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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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post, Mercury News and National Review
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 …
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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 …
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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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Harry Enten / CNN:
Joe Biden's win grows more decisive each day as votes are counted
Joe Biden's win grows more decisive each day as votes are counted
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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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CNN:
Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday — 9/11 commission says Trump transition refusal makes US vulnerable — (CNN)Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford said Wednesday that he will intervene if the Trump administration …
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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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump's election challenge looks like a scam to line his pockets
Trump's election challenge looks like a scam to line his pockets
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Politico, Bloomberg and The Intercept
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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The Points Guy and Orlando Sentinel
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Raw Story, Althouse, Axios and The Intellectualist
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 …
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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.
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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
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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 …
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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.
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CNBC and The Daily Caller