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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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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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Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
The Supreme Court Rejects Texas's Shameful Lawsuit, But There Has to Be a Reckoning
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and Reason
David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump tells ‘Fox & Friends’ election challenges ‘not over’ ahead of Electoral College vote
David Siders / Politico:
Trump unleashes an army of sore losers
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Dershowitz: Supreme Court ruling shows 'you can't count on the judiciary' if you're team Trump
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David Cohen / Politico:
Lamar Alexander: Trump needs to ‘put the country first’ and accept election results
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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.
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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 …
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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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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.
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign
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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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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump, Top Officials to Be Offered Covid Vaccine Within Days
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Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
U.S. expects to have immunized 100 million against COVID-19 by end of March -Slaoui
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The Hill
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
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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 …
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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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump on attending Biden inauguration: 'I don't want to talk about that'
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Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Chris Christie Blasts Trump's Legal Strategy: An ‘Absurdity’
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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 …
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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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CBS News:
CBS News poll: Most feel election is “settled” but Trump voters disagree — With the Electoral College poised to elect Joe Biden on Monday, a sizable 62% majority of the nation's voters feel the election is “over and settled” and it's “time to move on.” Large majorities feel their own votes …
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Maria Carrasco / Politico:
Bill Cassidy warns GOP 'can't stand if we are divided'
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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 …
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The Hill and Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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Raw Story
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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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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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
‘Proud Boys’ burn Black Lives Matter signs at churches 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 …
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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