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Axios:
Scoop: Trump tells confidants he plans to pardon Michael Flynn — President Trump has told confidants he plans to pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions tell Axios.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Plan Pardon of Flynn — Michael T. Flynn, the president's former national security adviser, twice pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. — President Trump has told aides that he plans to issue a pardon to his former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
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CNN:
Pardon for Michael Flynn under discussion at the White House — (CNN)The White House has discussed a possible pardon for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, and others, three sources told CNN on Tuesday. — However, those sources cautioned that Trump …
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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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Kelly Hooper / Politico:
‘Fantasy world’: Pompeo knocks Biden administration picks as out of touch on foreign policy — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday criticized members of President-elect Joe Biden's incoming administration, saying they've lived in a “fantasy world” and “led from behind.”
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Washington Times:
Joe Biden's Obama retreads
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Almost no Trump voters consider Biden the legitimate 2020 election winner
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Tony Blinken recounts stepfather's Holocaust story at Biden introduction event
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump brags about Dow 30,000 at surprise news conference, leaves after a minute
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Inside Story of Michigan's Fake Voter Fraud Scandal — How a state that was never in doubt became a ‘national embarrassment’ and a symbol of the Republican Party's fealty to Donald Trump. — After five years spent bullying the Republican Party into submission, President Donald Trump finally met his match in Aaron Van Langevelde.
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The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, NPR and New York Times
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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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 Schneider / Associated Press:
Texts: US census manager told counters to use fake answers — The texts from an Alabama census supervisor had an urgent tone. “THIS JUST IN ...,” one of them began. It then laid out how census takers should fake data to mark households as having only one resident even if they had no idea how many people actually lived there.
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The Hill, Michigan Advance, Law & Crime and Washington Examiner
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
McConnell still mum on Biden's win as Trump administration begins transition
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Fox News, Mediaite and Political Wire
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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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 …
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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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 …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story
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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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Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
Defund-Police Organizers to Biden: “We're Not Going Away”
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Francesca Paris / The Berkshire Eagle:
Williams prof disavows own finding of mishandled GOP ballots — Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. — A Williams College professor has apologized for a “lack of clarity and due diligence” after his statistical analysis of Pennsylvania mail-in votes was used by conservative lawmakers …
John Moritz / Arkansas Online:
Arkansas Supreme Court invalidates Democratic candidate, GOP declares victory — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Democrat Jimmie Wilson is ineligible to serve in the state Legislature due to decades-old misdemeanor convictions in federal court, wiping out Wilson's victory …
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Raw Story
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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Jerusalem Post, Washington Free Beacon, Fox News, David Harris Jr. and Breitbart
Travis Fossing / KCLO-TV:
Krabbenhoft, Sanford part ways, health organization says — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Kelby Krabbenhoft and Sanford Health have agreed to part ways, Sanford announced in a news release at about 5:45 p.m. today. — Bill Gassen will replace Krabbenhoft as the president and chief executive officer of Sanford effective immediately.
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Raw Story, The Daily Beast, CBS News and Twin Cities
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
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.”
CNN:
Here's how Trump's transition blockade 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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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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Liam Stack / New York Times:
$15,000 Fine After Secret Hasidic Wedding Draws Thousands of Guests — “This was amazingly irresponsible,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said of the event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate a wedding inside a cavernous hall in Brooklyn's Williamsburg …
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The Hill
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 …
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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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Conservative insiders say Republican politicians aren't scared of Trump now — they're scared of his supporters — 'It's hard for them to put this back in the bottle — it's like they have fully opened Pandora's box' — Days before her unceremonious Sunday evening defenestration from Donald Trump's …
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Intellectualist and The Hill
Shannon McMahon / Washington Post:
TSA records its busiest travel weekend since March — Over 3 million people traveled in the past three days, despite CDC guidance to stay home for Thanksgiving. — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recorded its highest number of weekend passengers since the coronavirus pandemic began …
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The Cut, NBC Chicago, The RAND Blog, The National Interest, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
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.
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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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Republicans are flooding the Georgia runoffs with millions of dollars in digital dark ads — Facebook and Google are still banning political ads on their platforms, but that hasn't stopped Republican super PACs from spending millions of dollars on other platforms, including Hulu, to reelect Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
Edward Foley / Washington Post:
This unnerving election does not bode well for the next one — Next time could be worse. — This year's presidential election came dangerously close to being stolen. The only reason it didn't happen was because, in the end, there were too many states for President Trump to try to steal …
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Washington Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog, Snopes.com and Election Law Blog
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 …
Luppe Luppen / Washington Post:
You don't have a ‘right’ to a lawyer when you're trying to steal an election — Lawyers owe a duty not only to their client but to their country. — By the time of the General Services Administration's decision to allow President-elect Joe Biden's transition to proceed …
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Politico
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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