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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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Business Insider:
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  —  There is an answer to how Trump managed to blow $1 billion in campaign funds.  Jared Kushner created a shell company and paid the Trump family $617 million.  —  Business Insider reported:
Discussion: Washington Post
Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Kushner helped create shell Trump campaign company that secretly paid family members, report says  —  Mr Kushner allegedly helped establish the company in 2018 and Mr Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump was installed as president  —  Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner allegedly created …
New York Times:
Lara Trump served on the board of a company through which the Trump political operation spent more than $700 million.
Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast:   Kushner OK'd Trump Campaign Shell Company That Secretly Paid Inner Circle: Report
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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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 …
Discussion: The Hill and CNN
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.
Discussion: 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.
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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Zoom Blog:
Our Perspective on the DOJ Complaint  —  We would like to start by making three important points:  — We support the U.S. Government's commitment to protect American interests from foreign influence.  As the DOJ notes, Zoom has been fully cooperating with them in this matter.
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Verge
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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.
Discussion: 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,” …
Discussion: Business Insider, RedState and The Wrap
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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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Democratic organizers set their sights on Asian American voters to win control of the Senate
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Examiner
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
Discussion: 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 …
Politico:
How Biden's Covid bubble popped  —  Welcome to POLITICO's 2020 Transition Playbook, your guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history.  —  No bubble is impenetrable.  —  That's what the Biden team learned this week when Rep. CEDRIC RICHMOND (D-La.) …
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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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader says he burned Black Lives Matter banner stolen from church during demonstrations in D.C.  —  The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, said he participated in the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner that had been ripped from the facade of a historic Black church during unrest …
Discussion: USA Today
Melissa Mackenzie / The American Spectator:
Blue Dress Proof  —  What it takes to get the media to believe a Democrat did wrong.  —  Bill Clinton artwork found at Jeffrey Epstein's home (Etsy screenshot)  —  For a damaging story about a Democrat to be true, DNA must be found on a blue dress.  There must be Blue Dress Proof™.
Discussion: Instapundit
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Fauci, NIH yet to get Covid vaccine despite role developing it  —  Federal and state officials have yet to allocate a single shipment of Covid-19 vaccine to the National Institutes for Health, despite the agency — and its leading infectious disease researcher Anthony Fauci …
Discussion: ABC News
Ken Gormley / Washington Post:
If Trump pardons himself, Biden should un-pardon him  —  Ken Gormley is an expert on the Constitution, the presidency and the pardon power.  He is president of Duquesne University.  —  If President Trump makes the ill-advised decision to try to pardon himself before he leaves the White House in January …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Could Rudy Giuliani Face a Perjury Charge?  —  The president's lawyer swore to tell the truth, but...  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Was It Worth It?  —  People who work for President Donald Trump typically meet one of two fates.  They fail to show the unthinking loyalty he demands and get fired.  Or, maybe worse, they don't get fired—they endure the tantrums and turmoil and survive another day, binding themselves …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and The Bulwark
Noreen Malone / Slate:
How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America's Most Elite Suburbs Apart  —  It was mid-August.  The playgrounds of Brookline, Massachusetts, had finally reopened, and so the news spread fast.  Sharon Abramowitz had resigned from the school committee.
 
 
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Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
Pentagon Erred in Relief Loan to Firm, Oversight Member Says
Discussion: The Hill
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Warren re-ups bill to ban stock trading by lawmakers
Discussion: Business Insider
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Takes Additional Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for Second COVID-19 Vaccine
Jose Del Real / Washington Post:
‘Latinx’ hasn't even caught on among Latinos. It never will.
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
A viral 4chan hoax about Chief Justice John Roberts tricked a presidential elector and pro-Trump media
Discussion: Off the Kuff, YouGov and The Dispatch
Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post:
US senator blocks bill giving Hongkongers special refugee status
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
From BuzzFeed to Axios, Digital Media Players Prepare for Deal Frenzy
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Eoin Higgins / The Appeal:
Bodycam Video Shows ‘Mob Mentality’ Of Boston Police Who Responded To George Floyd Protests, Lawyer Says
Discussion: NBC Boston
Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed News:
The Couple Accused Of Trying To Kidnap A Mom Influencer's Kids Have Been Completely Cleared By Police
Discussion: Raw Story and Jezebel
The American Mind:
“Anti-Racist” Education Is Neither
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Biden to receive coronavirus vaccine in public on Monday
 

 
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Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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