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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Is Marriage Becoming Irrelevant?  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are less inclined now than in recent years to see marriage as critical for couples who have children together or for couples who plan to spend the rest of their lives together.  Most U.S. adults have been married at some point in their lives …

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 …

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 …

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.

2020 Was the Year Reaganism Died  —  The government promised to help — and it did.  —  Maybe it was the visuals that did it.  It's hard to know what aspects of reality make it into Donald Trump's ever-shrinking bubble — and I'm happy to say that after Jan. 20 we won't have to care …

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 …

‘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.

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 …

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 …

How Joe Biden risks the biggest giveaway ever to China in space  —  People on the NASA transition team of Joe Biden are urging the United States to start what could be the biggest transfer of technology to China.  The giveaway could result in the Chinese military dominating space and, with it, world affairs.