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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Already Gaming Out a 2024 Run—Including an Event During Biden's Inauguration — He's not yet conceded 2020 but is already looking at keeping Republicans in line and making Biden's life miserable. — In the twilight of his presidency, Donald Trump is discussing different ways …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden, Iran and the Bomb — Will he throw away Trump's Mideast gains to return to a bad nuclear deal? — By The Editorial Board — The Democratic establishment will soon be back in charge of U.S. foreign policy, and the question is how much they've learned in exile.
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Iran scientist's assassination appears intended to undermine nuclear deal
Iran scientist's assassination appears intended to undermine nuclear deal
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The Economist, Washington Examiner, New York Times and The Week
Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Killing of suspected Iranian nuclear mastermind risks confrontation as Trump exits
Killing of suspected Iranian nuclear mastermind risks confrontation as Trump exits
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SpyTalk, Al Jazeera, Iran, Business Insider, New York Post and Responsible Statecraft
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
How Democrats Suffered Crushing Down-Ballot Losses Across America — In statehouse races, suburban voters' disgust with President Trump failed to translate into a rebuke of other Republicans, ensuring the party's grip on partisan mapmaking. — WEXFORD, Pa. — Just a few seats shy of a majority …
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Politico, Boston Herald and CNN
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why did Democrats bleed House seats? A top analyst offers surprising answers.
Why did Democrats bleed House seats? A top analyst offers surprising answers.
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The Gateway Pundit, USAPP and Forbes
New York Times:
McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses — Court filings reveal consultants' talk of a records purge during the opioid crisis, and shed new light on sales advice given to the billionaire Sackler family and their drug company, Purdue Pharma.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story
Alison Dirr / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Milwaukee County presidential recount wraps up with Biden adding to his margin over Trump — Milwaukee County's recount of the presidential election vote tally came to an end Friday, with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden adding 132 votes to his margin of victory over President Donald Trump in Milwaukee County.
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
US is ‘rounding the corner into a calamity,’ expert says, with Covid-19 deaths projected to double soon — (CNN)As Thanksgiving week draws to an end, more experts are warning the Covid-19 pandemic will likely get much worse in the coming weeks before a possible vaccine begins to offer some relief.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Are you on the list? Biden's democracy summit spurs anxieties — and skepticism — President-elect Joe Biden has promised to host a gathering of the world's democracies next year, hoping to show that a post-Donald Trump America will be committed to democracy abroad and at home.
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Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, National Review, (We) Are The News and Lucianne RSS Syndicate
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Covid Overload: U.S. Hospitals Are Running Out of Beds for Patients — As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the country, hospitals are facing a crisis-level shortage of beds and staff to provide adequate care for patients. — In excruciating pain with lesions on her face and scalp …
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Carter Page sues James Comey, Andrew McCabe, the FBI, and others for $75M
Carter Page sues James Comey, Andrew McCabe, the FBI, and others for $75M
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Conservative News Today and RedState
Washington Post:
In nine states, at least 1 in 1,000 people have died of coronavirus-linked causes — As daily covid-19 deaths climb to levels not seen since early in the pandemic, nine states have hit one more grim marker: more than 1 in every 1,000 people dead of coronavirus-related causes.
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Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
The Loneliness of One-Click Shopping — How did it become a patriotic duty to buy online? — 27 de noviembre de 2020 a las 05:00 ET — One December day in 1991, a woman walked into a Bon-Ton department store in Ithaca, N.Y., in a state of high anxiety. Christmas loomed and she had yet to purchase a single gift.
Matt Margolis / pjmedia.com:
Johns Hopkins Study Saying COVID-19 Has ‘Relatively No Effect on Deaths’ in U.S. Deleted After Publication — Conventional wisdom is that COVID-19 has caused thousands of deaths in the United States and nearly 1.5 million worldwide. This perception has been directly challenged by a study published …
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Louder With Crowder, (We) Are The News, RedState, Israpundit, The College Fix and The Gateway Pundit
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Trump moves to strip job protections from White House budget analysts as he races to transform civil service — The outgoing Trump administration is racing to enact the biggest change to the federal civil service in generations, reclassifying career employees at key agencies to strip …
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Aims to Appoint Liberal Judges After Trump's Conservative Push — President-elect will seek nominees who see robust role for judiciary in addressing national problems, protecting individual rights — WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden in January will begin an effort to recalibrate …
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The Hill, Associated Press, Politico and Raw Story
Megan Henney / Fox Business:
Mnuchin plans to move $455B in coronavirus relief out of Biden's reach — Moving the money into the General Fund would make it harder for Biden administration to access it — Pelosi, Mnuchin ‘getting closer’ on stimulus deal: Tyler Goodspeed — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected …
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CBS Pittsburgh:
Pennsylvania Republican Lawmakers Introduce Resolution Disputing 2020 Election Results — HARRISBURG (KDKA) — Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers have introduced a resolution intending to dispute the 2020 election results on Friday. — The resolution intends to declare the 2020 election results as being …
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Israpundit and Washington Examiner
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Overstock CEO Says He's Put Together an ‘Army of Various Odd People’ to Save Trump — After resigning in 2019 following claims that he'd romanced a Russian agent, Patrick Byrne is back and he says he's funding a team of “hackers and cybersleuths” to rescue Trump.
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Raw Story
Emma Hurt / NPR:
Republican Infighting Threatens GOP Chances In Georgia Senate Runoff — Campaigning in Georgia's two Senate runoffs is well underway, but Republicans are still fighting over the state's November election and casting doubt on its voting system without evidence.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Pennsylvania State Judge Upholds Halt To Certification, Finds Likelihood Mail-In Balloting Procedures Violate PA Constitution — Upholds injunction issued earlier in the week, finds “Petitioners appear to have a viable claim that the mail-in ballot procedures set forth in Act 77 contravene Pa. Const.
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Small Dead Animals and Power Line
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A.'s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance — WASHINGTON — President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency was rushing to complete one of its last regulatory priorities, aiming to obstruct the creation of air- and water-pollution controls far into the future, when a senior career scientist moved to hobble it.
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
NY22: Democratic Incumbent Brindisi Reportedly Leads Challenger Tenney by Only 13 Votes — “[State Supreme Court] Judge [Scott] DelConte has already verbally ruled that ballots invalid that are in [Brindisi's] count.” — Incumbent Democrat Anthony Brindisi for New York's 22nd Congressional District leads …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
‘Historically strange’ spike in incomplete Nevada voter files, casinos as ‘home’ — An analysis of Nevada votes has uncovered an unprecedented jump in problem voter registrations, likely providing the Trump campaign with another avenue to challenge Joe Biden's victory in the critical state.
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times