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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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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 …
Discussion: CNN, NPR, Axios, WSPA-TV, New York Post, Forbes and IJR
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republicans desperate to avoid floor fight over Electoral College vote  —  National Republicans are desperate to avoid a floor fight in Congress over the certification of the Electoral College vote next month, believing it would be horrible politics to continue waging what most recognize …
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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Emily Czachor / Newsweek:
Trump Shares Video Suggesting COVID Pandemic Created to Make Him Look Bad, Lose Election
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 …
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 …
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Americans will get stimulus checks as soon as next week, Mnuchin says  — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Americans could see stimulus checks hit their bank accounts in a matter of days.  — Mnuchin's comments came hours before Congress is expected to pass a new, $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill.
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Donald Trump Jr / Fox News:
Vote Loeffler and Perdue - Georgia, here's what's at stake in Jan. 5 runoff elections
Discussion: USA Today
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Congress Strikes Long-Sought Stimulus Deal to Provide $900 Billion in Aid
New York Times:
Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions. Congress Is Finally Set to Ban Most of Them.
Discussion: The Hill
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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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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Alternet.org
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: UPI and NPR
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 …
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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Reuters:   Canada halts passenger flights from UK for 72 hours due to new virus strain
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Bulwark+
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) …
Discussion: CNN and NPR
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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Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
Solarwinds Hack Victims: From Tech Companies to a Hospital and University
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Judges File Age Discrimination Lawsuits
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Progressives look for reset after disappointing year
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Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Personality, Not Policy, Will Determine Top House Armed Services Republican
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Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Big Tech's stealth push to influence the Biden administration
Associated Press:
Trump's legacy: He changed the presidency, but will it last?
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
Amid a crisis like 'we've never seen,' Biden drives to fill Cabinet
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Shirley Abrahamson, longest-serving member of Wisconsin Supreme Court, dies at 87
Discussion: Wisconsin Right Now
Washington Post:
Ex-cop hits truck thinking it held 750,000 fraudulent ballots, police say. It held air conditioning parts.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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