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3:25 PM ET, December 29, 2020

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Washington Post:
McConnell blocks Senate Democrats' initial attempt to approve $2,000 stimulus checks amid growing pressure on GOP leader to act  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday blocked consideration of a House bill that would deliver a $2,000 stimulus payments to most Americans …
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Axios:
Senate tide begins to shift toward $2,000 checks after Trump's push  —  A couple of days ago, it looked impossible that $2,000 COVID relief checks — up from the $600 checks for individuals in the package President Trump signed Sunday — could pass the Senate.
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Georgia's GOP senators back $2,000 stimulus checks ahead of runoff
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Trump slams McConnell for blocking vote on $2,000 stimulus checks
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
McConnell blocks Schumer's bid to unanimously pass $2,000 stimulus checks
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump rips GOP leaders for allowing veto override
Lauren Fox / CNN:
Mitch McConnell faces decision over formal vote to increase stimulus payments to $2,000
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Bernie Sanders to delay defense veto override in bid for $2,000 checks
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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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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Zack Stanton / Politico:
The Worst Predictions of 2020  —  On the last day of 2019, President Donald Trump joined in on New Year's Eve celebrations at Mar-a-Lago, ringing in 2020 with what was, in retrospect, a terrible prediction about the year ahead.  —  “We're going to have a great year, I predict,” the president told assembled guests.
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Massachusetts GOP leader says he likely got covid-19 at a White House Hanukkah party: 'I'm paying the price'  —  Earlier this month, Tom Mountain, a Massachusetts Republican Party leader, posed for a maskless photo in front of a silver menorah as dozens of other guests without face coverings mingled nearby …
Discussion: Mediaite
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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.
Chris Cioffi / Roll Call:
The Inaugural Luncheon is the latest pandemic casualty  —  The century-old tradition of the post-inauguration lunch is the latest pandemic casualty as COVID-19 continues to upend the ceremonies around the Jan. 20 swearing-in of President-elect Joe Biden.  —  The Inaugural Luncheon tradition …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Kamala Harris receives first dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine
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 …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Ex-Pence aide turned Trump critic ‘very concerned’ about Jan. 6 violence  —  A former aide to Vice President Pence who has since become a vocal critic of the Trump administration warned Monday that she feared violence could erupt in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, when Congress …
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years.
Discussion: The Week
Christian Schneider / The Bulwark:
Rubio vs. Fauci Is Amazing  —  Marco Rubio inadvertently told us what he thinks of Republican voters.  —  In the course of his young political career, Marco Rubio has been a Tea Partier, a Reformicon, and a neoconservative.  Now he's auditioning for the role of MAGA FAN #7 by trying …
Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Apple's longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China  —  New documents show Lens Technology, which makes iPhone glass and is owned by China's richest woman, received Uighur Muslim laborers transferred from Xinjiang.  —  One of the oldest and most well-known iPhone suppliers …
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.
William J. Kole / Associated Press:
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston  —  A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston.
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Arizona Republic:
Report: Phoenix police officer said, 'If the mayor defunds the police, I'm going to shoot her'  —  Uriel J. Garcia Jen FifieldArizona Republic  —  On the afternoon of October 21, seven Phoenix police officers gathered for a briefing in a Cave Creek station when the meeting diverged …
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Joseph Krauss / Associated Press:
Record shows US sold ambassador's home in Israel for $67M  —  An official record shows that the United States sold the ambassador's residence in Israel for more than $67 million in July  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  JERUSALEM — The United States sold …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
A Far-Right Terrorism Suspect With a Refugee Disguise: The Tale of Franco A.  —  A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges.  At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.  —  OFFENBACH, Germany — At the height of Europe's migrant crisis …
Associated Press:
Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies  —  They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children.  —  Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jeb Lund / New Republic:
Ron DeSantis Is TNR's 2020 Scoundrel of the Year  —  For so many of us, the person of the year is Nothing.  The thing that killed mom or laid out the elementary school teacher was Nothing.  Nobody saw it.  Either dad tracked nothing home from the grocery store or there was a fatal amount of Nothing smeared all over the produce.
Discussion: Twitchy
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Georgia Is a Quiet Place for Republicans  —  They don't dare speak the truth because they're afraid of their voters.  —  David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler didn't plan on orienting their Georgia run-off campaigns around a lame-duck president's crackpot election conspiracies and cuckoo coup attempts.
Cristina Criddle / BBC:
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail  —  References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being “modern” services.  —  Experts believe officials must have copied …
Discussion: The Verge
 
 
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Jonathon Van Maren / The American Conservative:
The Gospel According to Roger Stone
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Violence Surged in N.Y.C. in 2020 Amid Pandemic and Protests
Rodney Stevens / Wall Street Journal:
If You Must Talk About Race, Be Gracious
Politico:
Appeals court backs subpoena-like power for minority in House
Discussion: The Hill
BBC:
Bell stolen by Nazis to be returned to Poland
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Politico to Acquire Energy Trade Publication E&E News
John Nichols / The Nation:
Kelly Loeffler's Sacrilegious Campaign
WJAC-TV:
PA Republican lawmakers: Analysis finds presidential election numbers don't add up
Washington Examiner:
Is it any wonder liberal states are shrinking?
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Felix Salmon / Axios:
How China won 2020  —  China will end this year as the only major country in the world to see its economy grow rather than shrink.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The CARES superdole was a huge success
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 

 
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