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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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Wall Street Journal:
Hack Suggests New Scope, Sophistication for Cyberattacks — The suspected Russian hack involving SolarWinds software that compromised parts of the U.S. government was executed on a scale that has surprised even veteran security experts — The suspected Russian hack that compromised parts …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Biden and lawmakers raise alarms over cybersecurity breach amid Trump's silence — Democrats and some Republicans raised the alarm Thursday about a massive and growing cybersecurity breach that many experts blame on Russia, with President-elect Joe Biden implicitly criticizing the Trump administration …
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New York Times:
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump remains silent as massive cyber hack poses ‘grave risk’ to government
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
U.S. Cyber Agency: Computer Hack Poses ‘Grave Risk’
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Bloomberg:
Hackers Tied to Russia Hit U.S. Nuclear Agency, Three States
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Ben Fox / Associated Press:
Hack against US is ‘grave threat,’ cybersecurity agency says
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Biden promises retaliation for cyberattack on government agencies
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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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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's New Brand Is Loser
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Brittany De Lea / Fox News:
Biden White House pick tests positive for COVID after attending event with president-elect
Politico:
Pence prepares to oversee Trump's loss — and then leave town
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Brittany De Lea / Fox News:
How Biden just gave House Republicans a major boost
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Associated Press:
US inmate scheduled to be executed tests positive for virus
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Does Joe Biden Understand the Modern GOP?
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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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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House aides talked Trump out of last-minute demand for stimulus checks as big as $2,000 — Chaotic chain of events at White House illustrates why stimulus bill remains in flux — White House aides intervened Thursday to prevent President Trump from issuing a statement calling …
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Washington Post:
States report confusion as feds reduce vaccine shipments, even as Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses — Officials in multiple states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine next week had been reduced, sparking widespread confusion …
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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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Abbie Bennett / Listen to Free Radio:
Veterans Affairs reverses plans to waste extra coronavirus vaccine doses
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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 …
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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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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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Capitol's physician to receive coronavirus vaccines for senior members of Congress, Supreme Court — The Capitol's leading doctor will soon receive doses of the coronavirus vaccine to administer to the Supreme Court justices and senior members of Congress under a continuity-of-government plan crafted by intelligence experts.
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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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Luke Money / Los Angeles Times:
ICU availability in Southern California at 0%, and it's going to get worse, officials warn — The availability of intensive care unit beds throughout Southern California reached critical mass Thursday with 0% open, and officials warned that conditions in hospitals are expected to erode further COVID-19 continues to spread unchecked.
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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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Politico:
O Rahm, where art thou? — Welcome to POLITICO's 2020 Transition Playbook, your guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history. — RAHM EMANUEL had never lost a political campaign. Until this week. — Over the past few weeks, the former Chicago mayor …
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Raw Story
Haley Victory Smith / Washington Examiner:
Grand jury indicts six men for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — A federal grand jury indicted six men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. — U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge released the indictment on Thursday. If convicted, each man is eligible for up to life in prison.
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Washington Post:
John Roberts's self-defeating attempt to make the court appear nonpolitical — His obviously strategic opinions have infuriated the right — and emboldened the left. — “The highest art is artlessness,” observed Francis Alexander Durivage, a now largely forgotten 19th-century American author …
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS secretary tells staff: My wife is sick with Covid — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Thursday night informed staff that his wife, Jennifer, tested positive for Covid-19, according to an email shared by HHS. — “Today, my family learned that my wife Jennifer …
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.
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court rejects Kentucky religious school's appeal against coronavirus restrictions — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Kentucky religious school challenging Gov. Andy Beshear's coronavirus restrictions. — The high court wrote in an unsigned opinion on Thursday …
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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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James Baker / Washington Post:
Trump's recognition of Western Sahara is a serious blow to diplomacy and international law — James Baker served as the 61st U.S. secretary of state from 1989 to 1992 and as the U.N. secretary-general's personal envoy for Western Sahara from 1997 to 2004. — President Trump's recent …
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New York Times:
‘Sticky Bombs’ Sow Terror and Chaos in a City on Edge — The Taliban's recent shift to magnetic bombs to target Afghan officials in Kabul underscores the government's struggle to protect its own people. — KABUL, Afghanistan — As he has done most workdays, Mahbubullah Mohibi left his home …
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