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CNN:
Some White House advisers fear Trump's final days — Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of martial law — (CNN)President Donald Trump has turned to a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the results of the election, creating a dire situation …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Undercutting Trump, Barr says there's no basis for seizing voting machines, using special counsels for election fraud, Hunter Biden — Outgoing Attorney General William P. Barr said Monday he saw no basis for the federal government seizing voting machines and that he did not intend to appoint …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr Sees ‘No Reason’ for Special Counsels for Hunter Biden or the Election
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr refutes Trump on Hunter Biden, voting machines, Russia hack
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bellingcat:
“If it Hadn't Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny — Bellingcat and its partners reported that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) was implicated in the near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning of Alexey Navalny on 20 August 2020.
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CNN:
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned — Watch Clarissa Ward and the latest on the revelations about Navalny's poisoning and its aftermath, on Anderson Cooper 360˚ tonight on CNN at 8 ET. — Moscow (CNN)A Russian agent sent …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference — On the afternoon of November 13, Mike Siravo was standing outside his family's landscaping business in Northeast Philadelphia, dressed in khakis and a company polo shirt, watching as strangers pulled up in nice cars …
The Daily Beast:
Heavily Armed Far-Right Mob Floods Oregon Capitol — The crowd was a loose collection of members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and others far-right groups, many of them are armed with pistols and rifles. It got ugly fast. — SALEM, Or.—A group of about 300 demonstrators attempted …
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Lauren Dake / opb:
Far-right protesters disrupt Oregon Legislature special session — A special legislative session at the Oregon Capitol got off to a chaotic start on Monday with far-right protesters storming the statehouse while calling on lawmakers and the governor to reopen the state economy and end the restrictions aimed at curbing the coronavirus.
Statesman Journal:
Pepper spray and pepper balls used by protesters and police at Oregon Capitol — Claire Withycombe Virginia BarredaSalem Statesman Journal — Monday's special session at the Oregon Capitol was slightly disrupted as protestors - who appeared to oppose policies closing certain businesses …
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Washington Post:
Millions of Christmas presents may arrive late because of USPS package delays — Unprecedented package volume has paralyzed the agency, leading managers to divert vast shipments of mail across the country — Competing crises are slamming the U.S. Postal Service just days before Christmas …
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Sets ‘Beautiful’ as the New Standard for Federal Buildings — Executive action makes classical style default in Washington — Order stops short of fully banning modernist architecture — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday making classical architecture …
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Trump administration weighing legal immunity for Saudi crown prince accused in assassination plot — The U.S. government is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit accusing him of targeting for assassination a former top intelligence officer …
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
West Point catches more than 70 cadets cheating, worst academic scandal in 50 years — WASHINGTON - More than 70 cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point have been accused of cheating on a math exam, the worst academic scandal since the 1970s at the Army's premier training ground for officers, USA TODAY has learned.
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Engaging With Trump's Die-Hard Supporters Isn't Productive — President-elect Joe Biden made national unity a centerpiece of his campaign, and no patriotic American who wants to repair the damage of the Donald Trump years can argue with such a noble call. The election is over …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP whitewashing of the Trump stain has quietly begun
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony — Congress looks to provide relief to U.S. citizens and small businesses, but the omnibus bill includes some legislative priorities for the entertainment industry as well. — Providing relief via direct assistance and loans …
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Newsmax:
Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know — Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S.
Scott Jennings / Courier-Journal:
Will McConnell and Biden friendship mean a calmer, more functional Washington? — “Well, first of all, I am going to treat him a hell of a lot better than Chuck Schumer ever treated Donald Trump.” — My chat with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came last week …
Zach Everson / 1100 Pennsylvania:
Hundreds partied at Mar-a-Lago with Turning Point — President profited as sold out, $2,000/person reception and dinner flouting COVID guidance — Turning Point USA held a sold-out $2,000/person gala at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night. Based on photos posted to Instagram …
New York Times:
Where Immigrant Neighborhoods Swung Right in the Election — Across the United States, many areas with large populations of Latinos and residents of Asian descent, including ones with the highest numbers of immigrants, had something in common this election: a surge in turnout and a shift to the right, often a sizable one.
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Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
Living With Karens A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors. Six months later, they still share a property line. — When it came time to relocate from near D.C. to the New York tristate area, Fareed Hayat thought, I'm certainly going to Brooklyn. It was the summer of 2017.
Steve Phillips / The Nation:
Centrist Dems Are Wrong About November's Losses — It wasn't because voters were turned off by leftist sloganeering but because Dems failed to inspire their own base—and the data prove it. — Too many congressional Democrats are making a potentially fatal political miscalculation …
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Brittany De Lea / Fox News:
Ilhan Omar slams lawmakers including AOC for getting coronavirus vaccines ahead of elderly, frontline workers — Some members of Congress have publicly received the vaccine as a means to shore up public confidence in the effort — Should lawmakers get vaccine priority over health care workers?
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Politico, The Hill, New York Post and Townhall
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol — A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight. — The statue has stood with one of America's first president, George Washington, as the state of Virginia's contribution to the National Statuary Hall Collection …
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Virginia Governor / Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:
Virginia Removes Confederate Statue from U.S. Capitol
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats see grim prospects in final election results despite Biden's win — Voters in the once Democratic Ohio county that surrounds the shuttered Lordstown General Motors plant delivered a decisive victory last month to the sitting president who had promised and failed to save their jobs.
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Washington Post:
Why Americans are numb to the staggering coronavirus death toll — Death is everywhere and yet nowhere in America during the worst stretch of the pandemic — When Todd Klindt buried his dad, he was stunned. Some of the mourners arrived not wearing masks — for the funeral of a man killed by the coronavirus.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name — The president has been asking aides and advisers what the process is for getting an airport named after him—another sign his mind is drifting to a post-presidency. — In the dying days of his presidency, Donald Trump has taken …
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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
‘Only 1 in Stock!’ The Mystery of a Stolen Stradivarius Takes a Twist — The ‘Lamoureux-Zimbalist’ violin, worth millions, went missing in 1962, leading the FBI on a chase that went from New Jersey to Japan to a dark-web user in Norway — When violinist David Sarser got a last-minute call on Aug. 16 …
Washington Post:
‘A real mess’: Trump is leaving behind crises and undermining Biden before he takes office — When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office on Jan. 20, the list of crises he will face includes a massive cyber intrusion, a still-raging global pandemic, a slowing economic recovery …
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Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo:
Rest In Peace, Facebook Ads Boycott (2020—2020) — This past summer, dozens of major brands pulled their ad dollars from Facebook in a protest of the company's handling of the hate speech and disinformation. Apparently the company has done enough to win back one of its biggest fish …
Kayla Tausche / CNBC:
White House task force kept airport Covid screeners in place despite known risk of infection, sources say — In the early days of the Covid pandemic, hundreds of federal employees were made to screen airplane passengers for signs of infection. — In interviews with dozens of federal employees …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Appeals court rejects Georgia absentee ballot signature lawsuit — The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Republican Party effort to reject more absentee ballots in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs by changing how election officials check absentee ballot signatures.
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Meduza.io:
Billionaire Oleg Deripaska calls for criminalizing the incitement of sanctions against Russia — In a statement published in Telegram, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has suggested introducing criminal liability for people who incite sanctions against Russian citizens and companies.
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