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11:15 PM ET, November 29, 2020

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Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Name Rouse, Tanden to Economic Team  —  WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate a diverse group of economic advisers to serve alongside Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen as he prepares to confront the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, people familiar with the decision said Sunday.
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Washington Post:
Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Jennifer Psaki, a veteran Democratic spokeswoman, will be Joe Biden's White House press secretary, one of seven women who will fill the upper ranks of his administration's communications staff.
Transition / President-Elect Joe Biden:
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Announce Members of White House Senior Communications Staff  —  WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris today announced new members of the White House staff who will serve in senior communications roles.
Discussion: Breitbart, CNBC, Talking Points Memo, IJR and UPI
Ben White / Politico:
Deese to be Biden's top White House economic adviser  —  Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.  —  President-elect Joe Biden has settled on senior Obama administration official and current investment executive Brian Deese as his top economic adviser in the White House …
Errin Haines / The 19th:
Women lead communications teams for Biden and Harris  —  Kate Bedingfield, Jen Psaki, Karine Jean-Pierre and Symone Sanders will be among those overseeing communications for the incoming administration.  —  Editor-at-large  —  Several veteran Democratic, women political strategists …
Bloomberg:
Biden to Name Tanden as Budget Chief, Likely Riling GOP
Discussion: CBS News and New York Post
Politico:
Biden unveils diverse economic team as challenges to economy grow
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:   Biden Expected to Name Top Economic Officials This Week
CNN:
Biden's doctor says he has hairline fractures in his foot after slipping while playing with his dog  —  Washington, DC (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden has hairline fractures in his “mid-foot” and will “likely require a walking boot for several weeks,” his doctor said in a statement Sunday …
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Hailey Fuchs / New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Recounts in Wisconsin Reaffirm Biden's Victory
Joanna Weiss / Politico:
‘Time For My Flag to Go Up’: How Anti-Trumpers Are Reclaiming the American Flag
Discussion: Balloon Juice, RedState and Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The King of Trump TV Thinks You're Dumb Enough to Buy It  —  Chris Ruddy, the C.E.O. of Newsmax, has found a business opportunity in feeding Trump supporters the fantasy that the president could still win the election.  —  In 2004, Hillary Clinton was in the Senate and Christopher Ruddy had some making up to do.
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Political lying as tribal signaling  —  It's like getting a tattoo to prove you're in a gang  —  Why have so many Republicans and right-wing media figures embraced Donald Trump's obviously made-up claims of voter fraud?  Rationally, they must know that all of the allegations are lies.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CNN Panel Blasts Fox's Bartiromo Over ‘Delusional’ Trump Interview: ‘Not Much Daylight Between Maria and Alex Jones’
Jemima McEvoy / Forbes:
Trump Claims FBI And Justice Department May Have Helped Rig Election  —  Despite having finally assented to allowing his administration to cooperate with the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden, President Trump on Sunday continued to spout baseless voter fraud claims …
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CNN:
Tom Donilon no longer in the running to be Biden's CIA director  —  (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden is still weighing who will lead the Central Intelligence Agency, but Tom Donilon is no longer under consideration for the post, CNN has learned.  —  Two sources familiar with the matter say Donilon …
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:   Biden Could Score Another First at CIA
Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Discussion: The Hill, Twitchy and Law & Crime
Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
Wisconsin recount confirms Biden's win over Trump, cementing the president's failure to change the election results  —  The recount of presidential ballots in Wisconsin's two largest counties finished Sunday, reconfirming that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes.
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Dane County recount will show Biden won Wisconsin, but Trump is planning a lawsuit
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Nike and Coca-Cola Lobby Against Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill  —  Business groups and major companies like Apple have been pressing Congress to alter legislation cracking down on imports of goods made with forced labor from persecuted Muslim minorities in China.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
From Terre Haute to Tehran to your grandma, Trumpism is revealed as a death cult in the end  —  For a man who too often talked and occasionally governed more like a mob boss than like the 45th president of a democratic republic, it's sadly fitting that the final days of Donald Trump's White House …
Discussion: HotAir, Spectator USA and The Guardian
Associated Press:
Faith takes the forefront as Georgia Senate runoffs heat up  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Bishop Reginald Jackson stepped to the microphone at a drive-in rally outside a church in southwest Atlanta as his voice carried over a loudspeaker and the radio to people gathered in, around and on top of cars that filled the parking lot.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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New York Times:
Black Voguers Populate Billboards in a Times Square ‘Midnight Moment’
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
We Won't Forget and We Won't Forgive What Trumpists Did to America
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Dehumanising: Israeli groups' verdict on military invasions of Palestinian homes
The Guardian:
At least 110 dead in Nigeria after suspected Boko Haram attack
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Financial Times:
EU pitches new post-Trump alliance with US in face of China challenge
Discussion: Reuters and Political Wire
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Rahm Emanuel floated for Transportation secretary
Wall Street Journal:
Restaurant Holdouts Defy Covid-19 Shutdown Orders
Fox News:
Bobby Jindal & Wes Anderson: Hispanic support for Republicans growing as Democrats move leftward
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Inskeep / New York Times:
Trump Looms Large Now, but Maybe Not Forever
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Trump floats appointing a ‘special prosecutor’ in addition to Durham to investigate Trump-Russia investigators
Discussion: Raw Story
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
Trump underperformed in most counties with large rallies
Discussion: Raw Story
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio is already suiting up for the politics of destruction