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5:45 PM ET, December 29, 2017

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Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Donald Trump made 25 false claims in his latest New York Times interview  —  Trump made nearly one false claim per minute in the 30-minute interview in Florida on Thursday.  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump sat down Thursday for a rare interview with a media outlet other than Fox News …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read  —  The president of the United States is not well.  —  The president of the United States is not well.  That is an uncomfortable thing to say, but it is an even worse thing to ignore.
New York Times:
Excerpts From Trump's Interview With The Times  —  President Trump spoke on Thursday with a reporter from The New York Times, Michael S. Schmidt.  The interview took place in the Grill Room of his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., whose noise made some portions at times hard to hear.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:   In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Association health plans: Trump's attack on Obamacare, explained
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump: Even if there was collusion with Russia, 'it's not a crime'
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Mediaite
Nichole Manna / Wichita Eagle:
Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in deadly Wichita police shooting  —  Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter posts that the shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a “swatting” prank involving two gamers.  —  Swatting is an internet prank …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump unchained: staff leaves, hardline ideas rise  —  If you ask some close to President Trump what worries them most about 2018, it's not Robert Mueller's probe.  It's that establishment guardrails of 2017 come down — and Trump's actual instincts take over.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘No collusion!’ cry is getting increasingly desperate  —  You know how if you repeat a word over and over, eventually it starts to sound strange to your ear, like merely a random collection of sounds?  That is apparently what President Trump is doing with the word “collusion.”
Mike Allen / Axios:   A rising White House power: true-believer Stephen Miller
New York Times:
Trump Says Russia Inquiry Makes U.S. ‘Look Very Bad’
Martin Gould / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: White power at the White House - Trump intern flashes ‘alt-right’ symbol used by notorious extremists during group photo with the president  — Former White House intern Jack Breuer held up a ‘white power’ sign during a photo-op with President Trump and fellow interns in the East Room in November
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Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
White House Intern Accused Of White Nationalism Clears The Air  —  The former White House intern accused of flashing a white power symbol in a group photo with the president was simply mimicking Trump's signature “OK” hand gesture and denies any association with far right groups, he tells The Daily Caller.
Discussion: Washington Times
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Trump fires all members of HIV/AIDS council without explanation  —  With no explanation, the White House has terminated members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS amid widespread discontent with President Trump's approach to the epidemic.  —  After six members of PACHA resigned in June …
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Callum Paton / Newsweek:
TRUMP FIRES HIV/AIDS COUNCIL IN ITS ENTIRETY BY FEDEX LETTER, REPORT CLAIMS
Discussion: PinkNews and Splinter
The Daily Beast:
Trump Reportedly Fires HIV/AIDS Panel Without Explanation
Discussion: Axios
The Weather Channel:
Trump Tweets About the Bitter Cold and Global Warming, Confusing Weather and Climate  — President Trump tweeted about the cold snap hitting the East Coast.  — He seemed to confuse the difference between weather and climate.  —  President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that …
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Weather Channel Schools Trump On Difference Between Weather, Climate
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian tankers fueled North Korea via transfers at sea  —  Guy Faulconbridge, Jonathan Saul, Polina Nikolskaya  —  LONDON/MOSCOW - Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea …
Discussion: Vox
BBC:
Iran cities hit by anti-government protests  —  Anti-government demonstrations that began in one city on Thursday have now spread to several major cities in Iran.  —  Large numbers reportedly turned out in Rasht, in the north, and Kermanshah, in the west, with smaller protests in Isfahan, Hamadan and elsewhere.
Discussion: Axios, Reuters, US News and New York Times
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Jailed pervert Anthony Weiner had CLASSIFIED emails belonging to wife Huma Abedin on his laptop - which the FBI seized after he sexted 15-year-old girl  — The FBI found 2,800 of Huma Abedin's work-related emails and documents on disgraced husband Anthony Weiner's computer
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
No, Trump's approval rating hasn't caught up to Obama's  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump claimed Friday that his approval ratings at this point in his presidency rival those of Barack Obama, citing a report from “Fox & Friends.”  —  “While the Fake News loves to talk …
Sam Amick / USA Today:
Warriors coach Steve Kerr: There's an ‘assault on our institutions and on our core values’  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Outspoken Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr sat down with USA TODAY Sports recently following a tour of the team's Chase Center construction site.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
'Don't screw with me on this': Mattis defends U.S. efforts to prevent civilian casualties in Yemen  —  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis gave a full-throated defense Friday of U.S. efforts to prevent civilian casualties in the conflict in Yemen, making the case that without American involvement, there would be more.
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Key races for control of the House as Democrats take slight edge into 2018  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats ended 2016 dejected and despondent after Donald Trump shocked Hillary Clinton — and the world — by a tiny combined margin of 77,744 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to win the presidency.
Discussion: NBC News
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Heckler of Donald Trump Animatronic at Disney World Responds to Haters: ‘Check Your Privilege’  —  “I wanted to show their kids what a protest looks like before Trump destroys democracy,” Jay Malsky says after disrupting performance at theme park's Hall of Presidents
Discussion: RedState and Orlando Weekly
Makini Brice / Reuters:
Trump targets Amazon in call for postal service to hike prices  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump targeted online retailer Amazon(AMZN.O) on Friday in a call for the country's postal service to raise prices of shipments in order to recoup costs.
Discussion: CNBC and The Root
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
“They'll Have to Destroy Him”: Why Trump's Legal Team Will Turn on Flynn  —  Is there a second, secret plea agreement between Flynn and Mueller, one that contains more explosive evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia?  —  In a year of the nonstop bizarre …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
The News-Press:
In Q&A, Sen. Marco Rubio lauds child tax credit expansion, wants Mueller probe to continue  —  Senator Marco Rubio says he's pleasantly ‘encouraged’ at the support from his party to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation brought on by Hurricane Maria.  Rubio visited the island and says the challenges there are extraordinary.
Discussion: Orlando Weekly and Mediaite
Alexandra Mester / Toledo Blade:
Second dog rescued  —  The Toledo Area Humane Society is investigating the death of a dog in central Toledo that was found outside and “frozen solid.”  —  The female dog had died after curling up on the front porch of a house in the 1000 block of King Street.
Discussion: New York's PIX11 and AOL
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Interview Is a Portrait of a Man in Cognitive Decline  —  I don't care whether Michael Schmidt was tough enough.  We've got bigger problems.  —  On Thursday, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago  —  sat down with Michael Schmidt of The New York Times  —  for what apparently was an open-ended, one-on-one interview.
 
 
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Breitbart's Astonishing Confession
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump to repeal Obama fracking rule
Discussion: Splinter
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
California Prosecuting Man for Insulting Posts on Islamic Center's Facebook Page
Discussion: RedState and Popehat
New York Times:
No to Jones. No to Moore. But Yes to Bugs, Elmer, Mickey and SpongeBob.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Bruenig / Washington Post:
No, the Vanity Fair staffers behind the Clinton video shouldn't be fired
Joshua Hoyos / ABC News:
100 days after Hurricane Maria, San Juan mayor thanks Americans, slams Trump as ‘disaster-in-chief’
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Dorsa Derakhshani / New York Times:
Why I Left Iran to Play Chess in America
Discussion: Washington Post
Tim Starks / Politico:
The latest 2018 election-hacking threat: 9-month wait for government help
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Alexandra Glorioso / Politico:
Billionaire kingmakers swarm Florida governor's race after Trump endorsement
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story