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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump commits to stepping down if electoral college votes for Biden — President Trump said on Thursday that he would leave the White House if the electoral college voted for President-elect Joe Biden next month, though he vowed to keep fighting to overturn the election he lost and said he may never concede.
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
'Don't Ever Talk to the President That Way': Trump Snaps at ‘Lightweight’ Reporter During Wild Thanksgiving Press Conference — President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter who spoke over him during a Thanksgiving press conference, calling the journalist a “lightweight” and telling him, “Don't ever talk to the president that way.”
Reuters:
Donald Trump says he will leave White House if electoral college votes for Joe Biden — President's comments are the closest he has come to admitting defeat in election and set stage for college vote on 14 December — Donald Trump has said that he will leave the White House …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Angry Trump promises rally in battleground state of Georgia — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states led to his election defeat, and said he'll go to Georgia to rally supporters ahead of two Senate runoff elections.
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump says he'll leave White House if Biden declared winner of Electoral College — President Trump on Thursday said he would leave the White House on Jan. 20 if the Electoral College declares President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the election, but indicated he was not prepared to concede defeat.
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Give Up Power if Electoral College Backs Biden
Trump Says He'll Give Up Power if Electoral College Backs Biden
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Midnight Ruling Exposes Rifts at a Supreme Court Transformed by Trump — The justices issued six opinions, several of them unusually bitter, in upholding challenges from churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions on religious services. — WASHINGTON — A few minutes before midnight …
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Reuters:
Cuomo calls U.S. Supreme Court's religious gatherings ruling ‘irrelevant’ — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday dismissed as “irrelevant” a U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking coronavirus restrictions imposed on religious gatherings, saying it related …
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New York Post:
Cuomo calls Supreme Court church ruling ‘irrelevant’ despite decision — The Supreme Court's order temporarily blocking New York from setting coronavirus capacity limits at houses of worship is “irrelevant” and “moot,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed Thursday. — In the 5-4 decision …
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Joshua Bote / USA Today:
Dead minks infected with a mutated form of COVID-19 rise from graves after mass culling — Minks infected with a mutated strain of COVID-19 in Denmark appear to be rising from the dead, igniting a national frenzy and calls from local officials to cremate mink carcasses.
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Dan Barry / New York Times:
‘Loser’: How a Lifelong Fear Bookended Trump's Presidency — The president's inability to concede the election is the latest reality-denying moment in a career preoccupied with an epithet. — In the now-distant Republican presidential primaries of 2016, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas handily won the Iowa caucuses.
Pope Francis / New York Times:
A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts — To come out of this pandemic better than we went in, we must let ourselves be touched by others' pain. — Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. — In this past year of change, my mind and heart have overflowed with people.
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Tony Aarons / Bloomberg:
Ex-Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell Files Election Suits in ‘DISTRCOICT’ Court — Sidney Powell brings cases after being dropped from Trump team — Georgia case misspells district as ‘DISTRCOICT’ in court name — A lawyer who was dropped from President Donald Trump's legal team filed …
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Politico:
Trump's conspiracies have MAGA world talking Georgia boycott
Trump's conspiracies have MAGA world talking Georgia boycott
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Colin Kalmbacher / MSN:
Sidney Powell Mocked, Scorned, Ridiculed and More Over Clumsy, Rambling, Typo-Filled ‘Kraken’ Lawsuits
Sidney Powell Mocked, Scorned, Ridiculed and More Over Clumsy, Rambling, Typo-Filled ‘Kraken’ Lawsuits
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Wyoming's governor has resisted calls for a mask mandate. Now he has the coronavirus. — Earlier this month, with coronavirus cases rising dramatically across Wyoming, a coalition of medical experts and nearly every county health officer in the state wrote to Republican Gov. Mark Gordon …
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Fox News, Law & Crime, KGWN and The Guardian
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Oh, Brother! Tears for Trump — No arguments — or turkey — this Thanksgiving. Just a cocktail. … ROCKVILLE, Md. — The mercurial presidency of Donald Trump apparently is over. Historians, 20 or 30 years hence, will be the impartial arbiters of his accomplishments …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
What hunting Bigfoot taught a Republican congressman about politics — AFTON, Va. — There was a time in Denver Riggleman's life when he sat on the banks of a creek that reeked of dead fish and peered through night-vision goggles into the thick of the Olympic National Forest. — He was looking for Bigfoot.
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
Social Media's Liability Shield Is Under Assault — There is growing pressure to revise Section 230 to make internet businesses more accountable for online content — WASHINGTON—The law that enabled the rise of social media and other internet businesses is facing threats unlike anything …
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Top Trump Aide O'Brien Shadowed in Asia by U.S. Election Tumult — Trump told Pence, O'Brien, Pompeo he'd run again in 2024 — O'Brien toured Asia, while Pompeo went to Middle East, Europe — A few days before National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien left for a high-profile tour …
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CNN:
Joe and Jill Biden: Our most important Thanksgiving tradition — The Biden family poses for a picture on Saturday, November 7, 2020. From left: Melissa Cohen, Hunter Biden, Beau Biden, Naomi Biden, President-elect Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, Maisy Biden, Finnegan Biden, Hunter Biden, Natalie Biden, Ashley Biden, and Dr. Howard Krein.
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Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
Pro-Trump Group Donor Sues Over Failure to Expose Election Fraud — North Carolina money manager wants $2.5 million donation back — Fred Eshelman says group made ‘empty promises,’ platitudes — A pro-Trump group that promised to challenge the Nov. 3 election results and expose fraud …
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Law & Crime and POLITICUSUSA
Michael T. Flynn / UncoverDC:
A Personal Statement from General Flynn to America: Faith, Family, and Friendships — By Almighty God's grace and with the love and courage of my wife Lori, the strength and fortitude of our families, and the inspiration of our friends and every single patriot who circled me with their prayers …
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Patricia Ravalgi / SpyTalk:
Fear and Loathing on the House Intelligence Committee — Can a new Congress fix an old problem? Don't hold your breath, says a former staffer — 19 hr ago — On June 4, 2000 the Republican staff director of the House Intelligence Committee, John Millis, drove his car to the Breezeway Motel …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Pardoned Flynn to Save Himself — Here's the first and most important thing to understand about the crime for which President Trump just pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn: Flynn did not lie to protect himself. He lied to protect Donald Trump.
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