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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 — Order reemphasizes the Trump administration's ‘America First’ approach — HHS Secretary Azar: Coronavirus vaccine could be distributed 24 hours after approval
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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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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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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 Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Why Kemp won't call a special session to illegally overturn Georgia's election
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A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
What If Trump Is Trying To Break the GOP?
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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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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.
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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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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Maya Harris aided effort to boost husband's attorney general bid — The vice president-elect's sister, a major player in Kamala Harris' presidential run, has no formal role in the Biden transition. — Maya Harris, the sister of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and her husband, Tony West, are pictured.
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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 …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell says Senate will pass defense bill despite veto threat — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that the Senate will take up and pass a mammoth defense bill despite a looming veto showdown with President Trump. — McConnell mentioned the National Defense …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Hawley urges Trump to veto Covid bill absent stimulus checks
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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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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo to speak in Georgia as Senate run-offs loom
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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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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Kelly Loeffler Did Her Best Robot Rubio Impression at the Georgia Senate Debate
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
The Suburbs Helped Elect Biden. Can They Give Democrats the Senate, Too?
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CNN:
Aides speculate if Trump will travel to Mar-a-Lago for holidays and never return — (CNN)Where President Donald Trump decides to spend the final weeks of his presidency has become a matter of internal speculation as aides wonder whether he'll leave the White House for the holidays — and never return.
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Federal watchdog finds Peter Navarro violated Hatch Act
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Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Sheriff who suggested Whitmer kidnapping could be 'citizen's arrest' sues over election — LANSING — A Michigan sheriff who suggested the men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer may have been attempting a citizen's arrest has filed a federal lawsuit alleging voter fraud …
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Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
‘The people have spoken’: Michigan judge rejects lawsuit from disavowed Trump attorney
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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.
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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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 …
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 …
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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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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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Millions of Americans are heading into the holidays unemployed and over $5,000 behind on rent — Economists warn many unemployed families won't be able to pay rent and utilities without more stimulus aid from Congress — Millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the pandemic …
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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) …
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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” …
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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 …
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
No, The Georgia Vote-Counting Video Was Not ‘Debunked.’ Not Even Close — A Big Tech-backed ‘fact’ ‘checking’ outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence for Republicans' claims of significant election problems in Georgia. It didn't. — A Big Tech-backed “fact” “checking” …
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Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Brooklyn Federal Financial-Crime Unit Steps On Manhattan Turf — U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn launches bank integrity task force — Manhattan prosecutors have historically led white-collar cases — Brooklyn-based federal prosecutors will staff a new task force to investigate …
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.
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