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9:55 PM ET, December 13, 2020

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Glen Johnson / Axios:
Scoop: O'Brien takes wife on COVID-era tour of Europe  —  National security adviser Robert O'Brien is taking his wife on a holiday tour of the romantic Mediterranean and European capitals, including seeking a private tour of the Louvre despite it being closed because of coronavirus restrictions, people familiar with the trip tell Axios.
Discussion: The White House
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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 …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect  —  In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks in more than five years, email systems were breached at the Treasury and Commerce Departments.  Other breaches are under investigation.
Discussion: The Week
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.
CNN:
White House staffers to receive Covid-19 vaccine ahead of general public
Discussion: Associated Press
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump, Top Officials to Be Offered Covid Vaccine Within Days
Discussion: Axios and New York Post
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Stunning Passage from the Latest Court Rejection of Team Trump  —  What a Wisconsin federal court's order turning back another campaign lawsuit tells us about the election-rigging case.  —  he most telling aspect of the Wisconsin federal district court's rejection of another Trump campaign lawsuit …
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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.
David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal
David Cohen / Politico:
Lamar Alexander: Trump needs to ‘put the country first’ and accept election results
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump tells ‘Fox & Friends’ election challenges ‘not over’ ahead of Electoral College vote
New York Times:
Cleveland's Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name  —  The decision comes amid a wider push for sports teams to stop using Native American names and imagery as team names and mascots.  —  Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided …
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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Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
U.S. expects to have immunized 100 million against COVID-19 by end of March -Slaoui
Discussion: The Hill
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker.  Then Tim Cook Found Out.  —  Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told.  The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.  —  The show was called “Scraper,” but it was clearly about Gawker Media, the network of aggressive …
Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:
The Biden Team Strikes Back  —  Its strategists promote an identity politics campaign against an op-ed on Jill Biden's use of ‘Dr.’  —  Joe Biden says it is “time to heal” America's divisions after the Trump presidency, and The Wall Street Journal has praised him for saying so.
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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
The Wall Street Journal column about Jill Biden is worse than you thought  —  In one of my favorite episodes of “The West Wing,” Abigail Bartlet, a trained surgeon and the fictional first lady, speaks with a White House attorney about a looming scandal.  The lawyer addresses her as “Mrs. Bartlet …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Is Dead at 89  —  Graham Greene called “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” featuring the plump, ill-dressed George Smiley, the greatest spy story he had ever read.  —  LONDON — John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced …
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 …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
States prepare for pandemic-era Electoral College meeting  —  Tomorrow, state electors who'll finally cast their Electoral College votes formalizing Joe Biden's win, will gather in person at state capitols across the US, even during a pandemic.  —  Between the lines: Capitol compounds already provide security.
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Jesse Wegman / New York Times:   The Electoral College Shouldn't Matter More Than the Majority's Votes
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Most feel election is “settled” but Trump voters disagree
CNN:
Pete Buttigieg emerging as leading contender for Transportation secretary  —  (CNN)Pete Buttigieg is emerging as a leading contender to be Joe Biden's Transportation secretary, multiple sources familiar with the transition's deliberations tell CNN.  —  The possible nomination would vault …
Discussion: The Hill and Chicago Sun-Times
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 …
Discussion: Law & Crime
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John Harwood / CNN:
Trump will leave office with a historically bad economic record  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump still can't accept the numbers measuring his loss to Joe Biden: more than 7 million popular votes and 74 electoral votes.  —  But another set of numbers adds insult to his psychological injury.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Historic D.C. Black churches attacked during pro-Trump rallies Saturday  —  A Black Lives Matter banner and sign were torn from two historic Black churches in downtown D.C. and destroyed during pro-Trump protests Saturday night.  —  D.C. police said they are investigating the events as potential hate crimes.
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Politico:
Bipartisan group to offer 2-part coronavirus relief package  —  A bipartisan group of senators is expected to introduce a $908 billion coronavirus relief bill as soon as Monday, with a twist: The deal is expected to be split into two pieces, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
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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.
Discussion: Religion News Service
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Rod Dreher:
What I Saw At The Jericho March
Discussion: Religion News Service
 
 
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John Nichols / madison.com:
Tom Tiffany chooses Trump over Wisconsin
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden weighs Sam Power for USAID
Discussion: Foreign Affairs and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff
Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib star in Raphael Warnock vote-a-thon event
Discussion: Townhall and CAIR
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
On Immigration, Activists' Demands May Exceed Biden Realities
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
U.S. border officials expelled dozens of migrant children in violation of court order
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Getting Covid Vaccines to People Will Cost States Billions They Don't Have
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The GOP's Minority Rule Caucus reveals its contempt for democracy
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Will Parker / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Poised for Wave of Evictions in January as Federal Ban Expires
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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