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11:35 AM ET, December 15, 2020

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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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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 …
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin Congratulates Biden After Electoral College Vote  —  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had delayed acknowledging the victory of President-elect Joseph R Biden Jr. for over a month, citing President Trump's legal challenges.  —  MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin …
Discussion: CNN, Slate, The Hill, The Week and New York Post
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 …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
‘This is the reality’: Newsmax and One America grapple uneasily with Biden's electoral college victory
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
After weeks of declining to recognize Biden's win, Mitch McConnell congratulates him for being the president-elect.
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
More than a month after U.S. election, Russia's Putin recognizes Biden's win
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Biden's post-Electoral College speech was a stinging rebuke of Trump
Wall Street Journal:
More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect
Washington Post:
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
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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Sarah Owermohle / Politico:
FDA clears path for second coronavirus vaccine, from Moderna
Discussion: ABC News and National Review
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Barr failed at his job.  His bootlicking resignation letter made that clear.  —  William P. Barr told friends, when he was tapped for attorney general two years ago, that he was returning to the position to help save the Justice Department.  Barr failed spectacularly at that task and ruined his reputation in the process.
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Wall Street Journal:
Thank You, Bill Barr
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion: Forbes and Twitchy
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Robert Tracinski / The Bulwark:
It's Not About This Election, It's About the Next One  —  The Republican party wasn't prepared to help Trump steal this election—but they're being prepared for the next one.  —  When I first got my hair on fire about Donald Trump's plan to exploit the quirks of mail-in voting to overturn …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Just How Dangerous Was Donald Trump?
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.
Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Asking All Georgians: Are You Seventeen and a Half?  —  There are twenty-three thousand teen-agers in the state who weren't old enough to vote in November, but who will be old enough to vote in the Senate runoffs, in January.  These volunteers tried to find them.
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.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
Brian Trusdell / Newsmax:
Audit Finds Mich. County's Dominion Voting Was Rigged to Create Fraud  —  A forensic audit of the presidential vote tally by Dominion Voting Systems software used in Antrim County, Michigan, showed a more than 68% error rate, with auditors claiming the system intentionally creates the errors …
Discussion: The Hill, HotAir and Detroit Free Press
Adrian Zenz / Center for Global Policy:
Coercive Labor in Xinjiang: Labor Transfer and the Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities to Pick Cotton  —  Executive Summary  —  New evidence from Chinese government documents and media reports shows that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority laborers in Xinjiang are being forced to pick cotton …
Discussion: The Guardian and CNN
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John Sudworth / BBC:   China's ‘tainted’ cotton
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 …
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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Eric Geller / Politico:
‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies
Fox News:
Top Facebook, Twitter execs donated tens of thousands of dollars to Biden campaign  —  No Facebook or Twitter executives were found to have donated to Trump's campaign  —  Big Tech has shown a ‘consistent hostility’ towards the center-right: Karl Rove  —  Top executives at Facebook …
Discussion: The Federalist
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Bernard Goldberg / The Hill:
Don't expect any ‘media culpas’ over ignoring Hunter Biden before the election
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
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
Jenna Ellis, President Trump's lawyer, was fired from Weld County DA's office for “mistakes,” records show  —  Documents obtained by The Colorado Sun through an open records request appear to contradict what Ellis told The Wall Street Journal about her termination
Discussion: Colorado Pols
Associated Press:
Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders  —  Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone.  —  As the public health administrator, she's struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Boko Haram claims kidnapping of over 300 boys in Nigeria, marking an alarming move west  —  DAKAR, Senegal — Boko Haram asserted responsibility Tuesday for laying siege to a secondary school in northwestern Nigeria and abducting more than 300 boys, marking a striking leap from the extremist group's usual area of operation.
Discussion: The Guardian, Al Jazeera and UPI
Kylie Atwood / CNN:
Pompeo to meet Biden's secretary of state nominee this week  —  Washington (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden's pick for secretary of state is expected to visit the State Department and meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday for the first time since Biden's victory, according to three sources familiar with the planning.
Discussion: The Hill and Defense One
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
No Labels, Planning Centrist Push in New Congress, Taps Larry Hogan  —  The bipartisan organization has selected the Maryland governor, a Republican, as a leader, ramping up its campaign to influence the new Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — The bipartisan political organization No Labels plans …
Discussion: The Hill
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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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Norman Pearlstine steps down as Los Angeles Times leadership search continues
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The moral hypocrisy of conservative leaders is stunning
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Plea to the Press: Don't Make Trump 2021's Shadow President
Discussion: Raw Story
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Major cable networks quiet on sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo
Discussion: Newsbusters and The Daily Caller
Politico:
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Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Package-tour diplomacy: Thousands of Israeli tourists flock to Dubai after peace deal
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Hill Staffer Linked to Veselnitskaya Dies Suddenly After Fall Near His Home
Discussion: Raw Story and Boing Boing
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Can the FBI Stop the Trump Extremists?
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
White House Official Recovers From Severe Covid-19, Friend Says