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11:20 AM ET, November 9, 2020

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Matthew Herper / STAT:
Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate  —  Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement …
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New York Times:
Pfizer's Early Data Shows Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective  —  Pfizer announced positive early results from its coronavirus vaccine trial, cementing the lead in a frenzied global race that has unfolded at record-breaking speed.  —  The drug maker Pfizer announced on Monday that an early analysis …
Pfizer:
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study  — Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war  —  GOP leaders and confidants of President Trump tell Axios his legal fight to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory — which they admit is likely doomed — could last a month or more, possibly pushing the 2020 political wars toward Christmastime.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to continue to hold campaign-style rallies as legal team girds up  —  President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump may not, but many in inner circle accept defeat
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Man featured at Giuliani press conference is a convicted sex offender  —  The first person Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for President Donald Trump, called up as a witness to baseless allegations of vote counting shenanigans in Philadelphia during a press conference last week is a sex offender …
Discussion: New Jersey Globe and Raw Story
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Richard Hall / The Independent:
I saw Donald Trump's presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping  —  The Trump presidency ended in the parking lot of a landscaping company next to an adult bookstore. , Richard Hall was there … t began, as all good 2020 capers do, with a tweet from the president of the United States.
Discussion: New York Times
Associated Press:
The Latest: Ousted vaccine expert on Biden virus task force  —  President-elect Joe Biden has announced the members of his coronavirus task force, which will put together a blueprint for fighting the pandemic.  —  The co-chairs are former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy …
Discussion: NBC News
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Biden unveils coronavirus crisis team tasked with curbing surging cases  —  President-elect Joe Biden declared tackling the pandemic “one of the most important battles our administration will face” as he announced a new 12-member Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board on Monday.
Politico:
Pandemic on course to overwhelm U.S. health system before Biden takes office
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Washington Post:
A little-known Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to Biden — and she isn't budging  —  A Trump administration appointee is refusing to sign a letter allowing President-elect Joe Biden's transition team to formally begin its work this week, in another sign …
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Transition / President-Elect Joe Biden:
Biden-Harris Transition Announces COVID-19 Advisory Board  —  Leading Public Health and Scientific Experts to Advise the Transition on COVID-19 Response  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the Biden-Harris Transition announced the formation of the Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Trump Presidency Is Ending.  So Is Maggie Haberman's Wild Ride.  —  For the last four years, the Times reporter has been the human incarnation of a nation riveted, like it or not, by Donald Trump.  —  Maggie Haberman lives rent-free in Donald Trump's head, all over the front page …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans already racing to fill Trump power vacuum  —  President Donald Trump's defeat has set off a flurry of activity as would-be successors start to position themselves for 2024 and a battle to lead a Trump-less Republican Party begins to take shape.  —  Likely Republican candidates …
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Axios:
Worried pollsters admit huge problem  —  Four years later, it's still easy to hate on the polls.  Even if they called the presidential race “right” this time, the national polls vastly underestimated support for President Trump once again, leading to a major industry soul searching about how to fix some fundamental problems.
Jeff Peterson / The Hill:
Progress toward managing rising seas  —  On Nov. 10, NASA will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air force Base in California.  Its payload: a Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, equipped with instruments that will dramatically improve measurement of changes in sea level around the world.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will ‘never’ elect another president  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) warned that President Trump should not concede that he was defeated in the 2020 presidential election in part because Republicans will “never” be able to elect another president from their party again.
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Putin won't congratulate Biden until ‘legal procedures’ are settled  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin will not congratulate Joe Biden until the U.S. election results are finalized, the Kremlin's top spokesman said Monday.  —  “Anticipating your possible question about Putin congratulating …
 
 
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New York Times:
What's Next for Trump? The Family Business Awaits His Return
Discussion: Raw Story
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY ON THE MEDIA: ‘THEY LIE, THEY LIE, THEY LIE. AND THEN THEY LIE’
Discussion: Power Line
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump
Discussion: Poynter and Axios
 Earlier Items: 
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Media ‘Calling’ Elections in a Democracy Is Post-Modern Fascism
Discussion: Instapundit
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Pete Buttigieg is a near-certainty for Biden's Cabinet
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
‘We will not allow anyone to stop us’: Day and night, under historic scrutiny, the nation's vote counters carried on
Discussion: Raw Story
National Review:
Biden's Empty Victory
Discussion: The Week, HotAir and CANNONFIRE
 

 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
How Trump and his allies could go after the media in his second term through harassment campaigns and lawsuits, draining the companies of time, money, and trust

Reuters:
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