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New York Times:
Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence — Some House Republicans plan to try to use Congress's tallying of electoral results on Jan. 6 to tip the election to President Trump. The attempt will put Republicans in a pinch. — President Trump lost key swing states by clear margins.
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David Siders / Politico:
Trump unleashes an army of sore losers — It's been five weeks since the election, and he still hasn't conceded. Alleging massive voter fraud, he's demanded an audit of votes in populous Democratic strongholds. On Thursday, he sued the secretary of state.
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Raw Story, National Review and NBC News
David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal — The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of a lawsuit by President Donald Trump that seeks to overturn the state's election results. — The president filed the lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court Dec. 4.
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Georgia Public Broadcasting, Associated Press and POLITICUSUSA
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump tells ‘Fox & Friends’ election challenges ‘not over’ ahead of Electoral College vote — Trump would not say if he would attend Biden's inauguration — Trump: Election fight not over ahead of Electoral College vote — President Trump vowed that he and his campaign …
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Most feel election is “settled” but Trump voters disagree
CBS News poll: Most feel election is “settled” but Trump voters disagree
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Bloomberg, Breitbart, Forbes, The Daily Caller, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Florida Politics, Politico, Mediaite and The Carpentariat
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Dershowitz: Supreme Court ruling shows 'you can't count on the judiciary' if you're team Trump
Dershowitz: Supreme Court ruling shows 'you can't count on the judiciary' if you're team Trump
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller and The Atlantic
David Cohen / Politico:
Lamar Alexander: Trump needs to ‘put the country first’ and accept election results
Lamar Alexander: Trump needs to ‘put the country first’ and accept election results
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Business Insider, IJR, The Daily Caller, USA Today, Axios, The Hill, Crooks and Liars and Breitbart
Harry Enten / CNN:
Al Gore conceded on this date. Trump still hasn't
Al Gore conceded on this date. Trump still hasn't
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New York Times, Slate and Florida Politics
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: White House Staff Will Be Among the First to Get Vaccinated — Shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine left a facility in Michigan early Sunday, the initial step in the most ambitious vaccination plan in U.S. history. The F.D.A. chief says the vaccine …
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Bloomberg, Politico, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and NBC Los Angeles
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Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
U.S. expects to have immunized 100 million against COVID-19 by end of March -Slaoui
U.S. expects to have immunized 100 million against COVID-19 by end of March -Slaoui
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The Hill
Associated Press:
COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort
COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort
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Fox News, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Associated Press, KTLA, Mother Jones and The Week
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Trump: Coronavirus vaccine would have taken ‘five years’ if I wasn't president
Trump: Coronavirus vaccine would have taken ‘five years’ if I wasn't president
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Business Insider and Washington Examiner
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
U.S. begins shipping Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine
U.S. begins shipping Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine
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Raw Story, National Review and New York Magazine
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm — The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a much broader espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments …
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Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government - sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers backed by a foreign government have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury Department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Washington Examiner, AppleInsider, New York Post and One America News Network, more at Techmeme »
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Karl Rove: Trump Is ‘On the Edge of Looking Like a Sore Loser’ — Karl Rove said on Fox News Sunday that President Donald Trump is starting to look like a “sore loser.” — The president keeps refusing to accept that he lost and Joe Biden won, and has been pushing all sorts of baseless claims …
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Law & Crime
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump on attending Biden inauguration: 'I don't want to talk about that'
Trump on attending Biden inauguration: 'I don't want to talk about that'
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The Boston Globe, Business Insider and Political Wire
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Chris Christie Blasts Trump's Legal Strategy: An ‘Absurdity’
Chris Christie Blasts Trump's Legal Strategy: An ‘Absurdity’
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Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, IJR, Washington Times and Breitbart
David French / The Dispatch:
The Dangerous Idolatry of Christian Trumpism — We can pray peace will prevail, but we'd be fools to presume it will. — 4 hr ago — This is a grievous and dangerous time for American Christianity. The frenzy and the fury of the post-election period has laid bare the sheer idolatry and fanaticism of Christian Trumpism.
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Religion News Service
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Rod Dreher:
What I Saw At The Jericho March — For my sins, I guess, I watched all six hours of the Jericho March proceedings from Washington today, on the march webcast. I say for my sins, but in truth, I decided to watch it because I am interested in what the activist Christian Right is saying …
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Religion News Service
Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
‘Proud Boys’ burn Black Lives Matter signs at churches in Washington — Flip — WASHINGTON (RNS) — People reportedly affiliated with the hate group Proud Boys tore down Black Lives Matter signs belonging to churches in Washington Saturday night (Dec 12), setting at least one aflame.
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Washington Post:
Multiple people stabbed after thousands gather for pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington
Multiple people stabbed after thousands gather for pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
She Stalked Her Daughter's Killers Across Mexico, One by One — Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails. — SAN FERNANDO, Mexico — Miriam Rodríguez clutched …
Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib star in Raphael Warnock vote-a-thon event — CAIR-Georgia sponsors virtual ‘vote-a-thon’ to boost Muslim turnout in runoff election — Democrat Raphael Warnock was already struggling to beat back allegations of anti-Semitism, and then Linda Sarsour …
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Loeffler disavows photo taken with longtime white supremacist — Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign strongly condemned a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist taken at an event in Dawsonville on Friday.The photo shows Loeffler smiling from beneath …
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Crooks and Liars
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former Adviser — Lindsey Boylan, a Democratic candidate for Manhattan Borough president, accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, of sexual harassment during the time she worked as an adviser to him.
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New York Post, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze and Mediaite
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Compared with today's GOP, the 1860 secessionists were softies — At least the Confederate secessionists acknowledged that Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election. — The 18 Republican state attorneys general and 126 Republican House members who asked the Supreme Court to throw out the results …
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The Moderate Voice
Sky News Australia:
Major leak ‘exposes’ members and ‘lifts the lid’ on the Chinese Communist Party — A major leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members has occurred - exposing members who are now working all over the world, while also lifting the lid on how the party operates under Xi Jinping, says Sharri Markson.
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The Gateway Pundit