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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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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.
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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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.
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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
Fox News Anchor Maria Bartiromo's Farcical Interview With Trump Marks the End of Her Days as a Journalist
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Washington Post, Al Jazeera, HotAir, The American Independent and Vox
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Fox News' Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election. It was filled with lies
Fox News' Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election. It was filled with lies
Brian Stelter / CNN:
‘Firehose of falsehood:’ How Trump is trying to confuse the public about the election outcome
‘Firehose of falsehood:’ How Trump is trying to confuse the public about the election outcome
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Raw Story
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 Week, HotAir and Alternet.org
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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Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Fills Out His Economic Team
Joe Biden Fills Out His Economic Team
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Biden taps Yellen for Treasury, announces other members of economic team
Biden taps Yellen for Treasury, announces other members of economic team
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New York Post
Jon Cohen / Science:
‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19 — Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. — Continuing the spate of stunning news about COVID-19 vaccines, the biotech company Moderna announced …
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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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National Review
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Covid-19: Moderna submits vaccine for FDA regulatory approval
Covid-19: Moderna submits vaccine for FDA regulatory approval
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Zachary Brennan / Politico:
Moderna to seek emergency FDA authorization for coronavirus vaccine
Moderna to seek emergency FDA authorization for coronavirus vaccine
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CNBC, Washington Examiner, HotAir, Politico and New York Post
Reuters:
Kushner heading to Saudi Arabia and Qatar amid tensions over Iranian scientist killing — Senior White House adviser and his team to travel this week for talks with Saudi crown prince and emir of Qatar — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is headed to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week …
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American Prospect, Defense One, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Axios and Raw Story
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The lame-duck checklist
POLITICO Playbook: The lame-duck checklist
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Dear Joe, It's Not About Iran's Nukes Anymore
Dear Joe, It's Not About Iran's Nukes Anymore
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CBS News, Financial Times, The Dispatch, Bloomberg and JNS.org
NBC News:
Biden's transition challenges grow by the day — WASHINGTON — For President-elect Joe Biden, the easy part was defeating an incumbent president nearly four weeks ago. — The hard part is his transition into office during a pandemic that's only getting worse, amid destabilizing events overseas …
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Fox News, Vanity Fair, Conservative News Today, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times and The Guardian
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Live updates: Biden names inauguration planning committee, is receiving first intelligence briefing
Live updates: Biden names inauguration planning committee, is receiving first intelligence briefing
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Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, NBC4 Washington, Daily Kos, Fox News and Mother Jones
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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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Electoral College is only getting worse — The Electoral College is a political abomination. As I have written before, rather than protecting the influence of small states, it grants overwhelming power to a handful of states that randomly happen to have a close partisan balance, which are mostly fairly large.
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Fortune, IJR and National Review
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Biden's Favorability Rises to 55%, Trump's Dips to 42%
Biden's Favorability Rises to 55%, Trump's Dips to 42%
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The American Independent and The Hill
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.
Mike Dunford / The Bulwark:
The ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit Was Released And It's Way Dumber Than You Realize — Every time you think you have a grasp of how preposterous the Trump team's election lawsuits are, another one comes out, dumber and more conspiracy-filled than the last. — The Pennsylvania monstrosity that was submitted …
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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 …
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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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Politico, TechCrunch, Common Dreams and Deadline
Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Chuck Grassley cleared by doctors to return to work following COVID-19 diagnosis — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley returned to work at his Washington office Monday after completing a quarantine period caused by a positive coronavirus test earlier this month. — Grassley, 87, tested positive for coronavirus on Nov. 17.
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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Politico:
Trump administration leaves states to grapple with how to distribute scarce vaccines — The Trump administration is shunting to the states hard decisions about which Americans will get the limited early supplies of coronavirus vaccines — setting up a confusing patchwork of distribution plans …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Bipartisan Senate group revives coronavirus relief talks — A bipartisan group of senators is trying to jump-start stalled coronavirus stimulus talks during the lame duck, with congressional leaders still at odds over providing more relief as cases and deaths spike ahead of the coming winter.
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Axios and The American Independent
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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Washington Times and Twitchy