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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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Axios:
Federal judge invalidates DACA suspension — Chad Wolf has not been serving lawfully as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, and therefore his suspension of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is invalid, a federal judge ruled on Saturday.
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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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 …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Law Firm's Withdrawal Reflects Chilling Reality [Updated] — This is one of the saddest news stories of recent times: Porter Wright firm withdraws from representation of President Trump. … I assume they have withdrawn, or will withdraw, from the state court case as well. The Trump campaign commented:
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Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Trump's far-fetched legal campaign to question the election seems to be falling apart
Trump's far-fetched legal campaign to question the election seems to be falling apart
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans
Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans
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Jude Joffe-Block / Associated Press:
False reports claim election servers were seized in Germany — CLAIM: The U.S. Army raided the Frankfurt office of the Spanish election software company Scytl to seize servers that had evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S. election. — AP'S ASSESSMENT: False.
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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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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:
Trump and his White House minimize pandemic surge as he focuses on denying election loss — President Trump finally received some good news this past week: Amid spiking coronavirus cases nationwide — more than 100,000 new cases a day since Nov. 4, with deaths rising, too …
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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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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Pollster: It's Curious How Biden Underperformed Hillary Clinton In Every City...Except These Four. — Until all the votes are counted and all the allegations of voter fraud are investigated, I think it's too early to declare a winner in the 2020 race. You keep fighting.
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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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Melissa Klein / New York Post:
New stats reveal massive NYC exodus amid coronavirus, crime — More than 300,000 New Yorkers have bailed from the Big Apple in the last eight months, new stats show. — City residents filed 295,103 change of address requests from March 1 through Oct. 31, according to data The Post obtained …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Native American Voters Were Crucial To Joe Biden's Victory — “The overwhelming turnout in tribal communities in the state of Arizona was key,” said Navajo Nation president Jonathan Nez. — President-elect Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election by flipping key battleground states to Democrats …
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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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump had a very bad Friday in court with his election cases. They're headed for more action next week — (CNN)Legal experts have been saying for a week now that President Donald Trump's court cases to throw out ballots and turn around his election loss were bound to fail.
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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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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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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.
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Warnock: Americans Must ‘Repent’ for Backing Trump and ‘Worship of Whiteness’ — Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock argued in late 2016 that Americans needed to “repent” both for supporting Donald Trump and for the country's “worship of whiteness.” — The comments came in an address …
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Never Trump, Forever — “I want the Republican Party to feel spanked,” says Mona Charen, a writer at the Never Trump website The Bulwark. — If you ask her, President Donald Trump didn't deserve any votes, let alone millions. And still, Mona Charen made it all the way to 11:09 on Election Night without swearing.
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New York Times:
Doctors Plead With Americans to Take Virus Surge Seriously — More than 1 in every 400 people tested positive in the past week, and infections and hospitalizations have hit record levels across the country. Rising deaths have pushed even some reluctant governors to issue mask mandates and to limit gatherings.
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