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12:45 AM ET, November 16, 2020

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Washington Post:
Trump campaign jettisons major parts of its legal challenge against Pennsylvania's election results  —  President Trump's campaign on Sunday scrapped a major part of its federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania.  —  Trump's attorneys filed a revised version of the lawsuit …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump campaign pares back federal suit over Pennsylvania election results  —  President Donald Trump's campaign has dramatically scaled back its federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania, dropping legal claims stemming from observers who assert they were blocked …
Discussion: Reuters
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The President vs. the American Media  —  After terrorist attacks, France's leader accuses the English-language media of “legitimizing this violence.”  —  The president has some bones to pick with the American media: about our “bias,” our obsession with racism, our views on terrorism …
Discussion: Persuasion and Washington Post
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump, Trying to Cling to Power, Fans Unrest and Conspiracies  —  The president's refusal to concede has entered a more dangerous phase as he blocks his successor's transition, withholding intelligence briefings, pandemic information and access to the government.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Newsmax CEO: ‘We Are Not Actively Selling,’ Have No Desire to Be ‘Trump TV’ … Newsmax may be focused on conservative audiences, but it has very liberal views of where its business can go in the future as an independent news operation.  —  The top executive of the news outlet …
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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 …
New York Post:
House leaders urge Democrats not to join team Biden to maintain majority  —  Confronted with a shrunken majority, House leaders are discouraging fellow Democrats from taking jobs with the incoming Biden administration — out of concern that Republicans could take back the chamber …
Discussion: Instapundit
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Gov. Whitmer closing high schools, colleges, in-person dining, casinos, movie theaters  —  Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced wide-ranging new restrictions limiting gatherings at high schools, colleges and restaurants Sunday night to combat what she described as the “worst moment” yet in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Derick Hutchinson / WDIV-TV:
Here are 14 changes going into effect under Michigan's new COVID-19 restrictions
Discussion: SOM and Townhall
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Meet Rebekah Mercer, the deep-pocketed co-founder of Parler, a controversial conservative social network  —  New York (CNN Business)Rebekah Mercer, a prominent conservative donor, revealed Saturday that she is helping to bankroll Parler, the rapidly growing but controversial conservative social media platform …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A less-racist brand of Trump populism could bring a GOP dynasty unless Dems do something  —  When the first election returns started coming in from Texas' Zapata County — a hot, dusty corner of the Rio Grande Valley with oil rigs and a large Latine population — some online voting-fraud …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The ending of Trump's presidency echoes the beginning — with a lie  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  The Trump administration is ending as it began: with a lie about crowd size.  —  On Saturday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted …
Washington State Governor's Office:
Inslee announces statewide restrictions for four-weeks  —  The restrictions go into effect Monday, November 16 at 11:59 PM  —  Gov. Jay Inslee today announced a four-week statewide set of restrictions in response to the recent rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus in Washington and across the country.
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and Facebook Watch
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KING-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Inslee announces closures of indoor dining, in-store retail occupancy restrictions
Discussion: NBC New York
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy … Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.  “They gave you two choices,” he said.  “'If you open the gates, we'll just kill you quickly and take your women and enslave …
Discussion: NPR
CNN:
Georgia Sen. David Perdue declines to debate opponent ahead of January 5 runoff  —  (CNN)Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue has declined an invitation to debate Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead of the January runoff election for his seat, CNN has learned.
New York Times:
Behind Trump's Yearslong Effort to Turn Losing Into Winning  —  Even before he was elected in 2016, Donald J. Trump was building a conspiracy theory about voter fraud that took on new energy this year, as his political fortunes ebbed during the coronavirus pandemic.
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 …
Discussion: Instapundit
Sundance / The Last Refuge:
The Treehouse is Deplatformed...  Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.”  Unfortunately, the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep.  —  One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification:
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
With pandemic raging, Republicans say election results validate their approach  —  On coronavirus maps, her northeastern Wisconsin county was glowing bright red.  Kristin Lyerly decided this was the moment to turn it politically blue.  —  The 50-year-old doctor had jumped into the race …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution  —  ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promising to “mobilize an army” to ensure that Black and brown New Yorkers have equal access to any coronavirus vaccines, and threatened a lawsuit against the Trump administration if its distribution plan …
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Teri Weaver / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if vaccine plan burdens Black, Brown communities
Discussion: The Hill and The Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Covid Is Resurging, and This Time It's Everywhere  —  Pervasive spread in smaller communities fuels nationwide case record, though mortality rates are lower than in the spring  —  With a third surge of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting the U.S., many public-health authorities are warning …
CNN:
Trump coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas urges Michigan to ‘rise up’ against new Covid-19 measures  —  Washington (CNN)White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas criticized Michigan's new Covid-19 restrictions in a tweet shortly after they were announced Sunday evening …
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 …
Associated Press:
Biden advisers to meet vaccine firms as Trump stalls handoff  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden's scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election.
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times and Politico
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide
Discussion: Slate
Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
‘He Won,’ Trump Tweets About the Election  —  But Trump later maintains election was ‘rigged’ to favor Biden  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said Sunday morning that Democrat Joe Biden “won because the election was rigged,” his first comments suggesting he believed he had lost the presidential election.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
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Nir Hasson / Haaretz:
Israel Promotes Jerusalem Settlement Project, Bid Ends Two Days Before Biden Takes Office
Washington Examiner:
WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launches its first NASA crew mission to International Space Station
Discussion: CBS News and Orlando Sentinel
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Un-Normalizing America's Third Wave
New York Times:
A Watchdog Accused Officers of Serious Misconduct. Few Were Punished.
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge
Arlette Saenz / CNN:
People of color make up nearly half of Biden transition team
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented. Here are three scenarios.
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Raging virus triggers new shutdown orders and economy braces for fresh wave of pain
Discussion: IJR
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Why Biden didn't do better in big cities
Discussion: Breitbart
 

 
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Financial Times:
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Reporters Without Borders:
Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's “ethical hacking”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent and relocating her show from New York to DC

 
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