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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, Alternet.org, Twitchy 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, New York Post and The Daily Beast, 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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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
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, Lawyers, Guns & Money 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
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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Associated Press:
Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results
Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results
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American Greatness, HotAir, Business Insider, Washington Times, Bloomberg and Reuters
Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign taking Constitutional fight to Supreme Court
Trump Campaign taking Constitutional fight to Supreme Court
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UPI and Just The News
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Shirley Abrahamson, longest-serving member of Wisconsin Supreme Court, dies at 87
Shirley Abrahamson, longest-serving member of Wisconsin Supreme Court, dies at 87
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Wisconsin Right Now
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
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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The American Independent, CNN and Alternet.org
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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 and Washington Examiner
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, The Signorile Report, New York Post, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Space.com, New York Daily News, KUSI-TV, Fox News, The Hill, Variety, Forbes, Vox and The Mahablog, more at Techmeme »
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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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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, RedState, California Healthline, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald and Hír TV - rovat
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, Bulwark+, CBS Miami and Morning Consult
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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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 and The Daily Caller
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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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, Twitchy, ABC News and Politico
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Politico:
Inside Trump's pressure campaign to overturn the election — It started with a phone call. — In mid-November, President Donald Trump rang Monica Palmer, the Republican chair of an obscure board in Michigan that had just declared Joe Biden winner of the state's most populous county.
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Newsmax, Georgia Recorder, CNN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Roll Call, The Bulwark and Crooks and Liars
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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Buttermilk Sky
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.
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 …