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National Review:
Trump's Disgraceful Endgame — The Supreme Court Got Church Restrictions Right — Biden's Cabinet: What a Hillary Clinton Administration Would Have Looked Like — You Have a National Adoption Month Date on Monday Morning — President Trump said the other day that he'd leave office …
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The Hill, Law & Crime, The Week, Alternet.org and HotAir
New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Arizona Certifies Biden's Victory and Wisconsin Is Expected to Certify Within Hours — Here's what you need to know: — Arizona certifies Biden's victory in the state and Wisconsin is expected to follow suit later today.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Live updates: Arizona certifies Biden's win; president-elect names inauguration planning committee — The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Arizona certifies Biden's win
Arizona certifies Biden's win
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Fox News, CNBC, National Review, Mediaite and Washington Times
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Arizona certifies Biden's narrow victory over Trump
Arizona certifies Biden's narrow victory over Trump
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Washington Times, Daily Kos, USA Today, Associated Press and Media Matters for America
Andrew Oxford / Arizona Republic:
Arizona secretary of state certifies election results with Biden winning state's 11 electoral votes
Arizona secretary of state certifies election results with Biden winning state's 11 electoral votes
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount — Advisers to Donald Trump Jr. are launching a super PAC to prod the president's supporters to vote in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, as Republicans grow concerned that Trump's backers will boycott the elections.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp to Trump: Georgia law blocks him from ‘interfering’ with elections — Gov. Brian Kemp's office responded Monday to President Donald Trump's demands to help him overturn Georgia's election results with a reminder that state law “prohibits the governor from interfering in the election.”
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
President Trump's interview is an embarrassing low mark for him, Fox News and, especially, interviewer Maria Bartiromo — Once a respected journalist and top business reporter, Bartiromo has seemingly sold her journalistic soul to become a sycophant for President Trump.
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Fox News Anchor Maria Bartiromo's Farcical Interview With Trump Marks the End of Her Days as a Journalist — Do you believe in magic? — Maria Bartiromo seems to. During her interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, the Fox News and Fox Business anchor promoted a Federalist article titled …
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Washington Post, HotAir and Vox, more at Mediagazer »
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here's one radical idea.
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here's one radical idea.
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NPR
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Divisions emerge among U.S. officials over when first Covid-19 vaccine doses will be available — and for whom — Divisions are emerging among top U.S. officials over when the country's first Covid-19 vaccine will be authorized — and who should be at the front of the line to get vaccinated.
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Jon Cohen / Science:
‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19
‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Obese Americans could be prioritized for coronavirus vaccine
The Health 202: Obese Americans could be prioritized for coronavirus vaccine
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Vanity Fair and National Review
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The GOP Is a Propaganda Party — Media parasites have taken control of the host. — Cymothoa exigua is a terrifying creature. — The parasite enters a fish through its gills, attaches to its tongue, consumes the tongue, and then becomes a sort of new tongue.
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New York Times, Raw Story and Washington Post
John Poulos / Wall Street Journal:
Fake Claims About Dominion Voting Systems Do Real Damage — Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm. We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez. — Accurate, transparent and accessible elections—this is the objective that motivated me to create Dominion Voting Systems 18 years ago in Canada.
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Gov. Larry Hogan / Washington Examiner:
Vote Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to uphold moderation and compromise in the US Senate — As a Republican governor in a deep-blue state, I know firsthand how one-party monopoly can wreak terrible consequences. In 2014, I ran for governor because I was fed up with career politicians …
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Fox News, No More Mister Nice Blog, The American Independent, Washington Times, Twitchy and National Review
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Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Georgia Senate runoffs: The final battles for control of the US Senate
Georgia Senate runoffs: The final battles for control of the US Senate
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Spectator USA and The Daily Caller
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
'They'll freeze them out': Democrats fear Senate Republicans will block Biden's judges
'They'll freeze them out': Democrats fear Senate Republicans will block Biden's judges
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Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Glenn Greenwald:
Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary's 2016 Votes to Trump — How can Democrats and allied media outlets credibly oppose unhinged conspiracy theories and attacks on U.S. election legitimacy while empowering its worst purveyors? — 1 hr ago
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a ‘Horrible’ Winter — With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.” — Each week, good news about vaccines or antibody treatments surfaces, offering hope that an end to the pandemic is at hand.
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The Bulwark
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Mastermind Behind Biden's No-Drama Approach to Trump — When Julián Castro wasn't given a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in August, he complained that Joe Biden's campaign wasn't showing proper respect to Latino voters. The real explanation for the snub is much simpler …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Liberal Hyperbole About Trump's Authoritarianism Was Never the Problem — As Donald Trump started shambling toward the exit of the U.S. presidency last week, the U.S. left confronted the pivotal question hanging over our newfound interregnum: Who gets to say, I told you so?
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Power Line
Nonzero.org:
Grading candidates for Biden's foreign policy team: Michèle Flournoy — Background: Flournoy, a candidate for secretary of defense, was an undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, where she played a big role in designing the Afghanistan “surge.”
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Common Dreams and IJR
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Hannah Knowles and By Hannah Knowles — National reporter covering law enforcement and criminal justice — Samuel Little guided his car to a stop in a secluded area off Route 27 near Miami and cut the engine. Before long, Mary Brosley had straddled his lap. He started playing with her necklace.
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Advances Lawsuit Accusing Felix Sater of Laundering Loot Through Trump Properties — A federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Russian mafia-tied businessman Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank through Trump Organization properties.
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Alternet.org, Raw Story and Political Wire
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20 — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will step down from his post on January 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, he announced Monday. — The announcement means that the FCC could reach …
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New York Post, UPI, TechCrunch, Deadline and Common Dreams
Julia Azari / FiveThirtyEight:
What Makes A One-Term President? — Donald Trump is officially a one-term president, the first to fail a reelection bid in nearly 30 years. But history shows his loss isn't surprising, given the circumstances. — One-term presidents used to be a lot more common.
Jochen Bittner / New York Times:
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America — Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. — HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court skeptical of Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census — The U.S. Supreme Court seemed wary on Monday of approving President Donald Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census figures that are used to calculate each state's representation …
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Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
How to protect our democracy from a future Donald Trump — American democracy has spent the past four years under attack — from the White House itself. President Trump's authoritarian populism has damaged the foundations of the republic. — Yet Trump's efforts to undermine the system have an unintended benefit.
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Raw Story
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why Joe Biden's broken foot reveals how different his White House will be from Donald Trump's — (CNN)Days before Thanksgiving last year, President Donald Trump made an unannounced and previously unscheduled trip to Walter Reed medical center. The White House said the trip was for a “quick exam and labs.”
The White House:
First Lady Melania Trump Unveils the 2020 White House Christmas Décor — The First Family is celebrating their fourth Christmas in the White House. This year's theme, “America the Beautiful,” is a tribute to the majesty of our great Nation. From coast to coast, our country is blessed with boundless natural wonders.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's campaign sent nearly as many emails in the three weeks after the election as the three weeks before — One of the moments of relief that follows any political campaign is the sudden drop-off in volume of appeals from candidates. Television programming that days earlier …
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Political Wire
Matthew Walther / The Week:
How camp explains Trump — Less than two months before Joe Biden's inauguration as our 46th president, it is time to begin seriously taking stock of our current one. A great deal has already been written about Donald Trump's legacy by his detractors, nearly all of it hysterical and unfocused.
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Foreign Policy
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's peculiar complaint about coverage of Biden's all-female press team — From literally the day after President Trump was inaugurated, his White House press operation has been anything but a model of honesty and good faith. — And now it appears ready to go out just as it came in.
Francesca Mari / New Yorker:
Using the Homeless to Guard Empty Houses — As the pandemic makes an already terrible housing crisis worse, a new version of house-sitting signals a broken real-estate market. — Wandering around Northwest Pasadena, I pressed my face against the window of a dingy pink stucco house at 265 Robinson Road.