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7:55 AM ET, November 14, 2020

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New York Times:
Al Qaeda's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran  —  Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.
Ben Collins / NBC News:
QAnon's Dominion voter fraud conspiracy theory reaches the president  —  For days after the election, adherents to the QAnon conspiracy movement had been trying to get President Donald Trump's attention with constant false claims about voter fraud connected to a company that makes voting machines.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
John Kelly criticizes Trump over delay of Biden transition  —  President-elect Joe Biden should start receiving intelligence briefings, and the delay in allowing the transition to officially get started is damaging U.S. national security, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told POLITICO in an exclusive interview.
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Politico:
Biden is bringing back the daily briefing. Here's who is likely to be at the podium.
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Reuters
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:   Here's How Trump's Stalling Risks Our National Security
CNN:
Pentagon senior adviser accused Pompeo and senior politicians of taking money and getting rich from ‘the Israeli lobby’  —  (CNN)A new senior adviser at the Pentagon repeatedly said the United States' support for Israel was the result of “Israeli lobby” money and accused prominent officials …
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Washington Post:
Defense secretary sent classified memo to White House about Afghanistan before Trump fired him  —  In the run-up to the election, President Trump's tweet saying that all U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be “home by Christmas!” raised alarm among senior U.S. officials who had been working on a more gradual withdrawal.
Discussion: Business Insider
Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors assigned to monitor election malfeasance tell Barr they see no evidence of substantial irregularities  —  Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election urged Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday to rescind …
Washington Post:
In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal  —  Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials …
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville flubs basics of the Constitution, World War II and the 2000 election.  —  In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II …
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New York Times:
Highlights From the Transition: Biden Wins Georgia and Trump Wins North Carolina as Final States Are Called
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
DHS boss Chad Wolf defies Trump order to fire cyber chief Chris Krebs  —  Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf is defying President Trump's order to terminate election cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, multiple sources tell The Post.
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New York Times:
Christopher Krebs Hasn't Been Fired, Yet
Discussion: Washington Post, The Root and Raw Story
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump team persists in Pa. court fights despite COVID quarantine, quitting lawyers, and courtroom losses  —  President Donald Trump's effort to contest the Nov. 3 election in court suffered a series of setbacks Friday, leaving his house-of-cards legal strategy to reverse the results in Pennsylvania teetering on the edge of collapse.
Discussion: Fox News, Law & Crime and WHYY
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘We are the firewall’: Loeffler and Perdue form GOP unity ticket in Georgia Senate races  —  CUMMING, Ga. — Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are appearing in videos together, releasing statements together and, on Friday, they held a joint rally in this city outside Atlanta.
Discussion: @politifact, Georgia Recorder and MSNBC
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.
Discussion: Tennessee Star
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Joe Biden becomes first Democrat in 28 years to win Georgia
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox  —  The journalist Matthew Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox, announced today that he is leaving that publication for the paid-newsletter platform Substack, so that he can enjoy more editorial independence.  —  The move may prove a good fit for Yglesias …
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CNN:
Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone  —  Massive election disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone  —  (CNN)It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus …
Discussion: emptywheel
Brendan Keefe / WXIA-TV:
Two accused ‘dead’ Georgia voters very much alive despite claims - and they voted legally  —  11Alive confirmed that two of the four Georgia voters the president accused of fraudulently voting “dead” are alive.  —  Accusations of voter fraud continue to be in the headlines …
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Examiner
Alexei Koseff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Newsom attended French Laundry party with more households than California advises during pandemic  —  SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom attended a birthday party for one of his political advisers last week that included people from several households, the type of gathering his administration …
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it.  —  Day and night the bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people.
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school after administrators raised concerns about adherence to Covid precautions  —  (CNN)Administrators at the posh Washington private school that the three young children of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attended …
Nonzero.org:
Grading Biden's Foreign Policy Team: Tony Blinken  —  Background: Blinken is a liberal interventionist with an emphatic idealism about the virtues of “American leadership.”  His relationship to Biden goes back decades, and he is considered a favorite for national security adviser or secretary of state.
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake  —  At 85, the libertarian tycoon who spent decades funding conservative causes says he wants a final act building bridges across political divides  —  Four days before this year's presidential election, Charles Koch—the voluble Kansas billionaire …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans  —  President Donald Trump's senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.
State of Oregon:
Governor Kate Brown Announces Statewide Two-Week Freeze to Stop Rapid Spread of COVID-19  —  New measures take effect Wednesday, Nov. 18, in all Oregon counties  —  Portland, OR—Governor Kate Brown today announced a statewide Two-Week Freeze, implementing new measures to limit gatherings …
 
 
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Gabrielle Reyes / Breitbart:
Ann Coulter: What America Wants Is ‘Trumpism without Trump’
Discussion: Facebook Watch
New York Times:
As Soon as Trump Leaves Office, He Faces Greater Risk of Prosecution
Discussion: Japan Times
New York Times:
Long Coronavirus Testing Lines Hit NYC Again
Stewart Ledbetter / WPTZ:
'It's a big deal': Senators focus on national chains whose Vermont workers are eligible for hazard pay
Discussion: Payday Report
Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak tests positive for COVID-19
Jane Recker / Washingtonian:
People Are Flying Into DC for the Million MAGA March
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Wendy Hermanson / OK! Magazine:
Kanye West Is ‘Threatening To Leave America’ Following Donald Trump's Loss
Discussion: Political Flare
Nicole Via y Rada / NBC News:
Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene challenges House mask rule with 'my body, my choice]
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and CNN
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Alexander Vindman Joins the Lawfare Team
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 

 
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Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups

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