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11:35 AM ET, December 28, 2021

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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
CDC recommends shorter COVID isolation, quarantine for all  —  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
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Philip Klein / National Review:
CDC's New Isolation Guidance Treats Unvaccinated the Same as Un-boosted  —  The Centers for Disease Control has moved one step closer to changing the definition of fully vaccinated to include only those who have received a booster.  —  Earlier, I noted how the CDC arbitrarily halved its quarantine guidance from ten days to five.
CDC:
CDC Newsroom  —  CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population  —  Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, CDC is shortening the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for people with COVID-19 to 5 days …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Now he tells us: There's no federal solution to COVID, says Biden
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Lays Out How He and Bannon Planned to Overturn Biden's Electoral Win  —  “It started out perfectly.  At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them...” … A former Trump White House official says he and right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon …
Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Russia's Supreme Court orders closure of Memorial civil rights group  —  Organisation has documented Soviet-era atrocities for more than three decades  —  Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial, the country's oldest civil rights group, after prosecutors accused …
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Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Russian court orders oldest civil rights group Memorial to shut  —  Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the closure of International Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group.  —  Memorial worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The Democrats' Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump  —  Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia governor's race by saying, “I don't think parents should be telling schools what to teach.”  If that was no gaffe, Democrats have a lot more significant losing ahead
Discussion: Reason
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Political Life of Dr. Oz … Dr. Oz for Senate is headquartered in a patch of strip mall next to a Mexican restaurant in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the candidate's father-in-law, Dr. Gerald Lemole, maintains a medical office down the road from the Lemole family farm …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
New York Times:
The Peanut Butter Secret: A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy  —  A tax break aimed at small businesses has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits.  —  This is the story of the incredible cloning tax break.
David Axelrod / New York Times:
It's Not Over for Joe Biden  —  Mr. Axelrod was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.  —  Joe Biden must be having flashbacks.  —  In early 2010, when Democrats lost a special election for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat …
Discussion: Politico and Issues & Insights
Helen Branswell / STAT:
10 lessons I've learned from the Covid-19 pandemic  —  On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, just hours from when 2019 was going to segue into 2020, I read an email about some unusual pneumonia cases in China's Hubei province.  Over the past couple of decades, China has been a wellspring …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: There Was ANOTHER Rally Planned On Jan. 6 ... At The Supreme Court  —  The same people who organized Trump's fateful rally on the Ellipse had something else in store on Jan. 6: a rally planned in front of the Supreme Court.  —  The same people who organized Trump's fateful rally …
Discussion: Raw Story
Keith Coffman / Reuters:
Gunman kills four in Denver-area shooting spree before he is killed by police  —  A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, on Monday in a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at several locations and ended with police killing the suspect, authorities said.
Reuters:
U.S., Russia set for Jan. 10 security talks amid Ukraine tensions  —  U.S. and Russian officials will hold security talks on Jan. 10 to discuss concerns about their respective military activity and confront rising tensions over Ukraine, the two countries said.
Discussion: NBC News, New York Post and Raw Story
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James Bruno / Washington Monthly:
How Back-Channel Diplomacy Can Prevent War With Russia
Discussion: Politico and TASS
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Russia ‘not bluffing’ on NATO rollback, warns of ‘large-scale conflict in Europe’
Thomas Colson / Insider:
Trump's struggling Scottish golf resorts lost nearly $9 million in 2020, new filings show  — Trump's two Scottish golf courses lost nearly $9 million combined in 2020, new filings show.  — The filings, signed by Eric Trump, show that the clubs lost money even after claiming UK government pandemic aid.
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Hispanic Voters in This Pennsylvania City Are Shifting Toward the GOP.  Both Parties Want to Know Why.  —  Republican gains among Hispanics in Reading mirror those in other parts of the country, but Democrats think they still have important advantages with this growing demographic
 
 
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The White House:
Remarks by President Biden at COVID-19 Response Team's Regular Call With the National Governors Association
Discussion: Power Line
Virginia Langmaid / CNN:
US government should consider vaccination requirement for domestic air travel, Fauci says
Discussion: CBS News
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Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
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National Labor Relations Board:
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Rasmussen Reports:
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Michelle Stoddart / ABC News:
Another time capsule found in Robert E. Lee monument
Discussion: WRIC-TV and KLFY-TV
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Defends Remarks in Suit Blaming Him for Capitol Riot
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story