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5:45 AM ET, November 15, 2020

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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.
CNN:
Federal judge says new DACA rules are invalid
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:   DHS Admits It Likely Made False Statement to Federal Court When Justifying Chad Wolf's Appointment
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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Associated Press:
Thousands rally behind Trump, insisting he won race he lost  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fervent supporters of President Donald Trump rallied in Washington on Saturday behind his spurious claim of a stolen election and swarmed his motorcade in adulation when he detoured for a drive-by on his way out of town.
Discussion: CBS News
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 …
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
US, Israel worked together to track and kill al-Qaida No. 2  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran.
Discussion: New York Post, CNN and New York Times
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Israel, at behest of U.S., killed al-Qaeda's deputy in a drive-by attack in Iran
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider
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:
Discussion: Townhall and Instapundit
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Joel Shannon / USA Today:
The Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for COVID-19  —  South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn't require masks.  Now its hospitals are filling …
Siraj Hashmi / Washington Examiner:
The Growing Influence of the Supreme Court  —  Listen and subscribe to the podcast on your mobile device:  —  Judge Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  With only weeks until the 2020 presidential election …
Discussion: NBC News
Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic:
It's Time to Hunker Down  —  A devastating surge is here.  Unless Americans act aggressively, it will get much larger, very quickly. … The end may be near for the pestilence that has haunted the world this year.  Good news is arriving on almost every front: treatments, vaccines, and our understanding of this coronavirus.
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.
Discussion: Forbes
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.
Discussion: KTSM-TV, The Hill and Business Insider
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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.
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
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
Washington Post:
With protests muzzled, Hong Kong takes aim at the press
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Native American Voters Were Crucial To Joe Biden's Victory
Walter M. Shaub Jr / The New York Review of Books:
The Presidential Transition Meets Murphy's Law
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Big Tech and Big Law dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump's Post-Election Litigation Crusade
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Biden's agenda may rest on centrist Republicans — and the return of a bygone Senate era
Discussion: Townhall and unz.com
 Earlier Items: 
Financial Times:
Conspiracy and disinformation: America's new politics
Discussion: Palm Beach Post
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
How a post-election crisis was manufactured in Pennsylvania
Discussion: Informed Comment
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The End Is Here: Last Two States Called in the Presidential Election
Discussion: Mediaite
Associated Press:
Biden likely to break barriers, pick woman to lead Pentagon
Discussion: NBC News
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Savannah Guthrie,'Today' Host Who Took on Trump
Discussion: Deadline
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Trump's Men in Moscow
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Raw Story and CNN
Michael P. Rellahan / Daily Local News:
Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County