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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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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 …
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
CREW statement on Lindsey Graham suggesting election interference — Washington- Following reports that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham apparently suggested that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger toss out all mail-in ballots from certain counties …
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Georgia Secretary Of State Says Graham Pressed Him To Toss Legal Ballots
Report: Georgia Secretary Of State Says Graham Pressed Him To Toss Legal Ballots
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Raw Story, Mediaite and Law & Crime
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Californians prepare to descend on Georgia to fight for Democrats in Senate races
Californians prepare to descend on Georgia to fight for Democrats in Senate races
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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Ben Nadler / Associated Press:
Perdue declines runoff debates against Ossoff in Georgia
Perdue declines runoff debates against Ossoff in Georgia
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN
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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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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Donna Lovell / Stanford News:
Statement regarding Scott Atlas — The university has been asked to comment on recent statements made by Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who is on leave of absence from that position. — Stanford's position on managing the pandemic in our community is clear.
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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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Bloomberg:
Biden to Bring Three Top Campaign Officials to White House Jobs — Richmond will be one of highest-ranking Black aides to Biden — President-elect Joe Biden is beginning to fill out his roster of top White House aides, with Cedric Richmond, Jen O'Malley Dillon and Steve Ricchetti planning …
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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Another shake-up on Trump campaign legal team — The game of musical chairs among lawyers pursuing President Donald Trump's court challenges to the election results continued on Monday evening, as the campaign tried to replace the entire team handling the campaign's federal lawsuit seeking …
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The Week
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 arrives in Washington
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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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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Raw Story
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Trump campaign agrees to drop its defamation lawsuit against a tiny Wisconsin TV station
Trump campaign agrees to drop its defamation lawsuit against a tiny Wisconsin TV station
Caroline Kenny / CNN:
Wisconsin recount would cost Trump campaign $7.9 million
Wisconsin recount would cost Trump campaign $7.9 million
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The Gateway Pundit, Al Jazeera, One America News Network and UpNorthNews
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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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
After Big Thanksgiving Dinners, Plan Small Christmas Funerals, Health Experts Warn — Mississippians should plan “to have very small Thanksgiving gatherings” with only nuclear family members this year to stay safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs …
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.
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Three attorneys withdraw from representing Trump campaign in Pennsylvania suit — Three attorneys representing President Trump's campaign withdrew from a lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania on Monday. — Attorneys Linda Kerns, John Scott and Douglas Bryan Hughes filed …
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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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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, New York Post and KTLA
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
4 more years: Trump freezes 2024 presidential field — The president's flirtation with another run for president is already making problems for the Republicans preparing for 2024. — Kevin Cramer called Donald Trump last week to convey his support for the president's efforts to contest …
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Political Wire
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
Sen. Rubio Joins Small Group Of Republican Senators Calling Biden ‘President-Elect’ — Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday evening joined a small group of GOP senators referring to Joe Biden as president-elect after the presidential race was called for him more than a week ago.
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Axios, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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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James Hamblin / The Atlantic:
Cancel Thanksgiving — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — The United States is now in what disaster-preparedness experts once modeled as a worst-case scenario. We are flooded with a highly …
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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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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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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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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and HotAir
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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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Election Security Experts Contradict Trump's Voting Claims — In a public letter, 59 top specialists called the president's fraud assertions “unsubstantiated” and “technically incoherent.” — Fifty-nine of the country's top computer scientists and election security experts rebuked President …
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Washington Post and CyberScoop
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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USA Today:
LSU mishandled sexual misconduct complaints against students, including top athletes — For more than a year, people at the highest levels of the Louisiana State University athletic department fielded complaints about their prized running back, Derrius Guice.
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The Hill, Breitbart, Louisiana Illuminator and New York Post
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Bezos makes first donations from $10 billion Earth Fund for fighting climate change — Amazon chief executive and owner of The Washington Post says climate change is most urgent issue facing the planet — Jeff Bezos said Monday he is giving $791 million to 16 groups fighting climate change …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's New Vote Fraud Theory Is So Much Crazier Than You Realize — President Trump has been promoting wild conspiracy theories about election fraud since 2016. Like so many of his outrages, this has numbed the public and caused the absurdity to recede into the background of events.