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12:30 PM ET, December 21, 2020

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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 …
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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 …
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
Discussion: Unfogged
Emily Czachor / Newsweek:
Trump Shares Video Suggesting COVID Pandemic Created to Make Him Look Bad, Lose Election
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
Discussion: USA Today
New York Times:
Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions. Congress Is Finally Set to Ban Most of Them.
Discussion: The Hill
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Congress Strikes Long-Sought Stimulus Deal to Provide $900 Billion in Aid
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 …
Discussion: CNN, NPR, Axios, WSPA-TV, New York Post, IJR and Forbes
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
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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Associated Press:
Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Undeterred by dismissals and admonitions from judges, President Donald Trump's campaign continued with its unprecedented efforts to overturn the results of the Nov 3. election Sunday, saying it had filed a new petition with the Supreme Court.
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 …
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 …
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: UPI and NPR
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Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
For Attorney General William Barr, New Lockerbie Charges Punctuate a Decadeslong Mission
Discussion: Axios and USA Today
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Alternet.org
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Media Matters for America and UPI
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 …
Washington Post:
More than 1.3 million Georgians have already voted in the Senate runoffs, rivaling general election turnout  —  ATLANTA — More than 1.3 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 …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
She Called Police Over a Neo-Nazi Threat.  But the Neo-Nazis Were Inside the Police.  —  Death threats linked to police computers and the discovery of far-right chat groups in police departments across Germany have fed concerns about far-right infiltration.
 
 
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Mike Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
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Associated Press:
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Discussion: Politico
Politico:
Amid a crisis like 'we've never seen,' Biden drives to fill Cabinet
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters disappear in Georgia with Senate on the line
Discussion: CNN and NPR
Washington Post:
Ex-cop hits truck thinking it held 750,000 fraudulent ballots, police say. It held air conditioning parts.
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