“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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

'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.

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …