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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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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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New York Times:
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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Washington Post:
Pfizer tells U.S. officials it cannot supply substantial additional vaccine until late June or July
Pfizer tells U.S. officials it cannot supply substantial additional vaccine until late June or July
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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.
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
A Covid vaccine is the last thing we need to think about right now
A Covid vaccine is the last thing we need to think about right now
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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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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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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Gottlieb confirms U.S. government turned down Pfizer offer for more vaccine doses
Gottlieb confirms U.S. government turned down Pfizer offer for more vaccine doses
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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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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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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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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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CBS News:
Biden to nominate retired Army general Lloyd Austin as defense secretary, the first Black man to hold the role
Biden to nominate retired Army general Lloyd Austin as defense secretary, the first Black man to hold the role
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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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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 …
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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 …
Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
In new lawsuit, Texas contests election results in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block the battleground states from casting “unlawful and constitutionally tainted votes” in the Electoral College.
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.
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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 …
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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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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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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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Lou Dobbs goes after Stephen Miller for not doing enough for Trump
Lou Dobbs goes after Stephen Miller for not doing enough for Trump
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Washington Post:
Christopher Krebs sues Trump campaign, lawyer Joe diGenova for defamation — The former top U.S. cybersecurity official responsible for securing November's presidential election sued the Trump campaign and one of its lawyers for defamation Tuesday, asserting that they conspired to falsely claim …
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Silence of Pope Francis — Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai goes to jail—and his shepherd is missing in action. — Jimmy Lai has embraced his destiny. Last Wednesday the founder of one of Hong Kong's most popular newspapers, Apple Daily, was arrested on ginned-up fraud charges.
Kristi Noem / Wall Street Journal:
South Dakota's Balanced Covid Response — They've called me ‘reckless’ and a ‘denier,’ but our numbers are much better than those of Illinois, New Jersey and New York. — Pierre, S.D. — In the coming weeks, governors across the country will give speeches outlining their budget proposals.
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Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Neal Katyal and the Depravity of Big Law … The United States has a political class that mistakes its professional norms for ethics. Mainstream political journalists mindlessly grant anonymity to professional liars. Elected officials put collegiality and institutional procedure over the needs and interests of their constituents.
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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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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The $124 billion Supreme Court case that could throw the housing market into turmoil, explained — Collins v. Mnuchin is an early test of just how much chaos the Supreme Court's new majority is willing to impose on the government. — SHARE All sharing options
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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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