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5:50 PM ET, December 20, 2020

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Associated Press:
Birx travels, family visits highlight pandemic safety perils  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”
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Arya Hodjat / The Daily Beast:
Dr. Birx Took Family Trip to Delaware After Thanksgiving, Despite Her Own COVID Advice  —  DO AS I SAY  —  Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, traveled to a family vacation home in Delaware the day after Thanksgiving …
Discussion: Instapundit
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Losing His Mind  —  The president is discussing martial law in the Oval Office, as his grip on reality falters.  —  Donald Trump's descent into madness continues.  —  The latest manifestation of this is a report in The New York Times that the president is weighing appointing …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, Axios and HotAir
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Top Trump aides pushed back on Sidney Powell during a chaotic West Wing meeting  —  There were “raised voice levels and animated conversation” during a chaotic Friday night meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, a source familiar with the meeting tells Axios.
New York Times:
Trump Weighed Naming Election Conspiracy Theorist as Special Counsel
New York Times:
A President Who Can't Put Aside Grudges, Even for Good News  —  The past week served as a preview of Mr. Trump's post-presidency: no leadership on debates within his party, but keen attention to waging personal vendettas and cultivating his supporters.  —  It was among the most consequential weeks …
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:   Mitt Romney: GOP has “strayed” from core values
Jesse Naranjo / Politico:
Romney: GOP ‘has strayed’ from what he once knew
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
The Coronavirus Is Mutating.  What Does That Mean for Us?  —  Officials in Britain and South Africa claim new variants are more easily transmitted.  There's a lot more to the story, scientists say.  —  Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic …
Discussion: Gothamist and HotAir
The Citizen Lab:
Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit  —  Summary & Key Findings  — In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera.
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The Guardian:
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using Israeli firm's spyware  —  Citizen Lab researchers say cyber-attack using NSO Group software likely ordered by Saudia Arabia and UAE  —  Spyware sold by an Israeli private intelligence firm was allegedly used to hack the phones of dozens …
New York Times:
Frontline Workers and People Over 74 Should Get Shots Next, CDC Panel Says  —  The recommendation was a compromise aimed at getting the coronavirus vaccine to the most vulnerable of two high-risk groups.  —  Striking a compromise between two high-risk population groups …
Discussion: The Sun
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Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
CDC Panel Recommends People Aged 75 and Over, Essential Workers Be Next for Covid-19 Vaccines  —  Group includes people considered essential to functioning of the economy and at high risk of exposure to Covid-19  —  A federal advisory panel recommended Sunday that both the nation's oldest …
Harry Enten / CNN:
How voters rank Trump a historically bad president  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Fox News poll finds that 42% of voters say history will remember President Donald Trump as one of the worst presidents ever.  —  An additional 8% say he will be remembered as below average …
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Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America:
Poll finds that Americans accept Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election — except for the Fox News viewers
Discussion: Fox News
Denver Post:
What happened to the Colorado Republican Party?  —  Out of power in a changing state, the GOP is in soul-searching mode  —  The Jefferson County GOP began its annual assemblies in the 1990s by asking all elected Republicans in attendance to say a few words.
David French / The Dispatch:
Why Do They Hate Us?  —  Race, Christian Nationalism, and White Evangelical Alienation from America  —  If there is any good to come from last weekend's Christian-nationalist “Jericho March,” and other bizarre, angry, and sometimes-violent right-wing attacks on the 2020 presidential election …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Raphael Satter / Yahoo:
Biden chief of staff says hack response will go beyond ‘just sanctions’  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming White House chief of staff said on Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden's response to the massive hacking campaign uncovered last week would go beyond sanctions.
Discussion: Reuters
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Washington Post:
Details emerge on $600 stimulus checks, jobless benefits as Congress rushes to finalize deal  —  House leadership tells lawmakers to prepare to be ready to vote as early as Sunday, but there are still details that need to be worked out, according to people familiar with the conversations.
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
McConnell expects coronavirus relief package to be finalized ‘in a matter of hours’  —  Government funding runs out Sunday night  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for December 20  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he expects lawmakers to have a final agreement …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
The Antitrust Case Against Big Tech, Shaped by Tech Industry Exiles  —  Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google were going to win and everybody else is going to lose.”  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — Three years ago …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump says he spoke with Sen.-elect Tuberville, who has hinted at backing electoral college challenge next month  —  President Trump said Sunday that he has spoken with Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican who suggested last week that he supports a potential challenge …
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
Jack Ma Makes Ant Offer to Placate Chinese Regulators  —  Trying to salvage his relationship with regulators in a Nov. 2 meeting, the Chinese billionaire said he was ready to do what the country needed  —  As Jack Ma was trying to salvage his relationship with Beijing in early November …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
As end approaches, Trump gets doses of flattery, finality  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is ending how it began, with over-the-top declarations of praise for the chief executive.  —  But now the flattery is mixed with a sense of finality as key people …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump likely won't announce 2024 run before Jan. 20  —  President Trump's closest confidants no longer expect him to imminently announce he's running in 2024, three sources who've recently discussed the matter with the president tell Axios.  —  Driving the news: Trump doesn't want to announce …
 
 
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
A Biden Style of Government Is Emerging: Lowest Drama Possible
Associated Press:
Correction: Virus Outbreak-Political Hypocrisy story
PBS NewsHour:
Shields and Brooks celebrate a lifetime in American politics
Washington Post:
Major U.S. companies are lobbying in a scrum for early vaccine
Adia Robinson / ABC News:
‘By June anyone who wants a vaccine will have an opportunity to get’: Adm. Brett Giroir
Discussion: WPHM and Politico
Frances Mulraney / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Every single US state is being advised to consider ethnic minorities as critical groups for vaccination with HALF prioritizing black and Hispanic residents over white
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
With Trump Fading, Ukraine's President Looks to a Reset With the U.S.
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
Did Biden win by a little or a lot? The answer is ... yes.
Politico:
GOP winning the Georgia ad war as Dems shift money to ground game
Discussion: New York Times
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
There are flickers of hope for local journalism. So far, it's not nearly enough.
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Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

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