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5:17 PM ET, December 28, 2020

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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 …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election  —  Republican-leaning pollster Rasmussen invoked a quote attributed to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a Twitter thread Sunday suggesting Vice President Pence could attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election.  —  “Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Discussion: Mediaite, SHUGERBLOG and POLITICUSUSA
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
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
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
Wall Street Journal:   Highly Touted Monoclonal Antibody Therapies Sit Unused in Hospitals
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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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Nashville mayor says Trump hasn't called since bombing
Discussion: KDFX-TV, CNN and Political Wire
Natalie Allison / The Tennessean:
Anthony Quinn Warner, self-employed computer guru ID'd as lone Nashville bomber, killed in blast
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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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
The White House:
Statement from the President  —  As President of the United States it is my responsibility …
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
House to vote on increasing stimulus payments to $2,000 per person
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
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 …
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.
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
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Raphael Warnock called Jeremiah Wright's ‘God Damn America’ sermon ‘Christian preaching at its best’  —  Those comments came as part of a broader talk on Black theology in the US  —  Will Warnock domestic dispute footage impact Georgia Senate race?  —  A newly-resurfaced video shows …
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NBC News:
Ossoff, Warnock warn about running low on funds, seek last-minute donations
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Rubio is right: Fauci has repeatedly lied because he thinks you're stupid
Discussion: The Hill, IJR and BGR
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.
Discussion: The US Sun and Sun-Sentinel
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 …
Glenn Greenwald:
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump  —  The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.  —  5 hr ago
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 …
Discussion: The National Interest
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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Jose Luis Ricon / Nintil:
Fund people, not projects I: The HHMI and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
New York Will Ban Most Evictions as Tenants Struggle to Pay Rent
Rasmussen Reports:
72% of Republicans See Trump As Model for Party's Future
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Beware: New Civics Mandates Will Be Woke
Discussion: Power Line
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
More than 500 journalists and media workers have died from COVID-19
CNBC:
Investors believe the stock market could see headwinds under a Biden presidency
Gina Harkins / Military.com:
Obesity and Other Problems Barring Teens from Military Service Need National Attention, Leaders Say
Discussion: Task & Purpose
 Earlier Items: 
Cassidy Johncox / WDIV-TV:
Michigan AG returns fire on Trump: 'You're not our type'
Joe Vazquez / CBS San Francisco:
Oakland's Ceramic Bust Of Breonna Taylor Smashed In Brazen Act Of Vandalism
Discussion: KRON4, abc7NY and CBS News
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump May Have Accidentally Been a Transformational President
Discussion: HuffPost
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden builds out White House digital operation
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Fox News:
Ayotte and Comstock: Year of Republican women continues - now it's Kelly Loeffler's turn in Georgia
 

 
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
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