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7:40 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  —  The repercussions of Friday's United Nations Security Council vote in favor of a resolution urging Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory” continue to reverberate.
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
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces
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
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
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:   Top 15 Democratic presidential candidates in 2020
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
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’
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 …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Graham: 99 percent of senators believe Russia interfered in election
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and alan.com
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
David Edwards / Raw Story:
SC GOP lawmaker pulls gun and punches woman in head because she caught him cheating: police  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  South Carolina Republican state Rep. Chris Corley was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly beating a woman who reportedly caught him “cheating.”
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Maayan Schechter / Aiken Standard:
South Carolina Rep. Chris Corley arrested, charged with domestic violence
Discussion: Mediaite
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
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 …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Richard Adams, Whose Novel ‘Watership Down’ Became a Phenomenon, Dies at 96  —  Richard Adams, the British novelist who became one of the world's best-selling authors with his first book, “Watership Down,” a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic perils explored Homeric themes of exile …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Althouse
 
 
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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.
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
‘What the Russians Did Was Utterly Unprecedented’
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ProPublica:
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
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, Mediaite and Heat Street
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama labor chief: Trump team's agency inquiries ‘illegal’
Discussion: 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