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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
The Daily 202: Lame-duck Trump burrows loyalists inside government, starting with NSA
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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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HotAir, HuffPost, Israpundit, The Week and Just Security
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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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 Examiner and Alternet.org
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
Tata Tapped to Perform Duties of Defense Undersecretary for Policy
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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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
No Evidence of Systematic Fraud in U.S. Elections, International Observer Mission Reports
No Evidence of Systematic Fraud in U.S. Elections, International Observer Mission Reports
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Washington Post, Axios and HotAir
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
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Weighs Legal Action to Force Trump Administration to Recognize Win
Biden Weighs Legal Action to Force Trump Administration to Recognize Win
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Washington Times
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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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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CNN:
Republican National Committee staff blindsided by layoffs — (CNN)A round of layoffs at the Republican National Committee Monday blindsided staff, three sources familiar with what happened told CNN, as President Donald Trump continues his legal push to contest Joe Biden's victory.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
GOP tries again to get high court to ax health care law — WASHINGTON (AP) — A week after the 2020 election, Republican elected officials and the Trump administration are advancing their latest arguments to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, a long-held GOP goal that has repeatedly failed in Congress and the courts.
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Supreme Court appears wary of striking down Obamacare
Supreme Court appears wary of striking down Obamacare
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USA Today:
Supreme Court, again, entertains Republican challenge to Obamacare
Supreme Court, again, entertains Republican challenge to Obamacare
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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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NBC News, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Root, The Week, Morning Consult and SCOTUSblog
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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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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The Wrap
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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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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Raw Story
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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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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National Review
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 …
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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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 …
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Felony charges filed against 19-year-old who allegedly bought rifle for Kyle Rittenhouse — When Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed two people and seriously wounded another man in August during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wis., he used an assault rifle that authorities said a friend had bought for him.
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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
Kyle Rittenhouse's Mom Says ‘Protesters Should Not Have Been There’ on Night He Shot Them
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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.
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US plans sale of F-35 fighter jets to UAE in $23B arms deal — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration formally notified Congress on Tuesday that it plans to sell 50 stealth F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a broader arms deal worth nearly a quarter billion dollars aimed …
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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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Politico
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.