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New York Times:
Al Qaeda's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran — Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.
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Financial Times:
Vaccine tsar calls on White House to allow contact with Biden — Head of Operation Warp Speed warns thousands of lives at stake if project is interrupted — The head of Donald Trump's flagship vaccine project has called on the White House to allow Operation Warp Speed to make contact …
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NBC News:
Trump attacks N.Y. gov, says he'll withhold Covid vaccine from state until Cuomo approves — President Donald Trump threatened to withhold a coronavirus vaccine from New York state on Friday and escalated his feud with Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his first public comments since Joe Biden was projected the winner in the presidential race.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Trump to make first public remarks in a week
Trump to make first public remarks in a week
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Business Insider, Politico, Washington Post, CNN, RedState, The Hill and Forbes
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans — President Donald Trump's senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.
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CNN:
Pentagon senior adviser accused Pompeo and senior politicians of taking money and getting rich from ‘the Israeli lobby’ — (CNN)A new senior adviser at the Pentagon repeatedly said the United States' support for Israel was the result of “Israeli lobby” money and accused prominent officials …
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Politico:
Biden is bringing back the daily briefing. Here's who is likely to be at the podium. — President-elect Joe Biden's return to “normalcy” will include restoring the daily press briefing — and at least two women are under consideration to lead the new post-Trump show, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
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Al Jazeera, Reuters and Alternet.org
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
John Kelly criticizes Trump over delay of Biden transition
John Kelly criticizes Trump over delay of Biden transition
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Reuters:
Biden to be briefed by national security experts next week: transition official
Biden to be briefed by national security experts next week: transition official
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CNN, The Week, Washington Examiner, Political Wire and NBC News
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
Here's How Trump's Stalling Risks Our National Security
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump team persists in Pa. court fights despite COVID quarantine, quitting lawyers, and courtroom losses — President Donald Trump's effort to contest the Nov. 3 election in court suffered a series of setbacks Friday, leaving his house-of-cards legal strategy to reverse the results in Pennsylvania teetering on the edge of collapse.
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Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors assigned to monitor election malfeasance tell Barr they see no evidence of substantial irregularities — Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election urged Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday to rescind …
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New York Times:
Christopher Krebs Hasn't Been Fired, Yet — Mr. Krebs's government agency contradicted President Trump's false claims that the election was rigged. At this point, Mr. Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, still has a job. — WASHINGTON — Christopher Krebs is a 43-year-old former Microsoft executive …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
DHS boss Chad Wolf defies Trump order to fire cyber chief Chris Krebs
DHS boss Chad Wolf defies Trump order to fire cyber chief Chris Krebs
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Washington Post:
In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal — Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials …
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New York Times, Political Flare and The Guardian
Brendan Keefe / WXIA-TV:
Two accused ‘dead’ Georgia voters very much alive despite claims - and they voted legally — 11Alive confirmed that two of the four Georgia voters the president accused of fraudulently voting “dead” are alive. — Accusations of voter fraud continue to be in the headlines …
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Mediaite and Washington Examiner
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville flubs basics of the Constitution, World War II and the 2000 election. — In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
QAnon's Dominion voter fraud conspiracy theory reaches the president — For days after the election, adherents to the QAnon conspiracy movement had been trying to get President Donald Trump's attention with constant false claims about voter fraud connected to a company that makes voting machines.
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves — MINNEAPOLIS — The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it. — Day and night the bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘We are the firewall’: Loeffler and Perdue form GOP unity ticket in Georgia Senate races — CUMMING, Ga. — Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are appearing in videos together, releasing statements together and, on Friday, they held a joint rally in this city outside Atlanta.
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@politifact, Georgia Recorder and MSNBC
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.
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Tennessee Star
CNN:
Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone — Massive election disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone — (CNN)It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’ — The president's campaign built a tip line. Instead, it traumatized their own staff, just as staffers felt Team Trump had hung them out to dry. — On Friday, the remnants of Donald Trump's failed re-election campaign informed staff …
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New York Times:
'It's Traumatizing': Coronavirus Deaths Are Climbing Once Again — Deaths are far below the rate of the spring, when as many as 2,200 people were dying every day, but experts warn they are rising fast. — By the time Doug Raysby's wife was allowed to enter his hospital room …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
CNN anchor uses anniversary of Kristallnacht to compare Trump to Hitler — They are broken over there at CNN. — Host Christiane Amanpour this week used the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the informal launch of the Holocaust, to compare the Trump administration to the Third Reich.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox — The journalist Matthew Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox, announced today that he is leaving that publication for the paid-newsletter platform Substack, so that he can enjoy more editorial independence. — The move may prove a good fit for Yglesias …
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HotAir, Fox News, Slow Boring and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school after administrators raised concerns about adherence to Covid precautions — (CNN)Administrators at the posh Washington private school that the three young children of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attended …
Gabrielle Reyes / Breitbart:
Ann Coulter: What America Wants Is ‘Trumpism without Trump’ — “Trumpism without Trump” is what America needs in four years, said conservative author Ann Coulter during a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday night hosted by the university's Young Conservatives of Texas.
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Chris Pandolfo / TheBlaze:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won't comply if Biden pursues national mask mandate — Biden 'doesn't have the authority to institute a mask mandate,' Noem's office said — As former Vice President Joe Biden proposes a nationwide lockdown and a national mask mandate in response …
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Nonzero.org:
Grading Biden's Foreign Policy Team: Tony Blinken — Background: Blinken is a liberal interventionist with an emphatic idealism about the virtues of “American leadership.” His relationship to Biden goes back decades, and he is considered a favorite for national security adviser or secretary of state.
CNN:
America, we've missed you. Now please get your act together on climate change — Opinion by Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen — Contrast Biden and Trump on climate policy in 90 secs — Ban Ki-moon served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and Patrick Verkooijen …
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New York Times, Media Matters for America and The Americano
New York Times:
As Soon as Trump Leaves Office, He Faces Greater Risk of Prosecution — The president is more vulnerable than ever to an investigation into his business practices and taxes. — President Trump lost more than an election last week. When he leaves the White House in January …
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