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New York Times:
Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits — Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system. — Like many big law firms, Jones Day, whose roots …
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Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP fears conceding Trump loss would spark base revolt and loss of seats — Top Republicans in Washington are reluctant to call Joe Biden the president-elect publicly, fearing a rebellion by grassroots conservatives loyal to President Trump that would sink the party's Senate majority.
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Washington Post:
Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to challenge election results
Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to challenge election results
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Politico, USA Today, New York Times, Raw Story, Alternet.org, Wall Street Journal and WSPA-TV
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war
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Axios:
McConnell defends Trump's refusal to concede to Biden
McConnell defends Trump's refusal to concede to Biden
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Washington Examiner, Reuters, American Prospect, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press and Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell declines in floor speech to congratulate Biden as president-elect
McConnell declines in floor speech to congratulate Biden as president-elect
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Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Exclusive: Esper, on his way out, says he was no yes man — As had long been expected, President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, cutting short what would have otherwise been his final months at the Pentagon, in anticipation of President-elect Joe Biden's transition in January.
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CNN:
Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become acting secretary “effective immediately.”
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Leaked call audio shows Trump officials denying election results
Leaked call audio shows Trump officials denying election results
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Business Insider, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon and CNBC
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Barr OKs election probes despite little evidence of fraud — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite little evidence of fraud.
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Politico:
GOP-led states back Trump's legal drive to challenge election — Republican-controlled state governments on Monday began throwing their weight behind President Donald Trump's legal drive to challenge the results of last week's presidential election. — A coalition of Republican attorneys general filed …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Trump's quest to end the Affordable Care Act arrives at Supreme Court
Trump's quest to end the Affordable Care Act arrives at Supreme Court
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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts
Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts
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USA Today, Washington Post and Fox News
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump privately discussing 2024 run — President Trump has already told advisers he's thinking about running for president again in 2024, two sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios. — Why it matters: This is the clearest indication yet that Trump understands he has lost …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump campaign adviser: Conceding ‘is not even in our vocabulary right now’
Trump campaign adviser: Conceding ‘is not even in our vocabulary right now’
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Trump campaign sues to halt Pennsylvania from certifying Biden win — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking an emergency injunction to stop state officials from certifying Joe Biden's victory in the state.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Trump Campaign Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking to Block Pennsylvania from Certifying Election Results
Trump Campaign Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking to Block Pennsylvania from Certifying Election Results
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6abc and NBC10 Philadelphia
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 …
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Pfizer:
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study
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Matthew Herper / STAT:
Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate
Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate
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Associated Press, Japan Times, Fortune, The Verge, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, Twitchy, Hackwhackers and Marginal REVOLUTION
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports
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Religion News Service:
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., Trump evangelical adviser, has died — Bishop Harry Jackson of Maryland speaks at the unveiling of the “Justice Declaration,” a statement by Christian leaders on criminal justice, in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2017. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks — Flip
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook takes down a large network of pages tied to Stephen Bannon for pushing misinformation — The pages, which pushed the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort and other misleading messages, were removed over the weekend, while the former top Trump strategist's account was frozen
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Adviser Leading Post-Election Legal Fight Has Coronavirus — Aide David Bossie was diagnosed Sunday in White House test — Bossie helping with strategy after Meadows tested positive — David Bossie, an outside adviser to Donald Trump who is leading his post-election fight over vote counts …
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UPI, Talking Points Memo, Axios, CNBC, The Daily Beast and Washington Times
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Trump's election challenge is continuing, but the campaign is already shedding staff — WASHINGTON — Two days after Joe Biden was declared the winner in the presidential election, President Trump and his allies have vowed to keep on fighting, but his campaign team has already let go of some staff …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus — Eric Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union. — The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the island of Cyprus, Recode has learned …
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The National Interest and New York Post
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich Says Trump Commitment to Election Legal Battle Has Intensified — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a vocal proponent of the Trump campaign's continuing efforts to fight the election outcome, said President Trump's commitment to the legal battle has only intensified in recent days.
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose — The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins. — The President was despondent.
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New Republic
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Pulling Our Politics Back from the Brink — After a bitterly contested election, the country teeters between persuasion and force. — In the hours after Election Day, as Donald Trump seemed on the point of losing the Presidency, he spiralled through emotions like Lear on the heath …
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CNN, Roll Call, IJR, The Marshall Project, Washington Post and New Republic
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 …
New York Times:
How Trump's Refusal to Concede Affects Biden's National Security Transition — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has yet to receive a presidential daily briefing, and it was unclear whether his team would have access to classified information. — President Trump's refusal to concede …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Too many men of color got conned by Trump — I am a Black man. I was born in a Latin country. I grew up in a Spanish-speaking family. — So it stuns me to see that President Trump set a record last week by attracting the highest percentage of the non-white vote of any Republican presidential candidate in the last 60 years.
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
No Evidence of Systematic Fraud in U.S. Elections, International Observer Mission Reports — A team of international observers invited by the Trump administration has issued a preliminary report giving high marks to the conduct of last week's elections—and it criticizes President …