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Orlando Sentinel:
We apologize for endorsing U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, who wants to overturn the election … We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress. — We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy.
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Editorial: Don't just deny Texas' original action. Decimate it. — Texas' attempt to bring an original action challenging the election results in four states is not a serious legal claim in a legitimate procedural posture, for reasons that many people have already given and that I will not repeat here.
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Reason, HotAir, Daily Kos and Hackwhackers
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election — The suit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, sought to bar Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from casting their electoral votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected …
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The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, National Review, Mother Jones, Raw Story, New York Post, CBS Pittsburgh, Althouse, CANNONFIRE, The Root, Washington Post and Salon
James Wigderson / RightWisconsin:
Correction: Error in Editorial Endorsing Tiffany in GOP Primary — In a January 20 editorial, “Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District Deserves Better Than A Swamp Creature,” RightWisconsin made several errors in describing Tom Tiffany, then a candidate in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District.
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Townhall
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Biden Transition Live Updates: Anticipation Growing for the Supreme Court to Act on Texas Election Suit — The Electoral College votes for president will be cast Monday. The Justice Department's inquiry into Hunter Biden may hang over Joe Biden as he assumes office.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Bid to Overturn Election Results — Texas lacks legal interest in other states' voting, court says — Two-paragraph order ends case Trump called ‘the big one’ — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the bid by Texas and President Donald Trump to nullify …
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National Review:
Texas Unleashes an Absurd Kraken — The odds of the Texas election lawsuit prevailing in the Supreme Court might not be less than one in a quadrillion, but they are extremely remote — and should be. — Texas is asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the presidential election …
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ABC News, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, VICE, The American Independent, Off the Kuff, The Nation and Politico
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court dismisses bid led by Texas attorney general to overturn the presidential election results, blocking Trump's legal path to reverse his loss
Washington Post:
Pelosi accuses Republicans of ‘subverting the Constitution’ as more GOP lawmakers back undoing Biden's win in the Supreme Court
Pelosi accuses Republicans of ‘subverting the Constitution’ as more GOP lawmakers back undoing Biden's win in the Supreme Court
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Washington Examiner, NBC News, RedState, Associated Press, The Boston Globe and Political Wire
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
The Galling Hypocrisy of Texas AG Ken Paxton
The Galling Hypocrisy of Texas AG Ken Paxton
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Politico, Business Insider, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, HotAir, Morning Shots, The Week and Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Friday or submit his resignation — The message from a top Trump aide prompted the agency to accelerate its announcement, which had been planned for early Saturday. — White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday told Stephen Hahn …
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Axios:
Meadows hints FDA chief's job is in jeopardy over coronavirus vaccine — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows hinted to Food and Drug Administration commissioner Stephen Hahn on a phone call Friday that his job security might be in jeopardy as he pushed the FDA chief to approve Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine …
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The Daily Beast, CNN, The Guardian, Mediaite and The Week
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Statement on Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting
FDA Statement on Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Las Vegas Review-Journal, WRIC-TV, New York Times, Vox, CBS News, Good Morning America, CBS Boston, KGET-TV, Boston Herald, HotAir, The Daily Caller, IJR, Talking Points Memo, Forbes, Fox News, The Week, KTLA, WPRI-TV and KCLO-TV
New York Times:
Material From Giuliani Spurred a Separate Justice Dept. Pursuit of Hunter Biden — The inquiry, based out of Pittsburgh, was run parallel to an investigation in Delaware and raised alarms among F.B.I. agents about politicization. — WASHINGTON — As federal investigators in Delaware …
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Washington Examiner, IJR, Lawfare, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, Sara A. Carter and The Western Journal
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Email to Hunter Biden raises fresh questions about his tax dealings
Email to Hunter Biden raises fresh questions about his tax dealings
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Breitbart, The National Interest and NBC Boston
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Chris Murphy's surprise floor speech raises tough questions for Democrats — If there's one thing that widespread Republican support for President Trump's effort to overturn the election results suggests, it's that we're entering into uncertain and potentially treacherous territory when it comes …
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Talking Points Memo
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Hatred of liberals is all that's left of conservatism
Hatred of liberals is all that's left of conservatism
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Intensifies Investigation of Trump — Prosecutors have recently interviewed employees of President Trump's lender and insurance brokerage, in the latest indication that he still faces the potential threat of criminal charges once he leaves office.
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Bloomberg, Politico, Daily Kos, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, Law & Crime, The Week, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The Intellectualist, Raw Story and The Root
BuzzFeed News:
After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes — On Wednesday, a Facebook data scientist departed the social networking company after a two-year stint, leaving a farewell note for their colleagues to ponder.
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Media Matters for America, more at Techmeme »
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Democrat wants to use Civil War law about traitors to ban 126 Republicans from being seated in Congress — Only one-third of the Republicans elected to Congress in 2020 will be seated in Congress come January if one New Jersey Democrat has his way. — Rep. Bill Prscrell, Jr. (D-NJ) …
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Crooks and Liars, Right Journalism and The Intellectualist
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Kevin Fagan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Zodiac ‘340 Cipher’ cracked by code experts 51 years after it was sent to the S.F. Chronicle — The solution to what's known as the 340 Cipher, one of the most vexing mysteries of the Zodiac Killer's murderous saga, has been found by a code-breaking team from the United States, Australia and Belgium.
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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
An Arizona doctor went viral decrying a lack of ICU beds. Then he says his hospital shut him out. — Cleavon Gilman has worked through three coronavirus surges, but the emergency room doctor reached his breaking point on Nov. 22. The physician had just arrived at a Yuma, Ariz. …
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The Daily Beast
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Jamie Landers / Arizona Republic:
‘A slap in the face’: Yuma hospital fires ER doctor for talking about COVID-19 in Arizona
‘A slap in the face’: Yuma hospital fires ER doctor for talking about COVID-19 in Arizona
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The Root, Raw Story and The Guardian
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most Republicans say President Trump was robbed — Most Republicans also say GOP lawsuits are helping American democracy — Trump meets with attorneys general over Texas election lawsuit — Sixty-eight percent of Republicans believe the election was stolen from President Trump.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters give President Trump mixed reviews after 4 years
Fox News Poll: Voters give President Trump mixed reviews after 4 years
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The Hill and Opinion Today
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Devin Nunes says he's tested positive for COVID-19 — Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told California radio station KMJNOW on Friday that he's tested positive for the coronavirus. — The big picture: Nunes is an ardent defender of President Trump and former chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Raw Story
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
GOP candidate who pushed QAnon conspiracy theory gets arrested for child pornography — Ben Gibson, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in November, was arrested in Louisiana this Wednesday and booked on four counts of child pornography, WGNO reports. — Gibson, who was an active Airman …
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WGNO, Daily Kos, The US Sun and The Intellectualist
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
NY Times Assistant Who Edited Cotton's ‘Send in the Troops’ Column Resigns — Six months after the inflammatory column and opinions editor James Bennet's subsequent resignation, the editorial assistant who edited the piece has left the Times. … The New York Times staffer who edited …
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The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Is Andrew Yang Running for Mayor? All Signs Point to Yes — The former Democratic presidential candidate is meeting with New York City power brokers and telling them he intends to enter the race to succeed Bill de Blasio. — Andrew Yang, the former tech executive who gained a national following …
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Black Enterprise, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Hill and NBC New York
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Cuomo Suspends Indoor Dining in N.Y.C. Again
Cuomo Suspends Indoor Dining in N.Y.C. Again
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RedState, New York Post, Spectrum News NY1, National Review, Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Bob Smietana / Religion News Service:
Dave Ramsey, Christian personal finance guru, defies COVID-19 to keep staff at desks — Flip — NASHVILLE (RNS) — Christian personal finance guru Dave Ramsey hopes his staff will spread peace and goodwill during the Christmas season. — They may also be spreading COVID-19.
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Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
Sidney Powell's secret witness ‘Spyder’ is an IT consultant. He told The Post he never worked in military intelligence. — The witness is code-named “Spyder.” Or sometimes “Spider.” His identity is so closely guarded that lawyer Sidney Powell has sought to keep it even from opposing counsel.
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal REVOLUTION:
The Simple Math of FDA Delay — Two to three thousand people a day are dying from COVID. Thus anything that delays rolling out a vaccine has a very high cost in human lives. People want to deny this, perhaps because it is so horrifying. I get a lot of pushback when I say that FDA delay is deadly.
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National Review
New York Times:
6 Injured When Driver Rams Into Protest Against ICE in Manhattan — A black car hit several people marching in Manhattan in support of immigrants on a hunger strike at a federal detention center. — A woman drove her car into a crowd of protesters on 39th Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan …
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
'I didn't make it' — A Disney World waitress struggles to hold onto her middle-class life amid a pandemic and catastrophic layoff — ORLANDO — “Dear Cast Member,” the late October layoff notice began. — Flaviana Decker, 44, retreated to her living room couch and tried to stop her tears …
New York Times:
FKA twigs Sues Shia LaBeouf, Citing ‘Relentless’ Abusive Relationship — The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by the musician, accuses the actor of sexual battery, assault and infliction of emotional distress. — Just after Valentine's Day in 2019, the musician FKA twigs was in a car speeding toward Los Angeles.
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Mic, ABC7, Page Six, WTOP, UPI, Vanity Fair, The US Sun, Fox News, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, KTLA, TheGrio, The Irish Times, Glamour, PinkNews and Meduza.io
Washington Post:
Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread — Play Video — As winter approaches, the United States is grappling with a jaw-dropping surge in the number of novel coronavirus infections. More than 288,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that public health officials …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Senator Ron Johnson No Longer Has Constituents; He Has a Boss, a Don — He's planned a hearing to promote fantasies about “irregularities,” and threatens to disrupt certification of the Electoral College vote. — Senator Ron Johnson has stopped representing the people of Wisconsin on January 20, 2017.
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American Prospect, Associated Press, Althouse, Georgia Recorder, Persuasion, Washington Examiner and Patrick J. Buchanan