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ABC News:
GSA official blocking Biden's transition appears to privately plan post-Trump career — Emily Murphy has the power to decide when a transfer of power begins. — Obama sounds alarm in new interview as Trump digs in — The president still has not conceded defeat despite Joe Biden winning …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sen. Lankford Says He's ‘Not in a Hurry’ to Allow Intelligence Briefings for Biden — After saying he would step in if President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris still weren't receiving detailed intelligence briefings Friday, Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.) …
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Robert Langreth / Bloomberg:
Moderna Vaccine Found Highly Effective at Preventing Covid — Vaccine has 94.5% efficacy in an analysis of late-stage trial — Interim results suggest vaccine may also block severe cases — Moderna Inc. said its Covid-19 vaccine was 94.5% effective in a preliminary analysis …
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Moderna, Inc.:
Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Meets its Primary Efficacy Endpoint in the First Interim Analysis of the Phase 3 COVE Study — First interim analysis included 95 participants with confirmed cases of COVID-19 — Phase 3 study met statistical criteria with a vaccine efficacy of 94.5% (p <0.0001)
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Moderna's coronavirus vaccine found to be nearly 95 percent effective in a preliminary analysis — The United States could have two coronavirus vaccines available on a limited basis by year's end — Biotechnology firm Moderna announced Monday that a preliminary analysis shows …
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Unloads on Trump's Election Lies — The GOP in-fighting over the election results and recount have gotten really nasty. — Georgia's Republican secretary of state has had enough of President Trump's lies about voting integrity.
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Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Republicans Worry Trump Feud Could Hurt Key Senate Runoffs — Trump's Twitter attacks on state GOP leaders over recount of presidential race risks eroding party unity — ATLANTA—The Georgia Republican Party is beset with infighting, as leading Republicans in the state come under public attack …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Georgia's GOP secretary of state goes on Facebook fact-checking spree over Trump's misinformation
Georgia's GOP secretary of state goes on Facebook fact-checking spree over Trump's misinformation
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Gabe Friedman / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Madison Cawthorn has tried to convert Jews to Christianity — (JTA) — Madison Cawthorn, the newly elected congressman from North Carolina who was criticized for selfies he took at Hitler's vacation retreat in Germany, is a zealous Christian. And the 25-year-old firebrand conservative …
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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 …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump officials rush to auction off rights to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before Biden can block it — Officials aim to sell drilling rights to the pristine wilderness's coastal plain before Joe Biden takes office — The Trump administration has called for oil and gas firms …
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New York Times:
“More people may die, if we don't coordinate,” he said. — Mr. Biden also said that he wanted to see a mask mandate in the United States, reiterating his request for state and local officials to require citizens to wear face coverings as cases surge during the cold winter months.
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Trump administration takes steps toward refuge lease sale
Trump administration takes steps toward refuge lease sale
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Lawsuits that tried to disrupt Biden's wins in four states are withdrawn — (CNN)Voters in four states who had brought longshot lawsuits to disrupt President-elect Joe Biden's win and went nowhere in court have dropped their cases Monday morning. — The cases were short-lived in Georgia …
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Jonathan V. Last / New Republic:
The Republican Party Is Dead. It's the Trump Cult Now. — Donald Trump is the past, present, and future of the Republican Party. And that is because the GOP is no longer a traditional political party designed to win elections so that it can enact a policy agenda. It is a personality cult built around grievance.
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Seth Masket / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: What broke the Republican Party?
Op-Ed: What broke the Republican Party?
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ABC News:
Judges appear increasingly frustrated with Trump's legal claims about 2020 election
Judges appear increasingly frustrated with Trump's legal claims about 2020 election
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
US military anticipates Trump will issue order to plan for further troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq — (CNN)US military commanders are anticipating that a formal order will be given by President Donald Trump as soon as this week to begin a further withdrawal of US troops …
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Trump aide promises ‘very professional transition’ to Biden — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser promised a “very professional transition” to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden in an interview broadcast Monday …
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade — WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s …
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Tommy Vietor / Crooked Media:
Why Joe Biden Must Sideline Fox — In January of 2007, I had an out-of-body experience. No, it wasn't during an ayahuasca retreat with a kindly shaman. Instead, I was floating above my cubicle in the Hart Senate Office building where I worked as a spokesman for then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).
Ned Oliver / Virginia Mercury:
Northam: ‘We are going to move forward with legalizing marijuana in Virginia’ — Gov. Ralph Northam said Monday he plans to introduce legislation legalizing marijuana when the General Assembly convenes in January, setting the state on a path to become the first in the South to allow recreational use of the drug.
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Virginia Governor / Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:
Governor Northam Announces Support for Legalizing Adult-Use Marijuana in Virginia
Governor Northam Announces Support for Legalizing Adult-Use Marijuana in Virginia
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Michael Powell / New York Times:
Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas. — Democrats may need to rethink their strategy as the class complexities and competing desires of Latino and Asian-American demographic groups become clear. — The proposition seemed tailor-made for one of the nation's most diverse and liberal states.
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James Arkin / Politico:
Ossoff, Warnock start Georgia runoffs behind the eight ball — CUMMING, Ga. — Joe Biden turned Georgia blue. Compared to what they're up against now, that was the easy part for Democrats. — To repeat Biden's feat in a pair of Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, with control of the Senate on the line …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Karl Rove to helm massive GOP fundraising drive for Georgia runoffs
Karl Rove to helm massive GOP fundraising drive for Georgia runoffs
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Pro-Trump Wisconsin Lawyers Spike Election Lawsuit on Morning of Court Hearing — When filing their federal lawsuit in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Republican lawyers hoping to block certification of the vote in a state that outgoing President Donald Trump lost wrote in their complaint that “evidence will be shortly forthcoming.”
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump fights to keep a job he shows no interest in performing — Imagine if, in November 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had decided to check out of World War II because it wasn't going as well as he had hoped. Imagine if he had secluded himself in the Oval Office, listening to the radio all day …
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Republicans Have Good Reason Not To Trust The Election Results — And it's not because they're stupid, traitorous Nazis. — To read reports in the mainstream press about the throngs of President Trump's supporters who rallied in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, you'd think the crowd …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump lawyer complains of harassing call from attorney at opposing firm — A lawyer spearheading the efforts by President Donald Trump's campaign to dispute the election results in Pennsylvania complained to a federal court Sunday that she received an abusive telephone message from an attorney …
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NPR:
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Former President Barack Obama — Michel Martin: So thank you for having us. Thank you for receiving us here at your office, which is amazing. — Former President Barack Obama: It's wonderful to have you. — Have you developed any interesting COVID habits?
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Was It Worth It, Jared and Ivanka? — The glossiest grifters become Vuitton vagabonds. — Just five short years ago Jared and Ivanka were dinner-party royalty here in Manhattan. It's that kind of place. They had money, they had youth, they had celebrity. They were thin.
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
A former right-wing media creator on how a ‘different reality’ became so prominent. — Matthew Sheffield started his first conservative website in 2000, dedicating it to criticizing the former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who Mr. Sheffield believed was a partisan liberal and not critical enough …
Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Substackerati — Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? — The first week of March, Patrice Peck, a freelance journalist living in New York, started sanitizing everything. She went to Nitehawk, a dine-in movie theater …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Biden's IRS could finally give Trump's tax returns to Democrats — President Donald Trump's defeat will make it a lot easier for Democrats to finally get his tax returns, and some prominent lawmakers plan to keep the heat on the incoming Biden administration and House leaders to deliver.
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