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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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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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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 …
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Forbes, Politico, CBS San Francisco and New York Post
Alana Wise / NPR:
'In America, Politicians Don't Take Power': Biden Harshly Rebukes Trump Over Election
'In America, Politicians Don't Take Power': Biden Harshly Rebukes Trump Over Election
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Denver Post, Bloomberg, WTOP, Politico and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect
More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect
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CBS News, Roll Call, Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Times and One America News Network
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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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
Associated Press:
‘Democracy prevailed’: Biden aims to unify divided nation
‘Democracy prevailed’: Biden aims to unify divided nation
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Associated Press, NBC News and Axios
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
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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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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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 …
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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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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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POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Attorney General William Barr resigns
Attorney General William Barr resigns
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Jeff Charles / RedState:
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Business Insider, The Guardian, Mediaite, IJR, 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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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, NPR, The Week, The Hill and Reuters
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.
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuit
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuit
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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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The Week, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Forbes, Business Insider, Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Hill
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 …
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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.
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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
Voting Machine Manufacturer Demands Retractions From Conservative News Networks Over Fraud Claims
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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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Center for Global Policy
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
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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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 …
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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Washington Examiner, ABC13, Common Dreams, The Hill, Business Insider and Reason
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Group Nine Media Explores Blank-Check Company for Digital-Media Acquisitions — Owner of digital brands such as The Dodo and NowThis is considering acquiring competitors through a special-purpose acquisition company — Group Nine Media, owner of websites such as The Dodo and NowThis …
New York Times:
CNN and MSNBC Fret Over Post-Trump Future — Ratings have hit new highs, but executives and journalists at both networks are uneasy about the year ahead. — CNN and MSNBC thrived during the Trump years, reaching new heights in ratings and revenue while devoting countless prime-time hours …
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