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Pressure Builds On Trump To Concede As Biden Pushes Ahead With Transition Plan – Pressure was mounting on Donald Trump on Wednesday to concede the US election that he lost to Joe Biden by more than 5 million votes, even as the president continued to pursue claims on social media and in court about ballot tampering and fraud – without evidence. [guardian]

Trump Stacks The Pentagon And Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End? – So far, there is no evidence the appointees harbor a secret agenda or arrived with an action plan. But their sudden appearance amounts to a purge of the Pentagon’s top civilian hierarchy without recent precedent. [nyt]

Boris Johnson Brands Donald Trump ‘The Previous President’ After ‘Refreshing’ Chat With Joe Biden – The PM is “delighted” with his call with Mr Biden – as Mr Trump continues to claim he won last week’s US presidential election. [sky]

TikTok Asks Court To Block Trump Order Forcing It To Sell U.S. Operations As Thursday Deadline Looms – TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has asked a federal appeals court to vacate the Trump administration’s order asking it to divest its operations in the U.S., according to a petition filed by the company on Tuesday just two days before the government’s order goes into effect. [forbes]

‘Stop The Steal’ Supporters, Restrained By Facebook, Turn To Parler To Peddle False Election Claims – Alternative social media app Parler has surged in popularity as Facebook restricts groups spreading false election claims. [washpo]

Trump Supporter Files Restraining Order Against Neighbors For Alleged Bullying – A President Trump supporter has filed a restraining order against his California neighbors — for bullying his family about the election loss to Joe Biden, according to a report. [nyp]

EU Buys 300m Doses Of BioNTech-Pfizer Vaccine – The European Union has agreed to buy up to 300 million doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, after it showed strong results in trials. [bbc]

$250 Billion Wiped Off Chinese Tech Stocks As Beijing Signals Crackdown – Fears that Beijing could tighten the screw on China’s biggest tech companies have wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off their stock market value in just two days. [cnn]

Five Key Points From The Apple Mac Launch Event – Apple has revealed the next generation of Macs, complete with a new processing chip that is unlike anything we’ve seen before. [here]

Rooibos Limited Agrees To Give Its Competitors A Break – Tea processing company Rooibos Limited will no longer enter into long-term supply contracts with tea farmers after it reached a settlement agreement with the Competition Commission. [busins]

Billionaire Investor Bill Ackman Is Hedging The Pandemic Again – After raking in $2.6 billion from a similar bet in the spring. [busins]

‘Largest Ever Auctioned’ Purple-Pink Diamond Sells For $26.6m (£20.1m) – An extremely rare purple-pink Russian diamond has sold at auction in Switzerland for $26.6m (£20.1m). [bbc]

Guinness Recalls New Non-Alcoholic Stout – Over microbiological contamination concerns. [sky]

Behind Pfizer’s Vaccine, An Understated Husband-And-Wife ‘Dream Team’ – Positive data on BioNTech and U.S. partner Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine is an unlikely success for the married couple behind the German biotech firm, who have devoted their lives to harnessing the immune system against cancer. [reuters]

Sydney University Meeting In ‘Chaos’ After Student Makes Personal Donation Of $50,000 – A meeting at the University of Sydney descended into “chaos” on Tuesday night after one student made an unprecedented personal donation of $50,000 to the student council, after being criticised for not doing enough in her elected job. [guardian]

America’s Richest Self-Made Women – Forbes’ ranking of the country’s most successful women entrepreneurs and executives. [forbes]

Britney Spears Loses Bid To Remove Father From Conservatorship, Refuses To Perform – “My client has informed me that she is afraid of her father,” Britney Spears’ attorney told the judge. [nbc]

NYC Waitress Rates Celebrity Customers From ‘Classy’ To ‘Whiny’– According to TikTokker Laura Mesrobian, who has waited on some of the biggest stars to dine out in New York City, many are indeed gracious customers. [nyp]

How Influencers Are Ruining OnlyFans For Sex Workers – Mashable’s Morgan Sung interviews sex workers about how the influx of celebrities and influencers on OnlyFans has made things even harder during a global pandemic. [mash]

Kylie Jenner Sizzles In A Low-Cut Nude Bra – Kylie Jenner shared three new steamy selfies to Instagram on Wednesday where she looked to be lit in hot pink light. [dm] ‘Hot pink light’ 👌🏽

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