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New York Times:
Barr Hands Prosecutors the Authority to Investigate Voter Fraud Claims — The attorney general said that he had authorized “instances” of investigative steps but that inquiries should not be based on specious claims. — WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr …
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Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to challenge election results — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans on Monday backed President Trump's efforts to contest his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, despite the lack of evidence of significant fraud and sharp rebukes …
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NBC News:
In appeasing Trump, the GOP toys with a constitutional crisis — WASHINGTON — In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by a combined 77,000 votes; he got 306 electoral votes; and he received a concession speech by Hillary Clinton and a White House meeting with Barack Obama 48 hours after the election.
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
DOJ's election crimes chief resigns after Barr directs prosecutors to probe voter fraud claims
DOJ's election crimes chief resigns after Barr directs prosecutors to probe voter fraud claims
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BBC:
US election: Justice lawyer quits after attorney general orders ‘vote fraud’ inquiries
US election: Justice lawyer quits after attorney general orders ‘vote fraud’ inquiries
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Who's Going to Tell Him? Republicans Shy From Asking Trump to Concede
Who's Going to Tell Him? Republicans Shy From Asking Trump to Concede
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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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New York Times:
Helping to Shape the Words of the President-Elect: A Presidential Historian — Jon Meacham, best known for writing about past presidents like Andrew Jackson and George Bush, has helped shape some of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s most significant speeches. — WASHINGTON — Jon Meacham …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
MSNBC reportedly lets Jon Meacham go as contributor after not disclosing he was a speechwriter for Biden
MSNBC reportedly lets Jon Meacham go as contributor after not disclosing he was a speechwriter for Biden
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Washington Post:
White House, escalating tensions, orders agencies to rebuff Biden transition team — The Trump White House on Monday instructed its senior government leaders to block cooperation with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team, escalating a standoff that threatens to impede his takeover of the federal government in January.
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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden team considering legal options if Trump administration keeps stalling the transition
Biden team considering legal options if Trump administration keeps stalling the transition
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden transition starts congressional outreach
Biden transition starts congressional outreach
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
As an ex-president, Trump could disclose the secrets he learned while in office, current and former officials fear — As president, Donald Trump selectively revealed highly classified information to attack his adversaries, gain political advantage and to impress or intimidate foreign governments …
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USA Today:
Supreme Court, again, entertains Republican challenge to Obamacare — Our View: Failing to repeal, replace Affordable Care Act, Republicans keep testing justices' independence. Just what Americans need in a pandemic. — The Editorial BoardUSA TODAY
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Fate of Obamacare back before Supreme Court, now with an expanded conservative majority
Fate of Obamacare back before Supreme Court, now with an expanded conservative majority
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Plans PAC in Hopes of Keeping Hold on G.O.P. — The PAC could accept donations from an unlimited number of people and spend to benefit other candidates, allowing the president to retain influence in a party remade largely in his image. — President Trump is planning to form …
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Politico:
'We're not some demonic cult': Democrats fume over faulty messaging — House Democrats have the majority and are ripping each other to shreds. Senate Democrats fell short for the third cycle in a row, but are only grousing about getting out-messaged by Republicans.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Chuck Schumer re-elected as Senate Democratic leader
Chuck Schumer re-elected as Senate Democratic leader
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Be Alarmed — I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us. —Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, January 27, 1838 I know, I know. Donald Trump is a petulant child, and congressional Republicans are just humoring him.
Politico:
Pentagon's top policy official resigns after clashing with the White House — The Pentagon's acting policy chief resigned on Tuesday after falling out of favor with the White House, raising fears of a post-election purge at the Defense Department. — The departure of James Anderson …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
White House official and former GOP political operative Michael Ellis named as NSA general counsel
White House official and former GOP political operative Michael Ellis named as NSA general counsel
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Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
12 Ways For Trump To Bomb The Battlefield While Biden Claims The Presidency — President Trump needs a skunkworks team coming up with as many political land mines as possible to embed in the landscape against Democrats if Republicans are forced to retreat from the White House in January.
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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 …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle make moves to expand RNC influence and possibly takeover, sources say — (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle are making moves to expand their influence at the Republican National Committee, three GOP sources, including advisers to the President tell CNN.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Mom Says ‘Protesters Should Not Have Been There’ on Night He Shot Them — Wendy Rittenhouse has broken her silence—but she expressed little sympathy for the Kenosha victims' families, and blamed the victims and law enforcement for the deadly incident.
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Top Mississippi Republicans Fail to Acknowledge Biden Victory as Fitch Joins Trump Lawsuit — Two days after all major national networks called the 2020 presidential election for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, none of Mississippi's top Republican leaders has acknowledged the Democrats' victory.
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Arizona Republic:
Republican challenge to Maricopa County election involves fewer than 200 ballots, attorneys say — Maria Polletta Andrew OxfordArizona Republic — Republican officials behind a lawsuit alleging poll workers “incorrectly rejected” votes cast in person on Election Day will make their case …
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Did Sen. Kelly Loeffler take advantage of a Trump tax loophole to write off campaign jet? — Records suggest Loeffler may have deducted a jet she used on campaign trips, letting the government eat the cost — Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Georgia Republican now seeking to hold her seat …
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Final Hissy Fit Is Petty, Illegal and Stupid — Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States. We're done. It's all over but the weeping and rending of MAGA garments. — BEAST INSIDE … The Trump regime is in full and robust collapse. It's not just his loss at the polls.
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Mia Eisner-Grynberg / New York Daily News:
What hybrid learning gives my child — Every day that our 7-year-old daughter gets to go to school is the best day of her life. On April 11, when the mayor announced that schools would not reopen for the rest of that academic year, she cried deep, heaving sobs, and so did I. For our child, it was an incomparable loss.
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
EU levels new antitrust charges against Amazon — The European Union's (EU) antitrust watchdog leveled new charges against Amazon on Tuesday over the company's treatment of third-party sellers. — The European Commission accused the online retail giant of relying on non-public business data …
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Sarah Jones / The Cut:
Who Dies COVID took my grandfather. But it wasn't what killed him. — We cremated my grandfather the week I was supposed to get married. The white dress I bought a year ago still hangs in my closet, next to the black dress I brought home with me to Virginia.
Washington Post:
Why Texas's overwhelmingly Latino Rio Grande Valley turned toward Trump — SAN ANTONIO — While President-elect Joe Biden did not win Texas, he came closer than any Democratic presidential candidate in years, losing the state by six points — a narrowing made possible by Latino voters from urban strongholds.
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Glenn Greenwald:
Obama Official Ben Rhodes Admits Biden Camp is Already Working With Foreign Leaders: Exactly What Flynn Did — In late 2016, the FBI investigated Gen. Michael Flynn when he was a transition official for the possible “crime” of talking to Russia about foreign policy. Why can Biden do this?
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tweets Erode Trust in Elections Among Supporters, Study Finds — President Trump's tweets questioning the U.S. election's legitimacy are effective in shaping his supporters' beliefs on that topic, while his tweets boosted his detractors' confidence in elections, according to a study believed …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Nate Cohn Explains What the Polls Got Wrong — Last week, Joe Biden was elected the forty-sixth President of the United States, defeating Donald Trump by what is likely to be several percentage points nationwide. The margins in crucial swing states, however, were closer than polling averages suggested that they would be.
Stuti Mishra / The Independent:
US police chief resigns over ‘death to all Democrats’ posts — Lang Holland, chief of police in Arkansas city of Marshall, wrote there should be ‘no survivors’ — A police chief in Arkansas has resigned after posting messages on a right-wing social media app calling for “death to all” Democrats.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Brittle Grip, No. Infinity — As this election blurred forward I was taking notes for more editions of our “Brittle Grip” Series, the phenomenon of the super powerful and super rich feeling increasingly insecure in their power and wealth even as both wax.
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