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Politico:
Trump aides privately plot a flurry of moves in their final 10 weeks  —  On Monday, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows gathered senior aides on a call.  —  One of his goals: to plot the conservative policy moves they could push through in their final 10 weeks on immigration, trade, health care, China and school choice.
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New York Times:
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff  —  Mr. Klain, who first worked for President-elect Joe Biden in 1989, has been a sharp critic of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus.  —  Biden's Policy Agenda Rests Heavily on Senate Outcome  —  Which party controls the Senate …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Maggie's Trump book, and some Biden world moves  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW ... NYT'S MAGGIE HABERMAN is writing a book about President DONALD TRUMP.  —  WHAT ELSE do we need to say about this?  You know this is going to be awesome.  MAGGIE has been a singular force …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Biden's choice of Ron Klain to run White House signals rejection of Trump-era chaos  —  President-elect Joe Biden has chosen longtime Washington operative Ronald A. Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
This Election Result Won't Be Overturned  —  Recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands.  —  It has been an eventful, unsettling year: A deadly virus struck without warning and claimed almost a quarter-million American lives; a lockdown demolished personal routines …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump eyes digital media empire to take on Fox News  —  President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.  —  The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News …
Kylie Atwood / CNN:
State Department is preventing Biden from accessing messages from foreign leaders  —  Washington (CNN)A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them …
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Glenna Milberg / WPLG-TV:
Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money  —  MIAMI - Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?  —  Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three …
Russell Mills / 102.3 KRMG:
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects  —  The Oklahoma Senator says Friday becomes the next important date, as the GSA can then start certifying the states' results  —  TULSA — Twin crises continue to create confusion for people across the country …
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Paul Seamus Ryan / USA Today:
Trump wants to make money off the fake ‘stolen election’ crisis he created.  Don't let him.  —  Republican donors beware!  Trump says he needs your money for legal challenges to the election, but the fine print says it won't be used that way.  —  For days, President Donald Trump has been blasting …
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CNN:
Obama memoir confronts role his presidency played in Republican obstructionism and Trump's rise  —  Photos:  —  Barack Obama's presidency  —  U.S. President Barack Obama attends the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague, Netherlands, in March 2014.  As Obama's second term nears its close …
Discussion: Mediaite and Louder With Crowder
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Barack Obama / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America  —  The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama's new memoir, A Promised Land, which will be published on Tuesday by Crown.  Yesterday, The Atlantic's editor in chief …
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Trump's Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company  —  Denying defeat, claiming fraud and using government machinery to reverse election results are the time-honored tools of dictators.  —  MOSCOW — When the strongman ruler of Belarus declared an implausible landslide victory …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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New York Times:
For Pence, the Future Is Tied to Trump as Much as the Present Is
Discussion: Alternet.org
New York Times:
Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists.  To What End?  —  So far, there is no evidence the appointees harbor a secret agenda or arrived with an action plan.  But their sudden appearance amounts to a purge of the Pentagon's top civilian hierarchy without recent precedent.
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg and The Intercept
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's National Security Adviser Tells Staff: Don't Even Mention Biden's Name
Discussion: Raw Story
David Thomas / Reuters:
Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results  —  The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Schools May Close Again, a Grim Sign of a Global Dilemma  —  The school system, the nation's largest, has had strikingly few virus cases.  Even so, the mayor may end in-person classes because the city's overall rate is surging.  —  New York City has more students in classrooms …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Wall Street Journal:
What Is Trump's Legal Strategy?  Try to Block Certification of Biden Victory in States.  —  Effort to get state Republicans to appoint pro-Trump Electoral College votes is a long shot, president's advisers and election-law experts say  —  President Trump's campaign is pursuing a patchwork …
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Trump among long-shots to replace Alex Trebek as ‘Jeopardy!’ host … Let's meet today's contestants ...  Bookmakers are offering bets on who will be Alex Trebek's replacement as the host of “Jeopardy!”  — including longshot candidates such as President Trump.
Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
What a Biden-Harris administration should prioritize on its first day  —  Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.  —  As Democrats celebrate the election of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, we need to have an important conversation …
Discussion: ABC News, Fox News and NBC News
People.com:
Passenger Aboard First Cruise Ship to Return to Sailing in Caribbean Tests Positive for COVID-19  —  Passengers and non-essential crew are now isolating in their cabins as the ship heads back toward its departure point in Barbados  —  The first cruise ship to set sail in the Caribbean since …
Andrew Wolfson / Courier-Journal:
Louisville police, county attorney's office hide 738,000 records in Explorer sex abuse case  —  Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public, records show.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump endorses McDaniel to remain RNC chair, ponders 2024 run  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to stay on in her position, in what one source said could be a prelude to Trump's announcing plans to run for president in 2024.
President-Elect Joe Biden:
Readout of the President-elect's Foreign Leader Calls  —  President-elect Joe Biden took part in separate congratulatory calls this evening with the leaders of Australia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.  —  The President-elect spoke with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia.
Discussion: NPR
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New York Times:
Biden speaks with more world leaders and agrees to meet South Korea's president.
Discussion: The National Interest
Politico:
'We're not going to stop': Lawmakers press ahead with Trump-era investigations  —  Donald Trump will be a private citizen in January.  But Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are poised to carry on the investigations and legal battles that helped define his presidency.
Greg B. Smith / THE CITY:
Wrong Masks and ‘Missing’ Ventilators: NYC's Billion-Dollar COVID Gear Bungle  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio visits healthcare workers at Bellevue Hospital, April 10, 2020.  Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office  —  At the height of the pandemic, the city issued $1.4 billion in emergency …
Washington Post:
In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting  —  Inside Detroit's absentee-ballot-counting center, one Republican poll watcher complained that workers were wearing Black Lives Matter gear.  She thought one of them — a “man of intimidating size” — had followed her too closely.
Washington Post:
As coronavirus soars, hospitals hope to avoid an agonizing choice: Who gets care and who goes home  —  New cases and hospitalizations break records  —  The coronavirus pandemic is rolling across America like a great crimson wave.  —  In Illinois, the rate of new infections is so high …
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker to Jeffrey Toobin: Beat It!  —  The top writer had been suspended last month after exposing himself during a video call with colleagues.  —  The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after a weeks-long investigation into an incident in which he exposed himself during a video call with colleagues last month.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Completely Insane Electoral College Strategy  —  Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option?  —  President Donald Trump is challenging the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election in several razor-thin battleground states, pushing for recounts …
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Will we ever see a Freedom Caucus of the left?  —  LIGHT IT UP LIKE DYNAMITE — Tensions inside the Democratic party are boiling over and spilling out into public view.  The latest shots came from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y), who responded to a report from Heather and Sarah that fellow …
Washington Examiner:
Democratic blacklists and other odious hypocrisies  —  In 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that she and leftist allies were being placed on a blacklist by Democratic Party regulars.  It turns out that this was not a principled objection, for now, she wants to be the one making the list.
Discussion: The Federalist
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
GOP leaders' embrace of Trump's refusal to concede fits pattern of rising authoritarianism, data shows  —  Research by a team of international scholars shows the Republican Party's shift away from democratic ideals predates Donald Trump but has accelerated since
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Amid White House COVID-19 outbreak, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pulled their 3 kids from a DC Jewish school  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak …
Discussion: Business Insider
Sarah Chaney Cambon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Slip but Hold at High Levels  —  Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell by 48,000 to 709,000 last week  —  New applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, suggesting layoffs were easing despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country.
Discussion: CNBC and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
It's on: 2024 run is Trump's back up plan
Discussion: Instapundit
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
President Trump's Show Has Been Canceled
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Task Force: The Refusal to Concede to Biden Will Result in More COVID Deaths
Discussion: Business Insider
Ben Jordan / TMJ4:
51 of 72 Wisconsin counties complete canvasses resulting in minor vote shift
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Mounting commercial real estate losses threaten banks, recovery
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A fall coronavirus disaster is already here. We can't wait until Inauguration Day to act.
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Will Feuer / CNBC:
Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy