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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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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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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Biden and lawmakers raise alarms over cybersecurity breach amid Trump's silence
Biden and lawmakers raise alarms over cybersecurity breach amid Trump's silence
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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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CNN:
US cybersecurity agency warns suspected Russian hacking campaign broader than previously believed
Transition / President-Elect Joe Biden:
Statement by President-elect Joe Biden on Cybersecurity
Statement by President-elect Joe Biden on Cybersecurity
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Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and Politico
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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John F. Harris / Politico:
Joe Biden Wears a ‘Kick Me’ Sign — President-elect Joe Biden went on a rampage early this morning, lashing out at critics within his own party who say his appointments so far lack ideological and demographic diversity and hinting that lawmakers who cross him can expect retribution once he moves into the White House on Jan. 20.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Green Eagle and The Diplomat
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Garcetti won't serve in Biden administration
Garcetti won't serve in Biden administration
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Associated Press
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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Axios:
Democrats fret about Garland for attorney general — If Joe Biden picks Merrick Garland to be his attorney general, he could cost his party control of one of the most important judicial appointments in America — and many Democrats do not want the president-elect to take that chance.
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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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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:
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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East Bay Times, Talking Points Memo and Colorado Pols
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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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NPR, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Business Insider and The Intellectualist
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Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
Garcetti plans to remain in office and says his daughter, 9, has coronavirus
Garcetti plans to remain in office and says his daughter, 9, has coronavirus
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Washington Examiner and TheBlaze
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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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 …
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The Sun
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 Picks Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
Biden Picks Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
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New Republic, Common Dreams and BorderReport
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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Politico, HotAir, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Forbes, Axios and Political Wire
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Kelly Loeffler Keeps Posing For Photos With White Supremacists And Other Extremists — The senator recently disavowed a photo of her with a former KKK leader, but she's repeatedly aligned herself with racists and far-right supporters. — Earlier this week a photo of Georgia GOP …
Politico:
Congress to receive first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, but uncertainty lingers — Top congressional leaders will receive the coronavirus vaccine in the coming days with dozens of lawmakers planning to quickly follow suit — an effort designed to maintain a continuity of government while also instilling public confidence in the shot.
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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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Detroit Free Press:
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon dies of complications from COVID-19 — Darcie Moran Omar Abdel-Baqui John WiselyDetroit Free Press — Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon, a man who dedicated decades to public service and became a household name to metro Detroiters …
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New York Times
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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CNBC, The Hill and Political Wire
Brandy Zadrozny / Nieman Lab:
Misinformation fatigue sets in — “Misinformation isn't going away, but it seems inevitable that people will stop caring.” — I expect 2021 will be the year misinformation fatigue sets in — a condition from which I will undeniably suffer and for which I will be partly to blame.
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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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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The Daily Caller, The Hill, Business Insider, Raw Story and NBC News
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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
Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
It's time for the ‘Deplorables’ to become the Unconquerables — Democrats won the election, but they don't seem very happy about it. And with reason: The election failed in its main purpose, which was to shut down the Deplorables. — The Deplorables, in Hillary Clinton's infamous term …
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 …
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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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.
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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