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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, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, HotAir, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice, Alternet.org, 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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The Week, National Review, TVNewser, Alternet.org, Business Insider, Twitchy, Washington Examiner and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Lou Dobbs Debunks Himself
Lou Dobbs Debunks Himself
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and TVNewser, 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 and Patterico's Pontifications
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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, NPR, IJR, Forbes, 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, Hackwhackers, Fox News 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 …
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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ABC News, Business Insider, KNSD-TV, New York Post, Al Jazeera, POLITICUSUSA, Alternet.org, IJR and UPI
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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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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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Politico, RedState, Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, CNN and New York Post
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 …
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Bulwark+
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