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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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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.
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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Washington Post:
Defense secretary sent classified memo to White House about Afghanistan before Trump fired him
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Reuters and Alternet.org
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
John Kelly criticizes Trump over delay of Biden transition
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:
Trump's attempts to challenge the election results suffer further setbacks
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Root and Raw Story
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
DHS boss Chad Wolf defies Trump order to fire cyber chief Chris Krebs
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: @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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: emptywheel
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 …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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 …
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.
Discussion: Facebook Watch
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 …
Discussion: Argus Leader and Breitbart
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Japan Times
 
 
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Victor Joecks / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Clark County election officials accepted my signature — on 8 ballot envelopes
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Tantrum and Theater: Trump's Desperation After Election Loss Isn't Yet a Coup
New York Times:
Long Coronavirus Testing Lines Hit NYC Again
Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak tests positive for COVID-19
Los Angeles Times:
How Uber and Lyft persuaded California to vote their way
Discussion: Payday Report
 Earlier Items: 
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Adam Schiff / USA Today:
Donald Trump's shameful endgame puts national security at risk: Rep. Adam Schiff
Wendy Hermanson / OK! Magazine:
Kanye West Is ‘Threatening To Leave America’ Following Donald Trump's Loss
Discussion: Political Flare
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Alexander Vindman Joins the Lawfare Team
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alexei Koseff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Newsom attended French Laundry party with more households than California advises during pandemic
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake