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New York Post:
The Post says: Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation's — Mr. President, it's time to end this dark charade. — We're one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country. — On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine …
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Washington Post:
Trump signs stimulus and government spending bill into law, averting shutdown — The president had demanded changes to the stimulus bill but on Sunday moved to release the stimulus funds after all — President Trump unexpectedly capitulated Sunday night and signed the stimulus bill into law …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP officials invoked Trump's legacy in pleas to sign coronavirus relief bill — Getting a cranky, stubborn President Trump to belatedly sign the COVID relief bill, after unemployment benefits had already lapsed, was like being a hostage negotiator, or defusing a bomb.
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Axios:
Trump signs COVID relief bill, averting government shutdown — President Trump signed a bill to extend unemployment benefits and avert a government shutdown, the White House said in an emailed statement Sunday evening. — What to watch: While Trump signed the current bill providing …
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Bill After Unemployment Aid Lapses — After calling the measure a “disgrace,” President Trump abruptly signed it, extending expanded unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium, and averting a government shutdown. — WASHINGTON — President Trump …
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Politico:
Trump backs down, signs stimulus package — President Donald Trump signed into law a major coronavirus stimulus package along with an annual spending bill, avoiding a government shutdown before a Monday night deadline. — Trump has railed against the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Signing Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief and Omnibus Funding Bill — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the President signed the bipartisan coronavirus relief and omnibus funding bill: — “The signing of the bipartisan …
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CNN:
Trump signs coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law after lengthy delay
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USA Today:
Trump reverses on coronavirus stimulus deal, signs package he called a ‘disgrace’
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HuffPost:
Trump Begrudgingly Signs COVID-19 Relief Bill, Government Spending, Averting Shutdown
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Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
McConnell praises Trump for signing COVID-19, government funding bills
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump got nothing — DRIVING THE DAY — THAT'S IT? President DONALD TRUMP made all this noise about the Covid relief and government funding bill only to sign it and get nothing in return? — TRUMP got taken to the cleaners. — WHAT A BIZARRE, embarrassing episode for the president.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Political Reckoning — The year 2020 brought extraordinary and unexpected challenges that tested the strength of basic institutions, demanded courage and sacrifice in the face of a raging pandemic, underscored racial and economic inequities, and produced the biggest turnout of voters in the history of U.S. elections.
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Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It's Working. — She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history.
Washington Post:
Authorities identify Anthony Warner as Nashville bomber, say his remains were found in the wreckage — Neighbors describe Warner as a “recluse” with an interest in home security. — Anthony Quinn Warner was responsible for the Christmas morning explosion that rocked downtown Nashville …
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Grant Hodgson / The US Sun:
LONELY XMAS Nashville bomb: Anthony Quinn Warner told woman he gave homes to he ‘intended to spend Christmas in woods with his dogs’
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Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81 — One of the world's foremost experts on Latin, Father Foster was a monk who looked like a stevedore, dressed like a janitor and swore like a sailor. — Reginald Foster, a former plumber's apprentice from Wisconsin who …
Politico:
Meet the GOP freshmen taking on the squad — On the first day of Congress' freshman orientation, four incoming GOP members realized they shared a special connection: All had first- or second-hand experience living in communist or socialist countries. — The crew quipped that their family histories …
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Trump's legacy: An enduring contempt for truth? — PolitiFact, the fact checking site, was in a quandary over its annual “lie of the year” award; there were so many choices. — Instead of the usual one example, the award was given to the package of lies about the novel Coronavirus …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Waiting for Joe Biden: How to make it through the final, awful days of Donald Trump — Marie Antoinette had nothing on Trump, who flew to Florida and hit the links after pardoning cronies and upending a desperately needed COVID relief deal. — Most of America likely is not surprised …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Left seeks leverage to move Biden — The tug-of-war between President-elect Joe Biden and the left wing of the Democratic Party is shifting onto policy grounds now that nominees have been selected for key positions in the new administration. — The left knows it will have a tough battle …
Lawrence Wright / New Yorker:
The Plague Year — The mistakes and the struggles behind America's coronavirus tragedy. — 1. “An Evolving Situation” — There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the covid-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020 …
Scott Gottlieb / Wall Street Journal:
Turning the Corner on Covid — January will be tough but with sensible precautions the virus can be a manageable risk by spring. — The novel coronavirus is about to make its last major stand, so prepare for the most difficult six weeks yet. But things will look up as spring approaches.
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudi Women's Rights Activist Sentenced to Prison, Sabq Says — Prominent activist Loujain Al-Hathloul convicted in Riyadh — Kingdom could face greater pressure from Biden administration — A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a prominent women's rights activist to nearly six years in prison …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Alec Baldwin's wife became Hollywood's Rachel Dolezal because of our sniveling, bootlicking press — The fading celebrity trophy life ranks as one of the easiest jobs of modern life: refresh your fillers enough that the Daily Mail can never describe you as “tired-looking” …
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