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Washington Post:
N.Y. prosecutor hires forensic accounting experts as Trump criminal probe escalates — NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has retained forensic accounting specialists to aid its criminal investigation of President Trump and his business operations, as prosecutors ramp …
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Business Insider and The Intellectualist
Greg Hilburn / The News Star:
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies with COVID — Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow has died at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport with COVID-19, a family friend confirmed Tuesday night. — Letlow, 41, was transferred from St. Francis Medical Center to the Ochsner LSU Health ICU …
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WDSU-TV:
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from COVID-19 — WDSU Digital Team — Receive daily coronavirus & public health news straight to your inbox. — Submit — Privacy Notice — SHREVEPORT, La. — Congressman-elect Luke Letlow has died after contracting COVID-19 last week …
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid
Washington Post:
First case of highly infectious coronavirus variant detected in Colorado — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
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New York Times, Colorado Public Radio, Bloomberg, Forbes, Washington Examiner, SFist, The Daily Caller, abc7NY, KRON4, Gothamist, NPR and The Intellectualist
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STAT:
Frustration over vaccine rollout builds, as new variant reported in U.S. for first time
Frustration over vaccine rollout builds, as new variant reported in U.S. for first time
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New York Magazine, POLITICUSUSA, Lawyers, Guns & Money and ABC News
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in UK
U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in UK
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Colorado Newsline, WHNT-TV and CBS News
Jessica Seaman / Denver Post:
Colorado first state in U.S. to confirm new, more contagious strain of COVID-19
Colorado first state in U.S. to confirm new, more contagious strain of COVID-19
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New York Times, The Sun, The Gateway Pundit, SFist and WHNT-TV
Patty Nieberg / Associated Press:
First reported US case of COVID-19 variant found in Colorado
First reported US case of COVID-19 variant found in Colorado
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Los Angeles Times, WTOP and The Week
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Louisville police move to fire two more officers involved in raid that killed Breonna Taylor — Louisville police on Tuesday moved to fire two officers involved in the fatal raid on Breonna Taylor's home in a bid for more accountability in the tragedy that ignited the country last summer amid a broader racial-justice movement.
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
Louisville Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Will Be Fired — Detective Myles Cosgrove will be terminated along with Detective Joshua Jaynes, who was involved in planning the deadly raid. — The Louisville police officer who fired the shot that killed Breonna Taylor, a Black emergency room …
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NPR, Raw Story, The Sun and The Daily Caller
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump angered by Mar-a-Lago renovations, sources say — (CNN)His mood darkened as soon as he walked into his members-only club Mar-a-Lago, three days before Christmas, according to multiple sources. The changes to his private quarters, many of which were overseen by his wife …
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The US Sun, The Daily Beast, The Sun, Raw Story and Page Six
Washington Post:
McConnell blocks Democrats' attempt to quickly approve $2,000 stimulus checks amid pressure on GOP to act — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday blocked consideration of a House bill that would deliver $2,000 stimulus payments to most Americans — spurning a request …
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
McConnell blocks $2,000 stimulus checks, then ties them to unrelated Trump demands on tech and election
McConnell blocks $2,000 stimulus checks, then ties them to unrelated Trump demands on tech and election
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Trump slams McConnell for blocking vote on $2,000 stimulus checks
Trump slams McConnell for blocking vote on $2,000 stimulus checks
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
$2,000 Stimulus Checks Are Poorly Targeted and That's Fine
$2,000 Stimulus Checks Are Poorly Targeted and That's Fine
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Politico, Slow Boring and The Week
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to set aside Wisconsin's election — MADISON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse Wisconsin's high court, set aside the state's presidential election and allow Republicans who control the Legislature to decide how to cast the state's 10 electoral votes.
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Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Associated Press, Lawfare, WPolitics and The American Independent
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Yahoo News:
L.A. County hospitals turn away ambulances, put patients in gift shop: 'I've never seen anything like this' — At Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the breaking point came Sunday night. — There was not one available bed for at least 30 patients who needed intensive or intermediate levels of care …
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The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed News, Daily News, The Hill and Breitbart
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Trümperdämmerung Is a Fitting End to 2020 — As the awful year of 2020 and the awful tenure of Donald Trump both come to an end, the President has partied with the unmasked in Palm Beach and taken credit for a vaccine against a virus that he once counselled could be beaten with bleach.
Discussion:
Washington Times and Breitbart
Natalie Allison / The Tennessean:
Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows — NASHVILLE — Sixteen months before Anthony Quinn Warner's RV exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, officers visited his home in Antioch after his girlfriend reported that he was making bombs …
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TMZ.com, The Western Journal and The US Sun
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Resistance's Breakup With the Media Is at Hand — The day after the 2016 election, I got a phone call from an old friend. Neither of us had slept much, and we spent most of the conversation exchanging shell-shocked comments of the Can you believe this? variety. Before we hung up, his voice took on a trace of irony.
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Breitbart, Raw Story and Townhall, more at Mediagazer »
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Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller:
CNN's Jim Acosta: 'I Don't Think The Press Should Be Trying To Whip Up The Biden Presidency'
CNN's Jim Acosta: 'I Don't Think The Press Should Be Trying To Whip Up The Biden Presidency'
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HotAir, Twitchy and The Intellectualist
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley's mind-numbing inanity — Republicans have made clear for years that they lack constructive ideas to respond to Americans' real-world concerns. In lieu of rational responses to rising health-care costs or falling K-12 test scores or income inequality, they rant about Confederate flags …
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The Sun, POLITICUSUSA, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, Stand For America, Townhall and Fox News
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Zack Stanton / Politico:
The Worst Predictions of 2020 — On the last day of 2019, President Donald Trump joined …
The Worst Predictions of 2020 — On the last day of 2019, President Donald Trump joined …
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USA Today, National Review, VICE, TheBlaze and RedState
WSB-TV:
GBI finishes signature audit in Cobb County, finds only two mismatches — COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News has learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has finished the signature audit in Cobb County over the November election. — Earlier in the month …
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Election Law Blog
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NBC News:
Operation Warp Speed at a crawl: Adequately vaccinating Americans will take 10 years at current pace — The Trump administration's Covid-19 vaccine distribution program needs a major shot in the arm because at the current rate, it would take almost 10 years to inoculate enough Americans …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer and Talking Points Memo
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Calls Trump a ‘Criminal’ During a Phone Call with the Associated Press — A senior U.S. District judge called Donald Trump a “criminal” during a phone call with the Associated Press as he discussed the 45th president's recent pardons of political allies who were convicted …
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
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The Hill
Associated Press:
Feds decline charges against officers in Tamir Rice case — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence refused to sign on to plan to overturn election, lawyers say — Lawyers representing Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Arizona's 11 GOP electors disclosed in a court filing Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence rejected their request to join their attempt to subvert the results of the presidential election.
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Politico, The Election Wizard, The Gateway Pundit, Dallas Morning News and Political Wire
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Biden picks 3 coordinators for Covid-19 response — President-elect Joe Biden is expanding his White House Covid-19 Response team, tapping three senior officials to coordinate vaccine, testing and supply chain strategy in an announcement first shared with POLITICO.
Discussion:
President-Elect Joe Biden, The Hill, New York Times and NPR
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
‘Things will get worse before they get better’: Biden's grim COVID-19 speech offers contrast with Trump
‘Things will get worse before they get better’: Biden's grim COVID-19 speech offers contrast with Trump
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Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Raw Story and Reuters
Philip Ewing / NPR:
Biden's Incoming National Security Adviser Faults Pentagon's ‘Obstruction’ — The outgoing Trump administration still isn't providing information in the way President-elect Joe Biden's lieutenants feel is appropriate for a team poised to take the reins of power, incoming national security adviser Jake Sullivan told NPR Tuesday.
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Washington Post, The Hill, Politico, Vanity Fair, Real America's Voice and HuffPost
Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Kushner Cos. Plans to Raise $100 Million by Selling Bonds in Israel — Company plan is likely to rekindle criticism of potential conflicts of interest between Jared Kushner's role in White House and his family's business — Kushner Cos., the family business of White House senior aide Jared Kushner …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Kelly Loeffler's Conflict of Interest Is Even Worse Than Reported — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — As she campaigns for reelection in the January 5 run-off, Kelly Loeffler …
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Raw Story
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn Is Now Selling QAnon Merch — Trump's former national security adviser is going all in on QAnon, selling QAnon T-shirts and launching a QAnon news site — Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn is going all in on the QAnon conspiracy theory …
Associated Press:
‘Dark period’: Killings spike in NYC amid pandemic, unrest — NEW YORK (AP) — Heralded as the safest big city in America in recent years, New York City is closing out its bloodiest year in nearly a decade, grappling with a surge in homicides and a pandemic authorities say has helped fuel violence.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
Dani Alexis Ryskamp / The Atlantic:
The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable — The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today's standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans. I refer, of course, to the Simpsons.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Donald Trump, Michelle Obama Most Admired in 2020 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are most likely to name President Donald Trump and Michelle Obama as most admired man and woman in 2020. Trump tied former President Barack Obama for the honor last year but edged out his predecessor this year.
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, The Hill, RedState, UPI, HotAir, Breitbart, Snopes.com, Power Line, NPR, Big League Politics, TheGrio, WHNT-TV, New York Post, TheBlaze, The Sun, Washington Times, Liberty Unyielding, The Daily Caller, One America News Network, Townhall, CNN, IJR, Towleroad Gay News, Mediaite, Conservative News Today and Washington Post