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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.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump to sign coronavirus vaccine executive order prioritizing Americans over foreign nations
Trump to sign coronavirus vaccine executive order prioritizing Americans over foreign nations
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Politico:
Biden picks retired general Lloyd Austin to run Pentagon — President-elect Joe Biden has selected Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as secretary of defense, according to three people with knowledge of the decision. If confirmed, Austin would be the first Black person to lead the Pentagon.
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CNN:
Biden picks retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to be his secretary of defense, source says — (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden has selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the former commander of US Central Command, to be his secretary of defense, a source familiar with the decision told CNN on Monday.
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Jim Golby / New York Times:
Sorry, Gen. Lloyd Austin. A Recently Retired General Should Not Be Secretary of Defense. — After a tumultuous four years, we need civilian leadership and a return to normalcy. — Mr. Golby has been a special adviser to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Mike Pence.
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.
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Sun-Sentinel:
Florida police raid COVID data whistleblower's house with guns drawn — State police raided the home of a former Department of Health data scientist who is accusing Florida officials of wrongfully firing her for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 statistics. — Rebekah Jones …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs Snaps at Stephen Miller Over White House Not Doing More on Trump Legal Fight: 'Why Don't You Answer Me?!' — Fox Business' Lou Dobbs snapped at White House advisor Stephen Miller as he raged over why Republicans and the White House aren't doing more on the president's legal fight in multiple states.
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CNN:
House conservatives urge Trump not to concede and press for floor fight over election loss — What Republicans are saying privately about the election — (CNN)President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill are urging him not to concede even after President-elect Joe Biden wins …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Outgoing Trump White House Sues Incoming Biden White House to Disenfranchise Wisconsin's Most Diverse Counties
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Jim Jordan: ‘No way’ Trump should concede
Jim Jordan: ‘No way’ Trump should concede
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Washington Post:
Trump asks Pennsylvania House speaker for help overturning election results, personally intervening in a third state — President Trump called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives twice during the past week to make the extraordinary request for help reversing his loss in the state …
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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?
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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 — Rashida Jones will become president of MSNBC, and the current president, Phil Griffin, will step down after 25 years at the cable news channel, NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde announced Monday. — Jones, who will take over at MSNBC …
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Breitbart
Page Six:
Ivanka & Jared buy $30M lot on high-security Miami island — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have splashed out on a $30 million-plus dollar lot of land on Miami's uber-swanky and high-security Indian Creek Island — known as the “Billionaire's Bunker” — Page Six can exclusively reveal.
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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell says Senate will pass defense bill despite veto threat
McConnell says Senate will pass defense bill despite veto threat
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Allison Pecorin / ABC News:
Bipartisan COVID-19 relief talks hit familiar snags on Capitol Hill
Bipartisan COVID-19 relief talks hit familiar snags on Capitol Hill
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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 …
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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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo to speak in Georgia as Senate run-offs loom
Pompeo to speak in Georgia as Senate run-offs loom
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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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Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Sheriff who suggested Whitmer kidnapping could be 'citizen's arrest' sues over election
Sheriff who suggested Whitmer kidnapping could be 'citizen's arrest' sues over election
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Sidney Powell ‘Kraken’ lawsuit dismissed in Georgia after defeat in Michigan
Sidney Powell ‘Kraken’ lawsuit dismissed in Georgia after defeat in Michigan
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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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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kelly Loeffler disqualified herself at Sunday night's debate
Kelly Loeffler disqualified herself at Sunday night's debate
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
What Joe Biden reads and watches — With help from Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward — HOW THE PRESIDENT-ELECT GETS HIS NEWS — In the Biden administration, the foreign policy establishment is expected to return to its usual position of influence for the occupant of the Oval Office.
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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) …
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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.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Armed Mexicans Were Smuggled In to Guard Border Wall, Whistle-Blowers Say — In a complaint unsealed on Friday, whistle-blowers working on President Trump's wall said that contractors were illegally bringing in Mexican guards to protect construction sites. — WASHINGTON — Two whistle-blowers …
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New York Times:
Elevating Fringe Theories, Ron Johnson Questions Virus Science — The Wisconsin Republican has transformed his Senate panel into a forum for amplifying dubious theories and questionable treatments pushed by President Trump. — WASHINGTON — In choosing a slate of doctors to testify …
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy stepping down to focus on Va. governor's race — RICHMOND — Del. Jennifer D. Carroll Foy will step down from her seat in the Virginia legislature on Friday to focus on the 2021 governor's race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the Democrat's plans.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
TikTok Download Ban Is Blocked by Second Judge — Ruling follows similar decision in case brought by the app's content creators — A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to ban TikTok downloads in the U.S., underscoring the dwindling legal options …
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J. Michael Luttig / Washington Post:
No, President Trump can't pardon himself — In June 2018, in the throes of the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump, the president claimed “the absolute right to PARDON myself,” citing “numerous legal scholars.”