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2:05 PM ET, December 28, 2020

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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'
Discussion: HotAir
Elizabeth Wasserman / Bloomberg:
New York Post Tells Trump to ‘Give It Up’ Over Election Claim
Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and Raw Story
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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The White House:
Statement from the President  —  As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus.  —  I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states.
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
House to vote on increasing stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
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
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.
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: HuffPost and Florida Politics
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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 BGR
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.
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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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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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
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Examiner
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 …
Discussion: The Election Wizard and The US Sun
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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
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
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Camper Recounts Abuse at Warnock Church Camp  —  Anthony Washington, now 30, tells the Washington Free Beacon counselors tossed urine on him, forced him to sleep outside  —  Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock …
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
 
 
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Fauci: Differing state responses a ‘major weakness’ in fighting coronavirus
Discussion: Washington Times, Reason and RedState
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Jake Tapper Slams Kayleigh McEnany For Lying The ‘Way Most People Breathe’
Gina Harkins / Military.com:
Obesity and Other Problems Barring Teens from Military Service Need National Attention, Leaders Say
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Joe Vazquez / CBS San Francisco:
Oakland's Ceramic Bust Of Breonna Taylor Smashed In Brazen Act Of Vandalism
Discussion: CBS News and abc7NY
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Pelosi in Trouble as Two Incoming House Members Seem Reluctant to Endorse Her
Discussion: National Review and CNN
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 News, UPI and CBS Baltimore
Reuters:
Ethiopian police arrest Reuters cameraman
 Earlier Items: 
USA Today:
Donald Trump delivers an historic week of disarray from America's Nihilist-in-Chief
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden builds out White House digital operation
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:
The Year That Changed the Internet
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
5 Big Things We Learned About Our Elites In 2020
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mark Judge / The Stream:
‘They Were Relentless’: How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media
Discussion: Econlib
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It's Working.
more at Mediagazer »
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81
 

 
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Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law:
Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC:
President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US
 
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