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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'
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Mediaite
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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National Review, CBS News, HotAir, Washington Post, The Week, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors, Alabama Political Reporter, Crooks and Liars, Boston Herald and BGR
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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.
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
House to vote on increasing stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks is an absolute nightmare for Senate Republicans
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Wall Street Journal, National Review, Raw Story, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, Breitbart and TheBlaze
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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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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CNBC, Washington Times, National Review, Townhall, IJR, The Election Wizard and The US Sun
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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 …
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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Business Insider, Axios, The Hill, The Guardian, The Week, POLITICUSUSA 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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Florida Politics and HuffPost
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Rubio is right: Fauci has repeatedly lied because he thinks you're stupid
David Marcus / The Federalist:
Dr. Fauci Admits He Has Treated The American People Like Children
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, RedState, TheBlaze and Townhall
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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The Week, The Daily Caller and 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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CNN, Reuters, Raw Story, Florida Phoenix and One America News Network
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, Politico, The Guardian, New Republic, Michigan Advance, Washington Times and Political Wire
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Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
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USA Today and Washington Examiner
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 …
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 …
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 …
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The American Independent, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Crooks and Liars and New York Magazine
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.
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, Reuters, UPI, WTOP and The Daily Caller
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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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TheBlaze
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 …
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HotAir, Twitchy, Power Line and Media Matters for America
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
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
If Anthony Warner Were a Muslim Cleric, We Wouldn't See This Intricate Discussion About Who's a Terrorist — I confess that, even given the grim excesses of this plague-ridden year, I didn't expect an American suicide bomber on Christmas Day. Officials are being very delicate …
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Washington Examiner, littlegreenfootballs.com, Task & Purpose and New York Post
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
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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