Threats and Tensions Rise as Trump and Allies Attack Elections Process  —  Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country's voting system.

Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19  —  A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections in a Waterloo pork processing plant alleges that during the initial stages the pandemic, Tyson Foods ordered employees to report for work …

Current and former Trump officials quietly reach out to Biden team  —  Washington (CNN)A handful of current Trump administration officials, as well as some political appointees who left in recent months, have quietly started to reach out to members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team …

Biden approaches 80 million votes in historic victory  —  President-elect Joe Biden's winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records.  —  Biden has already set a record for the highest number …

Trump's legal adviser Jenna Ellis in 2016 called him an ‘idiot’ and said his supporters didn't care about ‘facts or logic’  —  (CNN)Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year ago …

Jewish Group Denounces White House Pick for Preservation Commission  —  Darren Beattie was fired as a speechwriter in 2018 for attending a conference with white nationalists.  This week, he was appointed to a commission that helps preserve sites related to the Holocaust.

Trump campaign revises Pennsylvania suit, again  —  The latest version of the lawsuit asks the court to declare Trump the winner in Pennsylvania.  —  Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia on Nov. 7, 2020.

Sen. Perdue Helped Defense Contractor—and Sold Off Its Stock  —  SUB-OPTIMAL … Sen. David Perdue had never invested in the Navy supplier BWX Technologies until right before he assumed control of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower.  —  Right before he was put in charge …

Barack Obama Memoir Sells More Than 887,000 Copies on First Day  —  ‘A Promised Land’ logs highest opening-day sales of any Penguin Random House title  —  Former President Barack Obama's memoir sold more than 887,000 copies on Tuesday, a sizzling debut that publisher Penguin Random House …

All the president's ‘Guys’  —  Remember Rob Goldstone?  He was the portly British publicist who took selfies wearing wacky hats, and who sent Donald Trump Jr. an email offering documents from the Russians that would “incriminate” Hillary Clinton.  —  “If it's what you say I love it,” …

White House Sought Suit Against Omarosa Manigault Newman After News of Her Memoir  —  A day after the 2018 announcement that she had written a negative book about President Trump, the White House escalated an unrelated dispute by referring it to the Justice Department.

The Problem With Coronavirus School Closures  —  Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.  —  Some things are true even though President Trump says them.  —  Trump has been demanding for months that schools reopen, and on that he seems to have been largely right.

GOP increasingly accepts Trump's defeat — but not in public  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kamala Harris returned to the Senate this week for the first time as vice president-elect, her Republican colleagues offered their congratulations and Sen. Lindsey Graham greeted her with a fist bump.

A Quarter of a Million Americans Have Died From Covid-19  —  For months, Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa saw little need to intervene in the choices of Iowans, who she insisted could make their own decisions about whether to wear a mask to protect against a dangerous pandemic.

For Your Own Good, Read Widely  —  If your media consumption is a steady diet of one-sided partisan news, you may start inventing catastrophes where there are none.  —  11 hr ago  —  Hi,  —  Here's a small life hack: If you're a right-winger, you should read more left-wing stuff …

‘If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy’: Beijing's fresh threat to Australia  —  Beijing has issued an extraordinary attack on the Australian government, accusing it of “poisoning bilateral relations” in a deliberately leaked document that threatens to escalate tensions between the two countries.

Election Night with Biden's Data Guru  —  The last time chief analytics officer Becca Siegel had been inside Joe Biden's sprawling campaign headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, her department had about 15 staffers on its payroll.  That was in March.  In late October, her team had ballooned …

Republicans seek to stymie Biden with final Trump nominees  —  Two months before Joe Biden assumes the presidency, Senate Republicans are racing to install a series of conservative nominees that will outlast Donald Trump.  —  While Trump still refuses to concede the election …

Tom Donohue — CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and longtime confidant of Republican presidents — tells Axios that Joe Biden is president-elect, and President Trump “should not delay the transition a moment longer.”  —  What he's saying: “President-elect Biden and the team around …

Sources say outgoing Democratic Rep. Max Rose is mulling run for NYC mayor  —  Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y., is considering a quick return to politics after losing his House seat this month.  Rose has begun laying the groundwork for a potential mayoral campaign in New York City, according to three different sources.

Senators Take Aim At Massive Trump Arms Deal  —  A bipartisan group of senators announced plans to try to block Trump's weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates after HuffPost revealed the effort was in the works.  —  A bipartisan group of senators announced four bills …

What's wrong with the media  —  The young/urban/educated bubble in an era of growing polarization  —  Welcome to Thursday!  —  I've been reading some interesting policy reports about everything from maternal mortality to how to target student loan forgiveness but at the moment there is a lot …

How running helps to explain climate change  —  Running a race can help illustrate how efforts on climate change should change over time.  —  The big picture: Climate change, unlike most other public-policy challenges, is cumulative.  The longer we wait, the bigger the problem it becomes …

Boris Johnson announces UK's biggest defense spending boost since Cold War  —  British prime minister to pledge to end Britain's ‘era of retreat.’  —  LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Thursday announce a £16.5 billion increase in defense spending, pledging to end the U.K.'s “era of retreat.”

Fury at Pompeo's West Bank trip as he arrives in Israel to celebrate Abraham Accords  —  Palestinian protesters raged at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's expected visit to the West Bank, as the American diplomat arrived in Jerusalem for a historic celebration of a recent diplomatic accord between Israel and Bahrain.

America's 250,000 covid deaths: People die, but little changes  —  Most everybody in town knows that Gladys Maull has been battered this year: Her father, her sister, an aunt, a great-aunt, all dead from covid-19.  Maull keeps a sign on her front door: “Please do not come in my house due to covid-19.

DEA Investigators Fuming Over Dropped Case Against Mexican General  —  Some senior law enforcement officials who helped build the case against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda were reportedly not consulted ahead of the dropped drug-trafficking charges.  —  The former Mexican defense chief accused …