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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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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
House to vote on increasing stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
House to vote on increasing stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
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The White House:
Statement from the President — As President of the United States it is my responsibility …
Statement from the President — As President of the United States it is my responsibility …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Signing Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief and Omnibus Funding Bill
Pelosi Statement on Trump Signing Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief and Omnibus Funding Bill
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump chooses chaos with delayed signature of Covid relief bill
Trump chooses chaos with delayed signature of Covid relief bill
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Business Insider, Raw Story, HotAir and Mediaite
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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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.
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
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NBC News:
Ossoff, Warnock warn about running low on funds, seek last-minute donations
Ossoff, Warnock warn about running low on funds, seek last-minute donations
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The Week, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Loser Trump Wants to Drag the Republican Party Down With Him
Loser Trump Wants to Drag the Republican Party Down With Him
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CNN, Reuters, Florida Phoenix, Raw Story and One America News Network
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 …
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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Axios, The Hill, The Guardian, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and CBS News
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.
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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.
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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The Stream, Washington Times, The Guardian, New Republic, Politico, Michigan Advance and Political Wire
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Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
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USA Today and Washington Examiner
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
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 …
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 …
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Raw Story, The American Independent, The Gateway Pundit, Crooks and Liars and New York Magazine
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 …
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TheBlaze
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.
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.
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 …
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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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.
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The Hill, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
Joe Vazquez / CBS San Francisco:
Oakland's Ceramic Bust Of Breonna Taylor Smashed In Brazen Act Of Vandalism — OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Oakland police are investigating an act of vandalism that left a ceramic bust of Breonna Taylor severely damaged and a community outraged. — The bust was installed two weeks ago …