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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught — The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Where Is the President of the United States? — Donald Trump is AWOL. And his disgrace is hiding in plain sight. — Before we start: Tonight we're doing a livestream that I'm hoping will go down in legend as The Bulwark version of the Star Wars Holiday Special. The first 12 minutes will be entirely in Wookie.
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us-cert.cisa.gov:
Alert (AA20-352A) — Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations — Summary — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises of U.S. government agencies …
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Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Exclusive-Suspected Russian hacking spree reached into Microsoft -sources — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft was breached in the massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week, according to people familiar with the matter, adding a top technology target to a growing list of vital government agencies.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
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Ben Fox / Associated Press:
Hack against US is ‘grave threat,’ cybersecurity agency says
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
U.S. Cyber Agency: Computer Hack Poses ‘Grave Risk’
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Washington Post:
Federal investigators find evidence of previously unknown tactics used to penetrate government networks
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Bloomberg:
Hackers Tied to Russia Hit U.S. Nuclear Agency, Three States
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Biden promises retaliation for cyberattack on government agencies
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Washington Post:
Biden picks Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to be first Native American interior secretary — Tribal and progressive activists lobbied hard to put an indigenous leader in charge of a department that helps oversee Indian County — President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland …
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: Stimulus Deal Appears Within Reach, but Final Product Could Limit Biden in the Future
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Biden Will Pick Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
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Politico:
Top Biden aide walks back expletive description of Republicans — Jen O'Malley Dillon, President-elect Joe Biden's campaign manager and incoming White House deputy chief of staff, walked back comments she made in a recent interview suggesting that congressional Republicans were “a bunch of f—ers.”
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Brittany De Lea / Fox News:
How Biden just gave House Republicans a major boost — Biden's most recent administration pick could leave House Democrats in a lurch — Nikki Haley: Biden should keep three aspects of Trump foreign policy — President-Elect Joe Biden has chosen a Democrat from the U.S. House …
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Politico:
Pence prepares to oversee Trump's loss — and then leave town — On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory. — Then he'll likely skip town. — As vice president, Pence has the awkward but unavoidable duty of presiding …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Republicans suddenly discover they don't like naughty words — Could someone please find Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a cold compress and a place where he might lie down for a few minutes? — The senator, whom you might recall from the time he implied during a presidential campaign …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Does Joe Biden Understand the Modern GOP?
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Georgia Senate Runoffs: Breaking Down November, Looking to January — Dear Readers: This is the last issue of the Crystal Ball this year. We wanted to finish off our 2020 publishing schedule by taking a deep look at the Georgia Senate runoffs, which will decide control of the Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
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David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit challenging Georgia's absentee ballot rules
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Jennifer Horn / USA Today:
Texas lawsuit was the last straw. I'm leaving the Republican Party: Former NH GOP chair — The GOP has ransacked our Constitution and attempted a coup. The Republican Party of Lincoln is no more. I'm switching my registration to independent. — My mother spent a lifetime trying to teach me to stand for what is right.
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Politico:
Never-Trump movement splinters as its villain heads for the exit — The defeat of Donald Trump might have been the easy part for never-Trump Republicans. Next up: taking on the more elusive target of Trumpism with their boogeyman gone from office. — More than a dozen leaders …
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Washington Post:
Biden picks top North Carolina environmental official to run EPA — Michael Regan has forged a multibillion-dollar clean up of coal ash and worked with the state's GOP legislature — President-elect Joe Biden will choose to nominate Michael S. Regan, who heads the North Carolina Department …
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Biden picks North Carolina environmental chief to lead EPA
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Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis says Florida shipments of vaccines are ‘on hold.’ Pfizer disagrees. — ‘No shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed,’ the pharmaceutical giant said in a statement Thursday. — TALLAHASSEE — Less than a week into its program to vaccinate millions of residents …
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The Bulwark:
Uninstalling Stephen Miller — How one man's mastery of the dark bureaucratic arts made life a living hell for immigrants and refugees. — In November 2019, a former staffer from Breitbart leaked emails from 2015 in which White House advisor Stephen Miller recommended The Camp of the Saints …
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Andrew Heavens / Reuters:
Sweden's king says ‘we have failed’ over COVID-19, as deaths mount — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's king said his country had failed in its handling of COVID-19, in a sharp criticism of a pandemic policy partly blamed for a high death toll among the elderly.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Hunter Biden ex-associate asked to ‘get Joe involved,’ make it look like ‘truly family business,’ texts show — Text messages date back to 2017 — Joe Biden ‘lied to the American people’ about involvement in son's business dealings: David Webb — Hunter Biden's former business associates …
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Biden set to pick China propagandist Bob Iger as ambassador to Beijing
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Alex Kirshner / Slate:
How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters — On Dec. 9, Donald Trump tweeted something incorrect but at least closer to the ballpark of the truth than most of what he's posted since losing his reelection campaign. — “At 10 p.m. on Election Evening, we were at 97% …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
An outraged Kemp blasts pro-Trump conspiracy theorists harassing his family — Gov. Brian Kemp is fed up with the unrelenting attacks from conspiracy theorists calling on him to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Georgia. But he's even more enraged that some of those peddlers …
Grady Means / The Hill:
Joe Biden's looming disaster — Pity Joe Biden. He is the dog that finally caught the bus and he is soon to be political roadkill. While he celebrates his victory in the Electoral College, powerful forces already are engaged to doom him and his presidency.
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Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic:
Hang On for Three More Months — Hunkering down to wait out the coronavirus isn't easy. The costs of isolation are steep. Quarantine fatigue is real. The chance to gather with extended family and friends this holiday season is particularly alluring to those of us battling loneliness.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Dominion demands that Sidney Powell retract ‘baseless and false allegations’ about voting machines. — Dominion Voting Systems sent a blistering letter on Wednesday night to the right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding that she publicly retract her “wild, knowingly baseless and false accusations” …
Detroit Free Press:
Antrim County hand tally affirms certified election results — Clara Hendrickson Paul EganDetroit Free Press — An audit conducted Thursday of the votes cast in the November presidential election in Antrim County, the heart of a conspiracy theory about Dominion Voting Systems leveling false allegations …
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Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
Man really did hack Trump's Twitter account by guessing password, ‘maga2020!,’ Dutch prosecutors say — Six years ago, Dutch hacker Victor Gevers logged into President Trump's Twitter account by guessing the password: “yourefired.” — Then he did it again.
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Inspectors Found ICE Detainees Who Were Kept In Solitary Confinement For 300 Days — Nearly a dozen immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were kept in solitary confinement for more than two months, including two people who were isolated for more than 300 days …
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism” — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — In the waning days of his presidency, Donald Trump is engaged in a deliberate campaign …
Associated Press:
US inmate scheduled to be executed tests positive for virus — WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday. — The Bureau of Prisons notified attorneys …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“The Trump Bubble Is Already Starting to Deflate”: Publishers Squeeze Out the Last Drops of White House Drama and Kick Off a Biden-Harris Book Blitz — Mary Trump, Bob Woodward, and fellow Trump chroniclers dominated 2020 best-seller lists, while several Times and Post reporters just landed deals …
xkcd.com:
2020 Election Map — Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/2399/ — Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/2020_ election_map.png — Comics I enjoy: — Three Word Phrase, SMBC, Dinosaur Comics, Oglaf (nsfw), A Softer World, Buttersafe …
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