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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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Business Insider, Meduza.io, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Politico, National Review 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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New York Post, The Week, Defense One, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Balloon Juice, Alternet.org, Bloomberg, HotAir, Mediaite and Mock Paper Scissors
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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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr refutes Trump on Hunter Biden, voting machines, Russia hack — Attorney General Bill Barr told reporters Monday that he sees no reason to name a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, there is no basis for the federal government to seize voting machines, and that he agrees …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Associated Press, The Week, The Moderate Voice, Law & Crime and Townhall
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Barr says Russia appears to be behind massive hack
Barr says Russia appears to be behind massive hack
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AFP, Bloomberg, CNN, The Daily Caller and The Week
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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HotAir, The Week, National Review, TVNewser, Alternet.org, Business Insider, Twitchy, Washington Examiner and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Newsmax:
Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know — Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S.
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The Hill, The Daily Beast and Forbes, more at Mediagazer »
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Lou Dobbs Debunks Himself
Lou Dobbs Debunks Himself
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Talking Points Memo, TVNewser and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
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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Reuters, Associated Press, The Wrap, Patterico's Pontifications and Bulwark+
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP whitewashing of the Trump stain has quietly begun — Listen closely, and you can already discern how leading Republicans will attempt to expunge the massive black stain of Trumpism from their party. — Prepare for a set of rhetorical tricks. Republicans will portray President …
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Unfogged
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 Intellectualist and The American Independent
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 …
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Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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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 …
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CBS News, Associated Press, The Root, CNN, Sara A. Carter, WSPA-TV, IJR, Forbes, NPR, New York Post and Axios
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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
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Removal of Robert E. Lee Statue from the U.S. Capitol
Pelosi Statement on Removal of Robert E. Lee Statue from the U.S. Capitol
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Business Insider and Crooks and Liars
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
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National Review, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Roll Call, Fox News, Hackwhackers and alicublog
Washington Post:
Trump administration weighing legal immunity for Saudi crown prince accused in assassination plot — The U.S. government is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit accusing him of targeting for assassination a former top intelligence officer …
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The Intellectualist
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 …
New York Times:
Where Immigrant Neighborhoods Swung Right in the Election — Across the United States, many areas with large populations of Latinos and residents of Asian descent, including ones with the highest numbers of immigrants, had something in common this election: a surge in turnout and a shift to the right, often a sizable one.
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Mother Jones
Zach Everson / 1100 Pennsylvania:
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 …
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Washington Examiner, Media Matters for America and UPI
Kai Kupferschmidt / Science:
Mutant coronavirus in the United Kingdom sets off alarms, but its importance remains unclear — Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. — On 8 December, during a regular Tuesday meeting about the spread of the pandemic coronavirus …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Appeals court rejects Georgia absentee ballot signature lawsuit — The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Republican Party effort to reject more absentee ballots in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs by changing how election officials check absentee ballot signatures.
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Talking Points Memo and POLITICUSUSA
Tovah Lazaroff / Jerusalem Post:
US Embassy courtyard named in Jared Kushner's honor — Kushner, along with a visiting US delegation stopped in the embassy in the afternoon for a small ceremony with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. — The courtyard of the US Embassy in Jerusalem was named Monday in honor …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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
Vote Loeffler and Perdue - Georgia, here's what's at stake in Jan. 5 runoff elections
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Orange County Register and USA Today
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 …
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Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, CNN and New York Post
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 …
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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Boston Herald, Pirate's Cove, Bloomberg, RedState, Los Angeles Times, Hír TV - rovat and Mother Jones
LD Wilder / Wilder Visions:
The Rule of Law & Due Process in Virginia — Why would a former Governor not afford the current Lt. Governor the time-honored jurisprudistic tenet of innocence until PROVEN guilty? — Terry McAuliffe endlessly touts as his main accomplishment the restoration of voting rights.
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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Digby's Hullabaloo, IJR, Law & Crime, Alternet.org and Mediaite
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 …
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
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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NBC News, Washington Post, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, CANNONFIRE, The Guardian and Morning Consult
Washington Post:
More than 1.4 million Georgians have already voted in the Senate runoffs, rivaling general election turnout — ATLANTA — More than 1.4 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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Fox News, Political IQ, Forbes, HotAir and The Daily Caller