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Washington Post:
Trump greets thousands of supporters gathered in D.C. to falsely claim he won election — A week after the election was called for Joe Biden, thousands of President Trump's supporters gathered in the nation's capital Saturday to falsely claim that the race had been stolen from the man they adore …
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Pro-Trump supporters descend on DC for ‘Million MAGA March’ near White House — President Trump tweeted support for the demonstration — Women for America First ‘March for Trump’ rally — Crowds of President Trump supporters are gathering in Washington, D.C., for demonstrations to urge …
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Wall Street Journal:
Parler, Backed by Mercer Family, Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter — The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election — As Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have taken a harder line …
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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.
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Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Trump's far-fetched legal campaign to question the election seems to be falling apart — Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks at a Philadelphia press conference on election lawsuits. Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images — Trump is losing lawsuits in key states — and has lost some key members of his legal team as well.
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Bloomberg, Power Line, Townhall, The National Pulse, Raw Story, New York Post, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Federal judge rules acting DHS head Chad Wolf unlawfully appointed, invalidates DACA suspension — A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class …
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
DHS Admits It Likely Made False Statement to Federal Court When Justifying Chad Wolf's Appointment — Attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday notified a federal judge that a previous claim relied upon to justify the controversial and likely unlawful appointment of Chad Wolf as Acting Secretary was not true.
Star Tribune:
Minnesota GOP sent virus alert only to its side of the aisle — Some Republicans tested positive, but no DFLers were told before session. — By Staff reports — TEXT SIZE — MORE — A day after it was revealed that GOP state Sen. Dave Senjem tested positive for COVID-19 after attending …
Washington Post:
We opposed each other in Bush v. Gore. Now we agree: Biden won. — David Boies is chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Theodore B. Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general, is a partner of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. — Twenty years ago, we represented the opposing sides in Bush v. Gore.
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The End Is Here: Last Two States Called in the Presidential Election — Yes, Donald Trump and his Republican enablers will keep denying defeat and firing off legal challenges that are 99.9 percent certain not to flip any of the states that have been called for Joe Biden by all the relevant experts.
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Kate Ng / The Independent:
Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief — 'It's almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,' says Andrew McCabe — Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has warned that classified intelligence …
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The Daily Caller
Financial Times:
Schwarzman defended Trump at CEO meeting on election results — Exclusive: Blackstone founder dismissed ‘coup’ fears and predicted legal process would take its course — Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman defended Donald Trump's response to this year's US poll results during …
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Trump's Men in Moscow — When Donald Trump unexpectedly won the presidential election four years ago, the pro-Kremlin political establishment in Moscow literally toasted him with champagne and Vladimir Putin's servile parliament, the Duma, cheered him with a round of applause.
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Thomas Kent / Jamestown:
US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up?
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.
Associated Press:
GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors — Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for President Donald Trump.
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Associated Press:
Biden likely to break barriers, pick woman to lead Pentagon — WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet.
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Warnock: Americans Must ‘Repent’ for Backing Trump and ‘Worship of Whiteness’ — ‘If it is true that a man who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, then it is doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral needs to repent’
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Washington Examiner, RedState, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Townhall and Conservative News Today
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 …
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Raw Story, NBC10 Philadelphia, The Independent, Scripting News, Blue Virginia, PennLive and Q City Metro
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
Why the Success of the Pfizer Vaccine Trial Is Personal for Me — When Pfizer announced on Monday that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested that the vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19, the world reacted with surprise, relief and nearly unbridled optimism.
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The White House, Business Insider and RedState
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
How Western media would cover the U.S. election if it happened in another country — If we talked about the election in the United States the same way we talk about elections in a foreign country, here's how Western media would cover it. Many of those quoted in the “story” below are fictional.
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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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.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump's Post-Election Litigation Crusade — How Texas Republicans Kept Their State Red — Judge Smacks Down Detroit Voter Fraud Lawsuit: ‘Rife with Speculation’ — GOP State Legislative Leaders Rule Out Appointing Pro-Trump Electors in Defiance of Vote — Trump Wins Battleground State of North Carolina
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Big Tech and Big Law dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes — WASHINGTON — For six years, Brandon Belford worked as an economic policy adviser to President Barack Obama in the White House and federal agencies. He moved to the Bay Area when Donald Trump became president …
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Daily Kos
Financial Times:
Conspiracy and disinformation: America's new politics — False and misleading claims have proliferated across platforms at unprecedented levels — Ten days before the US election, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted a short video of Joe Biden with the caption: “BIDEN ADMITS TO VOTER FRAUD!”
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Daily Kos
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Savannah Guthrie,'Today' Host Who Took on Trump — Since she held President Trump's feet to the fire at a crucial turning point of the campaign, her future at NBC News appears bright. — “Nobody's sorry to see someone say something nice,” said Savannah Guthrie, the 48-year-old co-host of the “Today” show.
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 …
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 …
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