OBAMA VOWS ACTION AGAINST RUSSIA’S ELECTION MEDDLING “’I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action,’ President Barack Obama said in an interview with NPR, to be broadcast Friday. ‘And we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be.’” [Marina Fang, HuffPost]

WHAT’S NEXT FOR SYRIA What the fall of Aleppo, which Bashar Assad calls a “liberation” in the making, means for Syria’s civil war. [Willa Frej, HuffPost]

MORE DONALD TRUMP LEADERSHIP PICKS Meet the president-elect’s pick for Ambassador to Israel, as well as his choice to lead the Small Business Administration. [Travis Waldron and Dana Liebelson, HuffPost]

FACEBOOK MAKES FIRST STEPS TO FIGHT FAKE NEWS “The social network announced Thursday that it will work with fact-checking outlets to label fake stories, flagged by users, as ‘disputed.’” [Emily Peck, HuffPost]

‘WE WANTED TO FIND TROUBLED JAILS, SO WE COUNTED THE BODIES’ “Ten jails. More than 40 deaths. What happened in one year?” [Dana Liebelson and Ryan Reilly, HuffPost]

BAD NEWS, SEAFOOD FANS That shrimp you’re downing at the holiday party? It might be antibiotic-tainted. [Bloomberg ]

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, HAS UNSAFE WATER FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN TWO YEARS The city is unable to use any tap water as a chemical from a “back-flow incident in its industrial district” has contaminated the water. That means no showers. [Joseph Erbentraut, HuffPost]