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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Biden taps Susan Rice for top White House domestic policy job — President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Barack Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice to run the White House Domestic Policy Council, according to people familiar with the decision. — Rice, who also served …
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Biden to tap Denis McDonough for Veterans Affairs — President-elect Joe Biden will nominate longtime Obama aide Denis McDonough for secretary of Veterans Affairs, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. — McDonough served as former President Barack Obama's chief of staff from 2013 until 2017.
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Associated Press:
Trump virus coordinator Birx seeks role in Biden government — WASHINGTON (AP) — When Dr. Deborah Birx was brought into President Donald Trump's orbit to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, she had a sterling reputation as a former U.S. Army physician, a globally recognized AIDS researcher and a rare Obama administration holdover.
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Associated Press:
Biden taps Rice as domestic policy adviser, McDonough for VA
Biden taps Rice as domestic policy adviser, McDonough for VA
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Biden to tap Susan Rice to head his domestic policy council-report
Biden to tap Susan Rice to head his domestic policy council-report
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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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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 …
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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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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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
GOP lawmaker soliciting fellow Republicans to back Texas effort challenging election results
GOP lawmaker soliciting fellow Republicans to back Texas effort challenging election results
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump team throws in the towel on proving voter fraud
The Trump team throws in the towel on proving voter fraud
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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.
Dan Diamond / Politico:
CDC's Redfield told staff to delete email, official tells House watchdog — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield instructed staff to delete an email from a Trump political appointee seeking control over the agency's scientific reports on the pandemic …
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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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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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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Schumer urges Senate GOP to cancel ‘ridiculous’ election hearing — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Republicans Thursday to drop plans for a hearing centering on alleged “irregularities” in the 2020 presidential election. — The hearing, called by Senate Homeland Security …
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Washington Post:
Trump pressures congressional Republicans to help in his fight to overturn the election
Trump pressures congressional Republicans to help in his fight to overturn the election
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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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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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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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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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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Liberal group spending $1M in Georgia Senate runoffs
Liberal group spending $1M in Georgia Senate runoffs
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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
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Morocco to normalize ties with Israel in deal with Trump over Western Sahara — Morocco has agreed to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, President Trump announced on Thursday. The Moroccan decision comes as part of a deal that includes U.S. recognition of the disputed territory of Western Sahara as part of Morocco.
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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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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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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 …
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Sean Illing / Vox:
How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears — Seriously, this happened. You should absolutely read about it. — Every ideology produces its own brand of fanatics, but there's something special about libertarianism. — I don't mean that as an insult, either. I love libertarians!
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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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.
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.
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New York Post
Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Republican criticism of Biden's Cabinet shows GOP's Trump amnesia is spreading — An avalanche of amnesia is about to sweep through the Republican Party. — Case in point: Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. — Responding to President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the Office …
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
‘How Many Fact Checkers Do They Have?’ — Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook. — Opinion Writer at Large — In the days after the election, several senior Biden campaign workers talked with me about their public confrontation with Facebook, the world's biggest social media platform.
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New York Times:
Why did the U.S. turn down vaccine doses? — The Trump administration rejected the opportunity to secure a bigger stockpile months ago. How did that happen? — Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by TK; and edited by TK. — Back to The Daily — More episodes of — The Daily
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 …
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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.