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New York Times:
‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy — The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump was also a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders who had put their interests ahead of the country's. — The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump's desperate bid …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's spin on his big Supreme Court failure is as bad as his legal case — The Supreme Court on Friday night delivered its widely expected-but-still-significant rebuke of President Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election. In a brief statement, the court dismissed the case Trump had called “the Big One.”
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Republican Party of Texas:
Chairman Allen West's Response to SCOTUS Decision — Austin, TX, Release: December 11, 2020. For Immediate Release — Below is Chairman Allen West's statement regarding the decision by the Supreme Court to dismiss Texas' constitutionally legitimate and critical lawsuit.
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: The election is over; Trump's attacks will linger — WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2020 presidential election is over. But President Donald Trump's baseless efforts to undermine it, and the consequences of those undemocratic actions, will linger in America for far longer.
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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
GOP Rep. Who Backed TX Lawsuit Goes Off the Rails When Chris Cuomo Confronts Him on Voter Fraud Claims: 'I Don't Have Proof That Men Landed on the Moon'
GOP Rep. Who Backed TX Lawsuit Goes Off the Rails When Chris Cuomo Confronts Him on Voter Fraud Claims: 'I Don't Have Proof That Men Landed on the Moon'
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Twitter briefly limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about ‘stolen’ election
Twitter briefly limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about ‘stolen’ election
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Trump supporters to rally in DC after Supreme Court delivers president another defeat
Trump supporters to rally in DC after Supreme Court delivers president another defeat
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo Special Edition: Time for Trump to stop
Byron York's Daily Memo Special Edition: Time for Trump to stop
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
House Democrat Calls To Exclude 126 Republicans From Next Congress For Supporting Texas Lawsuit
House Democrat Calls To Exclude 126 Republicans From Next Congress For Supporting Texas Lawsuit
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Joseph Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D. — Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic. — Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter.
New York Times:
F.D.A. Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away — An initial shipment of about 2.9 million doses of the vaccine will be sent around the United States over the next week. — The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday …
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Politico:
Biden starts countering Trump's messaging on vaccine — President-elect Joe Biden's team is feverishly working to get a messaging plan in place to sell a skeptical public on the first FDA-backed coronavirus vaccine, believing the Trump administration has set the effort back significantly.
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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.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump absent while Congress works around the clock — DRIVING THE DAY — THIS PRESIDENCY has been filled with hard-to-believe split screens, but we're seeing perhaps the starkest display of dissonance yet. CONGRESS has been working around the clock to cut a series …
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The Guardian:
‘The virus is moving in’: why California is losing the fight against Covid … Sam Levin in Los Angeles, Maanvi Singh in Oakland, and Vivian Ho and Gabrielle Canon in San Francisco — Early in the coronavirus pandemic, California was celebrated as a beacon of common sense in a country on the brink.
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Veterans Groups Call for VA Secretary's Dismissal — Top veterans advocacy groups and some Democratic lawmakers call for Robert Wilkie's removal after investigation found he mishandled sexual-assault investigation — A majority of the nation's top veterans advocacy groups called …
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Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Major veterans groups call for VA secretary's ouster following damning report
Major veterans groups call for VA secretary's ouster following damning report
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas — Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate out of California. — The coronavirus pandemic has given a number of tech companies an excuse to exit Silicon Valley. — HPE announced its move to Houston earlier this month.
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Email to Hunter Biden raises fresh questions about his tax dealings — Hunter Biden's former business partner sent him an email in 2017 saying he did not disclose on his tax returns $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian natural gas company where he sat on the board, according to a copy of the email obtained by NBC News.
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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Iowa autopsy report: DNC meddling led to caucus debacle — Democratic National Committee meddling, combined with missteps by the state Democratic Party, were the primary drivers of the chaos that torpedoed the Iowa caucuses earlier this year, according to a new audit commissioned by the state party.
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump made big in-roads in Hispanic areas across the nation — (CNN)One of the most notable early results on Election Night came from Florida's heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade county. President Donald Trump lost it to President-elect Joe Biden by just 7 points, after losing it by 29 points in 2016.
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David Gilbert / VICE:
Even QAnon Is Abandoning Parler, the Far-Right's Answer to Twitter — For five days at the beginning of November, Parler was the most downloaded app in the U.S. But now, users are over it. — DG — For five days at the beginning of November, Parler was the most downloaded app in the U.S.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Ron Johnson to bring Ken Starr to testify at controversial hearing on 2020 elections — Washington (CNN)Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has invited former independent counsel Ken Starr and attorneys in key battleground states …
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Saturday executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, a little more than a year after authorities tricked him into traveling to Iraq where he was abducted.
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