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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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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
What's Next for Trump Voters Who Believe the Election Was Stolen?  —  Some are certain the election was fraudulent.  Others aren't so sure.  What becomes of their skepticism has important implications for American democracy.  —  WASHINGTON — Richard Everit walked with a heavy heart …
New York Times:
Live: Here Are the Electoral College Results, By State  —  The 538 members of the Electoral College are meeting today to cast ballots for president based on the election results in their states, formalizing Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s victory.  —  This year, Mr. Biden won states with 306 electoral votes, and President Trump won 232.
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan House, Senate close offices due to threats ahead of electors' meeting  —  Lansing — Citing “safety and security concerns,” the Michigan House and Senate will close their offices in downtown Lansing on Monday as presidential electors meet in the state Capitol.
CNN:
Track Electoral College votes, state by state  —  (CNN)The outcome of the presidential election has been clear for weeks, but on Monday it gets one step closer to being official as the Electoral College meets.  —  Across the US, 538 electors are gathering in their respective states to cast electoral votes for president.
Discussion: Washington Post
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Electors meeting to formally choose Biden as next president  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential electors are meeting across the United States on Monday to formally choose Joe Biden as the nation's next president.  —  Monday is the day set by law for the meeting of the Electoral College.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Georgia elector to cast vote in Electoral College that she supports abolishing
Discussion: National Review
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Stunning Passage from the Latest Court Rejection of Team Trump  —  What a Wisconsin federal court's order turning back another campaign lawsuit tells us about the election-rigging case.  —  he most telling aspect of the Wisconsin federal district court's rejection of another Trump campaign lawsuit …
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuit
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most remarkable rebukes of Trump's legal case: From the judges he hand-picked
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
Talk of secession is madness
Discussion: The Hill and The Federalist
The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He'll Fight On. His Campaign HQ Is Literally Taking Down His Name.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Where we are on funding
Discussion: New York Times and Vanity Fair
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump tells allies he will run in 2024, but hints he may back out  —  Donald Trump doesn't need to run for president again.  He just needs everyone to think he is.  —  The president's recent discussions with those around him reveal that he sees his White House comeback deliberations …
Washington Post:
Inside the ‘nasty’ feud between Trump and the Republican governor he blames for losing Georgia  —  The first major fissure in the relationship between President Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp came a year ago, when Kemp paid Trump a clandestine visit in the White House residence.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's rage at Georgia's GOP governor bodes badly for Trumpism's future
Discussion: Raw Story and HotAir
Fox News:
Special Counsel John Durham expanding team, making ‘excellent progress’: source  —  Fox News has learned that Durham is adding prosecutors to his team  —  Will Durham investigation of Russia probe hamper Biden presidency?  —  Special Counsel John Durham is expanding his team and making …
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Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics:
Hunter Biden News Should Shame Dismissive Media Outlets
bellingcat:
FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning  —  We have detailed the research methodology for this investigation into a separate article.  You can read it here.  — In a previous series of investigations, Bellingcat uncovered evidence …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Wall Street Journal Opinion Editor Defends Item on Dr. Jill Biden  —  “There's nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism,” Paul A. Gigot said as he accused Democrats of orchestrating a coordinated response to an op-ed piece.  —  The editorial page editor …
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Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:
The Biden Team Strikes Back
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Loeffler disavows photo taken with longtime white supremacist  —  U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign strongly condemned a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist at an event in Dawsonville on Friday, as the photo sparked fierce criticism …
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
In final years at Liberty, Falwell spent millions on pro-Trump causes  —  After shocking many in the evangelical movement by endorsing Donald Trump over other Republicans for the 2016 presidential nomination, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. pumped millions of the nonprofit …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and The Week
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89  —  Breaking from the James Bond mold, he turned the spy novel into high art as he explored the moral compromises of agents on both sides of the Iron curtain.  —  LONDON — John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced …
Micah L. Sifry / American Prospect:
Why Did Obama Forget Who Brought Him to the Dance?  —  His memoir is strangely silent about the people who organized for him. … I've recently spent a good chunk of time engrossed in reading A Promised Land, the first volume of President Barack Obama's memoirs.
New York Times:
Cleveland's Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name  —  The decision comes amid a wider push for sports teams to stop using Native American names and imagery as team names and mascots.  —  Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web  —  As regulators seek ways to curb the company's power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — In 2000, just two years after it was founded …
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Department of Homeland Security:
Emergency Directive 21-01  —  Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise  —  This page contains a web-friendly version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Emergency Directive 21-01, “Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise”. … Background
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Warnock: U.S. Senators ‘Gangsters and Thugs’ Who Aimed to ‘Kill Children’  —  Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock described members of the U.S. Senate as “gangsters and thugs” whose votes for a 2017 tax cut exposed their willingness to “kill children.”
The New York Times Company:
Opinion Welcomes Siddhartha Mahanta  —  Siddhartha Mahanta joins Opinion as vertical editor for business, economics and technology.  Most recently, Sid was managing editor of Rest of World, a digital magazine that covers tech, business and culture.  Sid began his career as an editor …
 
 
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Zac Harmon / WXMI:
“I fear we'd lose our country forever” says State House Speaker on overturning election results
Discussion: Political Wire
Yuval Levin / The Dispatch:
The Path Back From Conspiracy  —  The federal judiciary has kept its head and helped the country do the same.
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
China's Combative Nationalists See a World Turning Their Way
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Eve Peyser / New York Times:
The People Who Actually Had a Pretty Great Year
Discussion: National Review
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Mary Nichols Appears to Be Out of Running to Lead E.P.A.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Former FDA Director Scott Gottlieb: Trump Administration Declined More Pfizer Vaccines as Recently as November
Discussion: Business Insider and CNBC
Associated Press:
U.S. blames Iran in abduction, death of ex-FBI agent Levinson
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Taub / New Yorker:
Murder in Malta  —  After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work …
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
With his star dimmed, California's Newsom could face recall
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
How Biden's team botched his Cabinet debuts
Discussion: NBC News and The Week
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Axis of Assholes Just Completed Its Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party
Discussion: Raw Story and Common Dreams
Washington Post:
Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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