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New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: As More Republicans Break With Trump, He Refuses to Budge — Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s team will deploy “people, money, resources” to Georgia, reflecting the high stakes of two Senate races. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has kept a low public profile since her acceptance speech last weekend.
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
Health officials sound alarm over impact of Trump's transition blockade
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Arlette Saenz / CNN:
People of color make up nearly half of Biden transition team
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Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Largely Out of Sight in Washington, Kamala Harris Preps for White House
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide
Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans last-minute China crackdown — President Trump will enact a series of hardline policies during his final 10 weeks to cement his legacy on China, senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios. — Why it matters: He'll try …
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Washington State Governor's Office:
Inslee announces statewide restrictions for four-weeks — The restrictions go into effect Monday, November 16 at 11:59 PM — Gov. Jay Inslee today announced a four-week statewide set of restrictions in response to the recent rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus in Washington and across the country.
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KING-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Inslee announces closures of indoor dining, in-store retail occupancy restrictions — The governor has announced several statewide restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus. These restrictions go into effect on Monday and go until Dec. 14.
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NBC New York
CNN:
Georgia Sen. David Perdue declines to debate opponent ahead of January 5 runoff — Fight for Georgia's Senate seats intensifies as races head to runoffs — (CNN)Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue has declined an invitation to debate Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead …
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Teri Weaver / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if vaccine plan burdens Black, Brown communities — Syracuse, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today New York would sue President Donald Trump's administration if the federal coronavirus vaccine distribution plan makes it harder for Black and Brown people to get the vaccinations.
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Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration over vaccine distribution
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution
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David Cohen / Politico:
Trump edges closer to conceding the election, then backs off — President Donald Trump has yet to concede the election, but on Sunday he briefly came close to acknowledging that he lost in a tweet. — “He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump tweeted.
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Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
‘He Won,’ Trump Tweets About the Election
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Lack of influence means it's time to dismiss the Lincoln Project — The two entities that had the worst election night were a.) the pollsters and b.) the Lincoln Project. — Most pollsters forecast a Democratic landslide, including Joe Biden easily taking the White House …
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ABC News:
'It's critical' for Republican leaders to explain to voters Trump lost the election: John Bolton — Jeh Johnson also discussed national security implications of delayed transition. — Presidential transition turmoil — President Donald Trump is refusing to concede as President-elect Joe Biden proceeds with his transition plans.
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research — A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show. — The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 …
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Glenn Greenwald:
The Ongoing Death of Free Speech: Prominent ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book — Free speech has always been more than a Constitutional guarantee: it's also a crucial societal value. And it's more imperiled than ever. — 5 hr ago — In May of 2019, a source in Brazil provided …
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Instapundit
New York Times:
With Trench Warfare Deepening, Parties Face Unsettled Electoral Map — Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joe Biden, but a split decision for the two parties. Now Democrats and Republicans face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral landscape in a generation.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Explored Buyout of Newsmax TV as Fox News Alternative — Hicks Equity Partners, a firm with ties to a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, is pitching investors on a new conservative news channel — For nearly two years, allies of President Trump have been exploring ways …
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Washington Post:
The federal government's chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for alleged voter fraud — The federal government's chief information security officer is participating in an effort backed by supporters of President Trump to hunt for evidence of voter fraud …
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Raw Story and The Philadelphia Inquirer
CNBC:
Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S. — Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States. — The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed at a regional summit in Hanoi.
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New York Times
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Elaine Kurtenbach / Associated Press:
ASEAN, China, other partners sign world's biggest trade pact
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Bloomberg and The Week
Washington Post:
Biden won places that are thriving. Trump won ones that are hurting. — In a trend that's been unfolding since 2000, Democrats continue to gain votes in prosperous, highly educated urban areas. Republicans are gaining in small cities and rural communities. — Are you better off than you were four years ago?
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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge — In 2018, as American officials in Kabul were sitting down to negotiate with the Taliban, a bleak joke circulated in the U.S. Embassy that at any moment the talks could be derailed by “the Tweet of Damocles”—a unilateral decision by President …
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented. Here are three scenarios. — We are living through something unprecedented — all the more alarming because we can't be sure what that something is. — Three scenarios fit the known facts: — Scenario 1: President …
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Theo Keith / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minnesota Senate GOP held large, in-person dinner party just before COVID outbreak — (FOX 9) - Days before a coronavirus outbreak in the Minnesota Senate Republican caucus, the GOP held a large, in-person dinner party to celebrate their election results. — A GOP spokeswoman confirmed …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The ending of Trump's presidency echoes the beginning — with a lie — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — The Trump administration is ending as it began: with a lie about crowd size. — On Saturday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted …
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