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New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: As More Republicans Break With Trump, He Refuses to Budge — Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s team will deploy “people, money, resources” to Georgia, reflecting the high stakes of two Senate races. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has kept a low public profile since her acceptance speech last weekend.
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
Health officials sound alarm over impact of Trump's transition blockade
Health officials sound alarm over impact of Trump's transition blockade
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Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Largely Out of Sight in Washington, Kamala Harris Preps for White House
Largely Out of Sight in Washington, Kamala Harris Preps for White House
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Washington Post, The American Independent and CBS News
Arlette Saenz / CNN:
People of color make up nearly half of Biden transition team
People of color make up nearly half of Biden transition team
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Business Insider
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump edges closer to conceding the election, then backs off — President Donald Trump has yet to concede the presidential election, but on Sunday he briefly came close to acknowledging that he lost in a tweet. — “He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump tweeted.
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Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
‘He Won,’ Trump Tweets About the Election
‘He Won,’ Trump Tweets About the Election
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Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
KING-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Inslee announces closures of indoor dining, in-store retail occupancy restrictions — The governor has announced several statewide restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus. These restrictions go into effect on Monday and go until Dec. 14.
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NBC New York
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Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration over vaccine distribution — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday fired the latest salvo in his and President Trump's ongoing COVID-19 vaccine war — threatening to sue the Republican administration if it moves ahead with its COVID-19 vaccine-distribution plan.
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Teri Weaver / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if vaccine plan burdens Black, Brown communities
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if vaccine plan burdens Black, Brown communities
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The Hill and The Guardian
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution
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Washington Examiner and Vanity Fair
New York Times:
With Trench Warfare Deepening, Parties Face Unsettled Electoral Map — Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joe Biden, but a split decision for the two parties. Now Democrats and Republicans face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral landscape in a generation.
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Lack of influence means it's time to dismiss the Lincoln Project — The two entities that had the worst election night were a.) the pollsters and b.) the Lincoln Project. — Most pollsters forecast a Democratic landslide, including Joe Biden easily taking the White House …
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Fox News, NBC News, Alternet.org and Liberty Nation
ABC News:
'It's critical' for Republican leaders to explain to voters Trump lost the election: John Bolton — Jeh Johnson also discussed national security implications of delayed transition. — Presidential transition turmoil — President Donald Trump is refusing to concede as President-elect Joe Biden proceeds with his transition plans.
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Washington Post:
The federal government's chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for alleged voter fraud — The federal government's chief information security officer is participating in an effort backed by supporters of President Trump to hunt for evidence of voter fraud …
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Raw Story and The Philadelphia Inquirer
CNN:
Georgia Sen. David Perdue declines to debate opponent ahead of January 5 runoff — Fight for Georgia's Senate seats intensifies as races head to runoffs — (CNN)Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue has declined an invitation to debate Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead …
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The Daily Caller
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James Arkin / Politico:
Health care vs. ‘radical leftists’: Parties re-running 2020 playbooks in Georgia runoffs
Health care vs. ‘radical leftists’: Parties re-running 2020 playbooks in Georgia runoffs
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Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Townhall, HotAir, The Guardian, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans last-minute China crackdown — President Trump will enact a series of hardline policies during his final 10 weeks to cement his legacy on China, senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios. — Why it matters: He'll try …
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Greensburg Tribune-Review, Raw Story and The Diplomat
CNBC:
Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S. — Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States. — The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed at a regional summit in Hanoi.
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New York Times
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Elaine Kurtenbach / Associated Press:
ASEAN, China, other partners sign world's biggest trade pact
ASEAN, China, other partners sign world's biggest trade pact
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Bloomberg and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Explored Buyout of Newsmax TV as Fox News Alternative — Hicks Equity Partners, a firm with ties to a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, is pitching investors on a new conservative news channel — For nearly two years, allies of President Trump have been exploring ways …
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Washington Post:
Biden won places that are thriving. Trump won ones that are hurting. — In a trend that's been unfolding since 2000, Democrats continue to gain votes in prosperous, highly educated urban areas. Republicans are gaining in small cities and rural communities. — Are you better off than you were four years ago?
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The National Interest, Cyprus Mail, CNBC, Variety and The Week
Theo Keith / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minnesota Senate GOP held large, in-person dinner party just before COVID outbreak — (FOX 9) - Days before a coronavirus outbreak in the Minnesota Senate Republican caucus, the GOP held a large, in-person dinner party to celebrate their election results. — A GOP spokeswoman confirmed …
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge — In 2018, as American officials in Kabul were sitting down to negotiate with the Taliban, a bleak joke circulated in the U.S. Embassy that at any moment the talks could be derailed by “the Tweet of Damocles”—a unilateral decision by President …
Glenn Greenwald:
The Ongoing Death of Free Speech: Prominent ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book — Free speech has always been more than a Constitutional guarantee: it's also a crucial societal value. And it's more imperiled than ever. — 5 hr ago — In May of 2019, a source in Brazil provided …
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Instapundit
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented. Here are three scenarios. — We are living through something unprecedented — all the more alarming because we can't be sure what that something is. — Three scenarios fit the known facts: — Scenario 1: President …
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Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic and Fox News
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research — A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show. — The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 …