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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘New York Times’ Retracts Core Of Hit Podcast Series ‘Caliphate’ On ISIS  —  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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New York Times:
A Riveting ISIS Story, Told in a Times Podcast, Falls Apart  —  A Canadian's gruesome account as an Islamic State executioner in Syria, which was the subject of the “Caliphate” podcast by The New York Times, was fabricated, officials say.  A Times review found no corroboration of his claim to have committed atrocities.
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 …
The Daily Beast:
New York Times Admits Its Caliphate Podcast Fell for ISIS Hoaxer's Bullshit
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:
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.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kamala Harris to arrive in Georgia on Monday for Senate runoff rallies  —  Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will travel to Georgia on Monday to campaign for Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock ahead of Jan. 5 runoffs for control of the U.S. Senate.
Discussion: CBS News, The Hill and Forbes
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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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 …
Discussion: HotAir, Mediaite, Althouse and The Sun
Thomas Colson / Business Insider:   Trump has discussed rebooting ‘The Apprentice’ as he prepares to leave the White House, according to a report
Axios:
Scoop: Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings  —  Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues:
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response  —  The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world's latest serious nation-state cyberattack.  This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack …
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Politico:
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office  —  An 1807 law invoked only in the most violent circumstances is now a rallying cry for the MAGA-ites most committed to the fantasy that Donald Trump will never leave office.  —  The law, the Insurrection Act, allows the president …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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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Axios:
Trump expected to issue wave of pre-Christmas pardons today  —  President Trump plans to issue a wave of pardons today, moving to expedite acts of clemency before Christmas, according to a source with direct knowledge and advocates who have been briefed on the plans.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The Top 10 Worst Trump-Enabling Takes of 2020  —  As we bid a not-so-fond farewell to 2020, here's a look back at some of the political lowlights.  —  As we close out the year, it's tempting but futile to compile a list of President Trump's worst lies.  But reprinting all of his tweets …
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
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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Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Mike Pence gets coronavirus vaccine on live TV  —  Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-profile world leader to be vaccinated against coronavirus, receiving his shot on live television Friday morning.  —  “I didn't feel a thing,” he said moments later.
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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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Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Garcetti won't serve in Biden administration
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
45,000 names, 130 packets of information, and gut instincts: How Biden is managing his transition
Discussion: American Greatness and CNN
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 …
Discussion: The Economist, Raw Story and Politico
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
An Unprepared N.Y.P.D. Badly Mishandled Floyd Protests, Watchdog Says  —  “I look back with remorse,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said after a city oversight agency found the department's tactics “produced excessive enforcement.”  —  A city oversight agency on Friday sharply criticized …
Stephen Kruiser / pjmedia.com:
The Morning Briefing: If Lockdowns Work Why Is California a Global COVID-19 Hotspot?  —  The Mother of All Lockdown Failures  —  Happy week before Christmas Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends.  My favorite vegetarian food is beef brisket.  —  Whilst wrapping up my evening walk …
Discussion: Townhall
Eliza Goren / Washington Post:
The Washington Post asked readers to describe 2020 in one word or phrase.  Here's what they said.  —  See their responses  —  Shefali S. Kulkarni and By Shefali S. Kulkarni  —  Operations editor for the financial and tech section  —  Community editor, with a focus on comments, live chats and reader submissions.
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 …
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.
Vox:
How teachers are sacrificing student privacy to stop cheating  —  Surveillance software for remote learning is drawing criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  As the fall semester began at the University of Nevada, Reno, psychology professor Mark Lescroart faced …
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
This California Representative Survived Jonestown and Says Trumpers Have Definitely Drunk the Kool Aid  —  A few years ago, Jackie Speier resisted comparisons between Jim Jones and Donald Trump.  But now, she sees them clearly.  —  BEAST INSIDE … Jackie Speier was a legislative counsel working …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sun-Sentinel:
South Florida parties on: No mask, no distancing, no problem inside bars and clubs  —  Unmasked strangers grip each other in an intimate, devil-may-care dance inside the packed Hollywood nightclub Amsterdam.  —  In Delray Beach, at restaurant-turned-party Salt7, young patrons bounce bare-faced atop …
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 …
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Progressives line up their own national security recruits for Biden
Elaine Cobbe / CBS News:
Former Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel's arrest in Paris brings “tears of joy” for alleged victims
Discussion: New York Times and Law & Crime
Moises Naim / Persuasion:
Trump's Ghost Will Haunt America
David Brooks / New York Times:
Mark Shields and the Best of American Liberalism
Jack Beyrer / Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Tapped to Run Interior Smeared Covington Students
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Dave Gilson / Mother Jones:
Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
Jason Rantz / MyNorthwest.com:
Seattle radicals occupy park, yellow house in new ‘autonomous zone’
Brandy Zadrozny / Nieman Lab:
Misinformation fatigue sets in
Alex Kirshner / Slate:
How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters
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