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11:55 PM ET, December 15, 2020

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Politico:
McConnell warns Senate Republicans against challenging election results  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Republican senators Tuesday during a private caucus call not to object to the election results on Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Politico:
Why Biden thinks the GOP fever could break (really)  —  Welcome to POLITICO's 2020 Transition Playbook, your guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history.  —  JOE BIDEN thinks he'll succeed where President BARACK OBAMA failed — at least when it comes to Republicans in Congress.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
How McConnell and the GOP let Trump down gently  —  Before recognizing Joe Biden as America's next president, Mitch McConnell was careful to make sure President Donald Trump was in the loop.  —  The Senate majority leader transmitted a message to the White House ahead of time that he would …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
McConnell urges Republicans not to contest Biden win on Jan. 6
Dan Merica / CNN:
Joe Biden picks Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary
Hans Nichols / Axios:   Biden considering Republicans for Commerce secretary
Alayna Treene / Axios:   Kevin McCarthy refuses to congratulate Biden on election victory
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden taps former rival Buttigieg for U.S. Transportation secretary -sources
President-Elect Joe Biden:
DOMESTIC NOMINEES AND APPOINTEES
Discussion: TheBlaze
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
McConnell sets up a clash with Trump over who's in charge in the GOP
Washington Post:
Biden to name Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary
Michael Stratford / Politico:
DeVos urges career staff to ‘be the resistance’ as Biden takes over  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Education Department on Tuesday to “be the resistance” when the Biden administration comes into power next month, according to a recording of her remarks obtained by POLITICO.
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Politico:
Biden to tap former Michigan Gov. Granholm to lead Energy Department  —  President-elect Joe Biden will pick former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to run the Energy Department, the agency that would play a key role in helping develop the technologies needed fulfill his pledge to move the country off fossil fuels.
Bloomberg:
MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2 Billion in Four Months  — World's 18th-richest person announced contributions on Medium  — Scott's total gifts this year are close to $6 billion  —  MacKenzie Scott is giving away her fortune at an unprecedented pace, donating more than $4 billion …
Discussion: Gothamist
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MacKenzie Scott / Medium:
384 Ways to Help  —  Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room, and I've found her poetry coming to me a lot this year.  Though her isolation was voluntary, I doubt it was easy.  Her room overlooked a cemetery, and many of her poems are focused on death.
ABC13:
Alleged crusade to stop voter fraud lands former HPD captain in handcuffs  —  HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A former Houston Police Department Captain was arrested and charged for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Hundreds of invitees skip Mike Pompeo's indoor holiday party at State Department  —  Only a tiny fraction of the more than 900 guests invited to an indoor holiday party hosted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan showed up on Tuesday following an outcry from public health officials …
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Trump asking about special prosecutor for Hunter Biden  —  Washington (AP) — President Donald Trump is considering pushing to have a special counsel appointed to advance a federal tax investigation into the son of President-elect Joe Biden, setting up a potential showdown with incoming acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen.
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
QAnon supporters suggest Trump's new deputy attorney general will fulfill conspiracy theory and institute mass arrests
Discussion: National Review and Reason
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Hack may have exposed deep US secrets; damage yet unknown  —  BOSTON (AP) — Some of America's most deeply held secrets may have been stolen in a disciplined, monthslong operation being blamed on elite Russian government hackers.  The possibilities of what might have been purloined are mind-boggling.
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Washington Post:   The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks. The Russians outsmarted it.
Rachel Sharp / Daily Mail:
San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him’ - as woke renaming committee also takes aim at Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein and Teddy Roosevelt  — San Francisco Unified School District's renaming …
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New York Times:
So Jeffrey Toobin Had a Zoom Incident.  What Now?  —  How a leading man of legal journalism lost his sweetest gig.  —  Until Jeffrey Toobin's fateful appointment with Zoom on Oct. 15, his quarantine was going better than most people's.  —  In August, his eighth book, “True Crimes and Misdemeanors …
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN says Jeffrey Toobin still employed as report suggests he may get second chance after masturbation scandal
Discussion: New York Post
Vincent Marshall / Dodge City Daily Globe:
Mayor Warshaw resigns effective immediately  —  On Tuesday, Dec. 15, Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw officially resigned from her position effective immediately.  —  “I understand people are under a lot of pressure from various things that are happening around society like the pandemic …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere  —  Next-door neighbors of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Fla., that he has called his Winter White House, have a message for the outgoing commander in chief: We don't want you to be our neighbor.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
MSNBC:
'There's now one pro-democracy political party': Steve Schmidt announces he's a Democrat  —  On becoming a Democrat, former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt says “At the end of the day, there's now one pro-democracy political party in the United States of America and that's the Democratic Party.
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Washington Post:
Biden picks former EPA chief Gina McCarthy as White House climate czar  —  McCarthy heads the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has sued the Trump administration more than 100 times.  —  President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Gina McCarthy, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency …
Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times:
Prosecuting Donald Trump: the question that will roil Biden's first year  —  The US president could face investigation on a number of fronts when he leaves office  —  When Joe Biden is sworn in as president on January 20, his in-tray will include a pandemic that continues to kill thousands …
Discussion: Politico and Just The News
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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump's Staff Secretary Lyons to Leave White House This Month
Discussion: The Hill and TASS
Sonia Moghe / CNN:
Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general, judge rules  —  (CNN)A state judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump Organization must turn over documents related to a property whose tax abatements were being investigated by New York Attorney General Letitia James' office.
Discussion: Raw Story, WPHM and UPI
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Trump Organization Must Cough Up Docs on Seven Springs Engineer to New York Attorney General, Manhattan Judge Rules
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Everyone Trump Touches Dies: The List  —  He revealed people for what they really were.  —  Bill Barr?  He gone.  —  Barr began the Year of Our Lord 2016 as a well respected member of the conservative legal establishment.  He concludes 2020 with his reputation destroyed …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder  —  Two sources tell The Daily Beast that the president has expressed sympathy for the situation of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. … In his final weeks in office before Joe Biden's inauguration …
CBS Chicago:
‘You Have the Wrong Place:’ Body Camera Video Shows Moments Police Handcuff Innocent, Naked Woman During Wrong Raid  —  CHICAGO (CBS) — For the first time, police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered …
CNN:
How Qanon's lies are hijacking the national conversation  —  How Trump is fueling the alarming growth of QAnon  —  (CNN)It started with a Tweet from a QAnon supporter at 2:09 in the morning: #SubpoenaObama.  —  Though devoid of context, the cryptic message made sense to anyone in tune …
Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Well-Employed in Pandemic Times: Landscaping Goats  —  The animals are hired to clear land because of their insatiable hunger for weeds.  And they don't have to honor lockdowns.  —  TEXT  —  43 RESPONSES  —  Candace Thompson, manager of the Stuyvesant Cove Park in lower Manhattan …
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
How did a Proud Boys leader with a felony record get into the White House?  —  Enrique Tarrio claims he visited the White House on Saturday, hours before a major pro-Trump rally  —  The chairman of the white nationalist Proud Boys group, a convicted felon, posted photos from inside …
Discussion: WTOP and Holy Bullies …
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Fashion Mogul Peter Nygard Indicted on Sex-Trafficking Charges  —  Mr. Nygard was arrested in Canada at the request of the U.S. attorney's office in New York City, which accused him of recruiting dozens of women for sex.  —  Peter Nygard, the Canadian fashion retailer …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden close to naming Michael Regan as EPA administrator  —  Michael Regan, the top environmental regulator in North Carolina, has emerged as a leading candidate to head the Environmental Protection Agency, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Why it matters: If nominated and confirmed …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Bill Barr's Resignation Letter Perfectly Reflects His Entire Career  —  Twice, William Barr has been Attorney General of the United States.  And twice he has proven to be a willing footman for political deceit and political corruption.  —  Twice, I have seen William Pelham Barr ascend …
 
 
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Namita Singh / The Independent:
Husband arrested for throwing acid on wife after sending friends to gang rape her ‘because he lost a bet’
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Does Joe Biden believe in democracy or oligarchy?
Discussion: Breitbart
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
17 theses on Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation
New York Post:
Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate flags
Discussion: Washington Times
Nieman Lab:
Defund the crime beat
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
They Bet Big on Trump. Now They Claim Fraud.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Nelson / WJAX:
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
The Time Trump Told Boy Scouts About Sexy Yacht Parties
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