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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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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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New York Times:
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Graham giving $1M to help Georgia's GOP senators
The Latest: Graham giving $1M to help Georgia's GOP senators
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Russell Mills / 102.3 KRMG:
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects
New York Times:
Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?
Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?
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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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CNN:
Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday
Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday
Jessie Balmert / Cincinnati.com:
Ohio's GOP Gov. Mike DeWine: ‘Joe Biden is the president-elect’
Ohio's GOP Gov. Mike DeWine: ‘Joe Biden is the president-elect’
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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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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
What if Trump never concedes? The Constitution will end his term, conservative lawyer John Yoo says — Trump “has the right to mount legal challenges, but we should be clear that these are ‘Hail Mary’ passes,” said John Yoo, a former legal advisor to the George W. Bush administration.
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Politico:
Trump aides privately plot a flurry of moves in their final 10 weeks
Trump aides privately plot a flurry of moves in their final 10 weeks
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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 …
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / New York Times:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama's ‘A Promised Land’ — A PROMISED LAND — Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read …
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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Raw Story
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Notes on the State of the 2020 Election — Dear Readers: Check out our YouTube channel, UVACFP, later today for our latest Crystal Ball webinar. It will feature the 22nd annual American Democracy Conference: We'll be hearing from New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie; CNN commentator Tara Setmayer …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How to cover a coup — or whatever it is Trump is attempting — President Trump lost. The nation knows it. The world knows it. And, although he won't admit it, he certainly knows it, too. — But because he is claiming otherwise — with his Republican enablers joining the chorus …
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Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Appeals court rules in favor of Harvard in affirmative action case, paving way for Supreme Court challenge — A federal appeals court on Thursday agreed with a lower court ruling that Harvard University does not intentionally discriminate against prospective Asian American students.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Biden Can Pass His Agenda If He Gives Republicans What They Want Most — The Democrats won the presidency, but they don't have what a parliamentary system would call a “government.” Even if they win both Georgia Senate seats in the runoffs, they'll have just 50 Senate seats and will need …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Careful Voter-Fraud Review — On the menu today: a careful review of recent voter-fraud cases, and how this dispels the trite, inaccurate claims that “voter fraud doesn't exist”; perspective on what recent voter-fraud cases have proven and the scale of the problem; and something …
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Crooks and Liars
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.
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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Alternet.org
Multinational Force and Observers:
Helicopter Accident — During a routine mission, nine uniformed members of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) were involved in a helicopter crash in the MFO's area of operations. We are deeply saddened to report that eight MFO members were killed; six U.S. citizens, one French, and one Czech.
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Associated Press:
Grief, anger, disbelief: Trump voters face Biden's victory — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — When Joan Martin heard that Joe Biden had been declared the winner of the presidential election, the retired nurse and avowed supporter of President Donald Trump was deeply unsettled.
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Jonah Meadows / Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, IL Patch:
Trump Megadonors Contract Coronavirus, Joining Fellow Billionaire — “I thought we'd never get it,” Liz Uihlein, an outspoken critic of COVID-19 restrictions, told Uline employees. “Well, Trump got it.” — LAKE FOREST, IL — Lake Forest billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein have contracted the coronavirus …
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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
At dinner parties and game nights, casual American life is fueling the coronavirus surge — A record-breaking surge in U.S. coronavirus cases is being driven to a significant degree by casual occasions that may feel deceptively safe, officials and scientists warn — dinner parties, game nights, sleepovers and carpools.
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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump criticizes Fox: ‘They forgot the Golden Goose’ — President Trump on Thursday unleashed on Fox News, retweeting a dozen messages attacking the network and sharing one himself lamenting that Fox “forgot the Golden Goose” that made them successful. — “.@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed.
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Yes, dead people voted in this election and Democrats helped make it happen — Many Trump voters believe this election was unfair. They're right. — Tucker: How Democrats guaranteed dead people voted in election — It's been more than a week since the final votes were cast …
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Washington Post:
Barr isn't just humoring Trump. He's weaponizing law enforcement. — A new Justice Department memo could lead to bogus investigations — Attorney General William P. Barr issued a new policy Monday addressing opening investigations of the election. Despite its conspicuous timing …
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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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Stop wasting time on Trump's lawsuits. More nefarious behavior is afoot. — The post-election news environment — like all political horse-race coverage — prioritizes tension and conflict over boring reality. This is normally a ratings gambit, but in the present election environment …
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Wisconsin Examiner, The Guardian and Mother Jones
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.
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 …