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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Campaign Lost In Court — Again — Trying To Undo Biden's Win In Pennsylvania — WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday handed another loss to the Trump campaign's effort to undo President-elect Joe Biden's win in Pennsylvania, with a judge — one of Trump's nominees …
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Court rejects Trump campaign's appeal in Pennsylvania case — A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously rejected the Trump campaign's emergency appeal seeking to file a new lawsuit against Pennsylvania's election results, writing in a blistering ruling that the campaign's “claims have no merit.”
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Jon Swaine / Washington Post:
Federal appeals court panel rejects Trump request to block certification of Pennsylvania's election results — A federal appeals court panel on Friday rejected President Trump's request for an emergency injunction to overturn the certification of Pennsylvania's election results.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Federal appeals court denies Trump campaign effort to revive Pennsylvania lawsuit saying ‘claims have no merit’ — (CNN)A federal appeals court denied the Trump campaign's effort to revive a federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania, ruling “the claims have no merit.”
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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Court Denies Trump Campaign's Appeal of Pennsylvania Ballot Challenge
Court Denies Trump Campaign's Appeal of Pennsylvania Ballot Challenge
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Iran's Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack, State Media Say — The scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was seen as the force behind Iran's nuclear weapons program. News reports in Iran say he died after being attacked in a vehicle. — RIGHT NOW Iran's state media say doctors failed …
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran scientist linked to military nuclear program killed — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was killed in a targeted attack that saw gunmen use explosives …
CNN:
'I'm the President of the United States!': Trump flips out on reporter - CNN Video — President Trump condemned a reporter after being asked if he would concede the election if the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden.
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Unthankful Trump Refuses To Say If He Will Attend Biden Inauguration
Unthankful Trump Refuses To Say If He Will Attend Biden Inauguration
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At Reporter: 'Don't Ever Talk To The President That Way'
Trump Flips Out At Reporter: 'Don't Ever Talk To The President That Way'
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Conservative News Today, The Root, The Daily Caller, Althouse, TheGrio and Business Insider
Andrew Mark Miller / Washington Examiner:
Trump spars with reporter in viral exchange over election result: 'Don't ever talk to the president that way'
Trump spars with reporter in viral exchange over election result: 'Don't ever talk to the president that way'
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why did Democrats bleed House seats? A top analyst offers surprising answers. — President-elect Joe Biden garnered an unprecedented 80 million votes, will win the popular vote by as much as seven million, and won fairly comfortably in the electoral college.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats' Real Liability in the House
Democrats' Real Liability in the House
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’: Trump mocked for giving speech at little table … Play Video — For a US president obsessed by size - his hands, his wealth, his crowds - Donald Trump made something of a bold U-turn on Thursday night by addressing the country from a desk seemingly designed for a leprechaun.
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Karen Weise / New York Times:
Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal — The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million. — SEATTLE — Amazon has embarked on an extraordinary hiring binge this year, vacuuming up an average of 1,400 …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
When he leaves office, can ex-President Trump be trusted with America's national security secrets? … WASHINGTON — When David Priess was a CIA officer, he traveled to Houston, he recalls, to brief former President George H.W. Bush on classified developments in the Middle East.
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Will Wilkinson / New York Times:
Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Trump? — To the dismay of Democrats, the president's strategy of ignoring the pandemic mostly worked for Republicans. — President Trump's disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic probably cost him re-election.
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American Thinker and Wall Street Journal
Anthony Kuhn / NPR:
North Korea Executed Coronavirus Rule-Breaker, Says South Korean Intelligence — North Korea is taking increasingly harsh measures to stop the coronavirus from entering the country, including executing an official in August who violated anti-virus rules, South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers on Friday.
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Washington Post:
Trump officials move to relax rules on killing birds — Overhaul of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act would not hold firms liable for ‘incidentally’ causing scores of bird deaths — The Trump administration published an analysis Friday finding that its rule easing companies' liability …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Blame game erupts over Trump's decline in youth vote — Nobody involved in Donald Trump's reelection thought the president would win the youth vote in 2020. But they didn't think it would be this bad. — Now the finger pointing has begun. — When the data came pouring in after Election Day …
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CBS News:
Former director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs not “necessarily surprised” by firing — See the interview with the man President Trump ousted after he said the election was secure, Sunday night on 60 Minutes. — Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …
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Washington Examiner, New York Post and Talking Points Memo
Zoë Beery / New York Times:
The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism — Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money. — Lately, Sam Jacobs has been having a lot of conversations with his family's lawyers. He's trying to gain access to more of his $30 million trust fund.
Allyson Waller / New York Times:
U.S. Border Agency Settles With 2 Americans Detained for Speaking Spanish — In a video of the 2018 incident in Havre, Mont., a Border Patrol agent is heard telling the two American women he detains that speaking Spanish in the small city is “very unheard-of.”
Julian Brave NoiseCat / NBC News:
In Trump v. Biden, Native American voters played a crucial role. It's time to recognize that. — On Election Night, CNN broadcast a table showing the results of an exit poll that broke the national electorate down into racial demographics. It read: White — 65 percent, Latino — 13 percent …
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