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Mark Becker / The Bulwark:
My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won't Admit It — The Wisconsin senator says it would be “political suicide.” — November 14, 8:37 a.m. my phone rings. I do a double take on my caller ID and realize who is calling. I take a deep breath and answer the phone.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
MAGA-ite in Manhattan?: Ivanka Trump's political ambitions seek new home after the White House — Friends and former associates say they expect the first daughter to think about running for office, or at least get involved in some way in Republican politics.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal — (CNN)The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon …
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Jennifer Rodgers / The Daily Beast:
Here's How Rudy Giuliani's Push for a Preemptive Pardon Could Backfire
Here's How Rudy Giuliani's Push for a Preemptive Pardon Could Backfire
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New York Times:
Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani
Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Biden: 'We're Going to Fight Like Hell by Investing in America First' — My talk with Joe Biden on his first few months, and his next four years. — President-elect Joe Biden was in a good mood as we talked on the phone Tuesday evening for an hour — he in Delaware and me in Bethesda, Md. He apologized, though, for being late.
NBC News:
Release of PPP loan recipients data reveals troubling patterns — Following months of litigation between the Small Business Administration and news organizations seeking data about who benefited from pandemic relief programs, the agency on Tuesday night released a sweeping dataset …
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Washington Post:
More than half of emergency small-business funds went to larger businesses, new data shows — The Trump administration has emphasized PPP loans to small firms, but data released Tuesday shows that most of the $522 billion went to about 600 larger companies and chains
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Axios:
Trump likely to announce 2024 bid, but GOP rivals say power will fade post-White House — President Trump is likely to announce he'll run again in 2024, perhaps before this term even ends, sources tell Axios. — Why it matters: Trump has already set in motion two important strategies …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Election-Fraud Business Is Booming
Trump's Election-Fraud Business Is Booming
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile — Doug Band worked alongside Bill Clinton every day for nearly two decades, first as a body man and then as one of the primary architects of his lucrative and often-fraught post-presidency. Then came a seismic falling out with accusations of self-dealing and soap-opera-level psychodrama.
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Politico:
Congress shoots down Trump's threat to veto defense bill — Congress is moving forward on a must-pass defense policy bill without repealing a legal shield for social media companies, rejecting a last-minute veto threat from President Donald Trump. — The final version of the National …
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Michelle Roberts / BBC:
Covid-19: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine judged safe for use in UK from next week — The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. — Britain's medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.K. Authorizes Pfizer, BioNTech's Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
U.K. Authorizes Pfizer, BioNTech's Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
C.D.C. Shortens Quarantine Guidance and Warns Against Holiday Travel
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
The GOP's electoral mischief — MO PROBLEMS — Scooplet: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has been telling colleagues and allies that he plans to challenge the Electoral College votes when Congress officially certifies Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6, as long as a Senate Republican joins him in the long-shot effort, sources tell your Huddle host.
New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Biden to Discuss Virus-Weakened Economy Amid Stalemate Over Aid — President-elect Joe Biden is set to meet virtually with small-business owners and workers hurt by the pandemic. The Justice Department is investigating a potential bribery scheme for a Trump pardon.
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
GOP leader McDaniel to run for 3rd term with Trump's backing — Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, is launching her bid for a third two-year term heading the GOP's governing organization after the party's stronger-than-anticipated showing in November's election, even though President Donald Trump lost.
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Mark Kelly to be sworn in Wednesday, giving Arizona two Democratic senators for first time in more than six decades
Mark Kelly to be sworn in Wednesday, giving Arizona two Democratic senators for first time in more than six decades
Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell chokes up during goodbye floor speech to longtime friend Lamar Alexander
Mitch McConnell chokes up during goodbye floor speech to longtime friend Lamar Alexander
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Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock runoff crosses a line — One of Kelly Loeffler's first public appearances as a U.S. senator came last January at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. — “I am so humbled to be here with you today in this sacred place …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
RNC blasts Politico over Michigan election story — Politico chief political correspondent Tim Alberta packed a lot into his sizzling Nov. 24 feature, “The Inside Story of Michigan's Fake Voter Fraud Scandal.” There's a tight narration of the Trump campaign's destructive effort to undo the Michigan vote …
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone, Who Had His Ass Saved by Barr, Turns on ‘Deep State’ Attorney General — SNAKE PIT — Remember in February when Attorney General Bill Barr trashed his department's reputation to override the recommended prison term for Roger Stone and push for a much shorter sentence?
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Obama: Criminal justice reformers ‘lost a big audience’ with defund the police rhetoric — Former President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview that “defund the police” was little more than a “snappy slogan” that polarized many Americans and was ineffectual at producing broader reforms …
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Veronique de Rugy / National Review:
Walter Williams, R.I.P. — The great economist and freedom fighter Walter Williams has died. This is an incredibly sad news. Walter was a great communicator of ideas and a prolific, provocative and uncompromising writer. He was the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time — Singapore's approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across industry — Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time.
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FiveThirtyEight:
There Wasn't That Much Split-Ticket Voting In 2020 — The narrative of the 2020 election is that Joe Biden did pretty well ... but down-ballot Democrats, not so much. And while this is true if you look simply at the results — Republicans defended most of their vulnerable Senate seats …
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Isabella Kwai / New York Times:
U.N. Reclassifies Cannabis as a Less Dangerous Drug — A United Nations commission voted to remove marijuana for medical use from a list of the most risky narcotics, such as heroin. — A United Nations commission voted on Wednesday to remove cannabis for medicinal purposes from a category …
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Robert Sanchez / 5280:
Why Did Palantir Technologies Move Its Headquarters From Silicon Valley to Denver? — The secretive and controversial data-mining firm moved its headquarters to LoDo earlier this year. And while some city and state government officials lobbied for the relocation, others are furious.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Robert Mueller does rare interview in ‘Oath’ podcast — NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Rosenberg makes no secret of his admiration for Robert Mueller. — Keep that in mind, along with the format of Rosenberg's podcast “The Oath,” now that NBC announced that the former special counsel who looked …
Wall Street Journal:
China Has One Powerful Friend Left in the U.S.: Wall Street — Trade deal left many U.S. industries disappointed, but financial firms such as BlackRock see a potential windfall — In February 2018, Beijing's chief trade negotiator was in Washington to try to avert a trade war.
Politico:
Anticipating Senate bottlenecks, Biden races to fill agency jobs — Now that he's chosen a big chunk of his Cabinet nominees, President-elect Joe Biden's transition team is focusing increasingly on selecting candidates for government positions that do not require Senate confirmation.
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