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Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work — Last week, the president put the former New York mayor in charge of the court challenges to his loss in the election. Since then they have suffered nothing but setbacks. — Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has helped oversee …
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Rudy Giuliani joins Trump campaign's sputtering legal effort in Pennsylvania
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Giuliani Has Sought $20,000 a Day From Trump Campaign for Post-Election Work
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Trump keeps losing in court. He keeps losing his lawyers, too.
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Georgia secretary of state had witnesses on call when Lindsey Graham plotted to ‘throw out’ ballots — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that at least two members of his staff witnessed Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) apparent effort to suppress the counting of legal votes in the state.
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Georgia's GOP Secretary of State at Odds With GOP Senator Graham Over Counting Ballots — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested he throw out certain legal ballots during the recount of the presidential race, an allegation that Mr. Graham denied.


We need an investigation into Lindsey Graham's intervention in Georgia — The Post reports on an interview with Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who said he spoke on Friday to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.):
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Trump Attacks on Voting by Mail Cost Him in Georgia, GOP Official Says — Raffensperger says Republican absentee voters skipped election — Hand recount should give voters confidence, Raffensperger says — The Republican secretary of state in Georgia said he believes that President Donald …
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As U.S. Senate battle intensifies in Georgia, allegations fly
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Georgia manual recount won't replace official election results
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Forbes, WCMH-TV, The Post Millennial and TheBlaze

A Disturbing Number of Republicans Support Trump's Coup Attempt
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Lindsey Graham says he spoke to Arizona and Nevada officials about election results
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Infighting and an attempted ‘coup’: Trump team erupts into chaos as Giuliani takes over legal efforts — Giuliani filed to appear in court on behalf of the campaign Tuesday. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim of problems with ballot observers — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Trump campaign's claim that Philadelphia violated state election law in the way it handled observers at a city ballot counting center.
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Pa. Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim that Republicans lacked access to Philly vote count
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House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury
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President-elect Biden wary of Trump-focused investigations, sources say — WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has privately told advisers that he doesn't want his presidency to be consumed by investigations of his predecessor, according to five people familiar with the discussions …
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What Obama gets right — and very wrong — about the media — Everybody's a media critic these days — and Barack Obama is an astute one. But for those who remember certain aspects of his presidency, he's got a bit of a credibility problem. — He's certainly right when he frets that America …
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McConnell says there will be ‘orderly transfer’ of power … Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said there will be an “orderly transfer” between administrations on Jan. 20, though he did not mention President-elect Joe Biden or President Donald Trump, who is refusing to concede, by name.
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Joe Biden won, Michigan elector coup ‘not going to happen,’ GOP leader says — LANSING — Democrat Joe Biden is the president-elect, and while Michigan's Republican-led Legislature is investigating the election, it will not award the state's 16 electors to GOP President Donald Trump …
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How long can Trump keep disputing the election results?
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Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint — Blood samples from recovered patients suggest a powerful, long-lasting immune response, researchers reported. — How long might immunity to the coronavirus last? Years, maybe even decades, according to a new study …
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Biden Names Senior White House Staff as Transition Standoff Continues — Some Pentagon officials said they would be willing to meet off site with members of Biden team should standoff extend into December — WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday named several White House staff members amid …
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Biden announces slate of White House senior staffers
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Joe Biden Is Moving On With The Presidential Transition With A Diverse White House Staff
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Trump blocks Biden's incoming staff in unprecedented ways
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Foreign Policy


No to Shelton — There are two reasons senators should vote down Judy Shelton's nomination to the Federal Reserve. The first is her long record, and the second is her recent sprint away from it. — For many years, Shelton advocated tirelessly for a gold-backed dollar, zero percent inflation, and higher interest rates.
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Senate blocks Judy Shelton nomination to the Fed
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Judy Shelton's Fed Candidacy Goes Down to Wire With Close Vote Expected
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A Popular Political Site Made a Sharp Right Turn. What Steered It? — Real Clear Politics has been catering to campaign obsessives since 2000. It pitches itself as a “trusted, go-to source” for unbiased polling. The Trump era changed its tone, and funding sources.
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Detailed Turnout Data Shows How Georgia Turned Blue — Democrats have long dreamed of turning Georgia blue, with young voters and nonwhite voters leading a progressive charge. Now, a blue Georgia is a reality, but with a winning coalition that might have stunned the party not that long ago.
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Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research — The country music icon's $1m donation supported the latest breakthrough by Moderna and several research papers — It's truly the greatest gift of all: a $1m donation by Dolly Parton to coronavirus vaccine research supported …
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Ivanka Trump Was My Best Friend. Now She's MAGA Royalty — We met at an all-girls' school on the Upper East Side and were inseparable for more than a decade. Gradually, though, our differences divided us—"Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?" she once asked …
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Fact check: The U.S. military has not seized election servers in Germany — Social media users have been sharing posts which allege that the U.S. military raided the offices of electronic voting company Scytl in Germany to seize their servers for evidence of manipulation in the 2020 U.S. elections.
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Financially troubled startup helped power Trump campaign — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cellphone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to their social networks.
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Why ‘Socialism’ Killed Democrats in Florida — “It was a McCarthyism type of pounding,” said Congresswoman Donna Shalala, looking back on the election she narrowly lost this month. Shalala had spent eight years serving in the Cabinet of Bill Clinton, the paragon of Democratic moderates …


Obama's Memoir Is an Exercise in Ironic Realism — Autobiographies of famous people are almost always disappointing. The demands of public life degrade literary prose: the euphemisms, evasions, forced optimism, and name-checking; the pressure to please different constituencies …
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Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits ‘this action was wrong’ — CEO said Twitter ‘corrected’ censorship of an article about Hunter Biden — Dorsey: It was ‘wrong’ to censor NY Post Hunter Biden article — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
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Why Trumpism is here to stay — Ask a female suburban Joe Biden voter why she didn't pull the lever for Donald Trump, and you'll likely get an answer about how the president isn't a good role model for her children or about how “words matter” and our leadership's rhetoric is detrimental to our national discourse.


Alabama Sorority Gets Official Blessing for 600-Person Farm Party Just in Time for Holidays — “Alcohol will be served, but we're expecting them to wear their masks. Are you serious? Do you know college students? Do you see how they behave at football games?”


At least four New York sheriffs say they won't enforce Cuomo's limits on Thanksgiving gatherings — Four New York sheriffs say they will not enforce Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) restrictions on Thanksgiving gatherings, with one saying he “couldn't in good faith attempt to defend it.”
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‘Uncharted territory’: 5 Secret Service experts say there's no playbook for dragging a defiant president from the White House if he doesn't concede by Inauguration Day … - The US Secret Service has never had to drag a president out of the White House. — But President Donald Trump's refusal …
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Pfizer may be within days of filing emergency authorization request for Covid-19 vaccine — Pfizer may be within days of filing for an emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine, having collected the safety data necessary to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration, CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday.
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