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10:15 AM ET, December 17, 2020

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Thomas P. Bossert / New York Times:
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump.  We're Being Hacked.  —  The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate.  —  Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to President Trump and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.
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Politico:
How suspected Russian hackers outed their massive cyberattack
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 …
David Siders / Politico:
'Everything's great': GOP ditches election post-mortems  —  Democrats in Texas and New Hampshire are forming committees to examine the party's failings in last month's election.  Less formal autopsies are underway in states across the country.  —  But the party that lost the presidential election isn't soul-searching at all.
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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Margaret Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence's Mission Is Slavish Devotion Every Day Til Jan. 20
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
France's Emmanuel Macron tests positive for Covid-19, sending other European leaders into quarantine  —  Paris (CNN)French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19 after experiencing symptoms and will self-isolate for a week, his office said Thursday,
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Washington Post:
French President Macron tests positive for the coronavirus after showing symptoms  —  PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the coronavirus, the country's presidential palace announced Thursday.  —  He was administered a test after he began to show symptoms associated with the virus.
Discussion: Axios and Business Insider
Sylvie Corbet / Associated Press:   French President Macron tests positive for COVID-19
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell gives away the game: ‘Kelly and David are getting hammered’  —  Pressure works.  That's what we're learning from the news that congressional negotiators are moving toward a deal on an economic rescue package that includes stimulus checks for individuals.
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Joe Biden may be tougher than the GOP expects
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Jill Biden's Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage  —  Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.  —  You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician.
Discussion: Arizona Mirror
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Obsessed Tucker Carlson Calls Jill Biden ‘Illiterate’ and ‘Our National Shame’  —  This was the third straight night that Carlson devoted to insulting the soon-to-be first lady over her use of the “Dr.” title because she has a doctorate in education.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson obsessed …
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and The Wrap
CNN:
Biden's search for an attorney general complicated by ‘competing questions’  —  Washington (CNN)The deliberations among President-elect Joe Biden's tight circle of advisers about whom he should nominate as attorney general have emerged as some of the more complicated of the transition …
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Axios:
O'Malley Dillon's line that GOP are “f-ckers” worries some Biden aides  —  Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as “f*ckers.”
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CNN:
'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump states shut out COVID headlines as virus rages  —  States that voted for President Trump tend to have high coronavirus caseloads compared to how much COVID content they read online, while the opposite is true of states that voted for President-elect Biden, according to exclusive data …
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” …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary is something Frank Kameny could have only dreamed of  —  President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Pete Buttigieg as the next transportation secretary made me think of the man who fought for the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., but would never meet him.
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Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg is right. Airports are romantic.
Discussion: CNN and USA Today
Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
How Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker Won the 2020 Election Coverage  —  FIVE MINUTES before NBC called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Kristen Welker was sprinting.  After rising at 4 a.m. and coanchoring Weekend Today in New York, the White House correspondent darted into a car …
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
This hedge-fund billionaire is a huge fan of Sen. Kelly Loeffler — but why?  —  Finance mogul Ken Griffin gave big chunks of cash to Kelly Loeffler's PAC — and the timing is intriguing  —  On Oct. 9, billionaire Ken Griffin, the head of a multinational financial services company …
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Trump's Latino gains suggest a key progressive theory of politics is wrong  —  White backlash or education polarization?  —  1 hr ago  —  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in their widely-cited Trump book write, for example, that: “To advance an unpopular plutocratic agenda …
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
This Series Of Fact-Checks On America's Mission To Defeat COVID Exposes Media Hatred  —  Fact checks on the United States' COVID vaccine timeline expose how outlets like NBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are willing to attack American aspirations to score political points.
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood Financial to Pay $65 Million to Settle SEC Probe  —  The brokerage firm settles investigation over early failure to highlight deals with high-speed trading firms  —  WASHINGTON—Robinhood Financial LLC has agreed to pay $65 million to settle regulatory claims that it didn't sufficiently disclose …
Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
The Vaccines Are Supposed to Be Free.  Surprise Bills Could Happen Anyway.  —  “It is the American health care system, so there are bound to be loopholes.”  —  When Americans receive a coronavirus vaccine, federal rules say they shouldn't have to pay anything out of pocket.
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Long shot Newsom recall drive gets serious in California  —  There's a perfect storm of political developments that could make this latest attempt the one to take very seriously.  —  After banging at the recall door unsuccessfully five times, conservative drives to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom may suddenly be getting traction.
Washington Examiner:
Raphael Warnock's embrace of anti-Semite Farrakhan is disqualifying for Senate service  —  It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there's a haystack of needles.”
Nikki Haley / Washington Post:
Biden shouldn't reject all Trump's foreign policies.  Here are three he should keep.  —  Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2019.  —  At the United Nations, I often found that many countries agreed with U.S. policies …
Discussion: Fox News and HotAir
George Skelton / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Yes, Feinstein is the oldest U.S. senator.  But she should be able to retire on her own terms  —  California Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she hasn't thought about retiring soon despite some assertions that the 87-year-old lawmaker should step aside because her cognitive abilities have allegedly declined.
Discussion: Politico
Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan  —  A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Business Insider
 
 
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Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
Democrats' House majority is razor-thin. Any glitch could spell disaster.
Discussion: Associated Press
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Joe Wilson Announces COVID Diagnosis After Speaking on House Floor
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Emmy winner Andrew Cuomo's no good, horrible, very bad month
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Facebook reverses postelection algorithm changes that boosted news from authoritative sources.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Glitch in Trump's Plan to Live at Mar-a-Lago: A Pact He Signed Says He Can't
New York Times:
Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer's Vaccine
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
We've finally identified the source of fraud in the 2020 election. It's Ron Johnson.
Andrew Cain / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
State panel recommends Barbara Johns statue to replace Lee at U.S. Capitol
Washington Post:
Biden order to halt border wall project would save U.S. $2.6 billion, Pentagon estimates show
New York Times:
People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong.
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

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Sources: OpenAI considered making a browser, discussed deals to power AI features on Samsung devices and search on sites and apps from Condé Nast and others

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

 
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