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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 …
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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CNN:
Some White House advisers fear Trump's final days  —  Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of martial law  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has turned to a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the results of the election, creating a dire situation …
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr Sees ‘No Reason’ for Special Counsels for Hunter Biden or the Election
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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The White House:
Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  Societies have long recognized the importance of beautiful public architecture.
Statesman Journal:
Pepper spray and pepper balls used by protesters and police at Oregon Capitol  —  Claire Withycombe Virginia BarredaSalem Statesman Journal  —  Monday's special session at the Oregon Capitol was slightly disrupted as protestors - who appeared to oppose policies closing certain businesses …
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Lauren Dake / opb:
Far-right protesters disrupt Oregon Legislature special session
Discussion: The Hill
The Daily Beast:
Heavily Armed Far-Right Mob Floods Oregon Capitol
Discussion: The Sun
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Intellectualist
Brittany De Lea / Fox News:
Ilhan Omar slams lawmakers including AOC for getting coronavirus vaccines ahead of elderly, frontline workers  —  Some members of Congress have publicly received the vaccine as a means to shore up public confidence in the effort  —  Should lawmakers get vaccine priority over health care workers?
Discussion: Politico and Townhall
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Politico:
Fauci to get Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Americans will get stimulus checks as soon as next week, Mnuchin says
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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Steve Phillips / The Nation:
Centrist Dems Are Wrong About November's Losses  —  It wasn't because voters were turned off by leftist sloganeering but because Dems failed to inspire their own base—and the data prove it.  —  Too many congressional Democrats are making a potentially fatal political miscalculation …
Discussion: WBUR
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
West Point catches more than 70 cadets cheating, worst academic scandal in 50 years  —  WASHINGTON - More than 70 cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point have been accused of cheating on a math exam, the worst academic scandal since the 1970s at the Army's premier training ground for officers, USA TODAY has learned.
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Lou Dobbs Debunks Himself  —  Fox was forced to issue a correction.  The New York Times did so willingly.  —  Two news organizations issued corrections recently.  One was the New York Times.  The other was Fox Business.  One concerned an honest mistake.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
Living With Karens A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors.  Six months later, they still share a property line.  —  When it came time to relocate from near D.C. to the New York tristate area, Fareed Hayat thought, I'm certainly going to Brooklyn.  It was the summer of 2017.
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 …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference  —  On the afternoon of November 13, Mike Siravo was standing outside his family's landscaping business in Northeast Philadelphia, dressed in khakis and a company polo shirt, watching as strangers pulled up in nice cars …
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.
Tyler Van Dyke / Washington Examiner:
White House testing chief: COVID-19 vaccines effective 'against any variant that we've seen'  —  White House coronavirus testing chief Adm. Brett Giroir said the coronavirus vaccines rolling out in the United States are effective against “any variant we've seen,” including …
Discussion: CNN, Scotsman and The Daily Caller
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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 …
Discussion: UPI and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
 
 
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Washington Post:
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Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Adds New Members to His White House Economic Team
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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

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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