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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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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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WHNT-TV, The Guardian, Axios and IJR
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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support
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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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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks is an absolute nightmare for Senate Republicans
Why a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks is an absolute nightmare for Senate Republicans
The Hill:
House passes bill boosting stimulus checks to $2,000 in bipartisan vote
House passes bill boosting stimulus checks to $2,000 in bipartisan vote
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Washington Post:
Treasury will try to start sending stimulus checks by end of week, rushing after Trump's delay
Treasury will try to start sending stimulus checks by end of week, rushing after Trump's delay
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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 increase stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
House votes to increase stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
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CNN:
House passes measure to increase stimulus checks to $2,000
House passes measure to increase stimulus checks to $2,000
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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and President Donald Trump's defeated electors from Arizona may force Vice President Mike Pence to publicly pick a side in Trump's bid to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
House Republican sues Pence in last-ditch bid to overturn election results — Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert on Monday sued Vice President Mike Pence in a last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. — Gohmert's federal suit, which anticipates the House …
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Election Law Blog, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Bloomberg
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election
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Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, SHUGERBLOG and Balloon Juice
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Louie Gohmert, Pack of GOPers Sue Mike Pence in Bid to Force VP to Pick Trump Electors on Jan. 6
Rep. Louie Gohmert, Pack of GOPers Sue Mike Pence in Bid to Force VP to Pick Trump Electors on Jan. 6
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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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Shawna Chen / Axios:
Biden: Transition team “encountered obstruction” from Pentagon
Biden: Transition team “encountered obstruction” from Pentagon
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New York Times, CNBC, Politico and Crooks and Liars
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 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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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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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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The Hill, Al Jazeera, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Raw Story and The US Sun
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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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.
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
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 …
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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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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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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