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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.
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.
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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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Issues On-Air Apology After Touting Now-Debunked Trump Claim of Dead Georgia Voter  —  During his program this week, Tucker Carlson opened his show talking up reported cases of dead people voting in the election, touting claims from the Donald Trump campaign.
Discussion: Forbes
Michael P. Rellahan / Daily Local News:
Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County  —  EAST GOSHEN — A Willistown man's clumsy attempt at trying to cast a false ballot in the 2020 presidential election has led to one of the only verified instances in Chester County of alleged voter fraud.
CNN:
Jared and Ivanka are poised to return to a Manhattan social scene that no longer welcomes them  —  New York (CNN)If the celebrations that spilled into the streets of New York City in the wake of Joe Biden's victory made one thing clear, it's that the Trumps aren't welcome here.
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Kate Bennett / CNN:   Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school after administrators raised concerns about adherence to Covid precautions
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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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.
Kevin D. Williamson / New York Post:
Why Trump supporters are here for good  —  If people living in Trump country seem like they live in a different world from that inhabited by Silicon Valley executives and the editors of The New York Times, there is a reason for that: They do.  —  Before the election, I talked to Democratic partisans …
Discussion: Instapundit
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: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance.  They're Not Interested.  —  Joe Biden promised not only to win, but to “restore the soul of the nation.”  But the deep divisions that animated President Trump's tenure show no signs of receding.  —  MASON, Texas — The change at the Sunday prayer service …
Discussion: The Daily Poster and Blue Virginia
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 …
Discussion: The New Arab
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Washington Post:
Defense secretary sent classified memo to White House about Afghanistan before Trump fired him
Discussion: Business Insider
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 …
Thomas Kent / Jamestown:
US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up?  —  In the first week of August, cellphones across Russia lit up with surprising text messages.  They came from different numbers, but each said the same thing in Russian: “The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information about interference in the US elections.
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David J. Kramer / Foreign Policy:   Biden's Putin Challenge
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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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
John Kelly criticizes Trump over delay of Biden transition
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.
Associated Press:
Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken.  One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.”
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?  —  The final projections for the 2020 election brought with them a new electoral map, one that highlights the changing shape of America and the divisions that now define the Democratic and Republican parties in the Trump era.
Discussion: USA Today and Alternet.org
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Pence, Met With Chants Of ‘Four More Years,’ Replies: 'That's The Plan'  —  Vice President Mike Pence on Friday offered yet another signal that the Trump administration has no plans to concede any ground to Joe Biden's claims to the presidency amid President Trump's continued refusal to acknowledge his clear loss in his reelection bid.
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: Raw Story and Facebook Watch
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.  —  The special elections were devised by white Republicans to dilute the power of Black voters.  But those involved in earlier contests say demographic change and Democratic energy could allow the party to finally beat the odds.
Discussion: Tennessee Star
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Washington Post:
Sore loser or victim?  Trump voters struggle with president's role in defeat.  —  Markay Harlan has been on the Trump train from the start and she's not getting off now.  The 70-year-old real estate developer from suburban Pittsburgh revels in President Trump's body blows to the status quo.
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 …
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
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Pfizer, Biden, and the Birth of ‘Socialism With American Characteristics’  —  One of the more disturbing events of our disturbing times was the revelation Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla informed the Biden campaign of the success of his company's COVID-19 vaccine before the current president and his administration.
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.
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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Kalyani Saxena / NPR:
How The Navajo Nation Helped Flip Arizona For Democrats
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John Ismay / New York Times:
35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes
Discussion: The Guardian
Molly McKew / Stand Up Republic:
In the downward media spiral of Trump World, who is wagging who?
CNN:
America, we've missed you. Now please get your act together on climate change
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
'It's Traumatizing': Coronavirus Deaths Are Climbing Once Again
Discussion: Gothamist and Mock Paper Scissors
New York Times:
As Soon as Trump Leaves Office, He Faces Greater Risk of Prosecution
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Peter White / Deadline:
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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