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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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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and The Daily Beast
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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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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Defense One, HotAir, Mediaite and Alternet.org
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media — Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams. — Antonio Mugica was in Boca Raton when an American presidential election really melted down in 2000 …
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The Bulwark, Business Insider, Alternet.org, Twitchy, Washington Examiner and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Virginia Governor / Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:
Virginia Removes Confederate Statue from U.S. Capitol — Commission recently selected civil rights icon Barbara Johns to represent the Commonwealth with new statue — WASHINGTON, D.C.—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that Virginia's statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee …
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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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Blue Virginia
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
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Fox News and Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results — WASHINGTON (AP) — Undeterred by dismissals and admonitions from judges, President Donald Trump's campaign continued with its unprecedented efforts to overturn the results of the Nov 3. election Sunday, saying it had filed a new petition with the Supreme Court.
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American Greatness, The Philadelphia Inquirer, HotAir, Townhall, Business Insider, UPI, Washington Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes and Washington Examiner
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court
Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court
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Donald J. Trump for President, National Review, Israpundit, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republicans desperate to avoid floor fight over Electoral College vote
Republicans desperate to avoid floor fight over Electoral College vote
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Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, New York Post and CNN
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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Alternet.org, CNN, Washington Post, Byline Times, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, Vox, Patterico's Pontifications and IJR
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs
Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs
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The Guardian, CNN, The American Independent and Morning Consult
Stephanie Clifford / Elle:
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro — Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world? — Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn's federal court …
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The Wrap, The Guardian, Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Jezebel, Law & Crime, New York Post and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House secures ‘three martini lunch’ tax deduction in draft of coronavirus relief package — President Trump has long seized on the tax break as a way to revive the restaurant industry. But economists have panned it as ineffective and largely benefitting the wealthy.
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Reason, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Intellectualist and Mother Jones
Erica Newland / New York Times:
'I'm Haunted by What I Did' as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department — No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future. — Ms. Newland worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department from 2016-18.
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Alternet.org
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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Washington Post, Reuters and Alternet.org
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Emily Czachor / Newsweek:
Trump Shares Video Suggesting COVID Pandemic Created to Make Him Look Bad, Lose Election
Trump Shares Video Suggesting COVID Pandemic Created to Make Him Look Bad, Lose Election
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The American Independent and Alternet.org
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Congress Strikes Long-Sought Stimulus Deal to Provide $900 Billion in Aid — Democrats and Republicans said they had an agreement on another round of pandemic aid, including direct payments to Americans, jobless benefits and funds for businesses and vaccine distribution.
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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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Pirate's Cove, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, RedState, Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, California Healthline, Hír TV - rovat and Mother Jones
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Adds New Members to His White House Economic Team — President-elect hires David Kamin, a former Obama administration budget official, and Bharat Ramamurti, a longtime aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren — WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden is rounding out his economic team …
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Bloomberg, Politico and The Daily Caller
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 …
Donald Trump Jr / Fox News:
Vote Loeffler and Perdue - Georgia, here's what's at stake in Jan. 5 runoff elections — The fate of our country is in your hands, Georgia. — Georgia voters ‘will do the right thing’ and reelect Loeffler, Perdue to Senate: Rep.-elect Owens — The fate of our country is in your hands, Georgia.
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USA Today
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Former Senior Libyan Intelligence Officer and Bomb-Maker for the Muamar Qaddafi Regime Charged for The December 21, 1988 Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 — Today, Attorney General William Barr, Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
She Called Police Over a Neo-Nazi Threat. But the Neo-Nazis Were Inside the Police. — Death threats linked to police computers and the discovery of far-right chat groups in police departments across Germany have fed concerns about far-right infiltration.
Washington Post:
More than 1.3 million Georgians have already voted in the Senate runoffs, rivaling general election turnout — ATLANTA — More than 1.3 million Georgians have already voted in two Senate runoffs taking place next month — a number that rivals the turnout at this point in the November election …
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Political IQ, Forbes, HotAir and The Daily Caller
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo: UK's COVID-19 mutation ‘is on a plane to JFK’ without testing — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday called it “reprehensible” and “grossly negligent” to allow UK travelers to fly into JFK Airport without being tested despite a contagious new mutation of the coronavirus shutting down London.
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Business Insider, Washington Times, Sky News, ABC News and Politico
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats — The two parties have traded voters—whether the old political class likes it or not. — In 2013 my beloved Denver Nuggets traded Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks for Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov …
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
House panel subpoenas for Azar, Redfield CDC documents — Top Trump administration health officials were subpoenaed by House Democrats on Monday, after an investigation showed “extensive” political interference with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Wall Street Journal, Politico, Associated Press, Florida Politics and Political Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters disappear in Georgia with Senate on the line — Something's missing from Georgia's high-stakes Senate runoffs: the polls. — After a disastrous November election for the polling industry, when the polls again underestimated President Donald Trump (who lost regardless) …
Robert Knight / Washington Times:
Ruling elites continue cultural cleansing rampage and not even Honest Abe is safe — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing. — Not even Honest Abe is safe. — In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid …
Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy:
China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe … Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence …
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National Review and Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, more at Techmeme »