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‘It’s turned crazy’: Inside the scramble for Trump pardons  CNN

A new children’s book shows how her upbringing and bit of good, old-fashioned chutzpah helped a 22-year-old woman change a country’s destiny, and then keep mum about it for decades

Once Donald Trump is out of the White House, Americans should write him out of history too  The Conversation AU

Trump says he hopes Pence ‘comes through’ while he rallies for Georgia senators  CNN

Fulton County elections director Rick Barron gave reporters a rough estimate of more than 70,000 votes cast in person on Tuesday, versus about 60,000 in-person votes on Nov. 3.

Lawyer who advised President Trump on Saturday call resigns from law firm  Atlanta Journal Constitution Attorney who assisted Trump on call with Georgia officials resigns from law firm  CNN Republican attorney on Trump’s call to Georgia officials resigns from law firm  POLITICO Cleta

Early votercast data from the Associated Press indicates Evangelicals strongly favored the Republican candidates, Lisa Desjardins reports. https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1346617535282749440?s=20

Democrats need to win both races to seize the Senate majority and, with it, control of the new Congress when Biden takes office in two weeks.

Democrats need both their candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, to win to seize the Senate majority in vote overshadowed by Trump’s refusal to concede presidential election

Hong Kong democracy activists and opposition politicians were among dozens of people taken into custody on suspicion of violating the city’s controversial national security law, in what appeared to be the largest roundup yet under the China-imposed legislation. Former lawmakers