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New York Times:
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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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani joins Trump campaign's sputtering legal effort in Pennsylvania
Rudy Giuliani joins Trump campaign's sputtering legal effort in Pennsylvania
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Has Sought $20,000 a Day From Trump Campaign for Post-Election Work
Giuliani Has Sought $20,000 a Day From Trump Campaign for Post-Election Work
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump keeps losing in court. He keeps losing his lawyers, too.
Trump keeps losing in court. He keeps losing his lawyers, too.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
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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Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
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.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
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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Bloomberg:
Trump Attacks on Voting by Mail Cost Him in Georgia, GOP Official Says
Trump Attacks on Voting by Mail Cost Him in Georgia, GOP Official Says
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
A Disturbing Number of Republicans Support Trump's Coup Attempt
A Disturbing Number of Republicans Support Trump's Coup Attempt
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David Morgan / Reuters:
As U.S. Senate battle intensifies in Georgia, allegations fly
As U.S. Senate battle intensifies in Georgia, allegations fly
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Second Georgia county finds previously uncounted votes
Second Georgia county finds previously uncounted votes
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia manual recount won't replace official election results
Georgia manual recount won't replace official election results
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Lindsey Graham says he spoke to Arizona and Nevada officials about election results
Lindsey Graham says he spoke to Arizona and Nevada officials about election results
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ABC News:
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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Pete Williams / NBC News:
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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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury
House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury
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Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim that Republicans lacked access to Philly vote count
Pa. Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim that Republicans lacked access to Philly vote count
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
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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Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Magazine:
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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Washington Post:
Senate blocks Judy Shelton nomination to the Fed
Senate blocks Judy Shelton nomination to the Fed
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
How long can Trump keep disputing the election results?
How long can Trump keep disputing the election results?
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NBC News:
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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
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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Tyler Van Dyke / Washington Examiner:
Chuck Grassley tests positive for COVID-19 — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced Tuesday evening that he tested positive for COVID-19. — Grassley, 87, announced earlier in the day that he was quarantining after finding out that he had been exposed to the coronavirus.
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Chuck Grassley, second-oldest senator, tests positive for Covid-19
Chuck Grassley, second-oldest senator, tests positive for Covid-19
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
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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The Hill:
Haaland being vetted by Biden team for Interior Secretary — The Biden transition team is in the process of vetting Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) for the Interior secretary post, sources told The Hill on Tuesday. — The development came after Haaland dropped out of the three-way leadership race …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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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New York Times:
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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Laura Snapes / The Guardian:
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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Lysandra Ohrstrom / Vanity Fair:
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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Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
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?”
Reuters:
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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Garance Burke / Associated Press:
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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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Attorney General Barr wants to drop U.S. drug case against former Mexican defense minister … The Justice Department has asked a judge to drop criminal charges against Mexico's former defense secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, who had been accused of helping one of Mexico's drug cartels …
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
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 …
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
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.
NBC Los Angeles:
Pair Charged With Voter Fraud Allegedly Submitted Thousands of Fraudulent Applications on Behalf of Homeless People — A man who tried to run for mayor in Hawthorne is among two people charged in a voter fraud case in which thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications …
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Warnock: ‘Nobody Can Serve God and the Military’ — ‘Choose ye this day who you will serve,’ said the Democrat — Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock said in a 2011 sermon that Americans cannot serve God while also serving in the U.S. military. — The newly unearthed comments threaten …
George Packer / The Atlantic:
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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Washington Post:
Vegas may be betting on a post-presidential divorce, but Melania Trump seems all in for her husband. — Bookies started taking bets on Election Day as gamblers considered a question on many people's minds: Will Melania Trump dump her husband when he is no longer president?
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