Evening Edition: Trump, Romney to meet as transition outreach widens

Tax reform shaping up to be one of Washington’s first fights under Trump; The Fix: Trump's flirtation with Mitt Romney is big-league smart; Newt Gingrich says he won't hold Cabinet post under Trump; Q&A: How Trump could change health care; How Newtown and 9/11 denier Alex Jones got Donald Trump's ear; Facebook fake-news writer: 'I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me'; Obama, Merkel issue joint rebuttal to the coming era of Donald Trump; Intelligence chief Clapper: Resignation 'felt pretty good'; Trump surrogate: Japanese American internment is 'precedent' for Muslim registry; Russia moves to block professional networking site LinkedIn; Radio station broadcasts emotional calls from Iraqis trapped in Mosul; JPMorgan Chase to pay $264 million in fines for bribing foreign officials by hiring their friends and family; Online interest in KKK spikes higher; 'I just started crying': Graphic novels break through at National Book Awards; Stephen Hawking just gave humanity a deadline to find a new planet to colonize; Man who dissolved in boiling Yellowstone hot spring slipped while checking temperature to take bath;   The day's most important stories   Trump, Romney to meet as transition outreach widens President-elect Donald Trump plans to meet this weekend with Mitt Romney, a fierce critic during the campaign, to discuss his transition operation and a potential job as secretary of state, people close to the transition said. The outreach to Romney could help bridge the divide between the president-elect's advisers and the GOP establishment. By David Nakamura, Jerry Markon and Karen DeYoung  •  Read more » Tax reform shaping up to be one of Washington’s first fights under Trump Senate Republicans are advocating a more methodical and bipartisan approach than their GOP colleagues in the House. By Kelsey Snell  •  Read more »   The Fix: Trump's flirtation with Mitt Romney is big-league smart Can Trump be, well, big? By Chris Cillizza  •  Read more »   Newt Gingrich says he won't hold Cabinet post under Trump "I want to be free to network across the whole system and look at what we have to do to succeed," Gingrich said. By Lisa Rein and Elise Viebeck  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Q&A: How Trump could change health care The Affordable Care Act won't survive a Trump presidency and Republican Congress, but there are few details about what could replace it. By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Amy Goldstein  •  Read more »   How Newtown and 9/11 denier Alex Jones got Donald Trump's ear After interviewing Trump for his Web broadcast, the conspiracy theorist extraordinaire and founder of InfoWars.com has been granted an enormous new audience. By Manuel Roig-Franzia  •  Read more »   Facebook fake-news writer: 'I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me' "Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that's how Trump got elected," said Paul Horner, the man responsible for many of this year's viral political hoaxes. By Caitlin Dewey  •  Read more »   Obama, Merkel issue joint rebuttal to the coming era of Donald Trump The president wrapped up his final trip to Europe with a press conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his closest international partners. By Anthony Faiola and David Nakamura  •  Read more »   Intelligence chief Clapper: Resignation 'felt pretty good' The move cements Clapper's long-declared plan to leave his job as the nation's spy chief when a new president is sworn in. By Greg Miller  •  Read more »   Trump surrogate: Japanese American internment is 'precedent' for Muslim registry Carl Higbie, spokesman for a major pro-Trump super PAC, told Fox's Megyn Kelly, "The president needs to protect America first." By Derek Hawkins  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Russia moves to block professional networking site LinkedIn Government officials said the site has a bad track record on privacy, but some observers fear that it could mark a newly restrictive environment for the Internet in Russia. By Adam Taylor  •  Read more »   Radio station broadcasts emotional calls from Iraqis trapped in Mosul Callers to anti-ISIS station Radio Alghad have said they are being pounded on all sides by Islamic State mortars and shelling from Iraqi forces. They are pleading for the Iraqi army to be careful. By William Booth and Aaso Ameen Shwan  •  Read more »   JPMorgan Chase to pay $264 million in fines for bribing foreign officials by hiring their friends and family The bank hired candidates — who were usually unqualified — for internships and full-time jobs in order to snag business. By Renae Merle  •  Read more »   Online interest in KKK spikes higher Google Trends data for several days this month showed about as many searches for the Ku Klux Klan as for Kim Kardashian and college football, combined. By Christopher Ingraham  •  Read more »   'I just started crying': Graphic novels break through at National Book Awards In becoming the first graphic novel to win a National Book Award, the civil rights memoir "March: Book Three" takes its place alongside landmarks such as "Persepolis" and the Pulitzer-winning "Maus." By Michael Cavna  •  Read more »   Stephen Hawking just gave humanity a deadline to find a new planet to colonize The theoretical physicist says that we have 1,000 years. Remaining on Earth any longer, Hawking believes, places humanity at great risk of encountering another mass extinction. By Peter Holley  •  Read more »   Man who dissolved in boiling Yellowstone hot spring slipped while checking temperature to take bath Since 1870, the first recorded fatality in the park, 22 people have died in its thermal pools and geysers. By Ben Guarino  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. 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