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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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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.
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 …
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.
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Biden Captures Electoral Votes From All States Trump Contested  — Electors cast ballots in six swing states Trump fought against  — Electoral College members gather in each state to cast votes  —  Electoral College members in all six battleground states where President Donald Trump …
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuit  —  MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld Democrat Joe Biden's Wisconsin win Monday, handing President Donald Trump a defeat less than an hour before the Electoral College was to meet.
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.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Georgia elector to cast vote in Electoral College that she supports abolishing
Discussion: National Review
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider, Forbes and Raw Story
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.
Discussion: The Hill, Reuters and Mercury News
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sanders urges Democrats to reject bipartisan stimulus bill  —  Bernie Sanders is urging Democratic leaders to rebuff a $748 billion bipartisan coronavirus relief bill because it spends too little and does not include new direct payments to Americans.  —  In an interview, the Vermont independent …
Discussion: The Hill, Business Insider and Reason
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
‘Skinny’ coronavirus aid package emerging from Senate talks
Discussion: Politico and CBS News
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 …
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.
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.
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Zac Harmon / WXMI:
“I fear we'd lose our country forever” says State House Speaker on overturning election results  —  (Rod Sanford/Detroit News via AP, File)<br/>  —  LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield says he will not attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election in Michigan.
Discussion: Political Wire
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court rejects attempt to revive Kansas voter ID laws  —  The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Kansas Republicans to revive laws that require people to prove their citizenship before voting.  —  The law, which a Kansas district court struck down in 2018 …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most remarkable rebukes of Trump's legal case: From the judges he hand-picked
Discussion: Raw Story and Israpundit
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
Talk of secession is madness
Discussion: The Hill and The Federalist
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 Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   AJC Interview: Kemp blasts ‘ridiculous’ attacks over refusal to overturn election
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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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 …
Jamie Ballard / YouGov:
Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie, say Americans  —  Every year without fail, the same debate is reignited on social media: is the 1988 action thriller Die Hard a Christmas movie?  —  While there are compelling arguments for both sides, a recent YouGov poll of 1,500 US adults finds that 44% say …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian missile defense  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defense system, setting the stage for further confrontation between the two nations as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US sanctions Turkey for purchasing Russian missile system
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 …
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Loeffler's campaign says senator had ‘no idea’ she took picture with former KKK leader  —  Smiling and sporting a dark green cap with an American flag, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) posed side by side with a former Ku Klux Klan leader at a Friday campaign event in Dawsonville, Ga.
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 …
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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Trevor Timm / GEN:
There Was a 1,200% Increase in Journalist Arrests in 2020  —  Journalists are being arrested at a staggering and alarming rate — part of a larger crackdown on protest in the U.S.  —  CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his camera crew were reporting from Minneapolis on the protests …
Discussion: Forbes
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.
Tim Kaine / The Hill:
How Joe Biden must build an all Americas foreign policy to lead  —  “We prefer dealing with America and its companies because of our close ties in culture, history, language, and immigration.”  When a president in South America told me this a few years ago, I felt a sense of pride in my country …
Daniel Ortner / The Hill:
The governor who stole Christmas — and the California businesses fighting back  —  Small business owners across California have struggled to survive this year in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and related shutdown orders.  But with the holiday season beginning, Gov. GavinNewsom …
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Pandemic collides with concerns about LGBTQ students' mental health  —  Editor's Note: Welcome to Weekly Education: Coronavirus special edition.  Each week, we will explore how the pandemic is reshaping and upending education as we know it across the country, from pre-K through grad school.
Washington Post:
Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight  —  Nearly three dozen people were arrested during a night of unrest in downtown Washington that began Saturday with rallies supporting President Trump and descended into chaos and violence as a group with ties …
 
 
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