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9:30 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 …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
‘This is the reality’: Newsmax and One America grapple uneasily with Biden's electoral college victory  —  For the past six weeks, two upstart cable news channels — Newsmax and One America News — have tried to outflank Fox News from the right by embracing President Trump's strategy of election denialism.
Discussion: The Week
Washington Post:
As electoral college formalizes Biden's win, Trump backers hold their own vote
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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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin Congratulates Biden After Electoral College Vote
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Week and bellingcat
Kylie Atwood / CNN:
Pompeo to meet Biden's secretary of state nominee this week
Discussion: The Guardian
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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Katie Benner / New York Times:
William Barr Is Out as Attorney General
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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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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
DHS is third federal agency hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign
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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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
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
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Terminally ill Washington elector breaks down after casting Biden vote: ‘I was glad to do my duty’  —  As Washington state elector Jack Arends registered his vote for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, his voice cracked with emotion.  Then, Arends, 64, told the chamber that a doctor …
Discussion: The Hill and Herald
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
 
 
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Plea to the Press: Don't Make Trump 2021's Shadow President
New York Times:
With First Dibs on Vaccines, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’
KFF:
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: December 2020
Discussion: UPI and New York Times
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Major cable networks quiet on sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo
Discussion: Newsbusters and The Daily Caller
Politico:
‘The most lopsided economic event imaginable’: Wave of evictions threatens Black, Latino tenants
Bernard Goldberg / The Hill:
Don't expect any ‘media culpas’ over ignoring Hunter Biden before the election
Washington Examiner:
A Chinese espionage wake-up call
Discussion: FDD, Breitbart and Fox News
 Earlier Items: 
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: New enthusiasm for the shot
Discussion: The Hill
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Package-tour diplomacy: Thousands of Israeli tourists flock to Dubai after peace deal
Discussion: Althouse
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Biden dives headfirst into the social justice chainsaw
The Guardian:
Treasure hunter marks five years in jail for refusing to give up his gold
Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Hill Staffer Linked to Veselnitskaya Dies Suddenly After Fall Near His Home
Discussion: Raw Story and Boing Boing
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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