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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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  —  President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris will both travel to Georgia in the closing days before its pair of Senate runoff elections, underscoring the importance of contests that will determine …
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
Discussion: Reason, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
GOP seeks to roll back mail-in voting in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania that Trump lost
Discussion: Reuters and Israpundit
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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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
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.
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Times
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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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.
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and Mediaite
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WSB-TV:
GBI finishes signature audit in Cobb County, finds only two mismatches
Discussion: Election Law Blog
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: ABC News and Infidel753
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Stephen L. Miller / Spectator USA:
Anthony Fauci must go  —  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.
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.
Media Matters for America:
Timeline: Fox News misinformation in 2020 … Tucker Carlson: “The long-term agenda of refugee resettlement is to bring in future Democratic voters.”  [Tucker Carlson Tonight, 1/3/20]  —  Sean Hannity calls for Trump to discard rules of engagement with Iran and “bomb the living hell out of them.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Howard J. Rubenstein, Public Relations Impresario, Dies at 88  —  He polished the tarnished images of the rich, the famous and the flawed, with clients that included Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch and George M. Steinbrenner.  —  Howard J. Rubenstein, who softened life's blows and polished …
 
 
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David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Complaint targets group challenging Georgia voters
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Hans Bader / Liberty Unyielding:
Murder rate rose by 37% in U.S. cities in 2020
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Alexander Reid Ross / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boys Are at War With Their Female Extremist Wing
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins
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