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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Bernie Sanders to delay defense veto override in bid for $2,000 checks — Sen. Bernie Sanders will filibuster an override of President Donald Trump's defense bill veto unless the Senate holds a vote on providing $2,000 direct payments to Americans. — “McConnell and the Senate want to expedite …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
House Votes to Override Trump's Veto of Military Bill — Republicans joined with Democrats to hand President Trump a rare legislative rebuke in the final days of his presidency. The bill will next be taken up by the Senate, where it is expected to pass. — WASHINGTON — The House voted …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
House backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000 — The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill Monday evening to increase direct coronavirus relief payments to some people to $2,000, though the measure faces an uphill battle in the Republican-run Senate …
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Axios:
House votes to override Trump's veto of defense spending bill
House votes to override Trump's veto of defense spending bill
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Reuters, Politico, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support
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New York Times, CBS News, Politico, U.S. Senator for Florida …, WWLP-TV, New York Post, Blue Virginia, Associated Press, Denver Post and The Mahablog
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks is an absolute nightmare for Senate Republicans
Why a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks is an absolute nightmare for Senate Republicans
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
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CNN:
House passes measure to increase stimulus checks to $2,000
House passes measure to increase stimulus checks to $2,000
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Power Line, IJR, UPI, Raw Story and NPR
John Kruzel / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker sues Pence in bid to overturn Biden win — Vice President Pence was sued Sunday by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and several other Republicans in a far-fetched bid that appeared aimed at overturning President-elect Joe Biden's election win. — The lawsuit focuses on Pence's role …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and President Donald Trump's defeated electors from Arizona may force Vice President Mike Pence to publicly pick a side in Trump's bid to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
House Republican sues Pence in last-ditch bid to overturn election results — Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert on Monday sued Vice President Mike Pence in a last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. — Gohmert's federal suit, which anticipates the House …
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Election Law Blog, Law & Crime, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Bloomberg
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election
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Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, SHUGERBLOG and Balloon Juice
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Louie Gohmert, Pack of GOPers Sue Mike Pence in Bid to Force VP to Pick Trump Electors on Jan. 6
Rep. Louie Gohmert, Pack of GOPers Sue Mike Pence in Bid to Force VP to Pick Trump Electors on Jan. 6
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Chinese Citizen Journalist Sentenced to 4 Years for Covid Reporting — Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, is the first known person to be tried for challenging the Chinese government's narrative about the coronavirus pandemic. — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a citizen journalist …
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Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Loujain al-Halthloul, Saudi Rights Activist, Gets Prison Sentence
Loujain al-Halthloul, Saudi Rights Activist, Gets Prison Sentence
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France 24, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Cyprus Mail, KDFX-TV and Associated Press
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
Saudi rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to almost six years in jail
Saudi rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to almost six years in jail
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Breitbart, Associated Press and UPI
Washington Post:
Biden accuses Trump appointees of obstructing transition on national security issues — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday accused President Trump and his political appointees of obstructing the transition of power to his incoming administration, particularly on national security issues …
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Shawna Chen / Axios:
Biden: Transition team “encountered obstruction” from Pentagon
Biden: Transition team “encountered obstruction” from Pentagon
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New York Times, CNBC, Politico and Crooks and Liars
Ben Ashford / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Nashville bomber Anthony Warner ‘targeted AT&T after his father who worked for subsidiary died of dementia - fueling his conspiracy theory that 5G is killing people’ — FBI identified Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, as the Nashville Christmas bomber — Source tells DailyMail.com investigators …
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Camper Recounts Abuse at Warnock Church Camp — Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock: counselors who tossed urine on him and locked him outside his cabin overnight. — Washington, now 30, recounted the events …
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Nicholas Fondacaro / Newsbusters:
Nets Hide Fact Dem Warnock Oversaw Camp that Abused Kids for Years
Nets Hide Fact Dem Warnock Oversaw Camp that Abused Kids for Years
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Robby Soave / Reason:
The New York Times Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur When She Was 15 — Jimmy Galligan is an 18-year-old college freshman from Leesburg, Virginia. He may also be cancel culture's Count of Monte Cristo. — Some months ago, Galligan—who is biracial …
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Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Townhall, The US Sun, Joanne Jacobs and The Sun
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The Times of Israel:
Ivanka Trump said weighing run for US Senate or Florida governor — After president's daughter and husband Jared Kushner buy $31 million mansion in Miami, speculation swirls about her political ambitions — 2,698 shares — The recent purchase of a Florida mansion by Ivanka Trump …
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Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Donald and Melania Trump eye Palm Beach homes near Mar-a-Lago
Donald and Melania Trump eye Palm Beach homes near Mar-a-Lago
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Judge Denies ‘Flight Risk’ Ghislaine Maxwell's Second Attempt to Get Out of Jail Ahead of Jeffrey Epstein-Related Trial — A federal judge denied Ghislaine Maxwell's second bail application on Monday, finding that Jeffrey Epstein's accused accomplice could not be trusted to stay in the United States …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge again denies bail to accused Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
Judge again denies bail to accused Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
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The US Sun and TalkLeft
Agence France-Presse:
Russia admits to world's third-worst Covid-19 death toll … Russia said on Monday that its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities. — For months, the Russian president …
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The Hill, Al Jazeera, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Raw Story and The US Sun
New York Times:
How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor — None of the police officers who raided Breonna Taylor's home wore body cameras, impeding the public from a full understanding of what happened. The Times's visual investigation team built a 3-D model of the scene and pieced together critical sequences …
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Law & Crime
Rachel Handler / Grub Street:
What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. — Part I: The Mystery — Things first began to feel off in March. While this sentiment applies to everything in the known and unknown universe, I mean it specifically in regard to America's supply of dry, store-bought bucatini.
Washington Post:
For D.C. protests, Proud Boys settle in at city's oldest hotel and its bar — Located just five blocks from the White House, the Hotel Harrington is the city's oldest continuously operating hotel and has a long-standing reputation as one of the most affordable in the heart of the District.
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Soumya Karlamangla / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. was uniquely vulnerable to this COVID catastrophe. Here is what went wrong — Los Angeles is careening toward catastrophe. — An explosion of COVID-19 patients has begun to flood hospitals and may soon force doctors to ration care. The number of available beds in intensive care units …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
‘I Regret Nothing’: Doctor Who Criticized Trump Parade Works Last Day At Walter Reed — Dr. James Phillips, the Walter Reed physician who criticized President Trump's decision to greet supporters outside the facility where he was being treated for COVID-19, has worked his last shift at the hospital.
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BuzzFeed News:
We Found The Factories Inside China's Mass Internment Camps — Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks. — Copy … This project was supported by the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism …
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