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Politico:
‘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 …
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New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, DemCast, CBS Chicago, Business Insider, Mediaite and The Week
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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.
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Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Washington Examiner, Common Dreams, Raw Story, TMZ.com and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect
More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect
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Roll Call, CBS News, Outside the Beltway, WPRI-TV, Washington Post, Axios, The Week, Raw Story, Washington Times and One America News Network
Washington Post:
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
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ABC News, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Associated Press, BuzzFeed News, CNN, HotAir, CBS San Francisco, Bloomberg and Fox News
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Biden's post-Electoral College speech was a stinging rebuke of Trump
Biden's post-Electoral College speech was a stinging rebuke of Trump
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New York Daily News, CBS News, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Pirate's Cove, 77 WABC Radio, Raw Story, UPI, WPRI-TV and NECN
Alana Wise / NPR:
'In America, Politicians Don't Take Power': Biden Harshly Rebukes Trump Over Election
'In America, Politicians Don't Take Power': Biden Harshly Rebukes Trump Over Election
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Denver Post, Bloomberg, The Week and Politico
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
‘This is the reality’: Newsmax and One America grapple uneasily with Biden's electoral college victory
‘This is the reality’: Newsmax and One America grapple uneasily with Biden's electoral college victory
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The Week
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
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Detroit Free Press and Raw Story
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Top GOP senators acknowledge Biden as president-elect after Electoral College vote
Top GOP senators acknowledge Biden as president-elect after Electoral College vote
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Raw Story, Newsbusters, Axios, KTLA, Business Insider and Senator Rob Portman
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's speech to America: ‘It is time to turn the page’
Joe Biden's speech to America: ‘It is time to turn the page’
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New York Times, CNN, Law & Crime, The Hill, Slate, Vox, Associated Press, UPI and The Guardian
Mary Ilyushina / CNN:
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 …
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Business Insider, Washington Examiner, NBC News, TASS, Raw Story and New York Post
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President of Russia:
Congratulations to Joseph R. Biden on winning US presidential election
Congratulations to Joseph R. Biden on winning US presidential election
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CBS News, New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and CNBC
Jake Tapper / CNN:
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 …
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CNN:
READ: Rep. Paul Mitchell's letter quitting the GOP, fearing ‘long-term harm to our democracy’ with its support for Trump's actions — (CNN)Michigan Republican Rep. Paul Mitchell told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results …
New York Times:
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.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, The Week, WTOP, The Last Refuge, UPI, The Daily Caller, The Verge and Patterico's Pontifications, more at Techmeme »
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Eric Geller / Politico:
‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies
‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies
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Washington Post, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, NOQ Report, The Daily Beast, CNN and New Republic
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
DHS is third federal agency hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign
DHS is third federal agency hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign
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NK News, Boing Boing, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Political Wire, Lawfare, Vanity Fair, Vox and The Intellectualist, more at Techmeme »
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
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.”
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Los Angeles Times, Politico, CBS News, The Week, Townhall, The Guardian, Boston Herald, CNN and KTLA
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Barr failed at his job. His bootlicking resignation letter made that clear.
Barr failed at his job. His bootlicking resignation letter made that clear.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Law & Crime, Washington Examiner and Denver Post
Katie Benner / New York Times:
William Barr Is Out as Attorney General
William Barr Is Out as Attorney General
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CNN, RedState, Townhall, Conservative News Today, HuffPost, NPR, Liberty Unyielding, Vox, Spectator USA, USA Today, Deadline, Snopes.com, TalkLeft, BuzzFeed News, Twitchy and Althouse
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump antagonizes Republicans with Georgia fundraising ploy — President Donald Trump couldn't make it any clearer: He needs his supporters to fork over cash for the all-important Georgia Senate runoff elections. — “We MUST defend Georgia from the Dems!” he wrote in one recent text message.
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Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Georgia Recorder, Associated Press and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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New York Times:
Moderna Vaccine Is Highly Protective and Prevents Severe Covid-19, Data Show — The positive review likely ensures that the F.D.A. will approve a second coronavirus vaccine this week for millions of Americans. — WASHINGTON — The coronavirus vaccine made by Moderna is highly protective …
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CBS News, WPRI-TV, CNBC, New York Post and abc7NY
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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.
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Raw Story
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Fauci recommends Biden and Harris get COVID-19 vaccine right away — Dr. Anthony Fauci urged President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible. — Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and an infectious disease expert …
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Politico and Associated Press
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
‘I Trust Science,’ Says Nurse Who Is First to Get Vaccine in U.S.
‘I Trust Science,’ Says Nurse Who Is First to Get Vaccine in U.S.
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Reuters, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
dagbladet.no:
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
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 …
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Business Insider, New York Post, Balloon Juice, The Week, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos, The Hill, Forbes, Raw Story and Mediaite
John Sudworth / BBC:
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 …
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Center for Global Policy, The Guardian and CNN
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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 …
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Daily Kos and American Interregnum
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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alicublog, Media Matters for America, NPR, The Week, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, HotAir, Reuters and The American Independent
James Kirkup / Spectator:
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.
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
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.
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
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 …
Jessica Tarlov / The Hill:
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.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general — Top Republicans are warning against President-elect Joe Biden picking former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to helm the Justice Department. — Yates has been floated as being on Biden's short list to lead DOJ …
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
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” …
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Raw Story and Boing Boing