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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.
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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 …
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Sam Karlin / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, 41, dies from coronavirus complications; 'we're all in disbelief' — Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died Tuesday evening from complications with COVID-19, shaking the Louisiana political world weeks after his election to represent Louisiana's 5th District …
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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.
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Bryan Pietsch / New York Times:
Congressman-elect From Louisiana Dies of Virus
Congressman-elect From Louisiana Dies of Virus
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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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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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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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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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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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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
Louisville police move to fire two more officers involved in raid that killed Breonna Taylor
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
Louisville police move to fire officers in Breonna Taylor case who got warrant, fired fatal shot
Louisville police move to fire officers in Breonna Taylor case who got warrant, fired fatal shot
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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
How Congress and coronavirus could quash Trump's Electoral College gambit
How Congress and coronavirus could quash Trump's Electoral College gambit
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Pence's very limited options to challenge Biden's win
Pence's very limited options to challenge Biden's win
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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 — With just three weeks left until the Inauguration of Joe Biden, the end of Donald Trump's Presidency is firmly in sight. Trump, despite having finally backed down and signed the covid-19 relief bill, will surely look to cause more mayhem before he leaves office.
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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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.
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Joey Garrison / USA Today:
GOP seeks to roll back mail-in voting in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania that Trump lost
GOP seeks to roll back mail-in voting in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania that Trump lost
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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.
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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 …
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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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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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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.
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.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden says Trump administration's plan to distribute vaccines falling ‘far behind’
Biden says Trump administration's plan to distribute vaccines falling ‘far behind’
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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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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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James Arkin / Politico:
Strong early-vote turnout gives Dems hope in Georgia runoffs — Democrats are encouraged by stats that show their voters are overperforming with early voting set to conclude later this week. — Early vote numbers show Black voters making up a larger percentage of the electorate than in November …
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 …
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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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 …
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New York Times:
Hong Kong Protesters Who Fled by Boat Are Sentenced to Prison in China — The pro-democracy activists, who hoped to reach Taiwan, were caught by the Chinese Coast Guard and tried in the mainland's opaque criminal justice system. — HONG KONG — A group of Hong Kong protesters who were arrested …
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Amanda Macias / CNBC:
$600 stimulus payments started going out Tuesday night, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says — The Trump administration will begin sending stimulus payments of up to $600 to millions of Americans as early as Tuesday evening. — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the government would begin …
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