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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Ga. secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude 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 (S.C.) …
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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.
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Politico:
Republicans start to relent: ‘It looks like it will be President Biden’ — The Republican Party is in an increasingly untenable position — how much longer can it really refuse to recognize Joe Biden as the president-elect? — Nearly two weeks after the election, there are signs that Republicans are starting to accept reality.
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Georgia Secretary Of State Says Graham Pressed Him To Toss Legal Ballots — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been pressuring him to find ways to toss legally cast ballots in recent days, according to the Washington Post.
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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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden pressures Trump to cooperate, citing risk of additional coronavirus deaths if handoff is delayed — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday ratcheted up pressure on the Trump administration to engage in a transition of power, mincing no words on the dire consequences if his incoming team …
New York Times:
Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program — The president was dissuaded from moving ahead with a strike by advisers who warned that it could escalate into a broader conflict in his last weeks in office. — WASHINGTON — President Trump asked senior advisers …
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Washington Post:
Republicans sound alarm on Georgia Senate runoffs as they privately weigh Trump's influence — Republican leaders are increasingly alarmed about the party's ability to stave off Democratic challengers in Georgia's two Senate runoff elections — and they privately described President …
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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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Ben Nadler / Associated Press:
Perdue declines runoff debates against Ossoff in Georgia
Perdue declines runoff debates against Ossoff in Georgia
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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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CNN:
Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon to get a top White House job — (CNN)Jen O'Malley Dillon will join President-elect Joe Biden's incoming administration as a deputy chief of staff, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. — The expected move, first reported by NBC News …
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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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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Republicans livid over Trump's plan to reduce troops in Afghanistan
Republicans livid over Trump's plan to reduce troops in Afghanistan
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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 Post:
A third GOP senator comes out against Trump's Fed nominee, putting confirmation vote on knife's edge — Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee joins two other Republicans in opposing Judy Shelton's nomination — Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Monday said he would not support the nomination …
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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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Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Burgess Owens wins back Utah's 4th Congressional District seat for Republicans — Burgess Owens, Republican candidate for Utah's 4th Congressional District, chats with people at an election night event for Republican candidates in at the Utah Association of Realtors building in Sandy on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
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Washington Post:
Scott Atlas's rabble-rousing will lead to illness and death. He should be fired. — SCOTT ATLAS is a neuroradiologist, not an infectious disease expert, nor an epidemiologist. As President Trump's leading adviser on the coronavirus pandemic, he continues to make statements that will cause more illness and death.
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Brakkton Booker / NPR:
Whitmer: ‘Not Going To Be Bullied’ Over Michigan Coronavirus Restrictions
Whitmer: ‘Not Going To Be Bullied’ Over Michigan Coronavirus Restrictions
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin presidential recount would cost Trump $7.9 million — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump will have to pay $7.9 million if he wants a statewide recount of unofficial results in Wisconsin showing him losing to Democrat Joe Biden by about 20,500 votes.
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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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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Can't Fight the Laws of Presidential Eclipse — Don't worry about the thin squealing you hear wafting in from the White House. It's just the sound of the last thousand cubic meters of gas escaping the rapidly deflating Trump presidency. — This doesn't mean we've heard the last from Donald Trump …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Was It Worth It, Jared and Ivanka?
Was It Worth It, Jared and Ivanka?
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Coosa Valley News:
Nearly 3,000 Additional Votes Discovered in Hand Recount in FLoyd County — With members of both the local Democratic and Republican parties observing hand counting of presidential votes in Floyd County it appears that close to 3,000 ballots were not counted on election night.
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Richard Read / Los Angeles Times:
Portland's anarchists say they support racial justice. Black activists want nothing to do with them — The day after President-elect Joe Biden delivered his victory speech, telling the nation it was time to heal and unite, a clandestine Twitter account — @safePDXprotest — summoned Portland anarchists.
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BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Knows That Adding Labels To Trump's False Claims Does Little To Stop Their Spread — Internal data shows that labels on President Trump's posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on the platform. — Copy
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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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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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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).
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump digs in on baseless election claims even as legal options dwindle — President Trump began his third straight week of angry defiance of the election results, brooding behind the scenes about the state of his campaign's legal challenges and of Georgia's hand recount while refusing …
Politico:
Handicapping the contenders for Biden's economic team — Welcome to POLITICO's 2020 Transition Playbook, your guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history. — ‘I KNOW WE CAN DO THIS’ — President-elect JOE BIDEN promised that his administration could help revive …
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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