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12:45 PM ET, December 16, 2017

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Washington Post:
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity … The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation's top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year's budget.
New York Times:
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program  —  WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.  —  Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
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Bryan Bender / Politico:   The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs
New York Times:
‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’  How a President's Name Became a Racial Jeer  —  For more coverage of race, sign up here to have our Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox.  —  The high school basketball squad from Eagle Grove, population 3,700, had traveled 60 miles up Highway 69 …
Discussion: Politicus USA
David Sirota / International Business Times:
Donald Trump And GOP Leaders Could Be Enriched By Last Minute Tax Break Inserted Into Final Bill  —  Republican congressional leaders and real estate moguls could be personally enriched by a real-estate-related provision GOP lawmakers slipped into the final tax bill released Friday evening …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI officials' text message about Hillary Clinton said to be a cover story for romantic affair  —  Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau's probe …
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Associated Press:   The Latest: Trump slams investigators at ‘disgraceful’ FBI
New York Times:
World's Most Expensive Home?  Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince  —  A $300 million chateau is one of a string of extravagant purchases for a prince who is cracking down on ill-gotten wealth and preaching fiscal austerity.  —  LOUVECIENNES, France — When the Chateau Louis XIV sold …
New York Times:
E.P.A. Contractor Has Spent Past Year Scouring the Agency for Anti-Trump Officials  —  One of the top executives of a consulting firm that the Environmental Protection Agency has recently hired to help it with media affairs has spent the past year investigating agency employees who have been critical …
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Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Hundreds of EPA Employees Have Quit Under Trump
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Why Democrats failed to tank tax reform  —  The tax fight has all the ingredients that helped Democrats kill Obamacare repeal: party unity on Capitol Hill, energized liberal activists and legislation that polls in the toilet.  But this time it doesn't appear to be enough.
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Omarosa Manigault Newman's White House role fraught with tension, sources say  —  WATCH Omarosa Manigualt recalls last time she spoke to Trump, says he ‘not a racist’  —  Before she resigned from the White House earlier this week, Omarosa Manigault Newman, the firebrand antagonist from reality television's …
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BostonGlobe.com:   Black conservatives reel after Omarosa resigns
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump promised ‘America First’ would keep jobs here.  But the tax plan might push them overseas.  —  Delegates hold signs reading “Make America First Again” during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.  It was a theme of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.  (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
As a Must-Pass Republican Tax Bill Headed for the Finish Line, Rubio Saw an Opening  —  WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party sprinted toward notching its first, and much-needed, significant legislative win in the form of a $1.5 trillion tax cut, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida spied an opening.
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Roy Moore fundraising for ‘election integrity fund’ ahead of election certification  —  's campaign announced Friday that it is seeking donations for an “election integrity fund” following the former judge's unsuccessful bid for an Alabama Senate seat.  —  Moore has refused to concede the race …
Kathy Lally / Washington Post:
The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow  —  Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming.  —  There's more than one way to harass women.  A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their companies, their jobs, their plum political posts.
Melissa Richmond / Washington Post:
Trent Franks rescinded my internship when I wouldn't come to his house  —  Melissa Richmond is vice president of Running Start.  —  I've always been proud of the ways I'm independent.  So when a middle-aged man stopped me in a parking garage and asked me to jump-start his car several years ago, I was happy to help.
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Nine more women say judge subjected them to inappropriate behavior, including four who say he touched or kissed them  —  Nine more women say that Alex Kozinski — a high-profile judge who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit — subjected them to sexual comments or other conduct …
Discussion: Political Wire, NPR, KTLA and Axios
Los Angeles Times:
With winds picking up, Thomas fire threatening hundreds of homes in Montecito … Spotters are in place.  Hillsides have been scrubbed of as much flammable vegetation as possible.  And now it's time to see whether it was all enough to stop the deadly Thomas fire from wreaking additional havoc.
Discussion: The Week
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Brookings fellow rips Trump: I entered through lottery system  —  A fellow at the Brookings Institution blasted President Trump  —  's derision of the visa lottery system on Friday, putting himself forward as an example of the program's effectiveness.  —  “I won a green card through …
Discussion: Althouse and Hullabaloo
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
In Italy, #MeToo Is More Like ‘Meh’  —  ROME — The women took their seats behind each of the more than 600 desks in Italy's lower house of Parliament and listened to Laura Boldrini, the chamber's president, talk about how the “Weinstein scandal” had set off a worldwide reckoning with sexual harassment and misconduct.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Grande Dame of Documentary is Leaving Her Home at HBO  —  After almost 40 years, she has reels of memorable film, a pile of awards and plenty of perspective on the current battle of the sexes.  —  When Sheila Nevins first started working in television in the 1970s, she thought …
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Trump hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre  —  Not only did Donald Trump not tweet out messages of condolences for families who lost loved ones five years ago on Thursday at the Sand Hook gun massacre in Connecticut, and not only did White House press …
Discussion: Daily Kos, NBC News and Common Dreams
Rebecca Spalding / Bloomberg:
Puerto Rico to Lose Tax Advantages Under GOP Plan, Expert Says  —  Plan likely signals sweeping changes to the island's economy  —  'It's so complicated, it's not even funny,' expert says  —  The final version of the Republican tax plan would end some of the tax advantages companies …
 
 
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Detroit Free Press:
Free Press' Stephen Henderson terminated for misconduct
Financial Times:
Trump to accuse China of ‘economic aggression’
Daily Mail:
Jared Kushner's parents are spotted at his D.C. home
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Trump had fewer deportations than Obama's first year
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Anita Hill to Lead Hollywood Commission on Sexual Harassment
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John Nichols / The Nation:
If Trump Fires Mueller, We Must Impeach
Discussion: Common Dreams
A. N. Devers / Longreads:
This is How a Woman is Erased From Her Job
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Sen. Susan Collins takes huge leap of faith with tax bill. Critics say she's getting played.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Intelligence Panel Is Rushing to Complete Russia Probe
Discussion: AOL
Ruth May / Dallas Morning News:
How Putin's proxies helped funnel millions into GOP campaigns
Discussion: Raw Story