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10:40 AM ET, December 20, 2021

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CNN:
How months of talks between Biden and Manchin over Build Back Better broke down  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden was at home in Delaware Sunday when Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News to abruptly declare he could not support his sweeping social and climate plan.
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Alan Cole / Full Stack Economics:
Joe Manchin's friends aren't listening to him  —  The Senator has spoken plenty.  They just don't want to hear him.  —  Yesterday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) once again threw cold water on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan, a fiscal agenda that includes priorities in health, childcare, and climate.
Axios:
Manchin's next move  —  If Sen. Joe Manchin bolts the Democratic Party, he'd be more likely to switch to independent — and caucus with the Democrats — than become a Republican, people close to him tell Axios.  —  Driving the news: Manchin's surprise body blow to President Biden's Build …
Wall Street Journal:
Joe Manchin Rescues the Democrats  —  His opposition to Build Back Better gives Biden a chance to change course.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Joe Manchin's decision on Sunday to oppose the Build Back Better Act is a service to the country, sparing it from huge tax increases and new entitlements …
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia:
Manchin Statement On Build Back Better Act
National Review:
Good Riddance to Build Back Better
Discussion: Roll Call
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Why Trump appears deeply unnerved as Capitol attack investigation closes in  —  Flurry of recent revelations raises the specter that the committee is swiftly heading towards an incriminating conclusion  —  Donald Trump is increasingly agitated by the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack …
Discussion: MSNBC, Just Security, Raw Story and Althouse
The Times of Israel:
DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’  —  Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shooting victims; Jewish student cast as Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise  —  A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended …
New York Times:
Trump Sues New York A.G. in Attempt to Stop Inquiry Into His Business  —  The attorney general, Letitia James, is seeking to question the former president under oath next month as part of a long-running investigation.  —  Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Oust Trump coup planners, enablers and provocateurs from public office.  They betrayed us.  —  Expulsion is the most severe penalty in Congress.  Its historic trigger has been disloyalty to America - a hallmark of Trump's Big Lie and failed coup.  —  The price of admission in a democracy is accepting that your side has lost.
Discussion: Raw Story
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Moderna says its booster significantly raises the level of antibodies to thwart Omicron.  —  A booster shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine significantly raises the level of antibodies that can thwart the Omicron variant, the company announced on Monday.  —  The news arrives …
PBS NewsHour:
Biden's approval dips to new low as independents sour on his leadership  —  As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he's facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low.  Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing …
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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Reveals He Got Vaccine Booster Shot, Gets Booed by Tour Crowd  —  Donald Trump was met with boos when he revealed he had received a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Sunday.  Trump made the revelation after telling a mostly unmasked crowd at the American Airlines Center …
Discussion: Insider and CBS Chicago
Wall Street Journal:
NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni and Parents Struggle to Repay  —  By many measures, the elite Manhattan school is the worst or among the worst for leaving families and graduate students drowning in debt; 'It feels like I'm kind of trapped'  —  Five months after Kassandra Jones earned …
Discussion: The Morning Missive
Jay K. Varma / New York Times:
What Our Omicron Future Should Look Like  —  Dr. Varma is a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and an epidemiologist focused on implementing large-scale responses to infectious diseases such as Covid-19, including recently in New York.  —  If you want to know what the Omicron variant means …
Discussion: CBS News
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Sires won't seek re-election to Congress; U.S. Senator's son emerges as likely successor  —  Hudson County Democrat will retire after 2022 election after 18 years in Congress and five years as N.J. Assembly Speaker  —  Rep. Albio Sires (D-West New York) will not seek re-election in 2022 …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
Harrison Ford?!  Weird Election Incident Involving Kanye West Publicist May Point to Trump Campaign Aide  —  The Uprising is an independent publication supported by readers like you!  If you appreciate original investigative journalism, please sign up!  —  Subscribe now
Politico:
Dems sour on bid to ditch first-in-the-nation states  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Less than a year ago, Iowa and New Hampshire appeared poised to lose their privileged places on the Democratic Party's presidential primary calendar.  —  But Democrats, including in the White House, suddenly have more pressing problems.
Discussion: Insider
Tim Miller / Morning Shots:
Unboosted and Killing It: Trump and DeSantis Fully Submit to the Anti-Vax Mob  —  Hey yall -  —  I'm sitting in again today and am focusing the rundown on the MAGA leaders full-embrace of their anti-vax base.  —  But first: If you missed it on Friday I had the pleasure of taking …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Brandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar  —  “I have zero desire to be involved in politics,” says Brandon Brown, the NASCAR driver at the center of the “Let's Go, Brandon!” meme.  —  WOODFORD, Va. — “What actually keeps you from getting any nausea is that you're so zoned in on just doing this …
Erin Banco / Politico:
‘It is embarrassing’: CDC struggles to track Covid cases as Omicron looms  —  As the world experiences new, more transmissible Covid-19 variants, scientists and health officials in the U.S. are still struggling to gather accurate and timely domestic data to help inform policy decisions to safeguard Americans.
Discussion: NPR
John B. Washington / The Atlantic:
Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel  —  Worth at least a quarter billion dollars, the steel bollards are a relic of the Trump era.  —  Tens of thousands of heavy steel slats, once destined to become part of former President Donald Trump's border wall …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Schumer vows action on social policy, voting rights bills despite setback
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
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Angie DiMichele / Sun-Sentinel:
A growing number of states are getting rid of requiring concealed weapons licenses. Florida could be next.
Discussion: Breitbart
New Lines Magazine:
The Fallen Mercenaries in Russia's Dark Army
CNN:
Outgoing NIH director says Trump and other Republicans pressured him to endorse unproven Covid-19 remedies and to fire Fauci
Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Sarah Palin says ‘over my dead body’ will she have vaccine after contracting Covid
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Stirs Up Old Feud, Suggests Steve Bannon ‘Gave The Order’ To Breach Capitol On Jan 6
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkish authorities jailed five journalists and two media workers who were covering a protest over a Turkish drone strike that killed two Kurdish journalists
 
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