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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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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces
Matt Vella / TIME:
Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: ‘I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her’
Discussion: Washington Post and Refinery29
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Politico, twitchy.com and TheBlaze
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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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
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: Raw Story and Hot Air
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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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.
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
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Alt-Right in Civil War After Prominent Leader Disinvited From Pro-Trump ‘DeploraBall’  —  The “alt-right” erupted in a civil war Monday after one of the movement's leaders banned another from appearing at the pro-Donald Trump “DepolaBall” for his history of flirting with Nazism.
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
It's Not About the Economy  —  ELKHART, Ind.—This city once had the highest unemployment rate in the nation.  Now, though, it's booming.  The once-shuttered factories of the recreational vehicle industry, which is concentrated here, are full of workers, their parking lots packed …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Emma Ockerman / Detroit Free Press:
Fraser sinkhole forces shutdown of 15 Mile for ‘several months’  —  Residents of Fraser and elsewhere in Macomb County heard updates about the sinkhole at 15 Mile Road on Monday  —  The massive sinkhole threatening a Fraser neighborhood will force the shutdown of 15 Mile Road for months …
Discussion: NBC News
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
The Empire Strikes Back  —  We thought women would break new ground in 2016.  We were wrong.  —  Like many journalists who write about the intersections of gender and politics, I was asked to draft an essay in advance of election night about the meaning of Hillary Clinton's expected victory.
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
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case (updated)  —  Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands.  However, police in Arkansas want to know if one of the gadgets overheard something that can help with a murder case.
Discussion: GeekWire, Mashable and Instapundit
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 …
National Journal:
How Analytical Models Failed Clinton  —  Her campaign was so confident in its data that it opted not to do tracking polls in states that decided the election.  —  The Novem­ber elec­tions pit­ted Demo­crats against Re­pub­lic­ans, con­ser­vat­ives …
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'  —  Should Lin-Manuel Miranda take home an Oscar this year for one of his eligible songs from the Disney animated film Moana, “How Far I'll Go” and “We Know the Way,” he'll achieve what only 12 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Mediaite and Heat Street
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
 
 
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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’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Yahoo:
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Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump Tower Partially Evacuated Due to Suspicious Package
ProPublica:
Trump's Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Jezebel
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama labor chief: Trump team's agency inquiries ‘illegal’
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Ken Doctor / Politico:
‘Profitable’ Washington Post adding more than five dozen journalists
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
These coal country voters backed Trump. Now they're worried about losing Obamacare.
Discussion: New York Times and The Week