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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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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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Business Insider, Fox News, NPR, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Forbes, Raw Story and The Root
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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Washington Examiner, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, Forbes, The Verge, LifeNews.com and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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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Raw Story, Mediaite, HotAir, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Big League Politics
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Wall Street Journal:
After Setbacks, Trump Looks Beyond Legal Fight
After Setbacks, Trump Looks Beyond Legal Fight
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NPR, The Hill, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, New York Post and Mediaite
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
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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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Redfield projects COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out by ‘end of the second week in December’ — CDC director tells Fox News vaccine will be distributed ‘in a hierarchical way’ starting with nursing home residents — CDC head: COVID driven by ‘silent epidemic’ of asymptomatic infections
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National Review, Townhall and New York Post
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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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Washington Examiner, CBS News and WWLP-TV
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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Washington Examiner and Forbes
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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CBS News, Greensburg Tribune-Review and WITF
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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 …
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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Fox News, NBC News and The Guardian
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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Politico, New Republic, Mediaite, Business Insider, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, Forbes and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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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CANNONFIRE and ImmigrationProf Blog
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 …
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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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Denver Post, Associated Press, Washington Examiner and Common Dreams
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 …
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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Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
Path opens for Whitehouse to become top Dem on Senate Judiciary — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse? — That prospect is not yet likely — and the “chairman” part would depend on Democrats winning not one but two Georgia Senate runoff elections in January to clinch a majority.
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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 …
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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Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, HotAir, Conservative News Today, National Review, The Hill and Blue Virginia
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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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, The Boston Globe and BuzzFeed News
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
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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Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
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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Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
‘Uphill battle’: Trump Pennsylvania lawsuit socked by election certification — The Trump campaign's Pennsylvania federal lawsuit is now in appeals court, where it faces extremely rough sledding after the state certified its results on Tuesday. — President Trump was dealt another defeat …
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Fox News, Washington Post and The Daily Beast