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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Bernie Sanders to delay defense veto override in bid for $2,000 checks — Sen. Bernie Sanders will filibuster an override of President Donald Trump's defense bill veto unless the Senate holds a vote on providing $2,000 direct payments to Americans. — “McConnell and the Senate want to expedite …
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A day on the golf course helped change Trump's mind on the stimulus bill — The frantic campaign to persuade President Trump to sign a massive spending and coronavirus relief bill came to a head on Christmas Day, on the greens and fairways of West Palm Beach, Fla.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Democrats Plot to Keep Senate In Session Over $2,000 Payments — Bernie Sanders is leading a strategy that would force the Senate to stay in Washington through New Year's Day to try to force the vote. — Dayen-Sanders-122820 — Bernie Sanders is committed to forcing a vote on $2,000 payments …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support — Lawmakers voted to meet a Trump demand that nearly upended the massive spending-and-stimulus bill. Senate action is uncertain. — The House on Monday voted to beef up stimulus checks set to go out to American households …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
House backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000
House backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
House Advances $2,000 Stimulus Checks Demanded by Trump
House Advances $2,000 Stimulus Checks Demanded by Trump
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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.
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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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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
House Republican sues Pence in last-ditch bid to overturn election results
House Republican sues Pence in last-ditch bid to overturn election results
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker sues Pence in bid to overturn Biden win
GOP lawmaker sues Pence in bid to overturn Biden win
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
House Votes to Override Trump's Veto of Military Bill — Republicans joined with Democrats to hand President Trump a rare legislative rebuke in the final days of his presidency. The bill will next be taken up by the Senate, where it is expected to pass. — WASHINGTON — The House voted …
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
$2,000 vs. $600 stimulus payments isn't the real issue — There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with the covid-19 stimulus compromise President Trump signed on Sunday. — Its shortcomings, however, are not the specific provisions that populists on both the left and right are complaining about.
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The Times of Israel:
Ivanka Trump said weighing run for US Senate or Florida governor — After president's daughter and husband Jared Kushner buy $31 million mansion in Miami, speculation swirls about her political ambitions — 2,698 shares — The recent purchase of a Florida mansion by Ivanka Trump …
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Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Donald and Melania Trump eye Palm Beach homes near Mar-a-Lago
Donald and Melania Trump eye Palm Beach homes near Mar-a-Lago
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Politico:
Judge blocks voter purge in 2 Georgia counties — A federal judge in Georgia on Monday ordered two counties to reverse a decision removing more than 4,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.
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Washington Post:
Biden accuses Trump appointees of obstructing transition on national security issues — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday accused President Trump and his political appointees of obstructing the transition of power to his incoming administration, particularly on national security issues …
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Alleges Trump Administration Obstructing National Security Transition
Joe Biden Alleges Trump Administration Obstructing National Security Transition
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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Warnock, Ossoff appeal to young voters at hip-hop focused DeKalb rally — Do the names J.I.D., Tokyo Jetz, Shelley FKA DRAM and BRS Kash ring a bell? If not, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock's latest campaign event wasn't for you.These hip hop artists performed at Monday's drive-in rally …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Judge Denies ‘Flight Risk’ Ghislaine Maxwell's Second Attempt to Get Out of Jail Ahead of Jeffrey Epstein-Related Trial — A federal judge denied Ghislaine Maxwell's second bail application on Monday, finding that Jeffrey Epstein's accused accomplice could not be trusted to stay in the United States …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge again denies bail to accused Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
Judge again denies bail to accused Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
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Heidi Siegmund Cuda / Byline Times:
How a Crisis in Masculinity Paved the Way for Fascism — Heidi Siegmund Cuda speaks to the historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about the new global rise in authoritarianism and why the recent defeat of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election was so significant — Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat's latest book …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
2020 Was the Year Reaganism Died — The government promised to help — and it did. — Maybe it was the visuals that did it. It's hard to know what aspects of reality make it into Donald Trump's ever-shrinking bubble — and I'm happy to say that after Jan. 20 we won't have to care …
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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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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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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Is Marriage Becoming Irrelevant? — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are less inclined now than in recent years to see marriage as critical for couples who have children together or for couples who plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Most U.S. adults have been married at some point in their lives …
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Robby Soave / Reason:
The New York Times Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur When She Was 15 — Jimmy Galligan is an 18-year-old college freshman from Leesburg, Virginia. He may also be cancel culture's Count of Monte Cristo. — Some months ago, Galligan—who is biracial …
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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.
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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Bill Chappell / NPR:
‘I Regret Nothing’: Doctor Who Criticized Trump Parade Works Last Day At Walter Reed — Dr. James Phillips, the Walter Reed physician who criticized President Trump's decision to greet supporters outside the facility where he was being treated for COVID-19, has worked his last shift at the hospital.
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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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Rowan Moore Gerety / The Atlantic:
An Alternative to Police That Police Can Get Behind … should american cities defund their police departments? The question has been asked continually—with varying degrees of hope, fear, anger, confusion, and cynicism—since the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day.