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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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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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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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Louisiana Illuminator, Business Insider and The Daily Caller
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, has died of complications from Covid-19, a congressman from the state said. He was 41.
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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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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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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
Courier-Journal:
Louisville police seek to fire 2 detectives connected to Breonna Taylor's shooting death
Louisville police seek to fire 2 detectives connected to Breonna Taylor's shooting death
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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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Washington Post:
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Frustration over vaccine rollout builds, as new variant reported in U.S. for first time — As frustration over the pace of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues to build, health officials in Colorado on Tuesday reported the first known U.S. case of the variant of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K.
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Amanda Macias / CNBC:
U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in UK
U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in UK
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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Calls Trump a ‘Criminal’ During a Phone Call with the Associated Press — A senior U.S. District judge called Donald Trump a “criminal” during a phone call with the Associated Press as he discussed the 45th president's recent pardons of political allies who were convicted …
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Kushner Cos. Plans to Raise $100 Million by Selling Bonds in Israel — Company plan is likely to rekindle criticism of potential conflicts of interest between Jared Kushner's role in White House and his family's business — Kushner Cos., the family business of White House senior aide Jared Kushner …
Associated Press:
‘Dark period’: Killings spike in NYC amid pandemic, unrest — NEW YORK (AP) — Heralded as the safest big city in America in recent years, New York City is closing out its bloodiest year in nearly a decade, grappling with a surge in homicides and a pandemic authorities say has helped fuel violence.
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Amarnath Amarasingam / Slate:
How Conspiracy Theories Like QAnon May Have Discouraged Postelection Violence — Leading up to the Nov. 3 election in the United States, there were major concerns that President Donald Trump's posture and rhetoric and the consistent social polarization he had engendered in the country since taking office …
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 …
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.