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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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Associated Press, CBS Chicago, DemCast, Axios, abc7NY, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, POLITICUSUSA, CBS Miami, Washington Times, Raw Story and Business Insider
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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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Denver Post, Politico, Bloomberg and The Week
Washington Post:
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
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Raw Story, Fox News, Bloomberg, CBS San Francisco, CNN, HotAir and BuzzFeed News
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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Business Insider, Newsbusters, Axios and Senator Rob Portman
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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Raw Story
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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CNN, The Hill, Law & Crime, New York Times, The Guardian and UPI
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
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Pro-Trump Republicans Are Holding Fake Electoral College Votes While The Real Electoral College Meets To Formalize Biden's Win
Pro-Trump Republicans Are Holding Fake Electoral College Votes While The Real Electoral College Meets To Formalize Biden's Win
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Bloomberg, Politico, NPR, The Week, Townhall, Business Insider, Cyprus Mail, TMZ.com, Breitbart, WPRI-TV, KTLA, CBS News, DemCast, TheBlaze and NBC Los Angeles
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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Detroit News, CNN, New York Times, Mediaite, Axios, Big League Politics, Vox, UPI, The Daily Caller, Michigan Advance, HotAir, TheBlaze, WXYZ-TV, Washington Examiner, Crooks and Liars, The Hill, The Week, WDIV-TV, Breitbart, The American Independent, Business Insider, Fox News, NPR and POLITICUSUSA
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
Associated Press:
‘Democracy prevailed’: Biden aims to unify divided nation
‘Democracy prevailed’: Biden aims to unify divided nation
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Associated Press, Axios and NBC News
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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American Interregnum, ABC, Associated Press, Vox, Forbes, IJR, Common Dreams, Mercury News, Media Matters for America, WPHM, Washington Times, TheBlaze, Democrats, Raw Story, Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I, CBS News, Washington Examiner, The American Independent, The Hill, USA Today, Florida Politics, Election Law Blog and Business Insider
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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Detroit News, POLITICUSUSA, Reuters, David Harris Jr., USA Today, IJR, BuzzFeed News, Florida Phoenix, Washington Post, Fox News, floridapolitics.com, Axios, Mother Jones, KTLA and CNBC
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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general — Top Republicans are warning against President-elect Joe Biden picking former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to helm the Justice Department. — Yates has been floated as being on Biden's short list to lead DOJ …
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POLITICUSUSA
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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Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Liberty Unyielding, Spectator USA, Vox, CBS News, TalkLeft and Twitchy
CNN:
Attorney General William Barr resigns
Attorney General William Barr resigns
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HotAir, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, The American Independent, National Review, Bloomberg, NECN, KIFI-TV and Mediaite
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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Politico, NPR, Sara A. Carter, USA Today, Washington Times, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, BuzzFeed News, abc7NY, American Military News, Daily Kos, The Wrap and Althouse
Jeff Charles / RedState:
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
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HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, Mediaite, Deadline, IJR, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Federalist, The Week and The Intellectualist
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Good riddance, Attorney General Barr
Good riddance, Attorney General Barr
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CANNONFIRE and TheBlaze
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 …
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
DHS is third federal agency hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign
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NK News, Boing Boing, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Lawfare, Vanity Fair, Vox, Political Wire, The Intellectualist and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
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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New York Times, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, UPI and justoneminute.typepad.com
Jamie Dupree / Regular Order:
Looking for DC Christmas clues
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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Vanity Fair, Daily Kos, The Week, The Hill, Forbes, Raw Story, Mediaite and Business Insider
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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Media Matters for America, The Week, alicublog, The Hill and Reuters
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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Raw Story
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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Center for Global Policy and CNN
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Stephen Miller is a fraud who should just go away already — The electors are voting. As of the latest count, Joe Biden has secured 302 electoral college votes, making him the next president. The electors in the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin …
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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, Israpundit, The Daily Signal and CBS Pittsburgh
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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Times, Vox, Vanity Fair, Outside the Beltway, Common Dreams, Conservative News Today, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars, The Guardian, GovExec.com, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, Forbes and Patterico's Pontifications
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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CBS Pittsburgh
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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Raw Story and Boing Boing
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 …
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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Washington Post, TK News, KIFI-TV, Washington Examiner, Roll Call, Axios, Business Insider, The Week and Mother Jones
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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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