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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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The Daily Beast and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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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, HotAir 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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Business Insider, The Bulwark, Twitchy, Alternet.org, Washington Examiner and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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 and New York Post, 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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Business Insider, Reason and Mother Jones
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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol — The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee inside the U.S. Capitol was removed from the building's crypt Monday morning and will be relocated to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. — The removal was conducted by staff from the Architect …
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Fox News and Washington Examiner
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
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Blue Virginia
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
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court — President Trump still refuses to concede the outcome and continues to promote allegations that there was massive voter fraud. — Trump still rips ‘stolen’ election — President Trump's campaign team …
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National Review, Israpundit, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Election Law Blog and Political Wire
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Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign independently filing with Supreme Court over election results
Trump campaign independently filing with Supreme Court over election results
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Townhall, New York Post, Law & Crime and Forbes
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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New York Magazine, CNBC, AFP, New York Post, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Space.com, New York Daily News, Associated Press, The Hill, Fox News, Variety, Forbes, Vox and The Mahablog, more at Techmeme »
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs — The Normalizing Olympics … In a West Wing meeting that would seem more fitting for a nation with a long history of authoritarian rule, Trump recently met with deranged, conspiracy-peddling advisers and discussed the possibility …
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CNN, Byline Times and Alternet.org
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name
Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name
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CNN and Washington Post
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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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, RedState, New York Times, California Healthline, Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald and Hír TV - rovat
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) …
Fuzzy Slippers / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Tables Turned: Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From ‘all New York City establishments’ — “He can dine at Gracie Mansion if he wants hospitality in Manhattan. He ain't getting it here!” — It probably goes without saying at this point that Democrat governors have overreached in their response to the Wuhan coronavirus.
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New York Post and RedState
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Engaging With Trump's Die-Hard Supporters Isn't Productive — The loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories should be deprived of the attention they seek. — Author of The Death of Expertise — President-elect Joe Biden made national unity a centerpiece of his campaign …
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Reuters, Alternet.org, CBS Miami and Morning Consult
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, NBC New York, Washington Times, Sky News, Twitchy and ABC News
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Politico:
Amid a crisis like 'we've never seen,' Biden drives to fill Cabinet — It was April of 2009 when then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius received a phone call from the Obama White House. A plane was on its way to bring her to Washington to be sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary.
Washington Post:
Ex-cop hits truck thinking it held 750,000 fraudulent ballots, police say. It held air conditioning parts. — David Lopez-Zuniga, an air-conditioner installer, had just left his mobile home for his typical predawn commute when he noticed an SUV's headlights closely trailing his small cargo truck.
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Biden to get coronavirus vaccine; Harris, Ivanka Trump to campaign in Georgia for Senate candidates — President-elect Joe Biden and future first lady Jill Biden will receive the coronavirus vaccine in public Monday in an effort to show the nation the safety of the vaccine.
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Big Tech's stealth push to influence the Biden administration — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known but still vital parts of president-elect Joe Biden's administration, even as the pushback against Big Tech …
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 …
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
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Judges File Age Discrimination Lawsuits — Dozens of judges are being forced to retire to close a pandemic budget gap. They have sued New York State, charging age discrimination. — It was last March 11: the day President Trump shut down travel from Europe and Tom Hanks announced he had coronavirus.