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7:35 PM ET, December 7, 2020

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Jill Cowan / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump Officials Passed When Pfizer Offered to Sell More Vaccine Doses in Late Summer  —  Britain is readying a mass vaccination drive.  New York City reopened elementary schools.  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Trump administration officials passed …
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Lev Facher / STAT:
Leading Covid-19 vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna decline invitations to White House ‘Vaccine Summit’  —  Both Pfizer and Moderna, the two major drug manufacturers likely to receive emergency authorizations for a Covid-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, have rejected invitations from President Trump …
New York Times:
Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. more vaccine doses.  —  Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. government additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: The Hill and The Intellectualist
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time  —  You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna's mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13.  This was just two days …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump to sign coronavirus vaccine executive order prioritizing Americans over foreign nations  —  Order reemphasizes the Trump administration's ‘America First’ approach  —  HHS Secretary Azar: Coronavirus vaccine could be distributed 24 hours after approval
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Yes, your boss can fire you if you refuse to get a Covid vaccine
Discussion: Twitchy
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard  —  State police brandishing firearms raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health employee who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to manipulate data.
Aaron Reich / Jerusalem Post:
Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready  —  This “Galactic Federation” has supposedly been in contact with Israel and the US for years, but are keeping themselves a secret to prevent hysteria until humanity is ready.  —  Has the State of Israel made contact with aliens?
Discussion: The Mary Sue and The New Arab
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Aaron Feis / New York Post:   Aliens in hiding until mankind is ready, says ex-Israeli space head
Phillip Nieto / The Daily Caller:   Aliens Convinced Trump To Keep Them Secret, Claims Ex-Israeli Space Head
Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic:
‘This Must Be Your First’  —  On the evening of September 11, 1980, my mom was approached by a neighbor who held rank in the Turkish military.  He told her to stock up on bread and rice.  “Oh, another coup,” she immediately groaned.  The neighbor was aghast—he wasn't supposed to tell anyone what was coming.
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Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC to Name Rashida Jones President, Succeeding Phil Griffin  —  Mr. Griffin, who has been with the cable news network for 25 years, will leave after the end of January  —  MSNBC is expected to name Rashida Jones as the network's president, people familiar with the matter said …
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Ahiza García-Hodges / NBC News:   Rashida Jones named next president of MSNBC
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Outgoing Trump White House Sues Incoming Biden White House to Disenfranchise Wisconsin's Most Diverse Counties  —  The outgoing White House's desperate efforts to steal a second term in office reached new heights with a new lawsuit on Monday against President-elect Joe Biden …
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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Maya Harris aided effort to boost husband's attorney general bid
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
CNN:
Aides speculate if Trump will travel to Mar-a-Lago for holidays and never return
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and KVIA-TV
The White House:
First Lady Melania Trump Announces Completion of the New White House Tennis Pavilion
Discussion: Mediaite, Bloomberg and New York Post
Wilson Wong / NBC News:
Former Alabama senator dies of Covid at age 78, and in his last words warns, ‘We messed up’ … A former Alabama state senator died of Covid-19 last week at age 78, officials said.  —  Former Sen. Larry Dixon, a Republican who also served as the executive director of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners …
Discussion: The Hill and al.com
Politico:
Biden picks retired general Lloyd Austin to run Pentagon  —  Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, once viewed as a long-shot candidate to be President-elect Joe Biden's defense secretary, has been chosen to lead the Pentagon, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.
FiveThirtyEight:
What The Polls Say About Georgia's Senate Runoffs  —  Headed into the 2020 election, we knew that Election Day might turn into Election Week or even Election Month because of the huge increase in mail voting due to the coronavirus pandemic.  While it thankfully didn't take a month to find …
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Graham Piro / Washington Free Beacon:
Pro-Life Groups Rip Warnock for Abortion Support
Discussion: Fox News and Power Line
Kevin Roose / New York Times:   No, Kelly Loeffler didn't wear a wire during a debate.
Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
‘The people have spoken’: Michigan judge rejects lawsuit from disavowed Trump attorney  —  A Michigan federal judge has ruled against a sweeping legal bid to overturn election results in the state, determining the lawsuit brought by an ally of President Donald Trump was riddled with “theories …
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David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia court rejects latest Trump lawsuit over faulty paperwork
Discussion: Hamodia, Raw Story and UPI
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Sheriff who suggested Whitmer kidnapping could be 'citizen's arrest' sues over election
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Hawley urges Trump to veto Covid bill absent stimulus checks  —  Sen. Josh Hawley is not happy that the leading coronavirus proposals lack another round of direct payments to Americans — and he's taking his case straight to President Donald Trump.  —  The Missouri Republican lobbied Trump …
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW obtains receipts for Pompeo's notorious “Madison Dinners” … Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent more than $40,000 in taxpayer money on a series of “Madison Dinners” attended by major donors and figures in the Republican party, according to documents obtained by CREW.
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court rejects appeal to limit transgender students  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, rather than their sex assigned at birth.
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Michael Lee / Washington Examiner:
Arizona Supreme Court agrees to hear GOP-led lawsuit concerning mail-in ballot irregularities
Benjamin Zeisloft / Campus Reform the #1 Source …:
Cornell offers ‘person of color’ exemption for flu vaccine requirement  —  Students at Cornell University can use their status as a “person of color” to be exempt from the university's flu vaccine requirement.  —  “Students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color (BIPOC) …
John McCormack / National Review:
Biden Picks a Culture Warrior to Run HHS in the Middle of a Pandemic  —  NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P resident-elect Joe Biden has selected Xavier Becerra, the attorney general of California, to be his first secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Nancy Cordes / CBS News:
ER doctor who criticized Trump's actions to be removed from Walter Reed schedule  —  Dr. James Phillips, the emergency room physician who publicly criticized President Trump's decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Bob Dylan Sells His Songwriting Catalog in Blockbuster Deal  —  Universal Music purchased his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of a single act's publishing rights.  —  Bob Dylan's memoir “Chronicles: Volume One” …
Washington Post:
NFL investigation of Washington Football Team uncovers confidential settlement  —  The NFL's investigation into allegations of workplace sexual harassment at the Washington Football Team has uncovered a confidential settlement from a decade ago, court records show, and an emergency motion filed Monday …
Daniel Barbarisi / Outside Online:
The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure  —  The decade-long hunt captured the world's attention, but when it finally ended in June, everyone still wanted to know: Who had solved the mystery?  This week, as legal proceedings threaten his anonymity, a 32-year-old medical student is ready to go on the record.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, Biden's win wasn't ‘statistically impossible’  —  It was very possible, as evidenced in large part by the fact that it happened.  —  Since President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, there's been a lot of analysis aimed at somehow proving that his election was the result of fraud or illegal voting.
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Raw Story
HealthData.gov:
COVID-19 Reported Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity by Facility  —  The following dataset provides facility-level data for hospital utilization aggregated on a weekly basis (Friday to Thursday).  These are derived from reports with facility-level granularity across two main sources: (1) …
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Federal watchdog finds Peter Navarro violated Hatch Act  —  The Office of Special Counsel issued a report on Monday finding that White House trade adviser Peter Navarro repeatedly violated the Hatch Act — which restricts government employees from engaging in partisan political activities …
 
 
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

April Rubin / Axios:
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