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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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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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Politico, Raw Story, The Verge and CNN, more at Techmeme »
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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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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CNN:
White House staffers to receive Covid-19 vaccine ahead of general public
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Associated Press
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump, Top Officials to Be Offered Covid Vaccine Within Days
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Axios and New York Post
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign
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abc7NY and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »
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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Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Election Law Blog, Business Insider, Associated Press, The Hill, Mother Jones and CBS News
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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.
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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Georgia Public Broadcasting, Associated Press and POLITICUSUSA
David Siders / Politico:
Trump unleashes an army of sore losers
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National Review, NBC News and Raw Story
David Cohen / Politico:
Lamar Alexander: Trump needs to ‘put the country first’ and accept election results
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, IJR, USA Today, Business Insider, The Hill, Crooks and Liars, Axios and Breitbart
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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Business Insider, The Daily Caller and The Atlantic
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 …
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NOQ Report, New York Post, TMZ.com, CBS Pittsburgh and OutKick
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 …
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AppleInsider, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Slate, HotAir, NPR and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »
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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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Bloomberg, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, Politico, New York Post, Mother Jones, NBC Los Angeles and Political Wire
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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
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
Politico:
Bipartisan group to offer 2-part coronavirus relief package
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New York Times, Business Insider, One America News Network, Fox News and UPI
Maria Carrasco / Politico:
Bill Cassidy warns GOP 'can't stand if we are divided'
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New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Herald, AFP, The Hill, IJR, CNN and Slate
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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The Guardian, The Wrap, The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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, The Hill, Associated Press and NewsOne
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
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 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
New York Post:
Former aide Lindsey Boylan alleges Cuomo ‘sexually harassed’ her about looks — A former adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who is now running for Manhattan borough president — alleged Sunday that the governor “sexually harassed” her for years. — “Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years …
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Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former Adviser
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The Western Journal, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and TheBlaze
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden weighs Sam Power for USAID — Joe Biden is considering Samantha Power to head the United States Agency for International Development, which would place a high-profile figure atop foreign aid and coronavirus relief efforts, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
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Foreign Affairs and Political Wire
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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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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