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7:30 AM ET, December 14, 2020

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect  —  In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks in more than five years, email systems were breached at the Treasury and Commerce Departments.  Other breaches are under investigation.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm  —  The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a much broader espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments …
Department of Homeland Security:
Emergency Directive 21-01  —  Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise  —  This page contains a web-friendly version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Emergency Directive 21-01, “Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise”. … Background
Discussion: FireEye, CBS News and KTLA
CISA:
CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Mitigate the Compromise of Solarwinds Orion Network Management Products
Discussion: Forbes
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Wall Street Journal Opinion Editor Defends Item on Dr. Jill Biden  —  “There's nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism,” Paul A. Gigot said as he accused Democrats of orchestrating a coordinated response to an op-ed piece.  —  The editorial page editor …
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Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:
The Biden Team Strikes Back  —  Its strategists promote an identity politics campaign against an op-ed on Jill Biden's use of ‘Dr.’  —  Joe Biden says it is “time to heal” America's divisions after the Trump presidency, and The Wall Street Journal has praised him for saying so.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Stunning Passage from the Latest Court Rejection of Team Trump  —  What a Wisconsin federal court's order turning back another campaign lawsuit tells us about the election-rigging case.  —  he most telling aspect of the Wisconsin federal district court's rejection of another Trump campaign lawsuit …
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John Nichols / madison.com:   Tom Tiffany chooses Trump over Wisconsin
New York Times:
White House staff members will be among the first to be vaccinated.  —  White House staff members who work in close quarters with President Trump have been told they are scheduled to receive injections of the coronavirus vaccine soon, at a time when the first doses of the vaccine are being distributed …
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump Delays Plan to Hasten Vaccines for White House Staff  —  Shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine left a facility in Michigan early Sunday, the initial step in the most ambitious vaccination plan in U.S. history.  The F.D.A. chief says the vaccine …
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump, Top Officials to Be Offered Covid Vaccine Within Days
Discussion: Axios and New York Post
Washington Post:
Members of White House staff to get early access to coronavirus vaccine
New York Times:
Cleveland's Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name  —  The decision comes amid a wider push for sports teams to stop using Native American names and imagery as team names and mascots.  —  Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided …
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Jared Diamond / Wall Street Journal:
Cleveland's Major League Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Nickname
Discussion: The Hill and The Wrap
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker.  Then Tim Cook Found Out.  —  Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told.  The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.  —  The show was called “Scraper,” but it was clearly about Gawker Media, the network of aggressive …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Is Dead at 89  —  Graham Greene called “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” featuring the plump, ill-dressed George Smiley, the greatest spy story he had ever read.  —  LONDON — John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced …
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Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ novelist John le Carre dies aged 89
Discussion: UPI and Variety
Glen Johnson / Axios:
Scoop: O'Brien takes wife on COVID-era tour of Europe  —  National security adviser Robert O'Brien is taking his wife on a holiday tour of the romantic Mediterranean and European capitals, including seeking a private tour of the Louvre despite it being closed because of coronavirus restrictions, people familiar with the trip tell Axios.
Discussion: The Week, Politico and The White House
Christine Jordan Sexton / Florida Politics:
Gov. DeSantis suggests one dose of Pfizer vaccine may be enough  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis just a few days ago said that Americans need to unify behind the science that has led to the rapid development of vaccines.  So it was a bit strange that DeSantis on Friday said that perhaps the number …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Maria Carrasco / Politico:
Bill Cassidy warns GOP 'can't stand if we are divided'
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Loeffler disavows photo taken with longtime white supremacist  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign strongly condemned a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist taken at an event in Dawsonville on Friday.The photo shows Loeffler smiling from beneath …
CNN:
Pete Buttigieg emerging as leading contender for Transportation secretary  —  (CNN)Pete Buttigieg is emerging as a leading contender to be Joe Biden's Transportation secretary, multiple sources familiar with the transition's deliberations tell CNN.  —  The possible nomination would vault …
Discussion: The Hill and Chicago Sun-Times
Washington Post:
‘A dark, empty place:’ Public officials face personal threats as tensions flare  —  State and local officials of both parties have warned that President Trump's increasingly desperate tweets about election fraud are fueling the potential for violence as well as another ominous trend of 2020 …
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He'll Fight On. His Campaign HQ Is Literally Taking Down His Name.
Discussion: Raw Story
bellingcat:
FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
As Biden Prepares to Take Office, a New Rush at the Border
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Americans willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine but divided on timing: POLL
Mark Hay / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Neo-Nazi Scheme to Exploit Anti-Vaxxer Panic and Spark Chaos
Discussion: Raw Story
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
The High Stakes of Georgia's Loeffler-Warnock Senate Race
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
States prepare for pandemic-era Electoral College meeting
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden weighs Sam Power for USAID
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
The Electoral College Shouldn't Matter More Than the Majority's Votes
Wall Street Journal:
In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff
Washington Post:
Historic D.C. Black churches attacked during pro-Trump rallies Saturday
John Harwood / CNN:
Trump will leave office with a historically bad economic record
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Karl Rove: Trump Is ‘On the Edge of Looking Like a Sore Loser’
 

 
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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

 
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