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Will Wright / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Breaks Record for Most Deaths in a Week  —  Trump officials passed when Pfizer offered to sell more vaccine doses months ago.  Britain is readying a mass vaccination drive.  —  RIGHT NOW The U.S. has recorded its most Covid-19 deaths in a week.  —  Here's what you need to know:
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Washington Post:
Pfizer tells U.S. officials it cannot supply substantial additional vaccine until late June or July  —  Trump administration officials deny there will be availability issues, but others say problems are possible in the second quarter.  —  Pfizer has told the Trump administration …
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.
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 …
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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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.
Discussion: The Guardian
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden faces battle to land Austin at Pentagon
Discussion: Political Wire
Bryan Bender / Politico:   Biden's reliance on retired military brass sets off alarm bells
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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CNN:
Florida police raid home of former state Covid-19 data scientist  —  (CNN)Florida police raided the home of a former state coronavirus data scientist on Monday, escalating a feud between the state government and a data expert who has accused officials of trying to cover up the extent of the pandemic.
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 …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump plots mass pardons, even to people not asking  —  President Trump isn't just accepting pardon requests but blindly discussing them “like Christmas gifts” to people who haven't even asked, sources with direct knowledge of the conversations told Axios.
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
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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Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Ted Cruz Wants to Toss Out 7 Million People's Votes.  Appalling.  —  The ‘constitutionalist’ senator volunteers to help make the case at the Supreme Court.  —  Ladies and gentleman, Fox News just learned—this is “breaking,” mind you—that the junior senator from Texas, Ted Cruz …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, TMZ.com and Lucianne
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Exclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians  —  A suspected Chinese intelligence operative developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, including a U.S. congressman, in what U.S. officials believe was a political intelligence operation run …
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
Discussion: Breitbart
Allison Pecorin / ABC News:
Bipartisan COVID-19 relief talks hit familiar snags on Capitol Hill  —  Liability reform and aide to state and local government remain challenges.  —  Is COVID financial relief coming for millions who need it?  —  Leaders in Congress are making moves to end a months-long stalemate, but there are major sticking points.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Hawley urges Trump to veto Covid bill absent stimulus checks
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 …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
HuffPost:
The Marines And The Racist Porn Actor Who Tried To Start A ‘Modern Day SS’  —  Four neo-Nazis arrested on gun charges wanted to spark a race war, prosecutors said, and their potential targets included Black Lives Matter protesters.  —  In 2016, Liam Collins, then just a teenager living in New Jersey …
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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New York Times:
Republicans Make Clear Their Georgia Senate Strategy: Attack Warnock
Discussion: BET, Roll Call and Esquire
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Tribes Want Deb Haaland For Interior Secretary.  Some Biden Advisers Are Trying To Thwart Her.  —  Anonymous Biden allies are telling news outlets the Indigenous congresswoman is not qualified.  “Of course it's offensive,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
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 Week, The Hill and al.com
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
Trump Admin to Rename Two Bases for Space Force Over Military Objections  —  The Air Force had quietly agreed with Congress not to change anything until the NDAA settles a way forward on Confederate base names.  —  The U.S. Air Force plans to change the names of two Florida military bases heavily involved …
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 …
Politico:
Steakhouses, Hill bars and ski trips: GOP carries on amid the pandemic  —  It's not just the White House flouting pandemic rules to mark this town's schmooziest season.  —  Some corners of the GOP, including members of Congress, are refusing to let the coronavirus intrude on their holiday gatherings …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Trump's options dwindle as safe harbor deadline looms  —  A reality is sinking in within Trump's orbit: It's over.  —  President Donald Trump's legal efforts are brushing up against a 19th century statute.  Doug Mills, Pool/Getty Images  —  President Donald Trump's effort to snatch …
Discussion: NPR and Election Law Blog
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, Jezebel and Raw Story
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 …
Carl Swanson / Curbed:
Reasons We've Loved New York A send-off to the many places, big and small, that closed in 2020. … If you live in New York long enough — and it doesn't have to be very long — it gradually becomes unrecognizable.  And maybe, you begin to realize, it's for someone else entirely …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani's COVID Case Shows There's No Vaccine to Treat the Disease the GOP Has Become  —  Go maskless.  Mingle away.  Get COVID.  Hey, as long as you're a wealthy white man who's a friend of the president, no problemo!  —  BEAST INSIDE … Trump's lawyer needs a doctor.
Discussion: Raw Story
HuffPost:
This Is How Trump's Executions Are Spreading The Coronavirus  —  The government admitted in a buried footnote of a court filing that “some” key staffers contracted COVID-19 after the last execution.  —  In late November, as health officials urged the public to avoid travel amid a new wave …
Shibley Telhami / Brookings:
Why the discourse about Palestinian payments to prisoners' families is distorted and misleading  —  The war of narratives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has intensified as the Trump administration is poised to leave the scene.  As the New York Times recently reported, the Palestinian Authority …
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.”
 
 
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