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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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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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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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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Bill After Unemployment Aid Lapses
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Signing Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief and Omnibus Funding Bill
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Wall Street Journal:
What's in the $900 Billion Covid-19 Relief Bill
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NBC News, The US Sun and Business Insider
The White House:
Statement from the President — As President of the United States it is my responsibility …
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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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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.
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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 …
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Political Wire
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Cleve Wootson / Washington Post:
Georgia Senate runoffs test whether Trump remains a ‘poison’ for moderate GOP voters
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Loser Trump Wants to Drag the Republican Party Down With Him
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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
Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to nearly 6 years
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Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudi Women's Rights Activist Convicted But Could Be Freed Soon
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One America News Network
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.
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 …
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 …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Rubio is right: Fauci has repeatedly lied because he thinks you're stupid — Nearly a year into our 15 days to slow the spread, our political class still refuses to call out our supposed medical experts for repeatedly discrediting themselves with noble lie after noble lie.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Marco Rubio facing furious backlash after calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a liar and an elitist
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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
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.
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POLITICUSUSA
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 …
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HuffPost
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
5 Big Things We Learned About Our Elites In 2020 — It's been a hard year but at least we know, beyond all doubt, that our elites despise us and will do anything to expand their power. — For as difficult as the past year has been, from politics to the pandemic, it has at least helped …
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New York Magazine
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 …
Mark Judge / The Stream:
‘They Were Relentless’: How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media — Some of the best advice for dealing with the media can be found in He Leadeth Me, a 1973 book by American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek. Father Ciszek was captured by the Russian army during World War II.
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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