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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden defeats Trump to win White House, NBC News projects  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden became president-elect Saturday after winning the pivotal state of Pennsylvania, NBC News projected.  —  The former vice president amassed 273 Electoral College votes after winning Pennsylvania's 20 electors …
New York Times:
Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity.  He will return to Washington facing a daunting set of crises.  —  Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday …
CNN:
Biden defeats Trump in an election he made about character of the nation and the President  —  (CNN)America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning at a time of national crisis to a man whose character was forged by aching personal tragedy and who is pledging …
Associated Press:
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Aides Frustrated After Meadows's Silence on Infection  — Campaign aide Nick Trainer, several others also contract virus  — Meadows is latest in series of cases linked to White House  —  Some of Donald Trump's White House and campaign aides are frustrated that the president's chief of staff …
Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Endgame  —  Trump has the right to fight in court, but he needs evidence to prove voter fraud.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Perhaps it was inevitable that Donald Trump's re-election campaign would end as his Presidency began: with the President claiming victory …
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Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch-owned US outlets turn on Trump, urging him to act with ‘grace’  —  Fox News, Wall Street Journal and New York Post all show stark change of tone as their former champion faces ‘presidential endgame’  —  Multiple Rupert Murdoch-owned conservative media outlets in the United States …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
As Trump's Chances Fade, Murdoch's Fox News Faces Wrath And Tough Choices  —  There may be no figure more important in preparing Republicans and President Trump himself for a post-Trump period than media magnate Rupert Murdoch.  —  Among his properties, the top-rated Fox News Channel stands out …
Associated Press:
Incendiary texts traced to outfit run by top Trump aide  —  BOSTON (AP) — A texting company run by one of President Donald Trump's top campaign officials sent out thousands of targeted, anonymous text messages urging supporters to rally where votes were being counted in Philadelphia on Thursday …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Will Keep Fighting as Aides Doubt Path Forward  —  President's advisers point fingers over campaign's legal strategy  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said Friday he would continue to fight election results that showed him on the cusp of losing to former Vice President Joe Biden.
CNN:
Report: Armed men arrested in Philadelphia were trying to deliver fake ballots  —  (CNN)Two armed Virginia men who were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center were “coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots” to the city, CNN affiliate KYW reported, citing prosecutors.
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
All eyes on Pa., other battlegrounds as Biden increases lead, Trump vows legal fight
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Final Gasp of Donald Trump's Presidency  —  Donald Trump going out with a limp seems like an oxymoron," a senior adviser to the president told me.  In width and in word, in soaring skyscrapers and Brioni suits and arena rallies and various euphemisms for great (yuge, bigly), the man has been defined by and obsessed with largeness.
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump May Barricade Himself in the Oval Office and Refuse to Come Out If Biden Wins
David Siders / Politico:
3 storylines driving the election Saturday  —  Joe Biden is on the cusp of history.  Donald Trump and the GOP base aren't ready to let go.  —  One day after Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania and expanded his lead in Nevada, we still don't have a call.
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ABC News:
Judges want more evidence from Trump campaign as election cases get tossed
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden predicts win, calls for unity, as presidential race still undecided
NBC News:
Nov. 6 highlights: Ballot counting continues in presidential race
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Mikey Smith / Mirror.co.uk:
Confusion as Donald Trump announces legal press conference outside gardening firm  —  He then clarified that he didn't mean the hotel  —  Donald Trump sparked confusion today as he announced a press conference by his legal team would take place outside a landscape gardening firm.
Gregory J. Wallance / The Hill:
Why so gloomy, Democrats?  You have a lot to celebrate  —  If there is such a thing as political postpartum depression, Democrats are clearly suffering from it.  For the last four years, and not without justification, Democrats regarded President Trump as a threat to democracy in America …
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Ayesha Rascoe / NPR:
Trump Dumps 3 Agency Leaders In Wake Of Election  —  The sudden departures included:  — Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the first woman to oversee the agency in charge of the nuclear stockpile.  She was required to resign on Friday.
Discussion: Energy.gov, Defense News and Fox News
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Bloomberg:   U.S. Nuclear Bomb Overseer Quits After Clash With Energy Chief
 
 
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