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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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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid  —  Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening.  He was 41.  —  Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.
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 …
Melinda Deslatte / Yahoo Money:
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dead from COVID-19  —  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Luke Letlow, Louisiana's incoming Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before he would have been sworn into office.  He was 41.
Bryan Pietsch / New York Times:
A congressman-elect from Louisiana died from Covid-19 complications.  —  Luke Letlow, a Republican who was elected to the House of Representatives this month to represent Louisiana's Fifth Congressional District, died Tuesday evening of complications from Covid-19, a spokesman said.  He was 41.
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 …
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 …
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:
First U.S. Case of Highly Contagious Coronavirus Variant Is Found in Colorado
Discussion: RedState
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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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
The Next Big Challenge: Trump-Proofing the Presidency
Discussion: Reason, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
GOP seeks to roll back mail-in voting in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania that Trump lost
Discussion: Reuters and Israpundit
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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Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Louisville police move to fire two more officers involved in raid that killed Breonna Taylor
Discussion: ABC News and TheGrio
Doha Madani / NBC News:
Louisville police move to fire officers in Breonna Taylor case who got warrant, fired fatal shot
Discussion: WAVE-TV and Washington Examiner
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden, Harris to make closing pitches in Georgia's Senate runoff contests  —  President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris will both travel to Georgia in the closing days before its pair of Senate runoff elections, underscoring the importance of contests that will determine …
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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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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 …
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: Breitbart and Washington Times
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
No fraud: Georgia audit confirms authenticity of absentee ballots  —  Law enforcement and election investigators didn't find a single fraudulent absentee ballot during an audit of over 15,000 voter signatures, according to a report by the Georgia secretary of state's office released Tuesday.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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WSB-TV:
GBI finishes signature audit in Cobb County, finds only two mismatches
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Judy Maltz / Haaretz:
Former Jewish American Spy Jonathan Pollard Lands in Israel  —  Pollard, who was convicted in 1987 of spying for Israel, served 30 years in prison and five years on strict parole in the United States  —  Former Jewish American spy Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther landed in Israel …
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 …
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania Republicans find ‘alarming discrepancy’ twice the margin of Biden's victory  —  Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania say an “alarming discrepancy” in the presidential vote count is two times larger than the margin of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state.
Stephen L. Miller / Spectator USA:
Anthony Fauci strikes out … How many passes does Anthony Fauci get?  How many times must he be categorically wrong before people stop ogling his every facial expression and treating him as some sort of minor deity?  —  Let me state unequivocally that enough is enough and it's time for him to step aside.
GOV.UK:
Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine authorised by UK medicines regulator  —  Update from the Government about the Oxford University/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine.  —  From:  —  The Government has today accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency …
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Sun, NBC4 Washington and UPI
Leana Wen / Washington Post:
Coronavirus vaccinations are off to a very slow start.  That should set off alarms.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday that 2.1 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in two weeks.  While this might sound like an impressive number, it should set off alarms.
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.
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 …
Associated Press:
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins  —  MOJIANG, China (AP) — Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus.  —  The area is of intense scientific interest …
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
China Has All It Needs to Vaccinate Millions, Except Any Approved Vaccines  —  Across the country, local governments plan to inoculate 50 million people against the coronavirus by early next year.  But the vaccines have not officially been approved.  —  Hospitals all over China …
 
 
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Hans Bader / Liberty Unyielding:
Murder rate rose by 37% in U.S. cities in 2020
Discussion: HotAir and Ohio Capital Journal
Alexander Reid Ross / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boys Are at War With Their Female Extremist Wing
Discussion: Raw Story
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
You're Infected With the Coronavirus.  But How Infected?  —  Knowing the amount of virus carried …
J. Scott Trubey / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
State to reopen coronavirus field hospital in Atlanta as hospitals see record surge
Sarah Leah Whitson / Responsible Statecraft:
Jailed Saudi women's rights activist poses early test for Biden
Discussion: New York Times
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Juan Montes / Wall Street Journal:
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Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Kushner Cos. Plans to Raise $100 Million by Selling Bonds in Israel
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
Discussion: Law & Crime and The Hill
Joseph Krauss / Associated Press:
Record shows US sold ambassador's home in Israel for $67M