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Business Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash, a source tells Insider … - Jared Kushner approved the creation of a shell company that spent almost half of the Trump campaign's $1.26B war chest …
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers ask FBI and Federal Election Commission to investigate Jared Kushner-backed Trump campaign company after Insider's reporting … - Two lawmakers demanded that the FBI and the Federal Election Commission open an investigation into whether the Trump campaign violated federal law …
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jared Kushner And Trump Basically Stole $617 Million Of Trump Campaign Funds
Jared Kushner And Trump Basically Stole $617 Million Of Trump Campaign Funds
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Washington Post
Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Kushner helped create shell Trump campaign company that secretly paid family members, report says
New York Times:
Lara Trump served on the board of a company through which the Trump political operation spent more than $700 million.
Lara Trump served on the board of a company through which the Trump political operation spent more than $700 million.
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The Intellectualist and Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russia is behind the broad, ongoing cyber spy campaign against the U.S. government and private sector, Pompeo says — Russia is behind the massive, ongoing cyber spy campaign against the federal government and private sector, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday …
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Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News:
Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was ‘pretty clearly’ Russian
Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was ‘pretty clearly’ Russian
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Fox News, Business Insider, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Washington Monthly
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
US plans to shutter remaining consulates in Russia — (CNN)The Trump administration has informed lawmakers of its plan to shutter its two remaining consulates in Russia. — In a notification dated December 10, the US State Department told Congress it intends to close the consulate …
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NPR, Bloomberg and One America News Network
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US says it is shuttering last 2 consulates in Russia — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has notified Congress that it intends to shutter the last two remaining U.S. consulates in Russia. — The State Department told lawmakers last week that it would permanently close the consulate …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs Airs Stunning Fact-Check of His Own Election Conspiracies After Company Threatens Legal Action — Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has recently taken to raising questions about voting machine companies, which have been cast as complicit in the supposed grand conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from President Donald Trump.
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Washington Examiner
Raw Story:
BUSTED? Why the numbers behind Mitch McConnell's re-election don't add up — On a Thursday in August in Louisville, months before the 2020 election, a parade of cars filled with Kentucky Teamster representatives and labor groups, showed their fury at Mitch McConnell's constant blocking of critical COVID aid.
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HotAir
Washington Post:
Chinese dissidents say they're being harassed by a businessman with links to Steve Bannon — Human-rights scholar in New Jersey says he's the latest victim of intimidating protests staged by Guo Wengui — WEST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Mandarin-speaking protesters arrived in a convoy …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Executive For US Video Conference Company Spied On Dissidents At Direction Of Chinese Intelligence, Feds Say
Executive For US Video Conference Company Spied On Dissidents At Direction Of Chinese Intelligence, Feds Say
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The Western Journal, National Review, New York Post and WPHM
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
FDA approves second Covid vaccine for emergency use as it clears Moderna's for U.S. distribution — Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine is the second approved for use in the U.S. — It will bolster the number of available doses, which states desperately need to fend off the pandemic.
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US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Takes Additional Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for Second COVID-19 Vaccine
FDA Takes Additional Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for Second COVID-19 Vaccine
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Fauci, NIH yet to get Covid vaccine despite role developing it
Fauci, NIH yet to get Covid vaccine despite role developing it
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ABC News and Washington Examiner
Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters:
Biden to introduce team tasked with ambitious climate agenda on Saturday — (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to publicly introduce his climate and energy team on Saturday, a history-making group that will be tasked with advancing his ambitious climate policy and strengthening safeguards against pollution.
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Politico:
How Biden's Covid bubble popped
How Biden's Covid bubble popped
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Washington Post, Defense News, Bloomberg and Fox News
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
8 Catholic Sisters Die of Covid-19 Within a Week at a Wisconsin Home — They were educators, music teachers and liturgists, living out their remaining years in a retirement residence after lifetimes of service. — They were educators, music teachers and community activists who served tirelessly for those living in poverty.
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Catholic Herald and New York Post
Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times:
‘He called me kiddo’: Jill Biden says Wall Street Journal essay was ‘such a surprise’ — Surprised the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed attacking Jill Biden's preference to use the title “Dr.”? So was Jill Biden. — On Thursday's episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” …
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Business Insider, RedState and The Wrap
Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Analysis: For Republicans, profanity is suddenly scandalous — WASHINGTON (AP) — The definition of a scandal changes quickly in Washington. — Over the course of four years, the nation's capital has careened from crisis to crisis. There was the travel ban, the investigation …
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The Nation, NBC News, New Republic, Salon and Alternet.org
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Politico:
Judge skewers GOP over suit targeting newly registered voters in Georgia — The judge questioned the basis for the suit on several grounds, including legal standing, but she also expressed concern that segregating ballots could prompt some potential voters not to cast them.
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Law & Crime, Washington Times, Alternet.org and The American Independent
The Daily Beast:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Is Throwing Down Big Money to Fuel Pro-Trump Election Challenges — He says he's “not just some pillow guy” to be mocked. He knows Trump is the chosen one because he's familiar with “numbers and charts” and soon even “Trump-haters” will see. — BEAST INSIDE
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TheGrio and The Intellectualist
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
William Barr: ‘One Standard of Justice’ — The departing attorney general talks about John Durham, Robert Mueller, Hunter Biden, Mike Flynn and the flak he's taken from both parties. — The U.S. attorney general is meditating on one of his frustrations with the modern Justice Department …
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New York Times, New York Magazine, Alternet.org, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Mediaite and emptywheel
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Space Force troops to be called ‘guardians’ — Service members in the year-old Space Force will be called “guardians,” Vice President Pence announced Friday. — “It is my honor, on behalf of the president of the United States, to announce that henceforth the men and women …
The Daily Beast:
Pence Said Pfizer Vaccine Distribution Was Going ‘Strong.’ States Are Calling Bullshit. — First states heard they were getting less vaccine than expected. Then the finger-pointing started. — As Vice President Mike Pence sat for his COVID-19 vaccine shot Friday morning …
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Hampton Roads Daily Press, NPR, Alternet.org and Axios
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
New York City Will Change Many Selective Schools to Address Segregation — The pandemic prompted the mayor's most significant action yet on integration: a major shift in how hundreds of schools admit students. — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday major changes to the way hundreds …
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RedState, TheGrio, Bloomberg, NBC New York, The Hill and Washington Post