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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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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 …
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.
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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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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo's legacy of incompetence peaked with his failed Iran policy
Mike Pompeo's legacy of incompetence peaked with his failed Iran policy
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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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Reuters:
More changes in Trump's legal team in Pennsylvania election challenge lawsuit
More changes in Trump's legal team in Pennsylvania election challenge lawsuit
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Three attorneys withdraw from representing Trump campaign in Pennsylvania suit
Three attorneys withdraw from representing Trump campaign in Pennsylvania suit
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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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ABC News:
GSA official blocking Biden's transition appears to privately plan post-Trump career
GSA official blocking Biden's transition appears to privately plan post-Trump career
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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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Barbara Starr / CNN:
NATO chief warns against premature withdrawal from Afghanistan — Esper memo warned against withdrawing troops from Afghanistan — Washington (CNN)NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg issued a stark warning Tuesday that any premature withdrawal from Afghanistan could be dangerous …
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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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National Review:
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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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Pence faces a new test after 4 years of fealty to Trump — For four years, Vice President Mike Pence has faced one sweeping loyalty test after another. This time, allies are questioning whether there should be a limit to his fealty. — As President Donald Trump pushes to overturn …
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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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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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Axios:
The race to out-Fox Fox News — A new class of conservative outlets and networks is racing to capture the attention of disgruntled Trump voters, who feel abandoned by traditional news companies and censored by social media. — Why it matters: Fox News, for years, has been criticized for polarizing coverage.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Popular Political Site Made a Sharp Right Turn. What Steered It?
Alexei Koseff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Lawmakers, lobbyists mingle on Maui at annual getaway, pandemic or no pandemic — SACRAMENTO — Although the coronavirus pandemic has largely grounded the global travel industry, it did not stop the annual political conference that brings California lawmakers to Hawaii for five days …
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John F. Harris / Politico:
What Keith Richards Can Teach Us About Beating Our Donald Trump Addiction — The election was two weeks ago, and the key state projections that made it clear that Joe Biden is president-elect are now 10 days old. But Donald Trump is still coursing through your veins, isn't he?
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
The Democrats Went All Out Against Susan Collins. Rural Maine Grimaced. — The $180 million Senate contest, a political scientist said, “was like being a local in Woodstock in 1969: When it first started, it was exciting and fun, but by the end, it was muddy and dirty.”
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Hate-crime killings set a record in 2019, FBI data reveals — Hate-crime killings reached a record last year in the United States, due in large part to the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso that officials say was motivated by anti-immigrant bias, according to figures released Monday by the FBI.
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade
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The Daily Beast:
This Is the Most Pathetic Trump Fundraising Email Yet — The president is counting on YOUR $5 (sorry, I meant $55) to save the republic. Spoiler alert: That's not what your money is going toward, and that's not what's going to happen. — BEAST INSIDE
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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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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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
4 more years: Trump freezes 2024 presidential field — Kevin Cramer called Donald Trump last week to convey his support for the president's efforts to contest the election results when Trump dropped a casual aside that snapped the North Dakota senator to attention.
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Californians prepare to descend on Georgia to fight for Democrats in Senate races — Joseph Killian, 38, pets his dog, Bishop, in their home on Friday, November 13, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif. Killian and friends donated $50,000 to half dozen Democratic Senate candidates — and most of them lost.
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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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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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Washington Post:
The longer Republicans cower to Trump, the more damage they do to democracy — IN AN ordinary time, none of these comments from Republican officials would be noteworthy. “I expect Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday.
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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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Politico:
Tech CEOs to face bitter and bitterly divided Congress over election posts — Democrats and Republicans had a shared message for social media companies after the 2016 election: root out foreign interference, or Washington will step in. — Fast forward to 2020, and while there's bipartisan anger …
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