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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 — Hide Transcript Show Transcript — Receive daily coronavirus & public health news straight to your inbox. — Submit — Privacy Notice — SHREVEPORT, La. — Congressman-elect Luke Letlow has died …
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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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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.
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Bryan Pietsch / New York Times:
A congressman-elect from Louisiana died from Covid-19 complications.
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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
How Congress and coronavirus could quash Trump's Electoral College gambit — President Donald Trump's last-gasp bid to overturn his 2020 election defeat appears doomed on Jan. 6, when Congress is set to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory. — But the byzantine process …
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to set aside Wisconsin's election
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence refused to sign on to plan to overturn election, lawyers say
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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
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania Republicans find ‘alarming discrepancy’ twice the margin of Biden's victory
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James Arkin / Politico:
Strong early-vote turnout gives Dems hope in Georgia runoffs — Early voting in the Georgia Senate runoffs is breaking records — and Democrats have reasons for hope in the numbers. — More than 2.3 million people have voted as of Tuesday morning through mail-in ballots or in-person early voting …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden, Harris to make closing pitches in Georgia's Senate runoff contests
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Democrats seize on McConnell's stimulus block in Georgia runoff
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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Hilaria Baldwin Talks Spain, Boston, Alec and Instagram — Accused of a “decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,” the entrepreneur (and spouse of Alec Baldwin) talks about being the main character in this last week of 2020. — The first signs that Hilaria Baldwin's life …
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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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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Biden to tap longtime officials for top Pentagon roles — President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate two former senior officials to fill the Pentagon's No. 2 and No. 3 jobs, transition officials said, further signaling the new administration's intent to forge a more predictable foreign policy …
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Austin Carr / Bloomberg:
The Cruise Ship Suicides — Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggled to cope. — At first, Jozsef Szaller's crewmates didn't think much of his absence. Szaller, after all, usually skipped going to dinner on the Carnival Breeze …
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.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump calls for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican, to resign
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Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Vaccine Made by AstraZeneca, Oxford Is Authorized by U.K. — Green light for emergency use comes as Britain grapples with a surge in cases and a new variant — LONDON—The U.K. authorized a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca PLC …
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
US hits record for daily Covid-19 deaths. Winter will be ‘awful’ before we see ‘some light,’ expert says — Nurse uses social media to warn public about Covid-19 — (CNN)The US set two more devastating Covid-19 records as it counted down the hours to the end of what has been a calamitous year for the nation.
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Washington Free Beacon:
2020 Man of the Year: MAGA Matt Yglesias — You know how it goes: You oppose defunding the cops, and a million rose emojis scream at you for hours. You sign a letter tepidly endorsing free speech, and your colleagues denounce you to your bosses and Twitter.
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Todd Frankel / Washington Post:
Trump's big policy win: Stronger showers, faster dishwashers. It's something almost no one asked for. — One change he talked about frequently won't happen: A reversal of water limits on toilet flushes — President Trump was on a roll, standing before an adoring crowd in Carson City …
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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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 …
Issues & Insights:
Biden's ‘Dark Winter’ Is A Warning About His Economy, Not The Virus — Should President Donald Trump's election challenges fail to keep Joe Biden out of the White House, it's a certainty that bleak days will be ahead. We're staring into the barrel of at least four years of sclerotic economic growth.
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Paul Brandus / USA Today:
Good riddance to 2020. Biden's win and the COVID vaccine ensure 2021 will be better.
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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
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Joel Rose / NPR:
Even If It's ‘Bonkers,’ Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories — Toggle more options — A significant number of Americans believe misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus and the recent presidential election, as well as conspiracy theories like QAnon, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.
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Amarnath Amarasingam / Slate:
How Conspiracy Theories Like QAnon May Have Discouraged Postelection Violence
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Don Lemon, PBS' Yamiche Alcindor and NBC's Chuck Todd to Guest Author Politico's Playbook (Exclusive) — Politico is turning to high-profile journalists, including Recode co-founder Kara Swisher and Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson, to helm Playbook until a new team starts later in January.
Alexander Reid Ross / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boys Are at War With Their Female Extremist Wing — A transphobic MMA fighter has announced herself to be the “Den Mother” of the Proud Girls, but some members of the extremist, misogynistic Proud Boys don't want her in the ranks. — BEAST INSIDE — When Donald Trump tweeted …
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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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Marco Rubio / Fox News:
Dr. Fauci lied about coronavirus — I am appalled by his arrogance — Placing blind faith in unelected celebrity scientists has its limits, and we must not be afraid to call them out — Fauci under fire for moving herd immunity goalposts — Thanks to our news media's monomaniacal obsession …
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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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Washington Post:
Our son was killed in South Sudan. We urge Biden to protect journalists like him. — Joyce Krajian and John Allen are the parents of journalist Christopher Allen, who was killed in South Sudan in 2017. — In the few weeks left until Joe Biden becomes president, somewhere in the world …
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Eric Alterman / The Nation:
Look Beyond the Media Frenzy and Focus on the Fundamentals — In my last column, I'd like to leave you with what I've learned covering the media for more nearly 25 years. — I've been writing a version of this column in just about every other issue of The Nation for nearly 25 years.
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