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Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan House punishes GOP Rep. Gary Eisen for hinting at Electoral College disruption  —  Michigan Republican legislative leaders pulled a GOP lawmaker from his committee assignments Monday after the lawmaker hinted he was part of a group that sought to disrupt or otherwise undermine t …
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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 …
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 …
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Has Hidden Evidence Of His Crimes For Years.  Joe Biden Can Expose It.  —  The new administration should open the books and expose the Trump administration's misdeeds.  —  President Donald Trump will leave office on Jan. 20 under the biggest cloud of corruption and scandal …
New York Times:
Live: Here Are the Electoral College Results, By State
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Biden Wins Electoral College to Cement Victory and Rebuff Trump
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
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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CNN:
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 of Michigan, a two-term Republican who voted for President Trump this year, announced on Monday that he would immediately sever his ties with the Republican Party …
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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CNN:
Attorney General William Barr resigns  —  (CNN)Attorney General William Barr resigned on Monday, ending a tenure in which the President Donald Trump loyalist carried the administration's “law and order” message but ultimately dealt the most credible blow to Trump's unfounded claims that the 2020 election was littered with fraud.
Jeff Charles / RedState:
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Good riddance, Attorney General Barr
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and TheBlaze
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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.
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 …
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  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's lawsuit attempting to overturn his election loss in the battleground state about an hour before the Electoral College cast Wisconsin's 10 votes for Democrat Joe Biden.
Jamie Dupree / Regular Order:   Looking for DC Christmas clues
Smartmatic.com:
Smartmatic Demands Justice for Defamation  —  Smartmatic announced today that it is issuing legal notices and retraction demand letters to Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network for publishing false and defamatory statements.  The demand letters identify dozens of factually inaccurate statements …
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Jemima McEvoy / Forbes:
Voting Machine Manufacturer Demands Retractions From Conservative News Networks Over Fraud Claims
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Smartmatic Demands Fox News Retract ‘False and Defamatory’ Election Conspiracies Pushed By Bartiromo, Dobbs, Giuliani, Powell
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” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Washington Post:
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
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 …
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.
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.
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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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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   AJC Interview: Kemp blasts ‘ridiculous’ attacks over refusal to overturn election
Eric Geller / Politico:
‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies  —  The hacks also placed new pressure on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has been without a permanent leader since November.  —  The sophisticated cyber campaign that breached email accounts across …
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 …
Jamie Ballard / YouGov:
Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie, say Americans  —  Every year without fail, the same debate is reignited on social media: is the 1988 action thriller Die Hard a Christmas movie?  —  While there are compelling arguments for both sides, a recent YouGov poll of 1,500 US adults finds that 44% say …
 
 
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Rachel M. Cohen / New Republic:
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Politico:
Goldman Sachs vets quietly added to Biden transition
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN Parent Rejects Unfounded Trump Ads About Election Fraud
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‘Healing is coming’: US health workers start getting vaccine
David French / TIME:
How the Conservative Legal Movement Stopped Trump's Attempts to Overturn the Election
Discussion: Reason
New York Times:
CNN and MSNBC Fret Over Post-Trump Future
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
With his star dimmed, California's Newsom could face recall
Discussion: CNN, Fox News and The Daily Caller
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
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