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6:41 AM ET, December 16, 2020

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Keith Griffith / Associated Press:
MAGA turns on Mitch: Trump allies including Michael Flynn slam the GOP Senate majority leader for ‘caving to the mob and China’ for recognizing Biden as president-elect  — Trump loyalists were furious after McConnell congratulated Biden on Tuesday  — Top allies accused Senate majority leader of selling out the party's leader
Discussion: Business Insider, Forbes and Deadline
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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.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Kevin McCarthy refuses to congratulate Biden on election victory  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell alerted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Tuesday morning that he would congratulate President-elect Joe Biden for winning the Electoral College vote.
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 …
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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Jazmin Goodwin / CNN:
MacKenzie Scott donates $4.2 billion to 384 organizations  —  New York (CNN Business)MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday her second major charitable contribution of the year, giving away nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations as part of a plan to donate a majority of her fortune.
MacKenzie Scott / Medium:
384 Ways to Help  —  Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room …
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.
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 …
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Erin Douglas / The Texas Tribune:
Former Houston police captain accused of violent attempt to prove election conspiracy was hired by GOP activist's group  —  Mark Aguirre is accused of running a man off the road and threatening him at gunpoint.  The ex-cop was hired as a private investigator by a group whose CEO is GOP activist Steven Hotze.
Discussion: NPR, WTOP and New York Post
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: The Week and Political Wire
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
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Associated Press:
‘I do not feel safe’: Kansas GOP mayor resigns after threats over backing mask mandate  —  A Republican mayor in western Kansas announced in a letter to city officials and on social media Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate.
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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Washington Post:
The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks.  The Russians outsmarted it.  —  When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring, they sat dormant for days, doing nothing but hiding.
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Frank Bajak / Associated Press:   Hack may have exposed deep US secrets; damage yet unknown
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
17 theses on Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation  —  Emergency blog post!  —  3 hr ago  —  Trying something new, an emergency out-of-schedule post on Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation!  — I love transportation policy and know a fair amount about it.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden taps former rival Buttigieg for U.S. Transportation secretary -sources
President-Elect Joe Biden:
DOMESTIC NOMINEES AND APPOINTEES
Discussion: TheBlaze and Politico
NBC News:
White House counsel's office warned Trump not to fire Chris Wray  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has come so close to firing FBI Director Christopher Wray in recent months that the White House counsel's office has warned him not to do so because it could put him in potential legal jeopardy …
Discussion: MSNBC
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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump's Staff Secretary Lyons to Leave White House This Month
Discussion: TASS and The Hill
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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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:
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.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden considering Republicans for Commerce secretary  —  President-elect Joe Biden is considering some well-known Republicans — think Meg Whitman types — for Commerce secretary as a way to signal to red-state Americans he understands their concerns and plans to address them.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Joe Biden should beware liberal identity politics  —  Winning back white blue collar votes is a less fraught route to victory  —  There is a fine line between championing diversity and embracing identity politics.  In practice, it should be a bright red one.
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 …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Ron Johnson gambles his political future on Trump  —  President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Ron Johnson addresses the crowd during a campaign rally on Oct. 17, 2020, in Janesville, Wis.  —  Ron Johnson is linking himself to President Donald Trump's election challenge as tightly as possible …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
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 …
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN says Jeffrey Toobin still employed as report suggests he may get second chance after masturbation scandal  —  NY Times reports CNN's president is a ‘big fan’ of legal pundit  —  New Yorker fires Toobin  —  CNN has yet to terminate Jeffrey Toobin amid an ongoing masturbation scandal …
Discussion: New York Post, The Sun and Mediaite
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: WPHM, Raw Story and UPI
Namita Singh / The Independent:
Husband arrested for throwing acid on wife after sending friends to gang rape her ‘because he lost a bet’  —  India saw a sharp increase in domestic violence during the coronavirus lockdown  —  A gambler in India who bet his wife and lost then threw acid on her because she resisted his attempts …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Giving Trump credit for the vaccine is the best way for Biden to unite the country
Discussion: USA Today
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Ossoff says ICE should make sure illegal immigrants are paid minimum wage
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Does Joe Biden believe in democracy or oligarchy?
Discussion: Breitbart
CNN:
How Qanon's lies are hijacking the national conversation
New York Post:
Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate flags
Discussion: Washington Times
Nieman Lab:
Defund the crime beat
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
How did a Proud Boys leader with a felony record get into the White House?
Discussion: Holy Bullies … and WTOP
 Earlier Items: 
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden close to naming Michael Regan as EPA administrator
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
They Bet Big on Trump. Now They Claim Fraud.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Nelson / WJAX:
EXCLUSIVE: William ‘Roddie’ Bryan told police he tried to ‘block’ Ahmaud Arbery, body camera video shows
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Everyone Trump Touches Dies: The List
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
Discussion: HotAir