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10:25 AM ET, January 19, 2021

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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trumps' snub of Bidens historic in its magnitude  —  (CNN)On the morning of January 20, Donald Trump and Melania Trump will depart the White House as President and first lady, but they will not invite their incoming counterparts, Joe and Jill Biden, inside before they do.
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Business Insider:
The Justice Department promised the Trump White House that its hard drives won't be handed over to Joe Biden … - The Justice Department on Friday assured the Trump administration that its hard drives won't become Joe Biden's property on Inauguration Day.  — Records and hard drives left behind …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Politico:   How the First Day of the Trump Presidency Foreshadowed The Four Years to Come
Washington Post:
Biden selects transgender doctor Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary  —  President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate Pennsylvania's top health official, Rachel Levine, to be his assistant secretary of health.  Levine, a pediatrician, would become …
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Washington Post:
QAnon adherents discussed posing as National Guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to FBI intelligence briefing  —  The FBI privately warned law enforcement agencies Monday that far-right extremists have discussed posing as National Guard members in Washington and others …
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Washington Post:   House security chief said lawmaker wariness of military at Capitol drove his resistance to early request for National Guard
The White House:
1776 Commission Takes Historic and Scholarly Step to Restore Understanding of the Greatness of the American Founding  —  1776 Commission—comprised of some of America's most distinguished scholars and historians—has released a report presenting a definitive chronicle of the American founding …
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Associated Press:
Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status …
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Biden to propose overhaul of immigration laws on first day in office
Axios:
Off the rails: Inside Air Force One ahead of Trump's last stand in Georgia  —  Beginning on election night 2020 and continuing through his final days in office, Donald Trump unraveled and dragged America with him, to the point that his followers sacked the U.S. Capitol with two weeks left in his term.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Raw Story
Mina Kimes / ESPN:
New York Mets GM Jared Porter acknowledges sending explicit images to female reporter when he worked for Chicago Cubs  —  New York Mets general manager Jared Porter sent explicit, unsolicited texts and images to a female reporter in 2016, culminating with a picture of an erect, naked penis …
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Wyoming GOP chairman floats secession after Cheney votes to impeach Trump  —  A top Republican official in Wyoming floated the idea of seceding from the United States after a high-profile member of his party from the Cowboy State embraced the impeachment of President Trump.
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Nick Reynolds / Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming GOP chair: Western states ‘paying attention’ to Texas effort to secede
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Texas man at Capitol riot allegedly threatened to kill his kids if they turned him in: ‘Traitors get shot’  —  Two days after Guy Reffitt joined the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, federal officials said, he returned home to Wylie, Tex., and proudly told his family of his escapade.
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
‘Traitors Get Shot’: Capitol Rioter Accused of Threatening Children if They Turned Him In
New York Times:
Trump Prepares Pardon Wave for Final Hours  —  Among those under consideration for grants of clemency are the former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and the rapper Lil Wayne.  —  Those under consideration include such disparate figures as Sheldon Silver, the disgraced former …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The Washington Trump leaves behind  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  We're new at this, but thought we'd start here ...  SPOTTED: GEORGE W. BUSH and TUCKER CARLSON having dinner at the private home of a neighbor on the exclusive Gasparilla Island, Fla., where they both have homes.
ITV:
Former US attorney general William Barr tells ITV News questioning election legitimacy ‘precipitated Capitol riots’ … Video report by ITV News Security Editor Rohit Kachroo  —  Former US attorney general William Barr has told ITV News that questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election result …
Detroit News:
Michigan Republicans seek to replace GOP canvasser who certified election  —  Lansing — The Michigan Republican Party wants to replace the GOP member of the Board of State Canvassers who cast the pivotal vote to certify election results in favor of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Trump's 11th-hour assault on the civil service by stripping job protections runs out of time
Discussion: Breitbart
Reuters:
Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm  —  (Reuters) - Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company.  —  Parler vanished from the internet when dropped …
Discussion: The Guardian, The Wrap and Fox News
David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
The Federalist Society And The Capitol Attack: What Is To Be Done?  —  Will all the behind-the-scenes drama and soul-searching take FedSoc to a better place?  —  The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has prompted some long-overdue soul-searching in many quarters, as well as some changes of heart.
Washington Post:
Woman accused of taking laptop from Pelosi's office has been arrested, officials say  —  A witness who claimed to be a former partner of Riley June Williams told the FBI that friends of Williams played a video of her stealing a drive or computer  —  Federal authorities said they have arrested …
European Council on Foreign Relations:
The crisis of American power: How Europeans see Biden's America  —  Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies  — Most Europeans rejoiced at Joe Biden's victory in the November US presidential election, but they do not think he can help America make a comeback as the pre-eminent global leader.
Discussion: Japan Times and Politico
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Inside Trump's Pathetic Final Weekend in Office  —  It's ending as it began.  All about Trump.  —  “Everyone knows I won.”  —  That's a phrase that Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former game show host and soon-to-be former president, repeated to different advisers and confidants …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
At Fox News, a post-election shake-up brings more opinion at the expense of news  —  With viewership faltering since November, last year's top-rated cable channel will try out pundits for a 7 p.m. slot once devoted to news.  In the running: Maria Bartiromo.
NBC News:
Biden's first task is his most crucial and obvious: Vaccinate America  —  WASHINGTON — Facing a pessimistic public, holding middling poll numbers for an incoming president (higher than Trump's, lower than Obama's) and dealing with a predecessor who's yet to concede the election he lost, Joe Biden isn't getting much of a honeymoon.
Washington Post:
The Capitol mob's gleeful selfies are easy to mock.  They're also a warning sign.  —  Accused rioters didn't expect any consequences because they thought they were saving the nation  —  One person posted an image of himself on his Instagram story.  There he was among the crowd of rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
 
 
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Tim Naftali / The Atlantic:
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New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Peter Nickeas / CNN:
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Manu Raju / CNN:
McConnell, Schumer close in on power-sharing agreement in evenly divided Senate
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Financial Times:
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