to the Senate Finance Committee ahead of their hearings …
Katie Frates / The Daily Caller:
‘F**K YOU.  GO TO HELL’: Georgetown Prof Loses It On Muslim Trump Voter  —  A Georgetown University associate professor had a month-long meltdown after a Muslim woman explained why she voted for President-elect Donald Trump.  —  Asra Q. Nomani, a former Georgetown journalism professor …
J.J. Gallagher / ABC News:
Trump Takes Credit for Bump in Consumer Confidence  —  President-elect Donald Trump congratulated himself on Tuesday night for an uptick in the Consumer Confidence Index, a closely-watched economic measure.  —  The Conference Board reported on Tuesday that its index of consumer confidence rose …
Bloomberg:
As Populists Won 2016 Ballots, World's Richest Made $237 Billion  —  China, Brexit, Trump trigger wild ride for global equities  —  Rich get richer as fortunes whipsaw through $4.8 trillion  —  In a year when populist voters reshaped power and politics across Europe and the U.S. …
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Planned Parenthood, Gloria Steinem, And Harry Belafonte Join Women's March On Washington Leadership  —  Protesters march during a demonstration against President-elect Donald Trump near Trump Tower in New York City on Dec. 12, 2016.  —  The Women's March on Washington …
Discussion: Jezebel and The Guardian
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Experts: Ryan's livestream crackdown may be unconstitutional  —  Paul Ryan's new crackdown against protests on the House floor — a direct response to the Democrats' gun-control “sit-in” last summer — is prompting questions from experts in both parties about its constitutionality.
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
‘You cannot eat here’: Hawaii café riles residents with ban on Trump voters  —  This sign was posted at Honolulu's Café 8 ½.  —  Honolulu's Café 8 ½ gets rave reviews on Yelp for its “Radiatore Verde” and “Italian stir fry,” among other popular dishes …
Michael Wagaman / Yahoo Sports:
Kaepernick insists he's not thinking about future with 49ers  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — If Colin Kaepernick is concerned about his future with the 49ers, the veteran quarterback certainly isn't showing it.  At least not publicly.  —  During an 8-minute conversation with reporters Tuesday …
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Lindsey Graham: Donald Trump disagrees with the entire US Senate on Russia  —  Graham: Trump disagrees with US Senate on Russia  —  Watch Jim Sciutto's full interview with Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain on CNN's “The Situation Room” at 5 p.m. ET.  —  (CNN)Two of the Senate's …
Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:
This Is What I Think And This Is What Other People Think Scholarship Looks Like  —  This is what I think scholarship looks like ... I drafted what follows below as a suggested entry (or part of an entry) for a treatise by another author.  —  Neither the Supreme Court nor any other federal court …
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
 
 
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
A professor called Trump's election an ‘act of terrorism.’ Then she became the victim of terror.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Richard Adams, Whose Novel ‘Watership Down’ Became a Phenomenon, Dies at 96
Discussion: Gizmodo and Althouse
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
‘What the Russians Did Was Utterly Unprecedented’
Discussion: WiredPen and The Daily Caller
Yahoo:
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Emma Ockerman / Detroit Free Press:
Fraser sinkhole forces shutdown of 15 Mile for ‘several months’
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Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
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ProPublica:
Trump's Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Jezebel
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Biggest Billionaire Gainer Of 2016: Warren Buffett's Fortune Surges More Than Anyone Else In America
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Edwards / Raw Story:
SC GOP lawmaker pulls gun and punches woman in head because she caught him cheating: police
Discussion: Aiken Standard and Mediaite
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Lin-Manuel Miranda on President Trump: 'I Know What I'm Going to Fight for in the Years to Come'
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Heat Street and Mediaite
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama labor chief: Trump team's agency inquiries ‘illegal’
Discussion: AOL, RedState and CBS News
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
It's Not About the Economy  —  ELKHART, Ind.—This city once …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
National Journal:
How Analytical Models Failed Clinton