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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 …
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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.
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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.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephen Miller: ‘Alternate’ electors will keep Trump election challenge alive — President Trump's allies are preparing to send an “alternate” slate of electors to Congress, senior White House adviser Stephen Miller said Monday, signaling Trump will drag out his efforts to overturn the results …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Electors meeting to formally choose Biden as next president
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Biden Captures Electoral Votes From All States Trump Contested
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most remarkable rebukes of Trump's legal case: From the judges he hand-picked
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Georgia elector to cast vote in Electoral College that she supports abolishing
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Challenge Is Over — After losing at the Supreme Court, he has no legal alternatives and ought to concede.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Stunning Passage from the Latest Court Rejection of Team Trump
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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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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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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
‘Skinny’ coronavirus aid package emerging from Senate talks
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sanders urges Democrats to reject bipartisan stimulus bill
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
Talk of secession is madness
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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.
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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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Jamie BallardData Journalist / 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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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 …
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Starts Vaccine Rollout as Shots Given in New York — High-risk health care workers are being given priority as the U.S. surpassed more than 300,000 virus-related deaths. Australia and New Zealand intend to establish a travel bubble.
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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
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
With his star dimmed, California's Newsom could face recall — LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a rough year. The next one might be even tougher as a recall effort appears to be gaining momentum, fueled partly by outrage over the first-term Democrat dining with friends …
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