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7:00 AM ET, November 30, 2020

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Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Fills Out His Economic Team  —  President-elect's picks include Neera Tanden to head the Office of Management and Budget and Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers  —  WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate a team of liberal and centrist economic advisers …
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Washington Post:
Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Jennifer Psaki, a veteran Democratic spokeswoman, will be Joe Biden's White House press secretary, one of seven women who will fill the upper ranks of his administration's communications staff.
Transition / President-Elect Joe Biden:
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Announce Members of White House Senior Communications Staff  —  WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris today announced new members of the White House staff who will serve in senior communications roles.
Ben White / Politico:   Deese to be Biden's top White House economic adviser
Bloomberg:
Biden to Name Tanden as Budget Chief, Likely Riling GOP
Discussion: CBS News and New York Post
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:   Biden Expected to Name Top Economic Officials This Week
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The King of Trump TV Thinks You're Dumb Enough to Buy It  —  Chris Ruddy, the C.E.O. of Newsmax, has found a business opportunity in feeding Trump supporters the fantasy that the president could still win the election.  —  In 2004, Hillary Clinton was in the Senate and Christopher Ruddy had some making up to do.
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Fired director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs explains why President Trump's claims of election interference are false  —  Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, was put in charge of the agency handling election security by President Trump two years ago.  When Krebs said the election …
CNN:
Biden's doctor says he has hairline fractures in his foot after slipping while playing with his dog  —  Washington, DC (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden has hairline fractures in his “mid-foot” and will “likely require a walking boot for several weeks,” his doctor said in a statement Sunday …
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Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Fox News' Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election.  It was filled with lies  —  New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump on Sunday spoke with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo — his first TV interview since the election.  The conversation was riddled with lies and conspiracy theories.
Discussion: USA Today, Slate, Daily Kos and Vanity Fair
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CNN Panel Blasts Fox's Bartiromo Over ‘Delusional’ Trump Interview: ‘Not Much Daylight Between Maria and Alex Jones’
CNN:
Tom Donilon no longer in the running to be Biden's CIA director  —  (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden is still weighing who will lead the Central Intelligence Agency, but Tom Donilon is no longer under consideration for the post, CNN has learned.  —  Two sources familiar with the matter say Donilon …
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:   Biden Could Score Another First at CIA
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount  —  The president's son stars in a new ad campaign as Republicans worry Trump's voter fraud accusations will depress GOP turnout in the Senate runoffs.  —  Save the U.S. Senate PAC will this week start airing commercials …
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Associated Press:
Faith takes the forefront as Georgia Senate runoffs heat up
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Discussion: Twitchy, The Hill and Law & Crime
Jemima McEvoy / Forbes:
Trump Claims FBI And Justice Department May Have Helped Rig Election  —  Despite having finally assented to allowing his administration to cooperate with the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden, President Trump on Sunday continued to spout baseless voter fraud claims …
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Jack Brewster / Forbes:
Trump: ‘My Mind Will Not Change In Six Months’ About Election Outcome
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
We Won't Forget and We Won't Forgive What Trumpists Did to America  —  It's not enough to merely enjoy their agony and humiliation.  It's not enough to hope they'll be shamed and correct their behavior.  Have you not met these people?  —  BEAST INSIDE … The dark is rising for Trump's sycophants, toadies and enablers.
New York Times:
Black Voguers Populate Billboards in a Times Square ‘Midnight Moment’  —  The opportunity to stage “Black Magic” in Times Square “was a great proposition to do something transgressive,” said the artist Rashaad Newsome.  —  Just before midnight every evening in December …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
'They'll freeze them out': Democrats fear Senate Republicans will block Biden's judges  —  McConnell could stymie the president-elect's ability to get his judicial nominations confirmed.  —  President-elect Joe Biden delivers a Thanksgiving address on Nov. 25, 2020.  Mark Makela/Getty Images
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USA Today:   To this Supreme Court, religious freedom trumps public health — even amid COVID-19 plague
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Political lying as tribal signaling  —  It's like getting a tattoo to prove you're in a gang  —  Why have so many Republicans and right-wing media figures embraced Donald Trump's obviously made-up claims of voter fraud?  Rationally, they must know that all of the allegations are lies.
Financial Times:
EU pitches new post-Trump alliance with US in face of China challenge  —  Brussels draft plan seeks to rebuild ties with common fronts on tech, Covid-19 and democratic interests  —  The EU will call on the US to seize a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to forge a new global alliance …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters and Political Wire
Marie Albiges / Press Association:
Pa. counties reported no major issues with Dominion voting machines, a target of Trump and his campaign  —  This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access.  This article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat's republishing policy.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
The House members already facing the redistricting chopping block  —  The 2020 elections were ugly.  The redistricting battles of the next two years will be even more brutal.  —  The decennial process will produce hundreds of new congressional districts, turning safe seats …
Politico:
Trump administration leaves states to grapple with how to distribute scarce vaccines  —  The Trump administration has told states that they have ultimate authority for determining who gets vaccinated first.  —  Dr. Moncef Slaoui (left) and Army Gen. Gustave Perna of Operation Warp Speed listen during …
 
 
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Jon Ossoff lost the first high-profile race of the Trump era. Can he win the last one?
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Dehumanising: Israeli groups' verdict on military invasions of Palestinian homes
The Guardian:
At least 110 dead in Nigeria after suspected Boko Haram attack
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Rahm Emanuel floated for Transportation secretary
Reuters:
France must review COVID-19 crowd limits on church attendance
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Restaurant Holdouts Defy Covid-19 Shutdown Orders
 Earlier Items: 
Fox News:
Bobby Jindal & Wes Anderson: Hispanic support for Republicans growing as Democrats move leftward
Steve Inskeep / New York Times:
Trump Looms Large Now, but Maybe Not Forever
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Trump floats appointing a ‘special prosecutor’ in addition to Durham to investigate Trump-Russia investigators
Discussion: Raw Story
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Nike and Coca-Cola Lobby Against Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
From Terre Haute to Tehran to your grandma, Trumpism is revealed as a death cult in the end
Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
Wisconsin recount confirms Biden's win over Trump, cementing the president's failure to change the election results
 

 
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