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“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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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, New York Post, Defense One, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice, HotAir, Mediaite, Alternet.org 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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Fox News, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Forbes, Law & Crime and Townhall
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs
Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs
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NBC News, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Guardian and Morning Consult
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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National Review, TVNewser, Business Insider, Alternet.org, Twitchy, Washington Examiner and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and USA Today, 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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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 American Independent
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
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
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Blue Virginia
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol
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Fox News, Roll Call, Washington Examiner, National Review and Hackwhackers
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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Political Wire
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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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
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:
Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions. Congress Is Finally Set to Ban Most of Them.
Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions. Congress Is Finally Set to Ban Most of Them.
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 …
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 …
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The Sun, New York Post, Gothamist, The Wrap, The Guardian, Mediaite, Jezebel, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Law & Crime and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Justice Dept. charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion — The Justice Department has unsealed charges against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — ABCNews.com
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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
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
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
For Attorney General William Barr, New Lockerbie Charges Punctuate a Decadeslong Mission
For Attorney General William Barr, New Lockerbie Charges Punctuate a Decadeslong Mission
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CBS News, Axios, Al Jazeera, New York Post and USA Today
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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Politico, Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House secures ‘three martini lunch’ tax deduction in draft of coronavirus relief package — President Trump has long seized on the tax break as a way to revive the restaurant industry. But economists have panned it as ineffective and largely benefitting the wealthy.
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National Review, Bloomberg, Reason, The Intellectualist, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mother Jones
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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Law & Crime, Mediaite and Alternet.org
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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The Daily Beast, Pirate's Cove, RedState, Boston Herald, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Hír TV - rovat and Mother Jones
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.
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