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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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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:   Murdoch's New York Post urges Trump to accept defeat: 'You're cheering for an undemocratic coup'
Elizabeth Wasserman / Bloomberg:
New York Post Tells Trump to ‘Give It Up’ Over Election Claim
Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and HotAir
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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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
House to vote on increasing stimulus payments to $2,000 per person  —  The House will vote on Monday on a standalone measure to increase direct payments from its coronavirus relief package to $2,000 per person, up from the $600 checks that Congress had previously approved.
The White House:
Statement from the President  —  As President of the United States it is my responsibility …
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Bill After Unemployment Aid Lapses
Wall Street Journal:
What's in the $900 Billion Covid-19 Relief Bill
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.
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.
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Examiner
Will Feuer / CNBC:
Biden will invoke Defense Production Act to boost Covid vaccine production, advisor says  — President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of Covid vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Marco Rubio facing furious backlash after calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a liar and an elitist  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is potentially facing a campaign against Ivanka Trump in 2022 and appears to be desperately trying to appeal to the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Florida Politics and HuffPost
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Rubio is right: Fauci has repeatedly lied because he thinks you're stupid
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and RedState
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 …
NBC News:
Ossoff, Warnock warn about running low on funds, seek last-minute donations  —  LITHONIA, Ga. — Eight days out from Election Day in Georgia's crucial Senate runoff races, Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are “sounding the alarm” about their ability to keep pace with GOP spending …
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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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.
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 …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump May Have Accidentally Been a Transformational President  —  In January 2008, Barack Obama declared his intention to be the next Ronald Reagan.  The Democratic presidential candidate told the Reno Gazette-Journal that Reagan had “changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not …
Discussion: HuffPost
Al Jazeera:
Saudi women's rights activist al-Hathloul given prison sentence  —  Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to five years and eight months in prison by a Saudi court.  —  A Saudi terrorism court has sentenced prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison …
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Associated Press:   Saudi women's rights activist Loujain Alhathloul sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison: state-linked media
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudi Women's Rights Activist Convicted But Could Be Freed Soon
Discussion: Reuters
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
At least we know Trump's not serious about 2024  —  As if an attempted coup, insulting the “totally incompetent and weak” Supreme Court (including three appointees who supposedly were his big gift to conservatives), and refusing even to comment on the covid-19 surge did not make it clear …
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.
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Fox News:
Ayotte and Comstock: Year of Republican women continues - now it's Kelly Loeffler's turn in Georgia  —  After years of setbacks, 2020 election yielded historic gains for GOP women in Congress  —  Loeffler, Perdue will see ‘huge turnout’ in Georgia Senate runoffs: Alyssa Farah
Cassidy Johncox / WDIV-TV:
Michigan AG returns fire on Trump: 'You're not our type'  —  President Trump takes to Twitter to criticize Michigan AG Dana Nessel  —  President Donald Trump has once again taken aim at Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Twitter early Sunday morning — and she was not having it.
Reuters:
Ethiopian police arrest Reuters cameraman  —  NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said.  He has not been charged.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden builds out White House digital operation  —  (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named a slate of digital operatives to his incoming White House staff, preparing for an administration that, at least at the outset, will conduct most of its public-facing business digitally amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
Is Substack the Media Future We Want?  —  The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.  —  Haley Nahman was having a weird time.  She had spent most of the pandemic inside …
 
 
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New York Times:
How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor
Joe Vazquez / CBS San Francisco:
Oakland's Ceramic Bust Of Breonna Taylor Smashed In Brazen Act Of Vandalism
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Brandon Morse / RedState:
Pelosi in Trouble as Two Incoming House Members Seem Reluctant to Endorse Her
Discussion: National Review and CNN
Gabriel Crossley / Reuters:
U.S. bolsters support for Taiwan and Tibet, angering China
New York Daily News:
Last man to share jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein died last month of COVID
Naomi Thomas / CNN:
Novavax coronavirus vaccine becomes fifth to begin Phase 3 trials in United States
Discussion: CBS Baltimore and New York Times
USA Today:
Donald Trump delivers an historic week of disarray from America's Nihilist-in-Chief
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Year That Changed the Internet
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
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Discussion: New York Magazine
Mark Judge / The Stream:
‘They Were Relentless’: How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
How cancel culture keeps COVID-19 lockdown-doubters silent
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Waiting for Joe Biden: How to make it through the final, awful days of Donald Trump
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81
Washington Post:
Authorities identify Anthony Warner as Nashville bomber, say his remains were found in the wreckage
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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