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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Gets Longest Jan. 6 Sentence Yet — Capitol rioter Robert Scott Palmer, known to online sleuths as #FloridaFlagJacket, was arrested by the FBI 12 days after he was named in a HuffPost story. — A Florida man who attacked law enforcement officers …
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Mike D'Onofrio / Axios:
Capitol rioter who threw fire extinguisher at police gets more than 5 years in prison — A capitol rioter from Florida has been sentenced in federal court to more than five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information — Brandon Straka, a Donald Trump ally who spoke at a Jan. 5 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington — and has since pleaded guilty for joining the mob that stormed onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol the next day …
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Politico:
Judge: Lack of charges for Trump over Jan. 6 is no basis for leniency for others
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
McConnell says what the Jan. 6 committee uncovers is ‘something the public needs to know’
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Florida man gets 5 years for assault in Capitol riot, the longest sentence yet
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Man Gets 5 Years on Capitol Riot Charges, Longest Sentence So Far
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Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Trump invokes antisemitic tropes while discussing his support for Israel — Former President Donald Trump veered into several antisemitic tropes in a recent interview, claiming that Israel used to have “absolute power over Congress” and saying that American Jews — the majority of whom vote Democratic …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump White House made ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine Covid response, report says — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration engaged in “deliberate efforts” to undermine the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes, a congressional report released Friday concludes.
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Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
Trump accused of ‘vile anti-Semitism’ for saying American Jews ‘no longer love or care about Israel’ because of Biden, Obama and the ‘Jewish people’ who run the New York Times
CNN:
House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to ‘undermine’ Covid-19 efforts in US
Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Trump says American Jews ‘no longer love Israel’ and Jewish people ‘run The New York Times’
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump says American Jews 'either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel' in new interview
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Claims Israel Controlled Congress, Jews Run New York Times
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin Sabotaged COVID Efforts to Score Political Points, House Probe Finds
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CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Jan 6 investigators believe Nov. 4 text pushing ‘strategy’ to undermine election came from Rick Perry — Washington (CNN)Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol believe that former Texas Governor and Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A glimmer of hope on Joe Manchin and voting rights? — By now, you'd be forgiven for concluding the chances of Sen. Joe Manchin III supporting a filibuster carve-out to pass democracy protections are somewhere between nonexistent and extremely nonexistent. — The West Virginia Democrat …
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CNN:
Democrats hope to make progress on Build Back Better in new year as action stalls for now
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Zoya Teirstein / Grist:
Build Back Better is stalled, and so are Biden's ambitious climate plans
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Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg:
South Africa Hospitalization Rate Plunges in Omicron Wave — Cases remain high compared with previous Covid waves — Omicron infections may have peaked in epicenter Gauteng — South Africa delivered some positive news on the omicron coronavirus variant on Friday …
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Wall Street Journal:
New York Hits Covid-19 Case Record as Omicron Looms
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Threatens Red America
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Forbes Testified Before The Trump Grand Jury Yesterday - Here's Why We Fought Their Subpoena — Almost three months ago, I was subpoenaed by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to appear before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump. I was asked to testify about the 2015 cover story …
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Inside The Epic Fantasy That's Driven Donald Trump For 33 Years
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USA Today:
Southwest CEO said masks don't do much on planes at maskless Senate hearing. He tested positive for COVID the next day. — Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly has tested positive for COVID-19 after a high-profile Senate commerce committee hearing in Washington, D.C.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Southwest CEO tests positive for COVID-19 after Senate hearing - airline
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Politico:
GOP blows off Trump's bid to oust McConnell — Former President Donald Trump has hit a wall in his efforts to oust Mitch McConnell as GOP leader. — Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
New York Times fires ‘Wirecutter’ editor accused of leaving profane voicemails for gun rights group — Erin Marquis, a staffer for the popular product-review site, had also lashed out at a gun-rights organization on Twitter. — The New York Times has fired an editor for Wirecutter …
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Wall Street Journal:
‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos — The app's algorithm can send users down rabbit holes of narrow interest, resulting in potentially dangerous content such as emaciated images, purging techniques, hazardous diets and body shaming
Financial Times:
‘No evidence’ Omicron is less severe than Delta, say UK researchers — Imperial College study warns of elevated reinfection risk but notes ‘very limited’ data on hospitalisations — There is at present “no evidence” that the Omicron coronavirus variant is any less severe than the Delta strain …
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Reuters:
Special Report: Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm — Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident.
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Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma's Opioid Settlement — The ruling said the company's owners, members of the Sackler family, could not receive protection from civil lawsuits in return for a $4.5 billion contribution. — A federal judge on Thursday evening unraveled a painstakingly negotiated …
Pfizer:
PFIZER AND BIONTECH PROVIDE UPDATE ON ONGOING STUDIES OF COVID-19 VACCINE — NEW YORK and MAINZ, GERMANY, DECEMBER 17, 2021 — Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and — BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today shared that following a routine review by the external independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron — I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party. The Delta surge made me nervous about it. The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it. — The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend.
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Anna North / Vox:
The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work? — From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens. — For a moment in early 2020, it seemed like we might get a break from capitalism. — A novel coronavirus was sweeping the globe …
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TMZ.com:
NFL LEGEND LAWRENCE TAYLOR ARRESTED IN FLORIDA ... Mug Shot Released — BREAKING NEWS — 1.6K … 1:52 PM PT — Court records, obtained by TMZ Sports, show Taylor has been hit with two felony charges of failure to register as a sexual offender. — NFL legend Lawrence Taylor …
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