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Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Fake electors try to deliver Arizona's 11 votes for Trump — In another sign of the lingering unrest over President Donald Trump's election loss, an Arizona group sent the National Archives in Washington, D.C., notarized documents last week intended to deliver, wrongly, the state's 11 electoral votes for him.
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Politico:
‘Time for everybody to move on’: Senate GOP accepts Biden's win — Senate Republicans are finally starting to recognize Joe Biden as the next president of the United States — even if they waited until the very last minute. — When asked on Monday afternoon whether Biden was the president-elect …
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Alana Wise / NPR:
'In America, Politicians Don't Take Power': Biden Harshly Rebukes Trump Over Election — On the day electors around the country voted to reaffirm his victory, President-elect Joe Biden called for Americans to come together in unity and healing, vowing to help pull the nation through …
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Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan House punishes GOP Rep. Gary Eisen for hinting at Electoral College disruption
Michigan House punishes GOP Rep. Gary Eisen for hinting at Electoral College disruption
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Top GOP senators acknowledge Biden as president-elect after Electoral College vote
Top GOP senators acknowledge Biden as president-elect after Electoral College vote
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Has Hidden Evidence Of His Crimes For Years. Joe Biden Can Expose It.
Donald Trump Has Hidden Evidence Of His Crimes For Years. Joe Biden Can Expose It.
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Forbes, New York Post and CBS San Francisco
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Maryland's GOP governor skewers Republicans' ‘embarrassing’ refusal to accept election results
Maryland's GOP governor skewers Republicans' ‘embarrassing’ refusal to accept election results
New York Times:
Live: Here Are the Electoral College Results, By State
Live: Here Are the Electoral College Results, By State
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's speech to America: ‘It is time to turn the page’
Joe Biden's speech to America: ‘It is time to turn the page’
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Biden Wins Electoral College to Cement Victory and Rebuff Trump
Biden Wins Electoral College to Cement Victory and Rebuff Trump
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP — (CNN)In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election …
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READ: Rep. Paul Mitchell's letter quitting the GOP, fearing ‘long-term harm to our democracy’ with its support for Trump's actions — (CNN)Michigan Republican Rep. Paul Mitchell told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Representative Paul Mitchell leaves Republican Party over its refusal to accept Trump's loss.
Representative Paul Mitchell leaves Republican Party over its refusal to accept Trump's loss.
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
William Barr Is Out as Attorney General — Mr. Barr was one of the most powerful members of President Trump's cabinet and faced widespread criticism over his willingness to advance Mr. Trump's political agenda. — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that Attorney General William P. Barr …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Bye-Bye, Bill Barr — The mostly tarnished legacy of Trump's mostly complicit attorney general. — Some heads snapped when Attorney General William Barr told the truth on December 1. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
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CNN:
Attorney General William Barr resigns
Attorney General William Barr resigns
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Atty. Gen. Barr steps down amid tumult at Justice Department
U.S. Atty. Gen. Barr steps down amid tumult at Justice Department
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Jeff Charles / RedState:
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Good riddance, Attorney General Barr
Good riddance, Attorney General Barr
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Eric Geller / Politico:
‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies — The sophisticated cyber campaign that breached email accounts across the federal government created a deepening crisis Monday as signs multiplied about the scope of the foreign intruders' reach.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
DHS is third federal agency hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign — The Department of Homeland Security is the third federal agency to have fallen victim to a major cyberespionage campaign by the Russian government, joining the Treasury and Commerce departments as targets that have been compromised, officials said Monday.
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
White House Official Recovers From Severe Covid-19, Friend Says — Crede Bailey spent three months in hospital with disease — Friend created GoFundMe account with details of illness — A White House official who fell ill with Covid-19 in September is recovering after three months …
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Georgia's Supreme Court Rejected Trump's Suit Over the Weekend. His Proxy Appealed Another Case and Lost Immediately on Monday. — Not long after rejecting outgoing President Donald Trump's election gripes, the Supreme Court of Georgia received and shredded an appeal by the lame duck's proxy on Monday.
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump election lawsuit
Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump election lawsuit
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Jamie Dupree / Regular Order:
Looking for DC Christmas clues
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's frenetic, fanciful, bitter final plea — Right up to Monday's Electoral College vote, President Trump held the false hope that Republican-controlled state legislatures would replace electors with allies who'd overturn Joe Biden's win, two people who discussed the matter with him told Axios.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia cast votes for Trump, hoping for court victories — Republicans are taking measures in case they succeed in court — Trump campaign continuing legal challenges after Supreme Court loss — While Democratic electors in Pennsylvania and Georgia cast …
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John Sudworth / BBC:
China's ‘tainted’ cotton — China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC. — Based on newly discovered online documents …
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Hill Staffer Linked to Veselnitskaya Dies Suddenly After Fall Near His Home — Paul Behrends, who lost his job on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after links to Russia were reported, suffered a head injury close to his home on Friday night. — The longtime aide to “Putin's Congressman” …
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Can the FBI Stop the Trump Extremists? — The president's backers are openly calling for sedition, secession, even murder, while police struggle with sympathizers in their ranks — Last month a young Georgia man and his girlfriend were stopped by Washington, D.C. police as they sauntered across …
The Guardian:
Treasure hunter marks five years in jail for refusing to give up his gold — Research scientist Tommy Thompson has for years refused to tell the location of 500 missing coins found in a historic shipwreck — A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Just How Dangerous Was Donald Trump? — He failed to bend the state to his will, but he still broke the country. — Throughout Donald Trump's presidency, there's been an argument on the left over the sort of threat he poses. — The American left's most famous figures — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Absentee ballot signature audit ordered after Georgia election — Investigators will audit voter signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County, a step announced Monday by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to further verify election results. — The move follows intense pressure …
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Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Beloved Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones, whose adventurous life took her — and readers — across the globe, dies at 58 — We've lost one of our own. — Meg Jones, who was the heart and soul of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's newsroom for more than two decades, died early Sunday.
Politico:
Congress nears deal on $1.4 trillion government funding measure — Congressional negotiators are closing in on a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending deal to ward off a government shutdown on Friday at midnight, crossing one major priority off the legislative agenda and adding further urgency around …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sanders urges Democrats to reject bipartisan stimulus bill
Sanders urges Democrats to reject bipartisan stimulus bill
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