“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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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?

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

‘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 …

A requiem for the Twitter presidency  —  How Trump blurred the lines between politics and persona in ways that will reverberate for years.  —  The first American social media presidency came to something of an end last month, not when the votes rolled in but when Twitter flagged six of President Trump's tweets in less than 24 hours.

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 …