Friday's Headlines: Roof guilty of hate crimes in Charleston church massacre; execution possible

Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel supports West Bank settlements; Pundit Larry Kudlow a leading candidate for Trump's Council of Economic Advisors; 'Everything in the room became an instrument of torture': Tunisia confronts its brutal past; Obama says ‘we will’ retaliate against Russia for election hacking; Some very good news for Donald Trump: A strong majority still say Russia didn’t matter;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Roof guilty of hate crimes in Charleston church massacre; execution possible "There's no win in this," said a son of one of the nine parishioners killed by Dylann Roof, a 22-year-old self-described white supremacist who was convicted by a federal jury on all 33 counts he faced. The government will seek the death penalty when the sentencing phase of the case begins next month. By Dustin Waters and Kevin Sullivan  •  Read more » Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel supports West Bank settlements David M. Friedman, who was the president-elect's bankruptcy lawyer, has been outspoken in backing the settlements, which every U.S. administration since 1967 has considered illegitimate. By Karen DeYoung  •  Read more »   Pundit Larry Kudlow a leading candidate for Trump's Council of Economic Advisors Kudlow, a fervent supporter of deep tax cuts and a senior contributor at CNBC, has neither a graduate nor undergraduate degree in economics. By Steven Mufson and Max Ehrenfreund  •  Read more »   'Everything in the room became an instrument of torture': Tunisia confronts its brutal past More than five years after the country's authoritarian leadership was overthrown in the Arab Spring revolution, witnesses are publicly exposing the abuses of previous governments in heart-wrenching testimony that has been broadcast nationally on television and radio. By Naveena Kottoor  •  Read more »   Obama says ‘we will’ retaliate against Russia for election hacking In an interview that will air Friday on National Public Radio, the president said: "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action." By Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more »   Some very good news for Donald Trump: A strong majority still say Russia didn’t matter If Republicans were worried about this calling into question Trump's legitimacy, they should rest easier. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI By John Podesta  •  Read more »   Trump can't deny climate change without a fight By Eugene Robinson  •  Read more »   The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies By Charles Krauthammer  •  Read more »   Aleppo's fall is Obama's failure By Leon Wieseltier  •  Read more »   Jill Stein has done the nation a tremendous public service By Jonathan S. Abady and Ilann M. Maazel  •  Read more »   Will Donald Trump help this American imprisoned in Egypt? By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Aleppo evacuation in limbo once again as gunfire strikes convoys The evacuation of civilians and rebels has been halted again by a burst of gunfire hitting the convoy of buses and ambulances leaving the city. By Hugh Naylor and Andrew Roth  •  Read more » Obamacare insurance enrollment deadline extended till Monday The announcement marked the second consecutive year that federal officials granted Affordable Care Act insurance-seekers a little extra time beyond the Dec. 15 deadline. By Amy Goldstein  •  Read more » Minnesota players boycotting football to protest suspensions that followed sexual assault allegations The athletes said that their boycott will continue until their demands are met, even if that means a team-wide refusal to play in the school's postseason bowl game. By Des Bieler  •  Read more » Cuba wants to use rum to repay debt Cuban officials made the offer to the Czech Republic to settle debt from the era when Cuba and what was then Czechoslovakia were part of the Soviet bloc. But the Czechs want at least partial repayment in cash. By Ishaan Tharoor  •  Read more » FedEx hopes to weather storm as its industry confronts massive upheaval The shipping giant will find out whether its operation for moving a crush of e-commerce parcels will protect its business from the likes of Amazon and Uber — or act as a costly anchor that keeps the company from adapting. By Sarah Halzack  •  Read more » The most outlandish claims of 2016 There has never been a serial exaggerator in recent U.S. politics like the president-elect. Donald Trump earned five of this year's "biggest Pinocchio" ratings, the most ever in our annual roundup. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more » Tamar Haspel | Columnist We must feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren't the answer. Commodity crops — corn and soy, but also oats and barley and lentils — don't represent the farmer most of us meet at the farmers market, the one running the farm of our imagination. But it is those crops that will feed us. 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