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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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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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Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Trump's new Pennsylvania lawyer once said that lawsuits ‘will not reverse this election’
Trump's new Pennsylvania lawyer once said that lawsuits ‘will not reverse this election’
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Files to Appear for Trump Campaign in Pennsylvania Suit
Giuliani Files to Appear for Trump Campaign in Pennsylvania Suit
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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.
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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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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia manual recount won't replace official election results — Biden's lead over Trump likely to stand — Georgia election officials said Tuesday they no longer intend to make the results of the state's manual recount the official tally in the presidential race.
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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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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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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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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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ABC News:
Biden announces slate of White House senior staffers — The team will join incoming Chief of Staff Ron Klain in the White House. — Biden warns transition delay could affect COVID-19 vaccine distribution — President-elect Joe Biden cautioned Monday that if the transition of power continues …
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BuzzFeed News:
Joe Biden Is Moving On With The Presidential Transition With A Diverse White House Staff
Joe Biden Is Moving On With The Presidential Transition With A Diverse White House Staff
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump blocks Biden's incoming staff in unprecedented ways
Trump blocks Biden's incoming staff in unprecedented ways
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Foreign Policy
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden picks for senior White House staff include loyalists, rising Democratic stars
Biden picks for senior White House staff include loyalists, rising Democratic stars
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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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Axios:
The race to out-Fox Fox News
The race to out-Fox Fox News
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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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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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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Pfizer may be within days of filing emergency authorization request for Covid-19 vaccine
Pfizer may be within days of filing emergency authorization request for Covid-19 vaccine
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
Steven Teles / New York Times:
Our Political System Is Unfair. Liberals Need to Just Deal With It. — There are few if any pathways to changing either the Electoral College or the structure of the Senate in the near-term. — Mr. Teles is a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
They Are What They Say They Hate — Trump is a triggered loser who embodies every trait conservatives spent decades decrying. — Donald Trump is a snowflake who cares only about his feelings not the facts. — He's a pampered millennial child who can't handle losing and wants a participation trophy.
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Michael Lee / Washington Examiner:
Dan Crenshaw calls on Arlington National Cemetery to reverse cancellation of event honoring veterans over virus concerns — Rep. Dan Crenshaw called on Arlington National Cemetery to change course after the federal burial ground canceled its annual Wreaths Across America at Arlington.
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Robin Bravender / Business Insider:
‘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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Brad Polumbo / Foundation for Economic Education:
Nancy Pelosi Snuck $350M for 50 Richest Zip Codes into COVID Relief Bill, Analysis Reveals — At some point, when the election chaos is finally settled, Congress will likely turn to passing another COVID-19 stimulus/relief bill. (Despite the last one being plagued by rampant fraud and dysfunction).
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
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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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 …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
How long can Trump keep disputing the election results? — President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum annual meeting on January 26, 2018, in Davos, Switzerland. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images — Actual deadlines are fast approaching.
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
“All Speech Is Not Equal”: Biden Taps Anti-Free Speech Figure For Transition Lead On Media Agency — For those of us who have been critical of the growing anti-free speech movement in the Democratic Party, the Biden transition team just took an ominous turn.
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ABC News:
State officials say they're baffled, offended by false election claims — No state has validated President Trump's claims of “rigged” election. — Disinformation in 2020 — Fake news has spread among unsuspecting Americans on social media, potentially affecting the election. — Megan Varner/Getty Images
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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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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Fight Is on To Stop Trump Loyalist From Burrowing Into NSA — Michael Ellis was picked to run the surveillance giant's legal shop in the final days of Trump's presidency. But there's maneuvering to stop him before he gets to Ft. Meade. … The top Democrats on the Senate intelligence …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
How Trump became all of America's Frank Rizzo | Will Bunch Newsletter — With a courtroom strategy for overturning his election loss that makes My Cousin Vinny look like Clarence Darrow, President Trump's time is getting shorter, much like the days of late autumn.
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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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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