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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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Mediaite and The Guardian
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Georgia's secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude legal ballots — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Georgia's GOP secretary of state goes on Facebook fact-checking spree over Trump's misinformation — WASHINGTON — Georgia's Republican secretary of state posted several fact checks on his official Facebook page on Sunday correcting misinformation about the election promoted by President Donald Trump and his campaign.
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Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Republicans Worry Trump Feud Could Hurt Key Senate Runoffs
Georgia Republicans Worry Trump Feud Could Hurt Key Senate Runoffs
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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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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Madison Cawthorn arrives in Washington — Madison Cawthorn was in a jubilant mood on election night, and for good reason. The 25-year-old Republican upstart had defeated his Democratic opponent, retired Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, in the race to represent a district in western North Carolina.
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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
Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Meets its Primary Efficacy Endpoint in the First Interim Analysis of the Phase 3 COVE Study
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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.
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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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UPI, Forbes, New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Week and Raw Story
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Trump administration takes steps toward refuge lease sale
Trump administration takes steps toward refuge lease sale
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Reuters
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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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Esper memo warned conditions weren't met for withdrawal from Afghanistan
Esper memo warned conditions weren't met for withdrawal from Afghanistan
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Washington Examiner and Washington Post
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
McConnell says Trump's Afghan troop reduction will ‘delight’ U.S. enemies
McConnell says Trump's Afghan troop reduction will ‘delight’ U.S. enemies
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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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Bloomberg, electionlawblog.org, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
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 …
Reuters:
Third U.S. senator says he opposes Trump's Fed pick Shelton — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A third senator has said he would oppose Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial pick for the Federal Reserve, former economic adviser Judy Shelton, according to the Washington Post and CNBC.
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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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Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Rep. Ben McAdams is conceding to Burgess Owens in close 4th District race — Republican Burgess Owens speaks during a campaign launch event at Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News — SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's only Democrat in Congress …
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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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).
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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HotAir
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Unsanitized: Student Debt Cancellation Now an Anti-Austerity Measure — Plus, Moderna has great news on its vaccine. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for November 16, 2020. — Unsanitized-111620 — The government can prevent the resumption of student loan payments. — First Response
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New York Post, Wall Street Journal and COURIER
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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 …
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 …
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.”
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 Ralph …, Washingtonian, The Hill, National Review and Political Wire
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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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 …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia recount uncovers 2,600 new votes in presidential race — A recount in Georgia's presidential race found more than 2,600 ballots in Floyd County that hadn't originally been tallied, likely helping President Donald Trump reduce his 14,000-vote deficit to Joe Biden.
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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Raw Story
Nikki Usher:
The reasonability of misinformation — Republican media is peddling lies with reason and professionalism — and GOP partisans are never coming back to mainstream news — For those who do not regularly watch Fox or stream OAN YouTube videos or Infowars, and for those who do not regularly peruse Brietbart …
New Haven Independent:
Legal Trailblazer Drew Days Dies — Drew Saunders Days III, a leading civil-rights attorney and former U.S. solicitor general who also broke barriers at home in New Haven, died Sunday at the age of 79. — The cause of death was complications from dementia, according to Janet Conroy …
Congressman Andy Biggs:
Congressman Biggs Requests 100% Audit of Maricopa County, Arizona Ballots — GILBERT, ARIZONA - Last week, Congressman Andy Biggs, along with Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ-04) and Congressman David Schweikert (AZ-06), sent a letter to the members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors …
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Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
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 …