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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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support — Lawmakers voted to meet a Trump demand that nearly upended the massive spending-and-stimulus bill. Senate action is uncertain. — The House on Monday voted to beef up stimulus checks set to go out to American households …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
House backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000
House backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
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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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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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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election — Republican-leaning pollster Rasmussen invoked a quote attributed to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a Twitter thread Sunday suggesting Vice President Pence could attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election. — “Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat
Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
House Republican sues Pence in last-ditch bid to overturn election results
House Republican sues Pence in last-ditch bid to overturn election results
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Washington Post:
A day on the golf course helped change Trump's mind on the stimulus bill — The frantic campaign to persuade President Trump to sign a massive spending and coronavirus relief bill came to a head on Christmas Day, on the greens and fairways of West Palm Beach, Fla.
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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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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Alleges Trump Administration Obstructing National Security Transition
Joe Biden Alleges Trump Administration Obstructing National Security Transition
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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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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
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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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Warnock, Ossoff appeal to young voters at hip-hop focused DeKalb rally — Do the names J.I.D., Tokyo Jetz, Shelley FKA DRAM and BRS Kash ring a bell? If not, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock's latest campaign event wasn't for you.These hip hop artists performed at Monday's drive-in rally …
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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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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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Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
We Have to Let Teenagers Make Mistakes and Grow
We Have to Let Teenagers Make Mistakes and Grow
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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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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.
Heidi Siegmund Cuda / Byline Times:
How a Crisis in Masculinity Paved the Way for Fascism — Heidi Siegmund Cuda speaks to the historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about the new global rise in authoritarianism and why the recent defeat of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election was so significant — Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat's latest book …
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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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
WWLP-TV:
Arson & Bomb Squad, ATF, FBI investigating fire at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Presbyterian Church — SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Firefighters in Springfield worked through the morning hours Monday to put out a fire at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in the city's Mason Square area.
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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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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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