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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
Almost no Trump voters consider Biden the legitimate 2020 election winner
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Martha C. White / NBC News:
Dow closes above 30,000 for first time in history on hopes of economic recovery under Biden
Dow closes above 30,000 for first time in history on hopes of economic recovery under Biden
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Biden says outreach from Trump admin has been ‘sincere’ as transition begins
Biden says outreach from Trump admin has been ‘sincere’ as transition begins
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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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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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
White House signs off on Biden receiving intelligence briefs
White House signs off on Biden receiving intelligence briefs
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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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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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
McConnell still mum on Biden's win as Trump administration begins transition
McConnell still mum on Biden's win as Trump administration begins transition
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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.
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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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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
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
First 6.4 million doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine could go out in mid-December — More doses will be available each week as manufacturing ramps up, even as state and local officials complain they don't have the funds needed to do mass vaccinations — The federal government plans …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses expected to be shipped to states by mid-December
6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses expected to be shipped to states by mid-December
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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 …
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 …
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JNS.org:
Incoming senior Biden staffer justified suicide bombers during Second Intifada — In 2002, Reema Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”
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Tzvi Joffre / Jerusalem Post:
Reema Dodin to be first Palestinian-American White House staffer
Reema Dodin to be first Palestinian-American White House staffer
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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 …
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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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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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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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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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Karl Baker / USA Today:
Computer repairman who claimed he gave Hunter Biden data to Giuliani closes shop as laptop saga gets stranger — Weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election, the world's political intrigue turned to a Wilmington computer repair shop after the New York Post revealed that its owner gave …
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
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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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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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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Fox News reaches settlement with parents of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich — Fox News has reached a settlement with Joel and Mary Rich, the couple who sued the network for emotional distress over a false story that Fox promoted on the air for almost a week about the 2016 death of their son …
The Daily Beast:
Biden Weighs Mike Morell as His CIA Chief. A Key Dem Senator Says Don't Bother. — Sources say Morell is a leading candidate to be Biden's CIA director. But his defenses of the agency's torture and drone strikes are already drawing progressive opposition.
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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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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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CNN:
How the GSA's 16-day blockade on Biden's transition finally ended — (CNN)Two weeks after Joe Biden was projected to win the presidential election, General Services Administrator Emily Murphy was finally prepared to stop stalling the transition. — It was Friday, November 20.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Biden to deliver Thanksgiving address — President-elect Joe Biden will deliver a Thanksgiving address on Wednesday, his White House transition team announced in a press release. — A news release Tuesday evening indicated that the live-streamed speech would touch on the …