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Manisha Krishnan / VICE:
Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book — During a tense town hall, staff cried and expressed dismay with the publishing giant's decision to publish ‘Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.’ — Several Penguin Random House Canada employees confronted management …
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CNN:
White House has signed off on Joe Biden getting the President's Daily Brief — (CNN)Three weeks after the election, the White House has given formal approval for President-elect Joe Biden to receive the President's Daily Brief, a White House official told CNN Tuesday.
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Almost no Trump voters consider Biden the legitimate 2020 election winner — A mere 3% of voters for President Donald Trump think President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 election, while 73% think the incumbent was the victor, according to a CNBC/Change Research poll.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump brags about Dow 30,000 at surprise news conference, leaves after a minute
Trump brags about Dow 30,000 at surprise news conference, leaves after a minute
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The disloyal markets have improved more since this year's election than they did in 2016
The disloyal markets have improved more since this year's election than they did in 2016
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American Compass and Raw Story
New York Times:
Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth — Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line. — SAN FRANCISCO — In the tense days after the presidential election …
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers — Many Americans' feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. — Opinion writer at large. — In mid-October I asked two people I'd never met to give me their Facebook account passwords for three weeks leading up to and after Election Day.
Ashley Gold / Axios:
YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes OANN — YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the Trump-friendly channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi tells Axios.
Wall Street Journal:
After Setbacks, Trump Looks Beyond Legal Fight — Publicly, president says he will ‘never concede.’ Privately, he is focused on his political future as Biden transition moves forward. — WASHINGTON—President Trump has publicly vowed to keep up the fight to overturn the election.
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NBC News:
Trump advisers pushed for transition to begin as GOP calls for it grew
Trump advisers pushed for transition to begin as GOP calls for it grew
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Fox News' Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson distance themselves from Trump
Fox News' Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson distance themselves from Trump
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NEW: What Paul Ryan is saying about Biden and Trump — PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP appeared in the briefing room for a minute or so around 12:30 p.m. to congratulate the American people on the stock market breaking 30,000. He did not take a single question.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses expected to be shipped to states by mid-December — States will begin receiving the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in mid-December, but will make their own determinations on who will be first in line for a shot. — An estimated 6.4 million doses …
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Redfield projects COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out by ‘end of the second week in December’
Redfield projects COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out by ‘end of the second week in December’
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
CDC director: COVID-19 vaccine will be rolled out second week in December
CDC director: COVID-19 vaccine will be rolled out second week in December
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Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Plans to Put $455 Billion Beyond Yellen's Easy Reach — Biden Treasury pick Yellen left with smaller lending backstop — Mnuchin urged Congress to use unspent money to help economy — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will put $455 billion in unspent Cares Act funding …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Why Newsmax Supports Trump's False Voter-Fraud Claims — Even as Fox News acknowledges that Joe Biden is the President-elect, Newsmax Media—a conservative multimedia company that includes a Web site and a television channel—has supported Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud …
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Mediaite, Crooks and Liars, Business Insider, Raw Story, Forbes and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
As Their D.C. Days Dwindle, Ivanka and Jared Look for a New Beginning — The end of President Trump's time in office leaves his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as well-to-do refugees — but they appear to have plans in New Jersey. — WASHINGTON — Town officials …
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David Rothkopf / USA Today:
Biden's National Security team reveals he has learned from the mistakes of past presidents — Not only does Biden have more foreign policy experience than many other presidents, the team he announced is made up of established veterans. — As someone who writes history books about the White House and …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
AOC and Ilhan Omar want to block Biden's former chief of staff — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar are boosting a petition against Joe Biden nominating his former chief of staff to a new role in his administration, calling Bruce Reed a “deficit hawk.”
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The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone-Tied Group Claims Dems Are Framing Them as Republican Party Turncoats — BURN IT DOWN — The group appeared to be encouraging Trump backers to either not vote in the GA runoffs or write in the president's name. They now say it's a lie. — Conservative operatives and a super PAC …
Philip Allen Lacovara / Washington Post:
Yes, the Biden administration should hold Trump accountable — Philip Allen Lacovara, a former president of the D.C. Bar, served as counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor. — After the final tumultuous months of the Nixon presidency, Gerald R. Ford decided to end the “long national nightmare” …
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The Intercept:
Congress Has the Power to Override Supreme Court Rulings. Here's How. — From, 1979 until her retirement in 1998, Lilly Ledbetter worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber's plant in Gadsden, Alabama. Once she had left the job, she learned a disturbing fact. When Ledbetter had started …
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump Stress-Tested the Election System, and the Cracks Showed — Even in the absence of a questionable outcome or any evidence of fraud, President Trump managed to freeze the passage of power for most of a month. — As President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election have steadily disintegrated …
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
A ‘trend of more failing’: Online school has sent F's spiking by 83 percent in Virginia's largest school system — Online learning is causing a serious drop in academic achievement in Virginia's largest school system, according to a Fairfax County Public Schools study, and the most vulnerable students …
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Alex Heath / The Information:
Facebook Researchers Found Its ‘Political Whitelist’ Influenced Misinformation Spread — During a September 2019 speech in Washington, D.C., Facebook's global policy and communications chief Nick Clegg gave an ardent defense of the company's policy to not fact-check politicians …
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Rich Noyes / Newsbusters:
SPECIAL REPORT: The Stealing of the Presidency, 2020 — Text to Speech Font Size — The left-wing news media didn't just poison the information environment with their incessantly negative coverage of President Trump going into the 2020 election. They also refused to give airtime …
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Wall Street Journal:
Rural Americans Stopped Staying In. Then Covid-19 Hit. — Coronavirus cases rise to record highs and hospitalizations surge as people return to some semblance of normality — The coronavirus is resurging across the U.S. But it's hitting hardest in rural places, where people …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Every Day Trump Repeatedly Emails His Supporters a Dangerous Message: Democracy Doesn't Work — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — I've heard from Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump.
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
‘People are pissed’: Tensions rise amid scramble for Biden jobs — In late 2008, during the transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, there was a mantra that took hold among Washington insiders: Obama won the election but Hillary won the transition. — The most loyal denizens …
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Mary Spicuzza / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
On day five of election recounts in Milwaukee, all observers were given poop emoji wristbands from Wisconsin Center staff — Each day of the recount seems to bring some new controversy. — And on Tuesday morning, the controversy briefly turned to poop — or more specifically …
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The Hill and National Review
Vinny Vella / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Former Chester County sheriff and her boyfriend charged with stealing funds from K-9 unit — Former Chester County Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh was charged with theft early Tuesday for allowing employees to improperly divert donated money to pay for personal expenses and collect comp …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump has set a hidden trap for Biden. It could do great damage. — From beginning to end, Joe Biden's campaign focused heavily on President Trump's encouragement of white supremacy. His campaign launch video was all about Trump's refusal to unambiguously condemn racist violence.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Charles Koch: I “screwed up” — In his first on-camera interview in four years, Charles Koch told “Axios on HBO” that he “screwed up by being partisan,” rather than approaching his network's big-spending political action in a more nonpartisan way. — Why it matters: Koch …
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
As he ignores election defeat, Trump pardons turkey — This is the president's fourth year taking part in the traditional event. — Presidential turkey pardons through the years — In a longstanding tradition, presidents pardon Thanksgiving turkeys. — Drew Angerer/Getty Images, FILE
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Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
CDC Finalizing Recommendation to Shorten Covid-19 Quarantines — Agency is considering shortening the advised quarantine time to between seven and 10 days — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon shorten the length of time it recommends that a person self-quarantine …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: A liberal on how he won in a Trump district — In this edition: A conversation with the most liberal Democrat left in a Trump district, the protests to overturn the election wind down and the Georgia races manage to get nastier. — I'm taking some time off this week …
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Brigitte S. / Pennsylvania Senate Republicans:
MEDIA ADVISORY: Mastriano and Senate Majority Policy Committee to vet Election Issues — Watch Live — WHAT: At the request of Senator Doug Mastriano (R-Adams/Cumberland/Franklin/ York), the Senate Majority Policy Committee is holding a public hearing Wednesday to discuss 2020 election issues and irregularities.