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1:30 PM ET, December 14, 2020

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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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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Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
Talk of secession is madness
Discussion: The Hill and The Federalist
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most remarkable rebukes of Trump's legal case: From the judges he hand-picked
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 …
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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Barr Kept Biden Probes From Public to Avoid Election Politics  —  In preventing leaks, attorney general hewed to Justice Department practice and defied his critics' view of him  —  Attorney General William Barr, in the weeks before November's election, instructed prosecutors and senior colleagues …
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Fox News:
Hunter Biden email shows $400G unreported income from Burisma, states he needs to ‘amend’ tax returns
Discussion: National Review
Fox News:
Special Counsel John Durham expanding team, making ‘excellent progress’: source
Discussion: Townhall
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect  —  In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks in more than five years, email systems were breached at the Treasury and Commerce Departments.  Other breaches are under investigation.
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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
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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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Americans willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine but divided on timing: POLL  —  The new ABC News/Ipsos poll comes as all 50 states receive the vaccine.  —  Why are people hesitant to trust a COVID-19 vaccine?  —  Vaccines are proven to reduce deaths and help end pandemics …
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:   Will Americans Take A Coronavirus Vaccine? Here's What Surveys Can (And Can't) Tell Us
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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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 …
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.
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Republicans: Be mad, but make sure to keep the Senate!  —  If Democrats can put the country through four years of hell by feverishly promoting the ridiculous conspiracy that President Trump worked with Russia to steal the 2016 election, then they can certainly endure a few weeks …
Discussion: Fox News, Georgia Recorder and KTLA
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Warnock: U.S. Senators ‘Gangsters and Thugs’ Who Aimed to ‘Kill Children’
Discussion: National Review and Kelly Loeffler
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
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 …
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Former FDA Director Scott Gottlieb: Trump Administration Declined More Pfizer Vaccines as Recently as November  —  Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, now on the board of Pfizer, said that the United States was offered more of the company's successful coronavirus vaccine …
Discussion: Business Insider and CNBC
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 …
Politico:
How Biden's team botched his Cabinet debuts  —  President-elect Joe Biden's decision to nominate a recently retired military general as Defense secretary blindsided the lawmakers who will have to pass a waiver to allow for his confirmation.  His choice of a former White House chief of staff …
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Yuval Levin / The Dispatch:
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
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Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics:
Hunter Biden News Should Shame Dismissive Media Outlets
Associated Press:
U.S. blames Iran in abduction, death of ex-FBI agent Levinson
Paul Bois / The Daily Wire:
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 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
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Have a Problem. ‘Workers, Wages, Weed’ May Be the Answer.
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
Politico:
The Way to Keep Georgia Blue
Washington Post:
Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight
The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He'll Fight On. His Campaign HQ Is Literally Taking Down His Name.
Discussion: Raw Story
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