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Pfizer's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose — The Food and Drug Administration's first analysis of the clinical trial data also found that the coronavirus vaccine worked well regardless of a volunteer's race, weight or age. — WASHINGTON — The coronavirus vaccine …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
'I literally don't know': Operation Warp Speed scientist can't explain Trump's vaccine order — The chief scientist of the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed was unable to explain President Donald Trump's latest executive order Tuesday, which aims to prioritize shipment …
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Washington Post
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 …
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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. more vaccine doses.
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Will Wright / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Breaks Record for Most Deaths in a Week
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Breaks Record for Most Deaths in a Week
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ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: 90-year-old grandmother becomes 1st to receive Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outside clinical trial
Coronavirus live updates: 90-year-old grandmother becomes 1st to receive Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outside clinical trial
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Lev Facher / STAT:
Leading Covid-19 vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna decline invitations to White House ‘Vaccine Summit’
Leading Covid-19 vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna decline invitations to White House ‘Vaccine Summit’
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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
National Health Service Delivers First Shots to Fight Covid-19
National Health Service Delivers First Shots to Fight Covid-19
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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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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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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: ‘Safe Harbor’ Day Arrives, the Deadline to Resolve State Election Challenges — Today is the deadline for all state-level election challenges to be completed. President-elect Joe Biden will tap a retired four-star Army general to be the first Black secretary of defense.
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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.
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Politico:
Trump's options dwindle as safe harbor deadline looms — President Donald Trump's effort to snatch a second term through a series of state and federal court challenges has been flaming out for weeks. Now, the calendar has all but extinguished it. — Dec. 8 is the so-called “safe harbor” …
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Biden's reliance on retired military brass sets off alarm bells
Biden's reliance on retired military brass sets off alarm bells
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Trump Asked Pennsylvania House Speaker About Overturning His Loss
Trump Asked Pennsylvania House Speaker About Overturning His Loss
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Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard — DeSantis “sent the Gestapo”: Video shows FDLE agents with guns drawn at home of woman fired over COVID-19 data. — View Comments — State police brandishing firearms Monday raided the Tallahassee home of Rebekah Jones …
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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.
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 …
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at Supreme Court over Election Rules — The State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court shortly before midnight on Monday challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania …
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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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.
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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 …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Report: Alleged Chinese Spy Raised Money For Eric Swalwell, Planted Intern In His Office
Report: Alleged Chinese Spy Raised Money For Eric Swalwell, Planted Intern In His Office
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Axios
David Siders / Politico:
Trump blows a hole in the GOP on his way out — Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the presidential election have met with defeat in every swing state and in nearly every court where his cases have been heard. But Trump's campaign to pressure GOP elected officials to support his baseless claims …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Can't Handle the Truth
Republicans Can't Handle the Truth
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Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97 — A World War II fighter ace and Air Force general, he was, according to Tom Wolfe, “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.” — Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation …
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Becky Krystal / Washington Post:
Chuck Yeager, test pilot who broke sound barrier, dies at 97
Chuck Yeager, test pilot who broke sound barrier, dies at 97
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Page Six:
Ivanka and Jared buy $30M lot on high-security Miami island — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have splurged on a $30 million-plus 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.
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Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News:
Howard Stern: Trump's COVID-19 handling is ‘treasonous’ — Shock jock Howard Stern notched up his war of words on President Trump — a former regular on his show — by accusing the lame duck leader of criminal behavior against his country. — The charge came Monday when a man identifying himself …
Zeynep / Insight:
Is This a Coup? Introducing The Counter — I present my own essay on the dangers of the moment and a strong counterargument against it — One of the best ways to think through and sharpen—or abandon—an argument is to confront the best case against it. So I'm launching a feature of this newsletter: “The Counter.”
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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 …
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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Washington Examiner:
Biden's pick for healthcare boss is an unacceptable extremist — Joe Biden, after promising to unite the country as a centrist president, has taken a radical turn by tapping California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to oversee the vast Department of Health and Human Services.
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Adam Van Brimmer / USA Today:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to state legislators: Picking own presidential electors ‘not an option’ — ATHENS, Georgia — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp issued a stern reminder to Georgia's state legislators about the limits of their powers Monday, specifically in regards to a push by six members …
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The Hill
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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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.).
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.”
Politico:
Stimulus stuck as Covid rages — Editor's Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services' morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day's biggest stories.
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 …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Biden Administration Will Create Position to Reach Conservatives — Cedric Richmond, a Louisiana congressman, will lead the effort — Richmond wants to connect with 'people who didn't vote for us' — The Biden administration plans to create a position to find common ground with conservatives …
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