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New York Times:
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.
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Washington Post:
Wayne County Republicans ask to ‘rescind’ their votes certifying election results — DETROIT — After three hours of tense deadlock on Tuesday, the two Republicans on an election board in Michigan's most populous county reversed course and voted to certify the results of the Nov. 3 election …
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The Hill, Detroit Free Press, HotAir, New York Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, Slate, Twitchy, Raw Story, Althouse and The Week
John Solomon / Just The News:
In dramatic reversal, Wayne County election board Republicans rescind votes certifying results — In affidavits, GOP canvass board members claim they were bullied and say there are too many irregularities in Detroit vote to justify accepting election results.
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Washington Examiner, Conservative News Today, Israpundit, National File, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, RedState and The Last Refuge
Washington Post:
As defeats pile up, Trump tries to delay vote count in last-ditch attempt to cast doubt on Biden victory — Please note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
When Michigan Republicans Refused to Certify Votes, It Wasn't Normal
When Michigan Republicans Refused to Certify Votes, It Wasn't Normal
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Politico, ABC News, Conservative News Today, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, The Hill and WTOP
Clark Kauffman / Iowa Capital Dispatch:
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 …
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HuffPost and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
'It's complicated': Biden team weighs whether to retain Deborah Birx — President-elect Joe Biden's transition team is weighing whether to give Trump administration coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx a role in its Covid-19 response, even as it prepares a broader purge of officials closely tied …
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USA Today, CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Political Wire
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
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.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
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,” …
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
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 …
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American Interregnum, The Hill, abc7NY, Arizona Mirror, IJR and Politico
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Ahead of recount results, Georgia officials say Biden likely to remain the winner
Ahead of recount results, Georgia officials say Biden likely to remain the winner
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Associated Press and Breitbart
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
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.
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Business Insider
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CNN:
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 …
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Mediaite, The Week and The Daily Beast
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
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 …
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Politico, Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
The Daily Poster:
Tucker Carlson And Media Elites Cozy Up To Private Equity Moguls — The Fox News host holds himself out as a populist while speaking at ritzy private equity conferences, according to documents obtained by The Daily Poster. — 1 hr ago — Tucker Carlson slammed former President Barack Obama …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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.
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Townhall, The Week, One America News Network, Reuters and Raw Story
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
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.
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The Hill
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales
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Business Insider
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘Traitors to the president’: Conservatives fear public preparation for Biden term — The conservative movement has become handicapped. — Organizations can't sound the alarm about President-elect Joe Biden's agenda. Conservative reporters won't take pitches about Biden's rumored Cabinet contenders …
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National Review, Responsible Statecraft, Raw Story and CNN
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
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.
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New York Daily News
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
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 …
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Althouse
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
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 …
Associated Press:
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.
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Business Insider, Raw Story, Reuters, Washington Times, Mediaite, Conservative News Today, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Bulwark+, TIME, Washington Post, CNN and Digby's Hullabaloo
Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Rise Amid Coronavirus Surge — Initial claims for unemployment benefits increased to 742,000 last week as pandemic weighs on labor market — The number of applications for unemployment benefits rose sharply last week, indicating continued challenges …
John Yang / STAT:
Self-interest nudged me to join Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine trial. Here's how it's going — I volunteered to take part in a Covid-19 vaccine trial. I wish I could say I did it to help hasten the defeat the coronavirus or to further science. But I really just wanted a chance to get a vaccine as soon as possible.
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The Dispatch
Politico:
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 …
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Vox, The Texas Tribune, Crooked Media, American Prospect, Roll Call and Florida Politics
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
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 …
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Senator Robert Menendez, middleeastmonitor.com, Raw Story, Roll Call and Foreign Lobby
Amy Harder / Axios:
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 …
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Washington Examiner
Sydney Morning Herald:
‘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.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, The Guardian, Bloomberg, One America News Network, ABC, Foreign Policy and Breitbart
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna's vaccine. It began with a car crash and an unlikely friendship. — As Dolly Parton tells it, her first-ever car accident in October 2013 was minor, but left her bruised and sore enough to seek medical advice at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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HotAir, CNN, Snopes.com, BBC, New York Times, Daily Kos and Deadline
Mike Allen / Axios:
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 …
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
N.J. congressman says Trump should be tried for ‘crimes against our nation and Constitution’ — New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., one of Donald Trump's fiercest critics on Capitol Hill, is demanding the president and his aides be investigated and prosecuted after they leave office.
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Big League Politics
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
With Senate Control Hanging in Balance, ‘Crazytown’ Cash Floods Georgia — After the state went blue in the presidential race, more than $135 million in TV ads have been booked in two Senate runoff elections. — The two Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the Senate …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, HotAir, First Draft and Daily Kos