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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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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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Associated Press, Axios, The Week, TheBlaze, Mediaite and Washington Examiner
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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Axios, CNN, New York Times, President-Elect Joe Biden, NPR and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘New York Times’ Retracts Hit Podcast Series ‘Caliphate’ On ISIS Executioner — Toggle more options — The New York Times has retracted the core of its hit 2018 podcast series Caliphate after an internal review found the paper failed to heed red flags indicating that the man it relied upon …
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Eschaton, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Times:
New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards — The Times cited an institutional failure and determined the “Caliphate” team gave too much credence to the claims of a supposed former terrorist. — After an internal review that took more than two months …
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The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Garcetti won't serve in Biden administration — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti acknowledged Thursday night that he would not serve in the Biden administration, defusing the longstanding assumption that he would be rewarded for his support of the president-elect.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Joe Biden Wears a ‘Kick Me’ Sign
Joe Biden Wears a ‘Kick Me’ Sign
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Green Eagle and The Diplomat
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, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Patterico's Pontifications, Axios and New Republic
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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Forbes, HotAir, Axios, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Political Wire
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Politico:
Democrats in Georgia: ‘Trump is helping our case.’ — President Donald Trump has been waging war on Georgia Republicans the past month, spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about the Senate runoffs — and Democrats are praying he keeps on talking.
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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Politico, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Business Insider and One America News Network
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Relying on his gut, Biden shrugs off criticism to form a ‘Cabinet of firsts’
Relying on his gut, Biden shrugs off criticism to form a ‘Cabinet of firsts’
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and Raw Story
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, Michigan Advance, CNN, Colorado Pols, Talking Points Memo and Iowa Capital Dispatch
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Associated Press:
Some states say Pfizer vaccine allotments cut for next week
Some states say Pfizer vaccine allotments cut for next week
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WKRN-TV, The Nevada Independent and CBS San Francisco
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis says Florida shipments of vaccines are ‘on hold.’ Pfizer disagrees.
DeSantis says Florida shipments of vaccines are ‘on hold.’ Pfizer disagrees.
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KIFI-TV, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Raw Story and The Hill
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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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Washington Post, Business Insider, One America News Network, Breitbart and Roll Call
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Maeve Reston / CNN:
Trump fights for a job that he's not doing as coronavirus rages — (CNN)When the history of the pandemic is written, one of the great mysteries will be what President Donald Trump was doing in the waning days of his presidency as the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US soared past 3,000 each day …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, Daily Kos, KIFI-TV and Raw Story
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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Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Week, FiveThirtyEight, The Sun, Business Insider and New York Magazine
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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National Review, CNN, Axios, Newsbusters, DCReport.org, The American Spectator, Mediaite, IJR, Reason, Mercury News and The Constitutionalist
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Dear Republicans in Congress: Please don't become Barbara Boxer or Maxine Waters
Dear Republicans in Congress: Please don't become Barbara Boxer or Maxine Waters
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The Bulwark
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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Poynter, 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
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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Business Insider, HotAir, Mediaite and The Sun
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:
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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Axios, Fox News, Jewish Insider, The Hill, CNBC and Political Wire
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
FBI Spied On Fox News, Recorded Phone Call Between Fox Exec And George Papadopoulos, New Texts Show — New text messages released Thursday show FBI officials spied on a Fox News executive over the course of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that targeted President Donald Trump …
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American Greatness, emptywheel, National Review and The Daily Caller
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
New Peter Strzok Texts Undermine Official Narrative on Start of ‘Russia Collusion’ Investigation
New Peter Strzok Texts Undermine Official Narrative on Start of ‘Russia Collusion’ Investigation
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hsgac.senate.gov, Raw Story, TheBlaze, CITIZEN FREE PRESS and The Federalist
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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The Economist, Raw Story and Politico
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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CBS News, CBS Detroit and New York Times
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.
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 …
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% …
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
Mark Ferbrache / The Hill:
Not the FBI I remember: William Barnett's troubling interview — So, where is John Durham and what has become of his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe? After serving nearly 28 years in the FBI, I'd like to know just how bad things are for the FBI — or not.