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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: West Wing fears COVID spread after Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis attends WH party  —  President Trump's lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she has coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday.
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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.
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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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 …
Washington Post:
Pfizer tells U.S. officials it cannot supply substantial additional vaccine until late June or July
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
A Covid vaccine is the last thing we need to think about right now
Discussion: Forbes and New York Times
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Gottlieb confirms U.S. government turned down Pfizer offer for more vaccine doses
Will Wright / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Breaks Record for Most Deaths in a Week
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.
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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 …
Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Ted Cruz Wants to Toss Out 7 Million People's Votes. Appalling.
Texas Attorney General:
AG Pax­ton Sues Bat­tle­ground States for Uncon­sti­tu­tion­ al Changes to 2020 Elec­tion Laws
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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 …
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey calls Trump's campaign to overturn Pennsylvania election ‘completely unacceptable’  —  Sen. Pat Toomey said Tuesday that it's “completely unacceptable” for President Donald Trump to pressure state lawmakers to overturn Pennsylvania's election result …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP congressman wants to condemn colleagues who call on Trump to concede  —  A Republican congressman wants to condemn GOP colleagues who refuse to back President Trump's efforts to challenge the results of the November election and who pressure him “to concede prematurely,” …
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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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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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
This Is No Job for a General  —  On January 10, 2017, I sat at the witness table looking …
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
Biden picks retired general Lloyd Austin to run Pentagon
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Democrats would need to twist themselves into pretzels to give Biden's Defense pick a waiver
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 …
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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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
Washington Post:
Senate stimulus negotiations at risk of collapsing over whether companies can be sued for outbreaks  —  Democrats want protection for workers but Republicans warn of lawsuit frenzy, and debate is weighing on negotiations  —  The economic relief package attracting bipartisan interest in Congress …
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John Nichols / The Nation:   Mitch McConnell's Ghoulish Plan to Exploit Covid Desperation to Shield Corporate Crime
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Christopher Nolan Rips HBO Max as “Worst Streaming Service,” Denounces Warner Bros.' Plan  —  To many insiders, WarnerMedia's blindsiding of talent and their reps with news that it would send 17 films directly to HBO Max in 2021 felt like an insult.  —  For many in the movie business …
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
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans raise red flags over Becerra's nomination to lead Biden health department
Discussion: Townhall
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump appointee who oversees Voice of America refuses to cooperate with Biden transition team  —  A Trump appointee with a short but controversial record of overseeing Voice of America and other federally funded news agencies has declined to cooperate with president-elect Joe Biden's representatives …
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 …
America's Voice:
We Celebrate Along With Dreamers As DHS Officially Re-Opens New Applications for DACA  —  Yesterday, we highlighted how American public sentiment, led by the courage and first-person testimonials of Dreamers themselves, created the climate for the impressive work of the movement's litigators to win in the courts to keep DACA alive.
Ben Makuch / VICE:
A Proud Boys Lawyer Wanted to Be a Nazi Terrorist  —  But the Base, a terror group that has been the recent recipient of a lot of FBI attention, turned him down.  —  The one-time leader and former lawyer of the Proud Boys, who was recently alleged to have tried to plot the assassination of a rival …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Panel blasts Fort Hood leaders, Army after disappearance, death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen; 14 fired or suspended  —  WASHINGTON - An independent investigation into tragedies at Fort Hood, including the bludgeoning murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, found that leadership at the Army's largest base created a …
 
 
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DeMicia Inman / TheGrio:
Joy Reid named 2021 Hearst visiting professor at Howard University
Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
Top Chinese professor boasts of operatives in top of US ‘core inner circle’
Politico:
Fudge emerges as frontrunner to lead housing agency
Discussion: Common Dreams and Axios
Audrey Conklin / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders concedes Democrats held up coronavirus relief: 'That's right'
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Susannah George / Washington Post:
Behind the Taliban's ties to al-Qaeda: A shared ideology and decades of battlefield support
Washington Post:
Huawei tested AI software that could recognize Uighur minorities and alert police, report says
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Neal Katyal and the Depravity of Big Law
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Silence of Pope Francis
Kristi Noem / Wall Street Journal:
South Dakota's Balanced Covid Response
Discussion: Washington Post
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News:
Howard Stern: Trump's COVID-19 handling is ‘treasonous’
Adam Van Brimmer / USA Today:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to state legislators: Picking own presidential electors ‘not an option’
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

April Rubin / Axios:
Trump's campaign files an FEC complaint claiming WaPo illegally contributed to Harris by running digital ads promoting its critical news coverage of Trump

CNBC:
Sources: Greek media company Antenna Group is in early talks to acquire Time from Marc Benioff, who bought the magazine in 2018 for $180M

 
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