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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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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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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election
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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat
Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat
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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 …
Political Reckoning — The year 2020 brought extraordinary and unexpected challenges …
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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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Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Loujain al-Halthloul, Saudi Rights Activist, Gets Prison Sentence — Loujain al-Hathloul, who was arrested just before the driving ban was lifted, was charged with undermining the kingdom in a case that supporters decried as a political persecution. — CAIRO — One of Saudi Arabia's best-known prisoners …
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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'
Murdoch's New York Post urges Trump to accept defeat: 'You're cheering for an undemocratic coup'
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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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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
If Anthony Warner Were a Muslim Cleric, We Wouldn't See This Intricate Discussion About Who's a Terrorist
If Anthony Warner Were a Muslim Cleric, We Wouldn't See This Intricate Discussion About Who's a Terrorist
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Nashville mayor says Trump hasn't called since bombing
Nashville mayor says Trump hasn't called since bombing
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks is an absolute nightmare for Senate Republicans — (CNN)On Sunday night, as part of his face-saving efforts following his utter capitulation to Congress in signing the Covid-19 stimulus relief legislation, President Donald Trump insisted that …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP officials invoked Trump's legacy in pleas to sign coronavirus relief bill
GOP officials invoked Trump's legacy in pleas to sign coronavirus relief bill
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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.
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Camper Recounts Abuse at Warnock Church Camp — Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock: counselors who tossed urine on him and locked him outside his cabin overnight. — Washington, now 30, recounted the events …
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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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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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David Marcus / The Federalist:
Dr. Fauci Admits He Has Treated The American People Like Children — The American people need public officials to tell us the truth, not what they think we need to hear. That's the exact opposite of what we're getting. — In an interview last week with The New York Times …
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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 …
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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 …
Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Donald and Melania Trump eye Palm Beach homes near Mar-a-Lago — Donald and Melania Trump are the latest in their family to look at premium Florida property, according to an insider — even as there is buzz that they'll live at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, after he leaves office.
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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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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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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.
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Biden says transition team has “encountered obstruction” from Defense Department leadership — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday said his team has “encountered obstruction” and “roadblocks” from political leadership at the Department of Defense and Office of Management and Budget …
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