‘Time for everybody to move on’: Senate GOP accepts Biden's win  —  Senate Republicans are finally starting to recognize Joe Biden as the next president of the United States — even if they waited until the very last minute.  —  When asked on Monday afternoon whether Biden was the president-elect …

Bye-Bye, Bill Barr  —  The mostly tarnished legacy of Trump's mostly complicit attorney general.  —  Some heads snapped when Attorney General William Barr told the truth on December 1.  “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP  —  (CNN)In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election …

Scope of Russian Hack Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit  —  The Pentagon, intelligence agencies, nuclear labs and Fortune 500 companies use software that was found to have been compromised by Russian hackers.  The sweep of stolen data is still being assessed.

Georgia's Supreme Court Rejected Trump's Suit Over the Weekend.  His Proxy Appealed Another Case and Lost Immediately on Monday.  —  Not long after rejecting outgoing President Donald Trump's election gripes, the Supreme Court of Georgia received and shredded an appeal by the lame duck's proxy on Monday.

Scoop: Trump's frenetic, fanciful, bitter final plea  —  Right up to Monday's Electoral College vote, President Trump held the false hope that Republican-controlled state legislatures would replace electors with allies who'd overturn Joe Biden's win, two people who discussed the matter with him told Axios.

Putin finally congratulates Biden on US election victory  —  Biden: Trump's entire presidency has been a gift to Putin  —  Moscow (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election Tuesday, six weeks after the vote …

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 …

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.

China's ‘tainted’ cotton  —  China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC.  —  Based on newly discovered online documents …

Just How Dangerous Was Donald Trump?  —  He failed to bend the state to his will, but he still broke the country.  —  Throughout Donald Trump's presidency, there's been an argument on the left over the sort of threat he poses.  —  The American left's most famous figures — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …

The madness of the Covid Christmas amnesty  —  London will enter Tier 3 Covid restrictions on Wednesday, because people are mixing too freely and thus spreading a deadly virus.  Next week, those restrictions will vanish for five days, allowing people to mix more freely, thus spreading a deadly virus.

Inside the Right-Wing Media Bubble, Where the Myth of a Trump Win Lives On  —  The Electoral College has affirmed Biden's victory.  That doesn't mean that Trump-friendly news outlets have accepted it.  —  President Trump's media criticism is usually binary — there are “good stories,” favorable to him, and then the other category.

Ex-Hill Staffer Linked to Veselnitskaya Dies Suddenly After Fall Near His Home  —  Paul Behrends, who lost his job on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after links to Russia were reported, suffered a head injury close to his home on Friday night.  —  The longtime aide to “Putin's Congressman” …

Can the FBI Stop the Trump Extremists?  —  The president's backers are openly calling for sedition, secession, even murder, while police struggle with sympathizers in their ranks  —  Last month a young Georgia man and his girlfriend were stopped by Washington, D.C. police as they sauntered across …

The Joe Biden model is a winner for all Democrats  —  There are two schools of thought among liberals when it comes to conservative media narratives.  The first is to ignore.  Who cares what Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity are saying?  We have our own channels of communication.

Dagbladet can reveal that Norwegian authorities intervened when Saudi Arabia deployed a mysterious ten-man security team to Norway.  —  The Norwegian Police Security Service has informed a Norway-based critic of the Saudi regime about the case.  —  He fears for his safety.  —  Line Fransson

Stephen Miller is a fraud who should just go away already  —  The electors are voting.  As of the latest count, Joe Biden has secured 302 electoral college votes, making him the next president.  The electors in the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin …

Treasure hunter marks five years in jail for refusing to give up his gold  —  Research scientist Tommy Thompson has for years refused to tell the location of 500 missing coins found in a historic shipwreck  —  A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail …

Biden dives headfirst into the social justice chainsaw  —  President-elect Joe Biden won the Democratic primary in no small part by appealing to the social justice bosses, but he's learning that now, their support comes with a price.  —  Nearly every pick or reported pick to fill …