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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources — “This is embarrassing for ICE,” the former acting director of the agency said. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line.” — Copy — Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena …
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
A Gathering Political Storm Hits Georgia, With Trump on the Way — With two crucial Senate seats up for grabs, Mike Pence and Barack Obama joined the fray in support of their party's candidates, and President Trump is headed there on Saturday. — ATLANTA — Some of the biggest names …
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CNN, The Hill, Slate and wabe.org, more at Mediagazer »
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Tanni Deb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Loeffler cancels rally plans after campaign staffer dies — One of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign staffers died Friday, forcing her to cancel her plans to join Vice President Mike Pence in Savannah for a rally.Loeffler's communications director issued the following statement …
CNN:
Trump's criticism of GOP Senate candidates has Republicans worried ahead of rally
Trump's criticism of GOP Senate candidates has Republicans worried ahead of rally
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Breitbart, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, IJR, COURIER, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Business Insider and Florida Politics
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
They're Fine With It — Republicans have no qualms with Trump's dangerous conspiracies …
They're Fine With It — Republicans have no qualms with Trump's dangerous conspiracies …
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ABC News, driftglass, HotAir, Reason, Real Clear Politics, Raw Story and The Guardian
Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Republicans brace for Trump rally in Georgia that could make or break Senate runoffs
Republicans brace for Trump rally in Georgia that could make or break Senate runoffs
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Fox News, RedState and Al Jazeera
Politico:
White House fires Pentagon advisory board members, installs loyalists — The White House removed nine members of the Pentagon's Defense Business Board on Friday and installed people loyal to President Donald Trump in their place, including presidential allies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.
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CNN:
Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial law — (CNN)President Donald Trump's nominee to become a senior Pentagon official spread debunked conspiracies on Twitter that called Trump's election loss to Joe Biden a “coup” …
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MSNBC, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Election Law Blog
Hallie Golden / Lead Stories:
Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Suitcases Filled With Ballots Suspiciously Pulled From Under A Table; Poll Watchers Were NOT Told To Leave — Fact Check — Does security camera video show a Fulton County, Georgia, election supervisor suspiciously pulling suitcases filled …
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Media Matters for America:
Touting efforts to subvert the election, Rush Limbaugh bemoans that Trump supporters are coming across as “kooks” — Contrary to Limbaugh's assertion that a majority of the American public believes there was fraud in the election, a Monmouth University poll released two weeks ago found …
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HotAir
Errin Haines / The 19th:
Kellyanne Conway acknowledges ‘it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail’ — The former adviser to President Donald Trump reflects on his presidency, women voters and her own historic role in the campaign. — Editor-at-large — Kellyanne Conway said President Donald Trump has …
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Associated Press, Axios, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Washington Post, IJR, The Hill, Political Wire, Breitbart and Washington Examiner
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Biden Clinches Electoral College Win as California Certifies
Biden Clinches Electoral College Win as California Certifies
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Washington Examiner
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Eleventh Circuit Dismisses Sidney Powell and Lin Wood's Appeal in Georgia Kraken Case: The Answer Is ‘No’ — A federal appellate court bookended a roller coaster of a week by rejecting Sidney Powell and Lin Wood's appeal in the so-called Kraken case that they filed in the state of Georgia.
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Mediaite, National Memo and How Appealing
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Lin Wood and Sidney Powell Now, or They Will Control the GOP's Destiny
Stop Lin Wood and Sidney Powell Now, or They Will Control the GOP's Destiny
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Washington Examiner and HotAir
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to decriminalize marijuana as GOP resists national shift on pot — The House endorsed a landmark retreat in the nation's decades-long war on drugs Friday, voting to remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances and provide for the regulation and taxation of legal cannabis sales.
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Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Meet the lieutenant governor pushing Democrats to get serious about weed
Meet the lieutenant governor pushing Democrats to get serious about weed
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Vox, The Lid and Balloon Juice
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
House Passes Landmark Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana
House Passes Landmark Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana
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The Appeal, POLITICUSUSA, Common Dreams, Marijuana Moment, The Right Scoop, TheBlaze, Townhall and Fortune
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Congress' vote to decriminalize marijuana, explained
Congress' vote to decriminalize marijuana, explained
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Politico, Mother Jones, Mic, The Daily Caller and UPI
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
DHS Must Post Online Notice Welcoming Dreamers, Judge Rules in Rescinding Unlawful Chad Wolf Memo — Formally rescinding acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf's memo on the grounds that he was illegally appointed, a federal judge on Friday ordered the DHS to unfurl the welcome mat …
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Boing Boing
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge restores DACA, orders DHS to accept first-time applications from immigrants
Federal judge restores DACA, orders DHS to accept first-time applications from immigrants
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New York Times, Business Insider, HotAir and Washington Times
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore DACA
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore DACA
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NBC News, Politico, Associated Press, CBS News, Bloomberg, CNN, The Guardian, Townhall, NPR, Roll Call, The Nevada Independent, Fox News, KTLA, Boundless, TheBlaze, KTSM-TV and NBC Chicago
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Trump Orders All American Troops Out of Somalia — While the number of troops — about 700 — is small, it is a continuation of President Trump's efforts to withdraw the United States from what he has described as endless wars. — WASHINGTON — President Trump, continuing his end …
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, CNN, Fox News, Associated Press, Axios, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, The New Arab, TheBlaze, Forbes, Al Jazeera, Washington Times, New York Post and The Week
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Will Move Nearly All Troops Out of Somalia, Officials Say
U.S. Will Move Nearly All Troops Out of Somalia, Officials Say
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National Review, ABC News, The Hill, The Guardian, Boing Boing, One America News Network, Political Wire and Task & Purpose
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Trump orders troop withdrawal from Somalia
Trump orders troop withdrawal from Somalia
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like John Durham? — How should the next attorney general, whoever he or she turns out to be, handle the John Durham probe? — The more I study what Attorney General Bill Barr did in his secret October order naming the Connecticut U.S. attorney as a special counsel …
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HotAir and New York Times
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Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
Durham Recommends Jail Time for Ex-FBI Lawyer Clinesmith Who Altered Carter Page Email
Durham Recommends Jail Time for Ex-FBI Lawyer Clinesmith Who Altered Carter Page Email
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CourtListener, Law & Crime, RedState, The Stream and Gregg Jarrett
Sunny Oh / MarketWatch:
Wall Street and finance workers could get COVID vaccines before most Americans — Financial industry workers could be second in line after healthcare workers and nursing home residents — Wall Street could get a shot in the arm in the coming months, while much of Main Street waits months for their COVID inoculations.
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Coronavirus live updates: CDC advises people to wear masks indoors at all times, except at home — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
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KVIA-TV, The Gander, National Review, New York Post, UPI, The Week, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Politico
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — Since the beginning of the pandemic, public-health experts have warned of one particular nightmare.
Politico:
Meet the thorn in the Biden transition's side — An obscure figure just a few months ago, JEFF HAUSER has now become the media's go-to left-wing critic of the incoming Biden administration. — The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Associated Press …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
How Melbourne eradicated Covid-19 — Life is almost back to normal in Melbourne, Australia. Here's how they did it. — SHARE All sharing options — In July and August, the Australian state of Victoria was going through a second Covid-19 wave. Local leaders set an improbable goal in the face of that challenge.
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
RNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago — Digital Consulting Group made $42 million in eight months for media and marketing services. But who's behind it? — In August, Salon reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) …
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The Intellectualist
Aaron Mak / Slate:
We'll Be Stuck With Trump's Postmaster General for a While — One of President Donald Trump's most controversial officials is very likely to keep his job under the Biden administration: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Over the summer, the former logistics executive and major Trump donor …
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Fox News, Breitbart, CNBC, The Daily Caller and Newsbusters
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The GOP Is Fighting to Block Red-State Bailouts — For eight months now, Mitch McConnell has been preventing the federal government from providing fiscal aid to America's state and municipal governments. The Senate Majority Leader and his far-right colleagues have obstructed such aid even though:
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Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Kos and Business Insider
CNN:
White House exodus begins even as Trump continues to baselessly claim victory — (CNN)White House staffers at all levels are plotting their departures as a growing number of aides to President Donald Trump are abandoning his quest to overturn the 2020 election results — some in frustration with the building they are leaving behind.
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HotAir and Political Wire
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Stevie Nicks Sells Stake in Songwriting Catalog — Music publisher Primary Wave takes 80% interest in Fleetwood Mac star's catalog — Stevie Nicks closed a deal to sell a majority stake in her publishing catalog late last month, on the heels of Fleetwood Mac's “Dreams” hitting the Billboard charts for the first time since 1977.
Jacqueline Thomsen / LAW.com:
Judge Questions Whether Trump's Pardon of Michael Flynn Is ‘Too Broad’ — U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said his colleague Emmet Sullivan could find that “the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”
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emptywheel and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Judges turn back claims by Trump and his allies in six states as the president's legal effort founders — President Trump and his allies faced a crush of defeats in post-election litigation Friday, a further sign of their ongoing failure to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory through …
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The Nevada Independent, BuzzFeed News, RedState, Snopes.com, HotAir and Daily Kos
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
This Is Your Brain on Newsmax — What it's like bingeing on the Fox-killer. — Since the glorious defeat of Donald Trump, I had been ensconced in my cozy coastal elite Twitter bubble, only privy to the bursts of Sidney Powell and Lin Wood crazy when it inserted itself in my feed.
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Washington Post and Bulwark+
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan Court of Appeals rejects another Trump lawsuit over Michigan election — LANSING — The Michigan Court of Appeals on Friday rejected an appeal from the Trump presidential campaign challenging Michigan's election results, in the latest in a series of court defeats for the president.
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The Hill and Associated Press
Michael Stratford / Politico:
DeVos extends student loan pause through January — The last-minute extension averts what could have been a potentially chaotic resumption of payments. — The Trump administration on Friday granted an extra month of student loan relief to the 41 million Americans who have been benefiting …
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ED News, Business Insider, USA Today, The Daily Caller, One America News Network and NPR
Washington Post:
Sanders announces opposition to $908 billion coronavirus relief package as lawmakers scramble for deal — Opposition from former presidential candidate shows that not all liberals will embrace the targeted package. — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday announced his opposition …
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USA Today, Fortune, Raw Story, Business Insider, Common Dreams, The Hill and The Week