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3:35 PM ET, December 12, 2020

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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.”
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Supreme Court right to refuse to block Biden election — rejects absurd legal theory  —  It remains mystifying why Republican officials supported this pro-Trump effort  —  Does Trump have any options after Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit?  —  The U.S. Supreme Court denied Texas's motion Friday …
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 …
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 …
CNN:
The Supreme Court's clear message to President Trump: Stop
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Twitter briefly limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about ‘stolen’ election
Republican Party of Texas:
Chairman Allen West's Response to SCOTUS Decision
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'
New York Times:
Republicans Faced Trump's Loss by Embracing Nihilism
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pursues Appointing Special Counsel to Probe Election, Hunter Biden
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election
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.
Discussion: The Hill and TMZ.com
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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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Veterans groups call for VA secretary's dismissal after watchdog audit  —  Four of the largest U.S. veterans groups on Friday called for the immediate dismissal of Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie after a watchdog audit concluded he mishandled an investigation …
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Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Veterans Groups Call for VA Secretary's Dismissal
Discussion: Daily Kos
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Major veterans groups call for VA secretary's ouster following damning report
Discussion: Task & Purpose
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.
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Biden's attorney general search narrows  —  President-elect Joe Biden's search for the next attorney general is increasingly focused on Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and former deputy attorney general Sally Q. Yates, according to people familiar with the discussions, who said that appeals court …
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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.
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis refused to disclose White House coronavirus report that contradicts him  —  State officials should take urgent action to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the report said.  DeSantis has declined to so.  —  TALLAHASSEE — A White House Coronavirus Task Force report about the state …
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel
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.
Discussion: Axios and Occupy Democrats
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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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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate's octogenarians face the age question and whether it's time to exit  —  A few years ago, Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) established unusual benchmarks for deciding whether to run for reelection in 2022, potential six-year terms that would end with Grassley in his mid-90s and Leahy in his late 80s.
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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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Post
Washington Post:
Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity, documents show
David Corn / Mother Jones:
A Pro-Trump Voting “Expert” Was Questioned About His Data. It Did Not Go Well for Him.
CNN:
Pentagon official who spread conspiracies, disparaged immigrants and refugees gets spot on influential West Point advisory board
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Biden's Iowa Bus Tour Is Headed for a D.C. Reunion
Conrad Black / The Hill:
Trump's political future depends on whether he can change
Discussion: USA Today and globalnews.ca
Liz Peek / The Hill:
Red flag: Paul Krugman is optimistic about the economy
Amanda Bennett / Washington Post:
I was Voice of America's director. Trump's latest pick to run the organization is dangerous.
Discussion: Daily Kos and NPR
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

 
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