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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump warns Georgia AG not to rally other Republicans against Texas lawsuit — The phone call came shortly before Loeffler, Perdue endorsed improbable election challenge — President Donald Trump warned Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr not to rally other Republican officials …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Georgia becomes ground zero for election misinformation ahead of Senate runoff — Valdosta, Georgia (CNN Business)Georgia, currently the center of the American political universe, is so awash with misinformation that some supporters of President Donald Trump here believe that he did not lose the presidential election.
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Washington Times, Mother Jones and New York Times
Washington Post:
Trump pressures congressional Republicans to help in his fight to overturn the election — President Trump is shifting his focus to Congress after the courts roundly rejected his bid to overturn the results of the election, pressuring congressional Republicans into taking a final stand to keep him in power.
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National Review, Politico, Forbes, Politics News and The American Independent
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
About the Texas Lawsuit — Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, is under a federal investigation and would love a presidential pardon. His lawsuit is just more performative leg humping by someone desperate to curry favor with President Trump. — The various attorneys general …
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New York Times:
17 Republican Attorneys General Back Trump in Far-Fetched Election Lawsuit — The move is an attempt to bolster a baseless legal effort by Texas that seeks to delay certification of the presidential electors in four battleground states that Mr. Trump lost. — Despite dozens of judges …
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Business Insider, The American Independent, You Might Notice a Trend, Slate, NPR, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Florida Phoenix and IJR
Dan Mangan / NBC10 Philadelphia:
17 States Tell Supreme Court They Support Texas Bid to Reverse Biden Win
17 States Tell Supreme Court They Support Texas Bid to Reverse Biden Win
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Texas's Frivolous Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Election in Four Other States
Texas's Frivolous Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Election in Four Other States
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Lisa Marshall Manheim / Washington Post:
Texas can't block votes cast in other states. Absurdly, it's trying.
Texas can't block votes cast in other states. Absurdly, it's trying.
John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP Texas senator questions ‘legal theory’ behind Trump's lawsuit to challenge state's election results
GOP Texas senator questions ‘legal theory’ behind Trump's lawsuit to challenge state's election results
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CNN, ABC News, The Daily Beast and POLITICUSUSA
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Dianne Feinstein's Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats — In a hearing on November 17th, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who, at eighty-seven, is the oldest member of the Senate, grilled a witness.
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
Amy Coney Barrett Wasn't a Trump Rubber Stamp After All
Amy Coney Barrett Wasn't a Trump Rubber Stamp After All
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Washington Examiner and Politico
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump and Friends Got Coronavirus Care Many Others Couldn't — Rudolph W. Giuliani became the latest in President Trump's inner circle to boast about the treatment he received for Covid-19, as hospitals across the country ration care. — WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, Chris Christie …
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Spencer Neale / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tests positive for COVID-19
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tests positive for COVID-19
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Justice Department's interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes — The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.
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New York Times:
Biden taps Katherine Tai as trade representative. — The Justice Department is investigating the tax affairs of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son Hunter, he disclosed in a statement on Wednesday. — The investigation is being led by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The Biden family put national security at risk
The Biden family put national security at risk
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen — Donald Trump lost the presidency, but his opponents so far have not achieved the victory they want most: A fatal puncturing of the Trump movement, a repudiation so complete that it severs his astonishing grip on supporters and leaves …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Bridge Magazine:
‘I am certainly not dead!’ Living voters contradict Michigan GOP fraud claims — LANSING — When conservative activist Meshawn Maddock obtained a list of allegedly dead Michigan voters, she didn't report it to law enforcement. — She posted the list on Facebook this week …
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Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Biden to campaign in Atlanta on Tuesday for Ossoff, Warnock — President-elect Joe Biden will campaign in Atlanta on Tuesday for Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to rally Democrats ahead of Jan. 5 runoffs to determine control of the U.S. Senate.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Lindsey Graham Says Stacey Abrams Tricked Republicans Into Helping Biden Win
Lindsey Graham Says Stacey Abrams Tricked Republicans Into Helping Biden Win
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NBC News
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Liberal group spending $1M in Georgia Senate runoffs
Liberal group spending $1M in Georgia Senate runoffs
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Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast and DSCC
Ryan Grim / Bad News:
Inside Biden's meeting with civil rights leaders — Here's the audio — Democrats in the House, Senate, and around the country have been urging President-elect Joe Biden to use the maximum amount of executive authority available to him in order to grow the economy, expand civil rights …
Politico:
How Biden aims to Covid-proof his administration — Small and infrequent public events. Repeated testing of staff, reporters and the president-elect. Aides debating policies and Cabinet picks without ever meeting face-to-face. Preparations for a pared-down, mostly virtual inauguration.
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Washington Post:
Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out during the pandemic — Retailers, police departments and loss prevention researchers are reporting an uptick in theft of necessities like food and hygiene products — Early in the pandemic, Joo Park noticed …
Reuters:
China launches ‘gray-zone’ warfare to subdue Taiwan — Having crushed the resistance to its rule in Hong Kong, China is moving against Taiwan with irregular tactics meant to exhaust the island's military - which is in bad shape to confront the threat. It's unclear how the incoming Biden administration will respond.
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
Sen. David Perdue Sold His Home to a Finance Industry Official Whose Organization Was Lobbying the Senate — The same year FINRA was lobbying the Senate on a bill, one of its board governors paid Perdue $1.8 million for his D.C. townhouse. Perdue sits on the Senate Banking Committee, which oversaw the bill.
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Media Matters for America
Alex Kotch / EXPOSEDbyCMD:
Who Funds the Federalist? Finally, We Know. — For years, the funding behind the right-wing, pro-Trump publication The Federalist has been a total mystery. Many Twitter users have asked the website's leaders, repeatedly, “Who funds The Federalist?” only to be blocked by the likes …
Jim Mustian / Associated Press:
‘Under the rug:’ Sexual misconduct shakes FBI's senior ranks — WASHINGTON (AP) — An assistant FBI director retired after he was accused of drunkenly groping a female subordinate in a stairwell. Another senior FBI official left after he was found to have sexually harassed eight employees.
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Minneapolis City Council votes to cut millions from police budget amid record crime rates — MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council, which tried and failed to dismantle the police department in the wake of George Floyd's death, voted early Thursday to shift nearly $8 million …
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Minneapolis cuts police funding by $8M amid crime surge following summer riots
Minneapolis cuts police funding by $8M amid crime surge following summer riots
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Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP senators ready to acknowledge Biden won but struggle with Trump's refusal to concede — (CNN)A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to publicly acknowledge what's been widely known for weeks but what they've refused to say: Joe Biden won the presidency and will be sworn in on January 20.
Tim Wu / New York Times:
What Really Saved the Republic From Trump? — It wasn't our constitutional system of checks and balances. — Mr. Wu is a law professor at Columbia University. — Americans are taught that the main function of the U.S. Constitution is the control of executive power: curtailing presidents who might seek to become tyrants.
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Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh: “There cannot be a peaceful coexistence” between liberals and conservatives — Sean Hannity calls for a special prosecutor to investigate bogus claims of election fraud — Steve Bannon: “It's still a big possibility to have a contingent election”
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Crooks and Liars, Mediaite and POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Biden to tap Denis McDonough for Veterans Affairs — McDonough served as former President Barack Obama's chief of staff from 2013 until 2017. — Denis McDonough, center, gestures toward incoming White House press secretary Josh Earnest, left, while appearing at a press briefing in June 2014.
Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Rose to 853,000 Last Week — Worker claims for jobless aid signal layoffs remain at high level nearly nine months into the coronavirus pandemic — Worker applications for unemployment benefits rose sharply last week, an indication layoffs remain …
Linda Chavez / The Bulwark:
The “Intellectual” Right's Assault on Democracy — Politicians have constituents to please, but what about the “thinkers” of the Trumpist right? — The politics of intimidation has worked well for Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president in 2015.
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Sean Neumann / People.com:
Lawyers Across the Country Urge Disciplinary Investigation of Trump Campaign Legal Team — The letter accuses the president's campaign lawyers of behavior that “demeans the legal profession” — About 1,500 lawyers and counting have signed a letter condemning President Donald Trump's campaign legal team …
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Washington Post:
VA watchdog told prosecutors his probe of Secretary Wilkie's effort to discredit House staffer turned up possible criminal conduct — The Veterans Affairs inspector general informed federal prosecutors this fall of possible criminal conduct by Secretary Robert Wilkie stemming from an investigation …