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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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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 …
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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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.
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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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 …
Discussion: The Week and Unfogged
Emily Czachor / Newsweek:
Trump Shares Video Suggesting COVID Pandemic Created to Make Him Look Bad, Lose 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
Discussion: The Federalist
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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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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 …
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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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
What's in the $900 billion coronavirus relief plan: Stimulus checks, unemployment aid and more
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.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Barr Points Finger at Russia for SolarWinds Hack  —  Attorney general joins officials' consensus on Moscow's responsibility  —  WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr said he believed Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack that compromised at least a half dozen federal agencies …
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Wall Street Journal:
Solarwinds Hack Victims: From Tech Companies to a Hospital and University
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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Washington Post:
The Washington Post announces newsroom expansion including new foreign bureaus, breaking news hubs in Europe and Asia  —  The Washington Post will take new steps in 2021 to become a more global newsroom by creating breaking-news hubs in Europe and Asia.  These operations will be staffed …
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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: Los Angeles Times, TheBlaze, NPR and UPI
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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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Laura Poitras / New York Times:
Journalism Is Not a Crime  —  The Justice Department is setting a dangerous precedent that threatens reporters — and the truth.
Mike Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
No More Generals Atop the Pentagon
Discussion: Defense One
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Health Care Workers Still Face Daunting Shortages of Masks and Other P.P.E.
Robert Knight / Washington Times:
Ruling elites continue cultural cleansing rampage and not even Honest Abe is safe
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Judges File Age Discrimination Lawsuits
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Associated Press:
Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
She Called Police Over a Neo-Nazi Threat. But the Neo-Nazis Were Inside the Police.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats
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New York Times:
Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions. Congress Is Finally Set to Ban Most of Them.
Discussion: Vox and The Hill
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters disappear in Georgia with Senate on the line
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Prince Harry's phone-hacking lawsuit against News Group Newspaper will go to trial in January 2026, with the parties' legal costs set to exceed £38M

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI
 
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