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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:
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.
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Townhall, Bloomberg, Alternet.org, Greensburg Tribune-Review, New York Times, HotAir and littlegreenfootballs.com
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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RedState, National File, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
When Michigan Republicans Refused to Certify Votes, It Wasn't Normal — The G.O.P. members of a county canvassing board eventually approved Detroit's election results, but the process left many voters wondering what stands between a routine election and a breakdown of democracy.
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The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
ABC News:
GOP state leaders brush off idea to hand Trump election by replacing electors
GOP state leaders brush off idea to hand Trump election by replacing electors
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TIME, Washington Post and Lead Stories
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The disturbing GOP attempt to block certification of Biden's Michigan win, explained
The disturbing GOP attempt to block certification of Biden's Michigan win, explained
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Slate, Conservative News Today, Detroit Free Press, Sara A. Carter, Washington Post, CBS News, WTOP, Raw Story, Reason, Forbes, Politico and NPR
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN:
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 …
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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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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
We came much closer to an election catastrophe than many realize
We came much closer to an election catastrophe than many realize
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Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, Alternet.org, WTOP, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Reuters
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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The Week, Townhall, One America News Network, Reuters and Raw Story
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Trump Campaign Attorneys Admit ‘There Is No Evidence’ of ‘Any Fraud’ in Connection with Challenged Ballots in Bucks County, Pa. — Attorneys representing President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in challenging thousands of ballots in Bucks County on Wednesday agreed to sign court documents informing …
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Raw Story and Vanity Fair
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘Traitors to the president’: Conservatives fear public preparation for Biden term
‘Traitors to the president’: Conservatives fear public preparation for Biden term
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Raw Story, Business Insider and Cagle Post
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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The Week, Mediaite and The Daily Beast
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
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
A Quarter of a Million Americans Have Died From Covid-19
A Quarter of a Million Americans Have Died From Covid-19
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CBS News, WRIC-TV, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Eater NY, Axios, UPI and Iowa Capital Dispatch
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
New York City to Close Public Schools Again as Virus Cases Rise
New York City to Close Public Schools Again as Virus Cases Rise
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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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The Hill, Arizona Mirror, IJR and abc7NY
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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
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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Raw Story
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
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 …
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Truthout
David Shortell / The Daily Beast:
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 …
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Raw Story
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials — WASHINGTON — A former speechwriter fired from the White House in 2018 for attending a conference at which white supremacists were also present has been appointed …
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Political Wire, Associated Press and Mock Paper Scissors
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
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.
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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middleeastmonitor.com, Sabato's Crystal Ball, Raw Story, Roll Call and Foreign Lobby
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
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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Washington Post, Conservative News Today, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Washington Times, Mediaite, Bulwark+, Axios and Florida Politics
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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The Guardian, ABC, One America News Network, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg 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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CNN, HotAir, Snopes.com, BBC, New York Times, Daily Kos, Deadline and CBS Boston
New York Times:
States That Imposed Few Restrictions Now Have the Worst Outbreaks — Coronavirus cases are rising in almost every U.S. state. But the surge is worst now in places where leaders neglected to keep up forceful virus containment efforts or failed to implement basic measures like mask mandates …
Politico:
California doctors' top brass attended French Laundry dinner with Newsom — OAKLAND — California Medical Association officials were among the guests seated next to Gov. Gavin Newsom at a top California political operative's opulent birthday dinner at the French Laundry restaurant this month.
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CalMatters, Breitbart, Spectator USA, Fox News, RedState, Forbes, Mediaite, New York Post, National Review, Washington Examiner, Townhall, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and The Hill
The Texas Tribune:
Coronavirus cases in Texas are soaring again. But this time Gov. Greg Abbott says no lockdown is coming. — The last time case numbers were this high, Abbott closed bars and urged Texans to avoid summer holiday gatherings. This time, he's staying the course, relying on a 2-month-old blueprint …
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NBC Los Angeles, NBC News, RedState, The Daily Wire, TheBlaze and ABC13
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales — NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history.
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Business Insider
William Zheng / South China Morning Post:
Chinese dissident in US says Communist Party froze his life savings — Deng Yuwen says the action is a warning to critics of the party in the United States Former senior editor of party journal is a vocal advocate of reform in China Deng Yuwen says the action is a warning to critics of the party …
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Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Arizona GOP pressures counties to delay vote certification — PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republican Party is pressuring county officials across the state to delay their certification of election results — even though there hasn't been any evidence of legitimate questions about the vote tally showing …
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Business Insider, 12news.com and Reuters
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
House Republicans demand investigation into ‘integrity’ of 2020 election, call for hearings ‘immediately’ — House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer called for hearings amid “troubling reports of irregularities and improprieties” in the 2020 election.
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Washington Examiner
Lawrence Lessig / USA Today:
State legislatures do not have the power to veto the people's choice in an election — Trump fans are peddling the theory that legislatures can override election results. But the framers rejected the idea, and so did the Supreme Court. — The conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin …
The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint the Following Individuals to Key Administration Posts — Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: — Brian P. Brooks, of Colorado …
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Yashar's Newsletter, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic:
The Last Children of Down Syndrome — Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a question for the first time: What is it like to raise a child with Down syndrome? — Sometimes the caller is a pregnant woman, deciding whether to have an abortion.
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Twitchy
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Georgia elections chief: ‘Emotional abuse’ to mislead voters about fraud — The top election official in Georgia on Tuesday raged at what he described as politicians giving false hope and ginning up anger over unsubstantiated allegations of systemic voter fraud, calling it “emotional abuse” …
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Wall Street Journal, Truthout, Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, WSB-TV, Vanity Fair and Vox
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Former Army Green Beret admits conspiring to spy for Russia — A former Green Beret conspired to spy for the Russian government while serving in the Army and as a defense contractor with a top-secret security clearance. — Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, of Gainesville, Va. …
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New York Times, UPI, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Associated Press and U.S. Department of Justice