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12:30 AM ET, December 15, 2020

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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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Wall Street Journal:
More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect  —  Lawmakers' comments come as state electors made Joe Biden's victory official  —  WASHINGTON—Many top Republican senators and close allies of President Trump said they now view Democrat Joe Biden as the next president …
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 …
Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan House punishes GOP Rep. Gary Eisen for hinting at Electoral College disruption
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Top GOP senators acknowledge Biden as president-elect after Electoral College vote
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
Discussion: Raw Story
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
New York Times:
Live: Here Are the Electoral College Results, By State
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Biden Wins Electoral College to Cement Victory and Rebuff Trump
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 …
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.”
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Atty. Gen. Barr steps down amid tumult at Justice Department
Jeff Charles / RedState:
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Good riddance, Attorney General Barr
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and TheBlaze
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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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 …
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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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.
Discussion: 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 …
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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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 and Boing Boing
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 …
Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh
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 …
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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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   AJC Interview: Kemp blasts ‘ridiculous’ attacks over refusal to overturn election
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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