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Politico:
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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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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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 …
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
Hack Suggests New Scope, Sophistication for Cyberattacks
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Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues:
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response
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New York Times:
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
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Bloomberg:
Hackers Tied to Russia Hit Nuclear Agency; Microsoft Is Exposed
Hackers Tied to Russia Hit Nuclear Agency; Microsoft Is Exposed
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Ben Fox / Associated Press:
Hack against US is ‘grave threat,’ cybersecurity agency says
Hack against US is ‘grave threat,’ cybersecurity agency says
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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
How Biden just gave House Republicans a major boost
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Politico:
Pence prepares to oversee Trump's loss — and then leave town
Pence prepares to oversee Trump's loss — and then leave town
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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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Business Insider, The Sun and New York Magazine
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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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Biden Will Pick Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
Biden Will Pick Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
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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
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 …
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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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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump remains silent as massive cyber hack poses ‘grave risk’ to government
Trump remains silent as massive cyber hack poses ‘grave risk’ to government
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Biden transition team laying groundwork for bipartisan infrastructure deal — President Trump's now infamous “infrastructure week” may finally get a shovel in the ground ... during the Biden administration. — Why it matters: If Majority Leader Mitch McConnell keeps control of the Senate …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Ben Carson makes plans for his post-Trump life
Scoop: Ben Carson makes plans for his post-Trump life
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's New Brand Is Loser — His post-election tantrum is forcing conservatives to affirm, again and again, that he lost the election fair and square. — In the six weeks since the Presidential election, various theories—many of them persuasive—have been advanced to explain President Trump's refusal to accept Joe Biden's victory.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Biden Won Wisconsin, but It Was Even Closer Than Reported
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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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 …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Bows to Reality, Asks Confidants: Should I Do ‘The Apprentice’ Again? — And the show's creator Mark Burnett is intrigued by the money-making potential of a post-presidency reboot, too. … As he begins his final weeks in office, amid a winter surge in coronavirus deaths …
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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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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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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David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Canada floats idea of North American ban on new gasoline-powered cars — OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada wants deeper environmental ties with the United States and one result could be a North American ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks, a senior cabinet member said on Thursday.
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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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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Politico:
Kathleen Rice beats out AOC for spot on coveted House committee — Rep. Kathleen Rice has captured a prized seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee after a contentious showdown with fellow New Yorker, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. — Rice and Ocasio-Cortez have been battling behind …
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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.
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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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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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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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Fox News and Washington Post
Alice Su / Los Angeles Times:
‘Will they let us live?’ Inside Xinjiang, survivors of China's internment camps speak — The car drove toward a site visible by satellite but not marked on Chinese maps. It lay hidden in the mountains along a desolate road lined with Islamic cemeteries.
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Raphael Warnock hosted Jeremiah Wright as guest preacher in 2014 — Flyer advertised Wright's appearance at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Sept. 10, 2014 — Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 17 — Georgia Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock, who in 2008 defended former President Obama's inflammatory …
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Townhall
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
Politico:
Congress to receive first batch of Covid-19 vaccines but uncertainty lingers — Congress will receive a limited batch of the coronavirus vaccine in the coming days, according to multiple sources, marking a major development for lawmakers and frontline workers in a Capitol complex that has battled dozens of cases this year.
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Business Insider, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
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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