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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Lame-duck Trump burrows loyalists inside government, starting with NSA — Perhaps as consequential as President Trump firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper via tweet on Monday, which has been widely expected for months, was the hiring of Michael Ellis to be the National Security Agency's general counsel.
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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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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: The ‘orchestrated’ push to discredit Georgia's election sparks more GOP infighting — By Jim Galloway - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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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Washington Post:
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 …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Stop romanticizing divided government. If McConnell is majority leader, there will be no progress.
Stop romanticizing divided government. If McConnell is majority leader, there will be no progress.
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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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Associated Press:
Top Pentagon adviser resigns after Esper firing — U.S. defense officials said James Anderson, the top policy adviser at the Pentagon, submitted his resignation Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Anderson has been the acting undersecretary for policy since June.
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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
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Team Pushes Trump Administration to Stop Blocking Transition Resources
Biden Team Pushes Trump Administration to Stop Blocking Transition Resources
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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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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
In Election's Wake, a Stark Divide Between President and President-Elect
In Election's Wake, a Stark Divide Between President and President-Elect
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Forms PAC in Hopes of Keeping Hold on G.O.P. — The PAC can 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 has formed …
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
One pollster's explanation for why the polls got it wrong — Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on November 3. Xinhua/Joel Lerner via Getty Images — The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it's ruining polling.
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Elana Fishman / Page Six:
How ‘SNL’ recreated Kamala Harris' white suit in under 90 minutes — When Kamala Harris took the stage in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night around 8:30 p.m. to address the nation as its new vice president-elect, she did so wearing a white Carolina Herrera suit that nodded to the suffragette movement.
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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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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
US permits emergency use of coronavirus antibody drug — The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of a coronavirus antibody treatment for certain patients. — On Monday, the FDA approved Eli Lilly & Co's bamlanivimab drug based on trial data that showed a lowered rate …
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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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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Will Supreme Court Invalidate Obamacare A Decade After It Was Enacted?
Will Supreme Court Invalidate Obamacare A Decade After It Was Enacted?
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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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Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
Treasury emergency aid loan goes to airline backed by Amazon and Apollo, showing government's long reach — Sun Country, which includes Amazon and funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management as investors, is getting a $45 million loan — The Treasury Department has lent $45 million …
CNBC:
Amy Klobuchar considered for Biden Cabinet posts including attorney general and Agriculture secretary — Sen. Amy Klobuchar is being floated for a possible Cabinet post within President-elect Joe Biden's administration. — Her name has risen on the list of possible Cabinet appointees since Election …
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Brookings:
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America's economy. What does this mean for the nation's political-economic divide? — Even with a new president and political party soon in charge of the White House, the nation's economic standoff continues. Notwithstanding President-elect Joe Biden's …
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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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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.
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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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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Jeremy Turley / Grand Forks Herald:
With North Dakota hospitals at 100% capacity, Burgum announces COVID-positive nurses can stay at work — In an attempt to alleviate some of the staffing concerns, Burgum announced that the state health officer has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases …
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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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.
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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Tim Stickings / Agence France-Presse:
Islamists behead more than 50 people on a football pitch in Mozambique then chop the bodies to pieces after abducting female villagers — Bodies of dismembered victims were found scattered across a forest clearing — At least 15 boys were among the victims during attack on male initiation rite