Although President-elect Donald Trump used Twitter on Tuesday to threaten General Motors over its plans to distribute its Mexican-made Chevy Cruze model to American car dealers, he has also singled out many other companies for comment and criticism before and after winning the U.S. presidential election, reports AP.

• Politico: House GOP Reverses Course on Gutting Ethics Panel
• Daily Caller: Tech Company Casts Doubt On DHS/FBI Russian Hacking Report
• Reuters: Trump Team Seeks Agency Records on Border Barriers, Surveillance
• WashExaminer: Gallup: Dems Won’t Give Trump Benefit of Doubt
• The Hill: Ex-CIA Head: More Than One Country Could Be Behind Hacking

The U.S. has released a 13-page report by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on accusations that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts, reports AP.

• WashExaminer: Giuliani Tells Trump to Order His Own Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking
• Politico: Bolton: Russia Sanctions Insufficient; U.S. Must ‘Make the Russians Feel Pain’
• WashPost: Top Republicans Say There’s a Medical Malpractice Crisis. Experts Say There Isn’t.
• WashExaminer: Obama Plots Jobs-Killing ‘Midnight Lawsuits’
• WashTimes: Blue Lives Under Fire: Deadly Ambushes of Police Officers at Two-Decade High

The failure by Congress to pass a formal authorization for the war against the Islamic State means that Donald Trump will effectively have unlimited powers to wage what he calls a global U.S. war on radical Islam, an alarming scenario for many Democrats, reports Politico.

• AP: Trump Tax Reforms Could Depend on Little-Known ‘Scoring’ Panel
• Townhall: Krauthammer: The Damage the Democratic Party Has Suffered Under Obama Is ‘Incalculable’
• NY Post: DC Private Schools Giving Kellyanne Conway the Brush-Off
• The Hill: Obama Under Pressure to Prove Russian Interference in Election
• AP: Relations Between Obama, Netanyahu Camps Hit Rock Bottom