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7:55 AM ET, January 1, 2022

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TMZ.com:
Betty White Dead at 99  —  EXCLUSIVE  — 1.41M … 3:32 PM PT — Betty's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is drawing a crowd ... and folks are leaving candles, flowers, stuffed animals and other tokens.  —  12:32 PM PT — The beginnings of a makeshift memorial outside Betty's house are underway.
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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Betty White, The Golden Girls and Hot in Cleveland Star, Dead at 99  —  “Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” Betty White's agent and close friend Jeff Witjas tells PEOPLE in a statement  —  Betty White, TV's perennial Golden Girl, has died.  She was 99.
Richard Severo / New York Times:
Betty White, a Television Golden Girl From the Start, Is Dead at 99  —  Among the many highlights of a career that began in 1949 were star turns on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s and “Saturday Night Live” in 2010.  —  Betty White, who created two of the most memorable characters in sitcom history …
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Ron DeSantis accompanied wife to cancer treatment while critics claimed he was ‘missing’  —  DeSantis announced his wife's breast cancer diagnosis in October  —  Florida Democrats blame DeSantis for COVID surge  —  Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis accompanied his wife to her cancer treatment …
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Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:   Gov. Ron DeSantis to make public appearance at Orange Bowl, first event appearance in two weeks
Cate Cadell / Washington Post:
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show  —  China is turning a major part of its internal Internet data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets …
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New York Times:
Chinese Police Hunt Overseas Critics With Advanced Tech
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Roberts Reflects on Conflicts, Harassment and Judicial Independence  —  In his year-end report, the chief justice said that the court administrators, not Congress, should address financial conflicts and workplace misconduct in the judicial system.
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Wall Street Journal:
Chief Justice John Roberts Pledges to Bolster Judicial Ethics  —  Year-end report addresses Wall Street Journal findings that federal judges with financial conflicts improperly ruled in hundreds of cases  —  WASHINGTON—Chief Justice John Roberts pledged Friday to improve ethics training …
Discussion: Washington Post and NPR
Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Chief justice: Judges must better avoid financial conflicts
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Omicron Doesn't Infect the Lungs Very Well, Animal Studies Find  —  Compared with earlier variants, Omicron may cause less damage to the lungs, new animal research suggests.  —  A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing a possible explanation …
Discussion: The Times of Israel and HotAir
Victoria Guida / Politico:
FDIC's GOP chair to resign after partisan brawl  —  Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Jelena McWilliams on Friday unexpectedly submitted her resignation after the Trump appointee faced partisan strife at the bank regulator, in a move that will give Democrats control of the agency in the coming weeks.
Politico:
Bernard Kerik provides batch of documents to Jan. 6 select committee  —  A key adviser to Donald Trump's legal team in their post-election quest to unearth evidence of fraud has delivered a trove of documents to Jan. 6 investigators describing those efforts.
Discussion: Mediaite, New York Post and Raw Story
Jonah Goldberg / The G-File:
Top-Down Letdown  —  How elites failed us in 2021.  —  Dear Reader (and all the strange voices in my head),  —  I finally got COVID.  I assume it was Omicron, but who knows?  Whatever variant it was, it wasn't fun.  Since odds are good everybody everywhere is going to get it, I'll spare you the detailed reporting from my sickbed.
Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Prosecutors break down charges, convictions for 725 arrested so far in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol  —  Federal prosecutors in the District have charged more than 725 individuals with various crimes in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, when hundreds of rioters forced …
Office of the Texas Governor:
Governor Abbott, TDEM, DSHS Request Federally-Supported COVID-19 Testing Sites, Medical Personnel, Increased Monoclonal Antibody Allocations  —  Governor Greg Abbott announced today that the State of Texas, through the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) and the Texas Department …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden to speak with Ukraine President Zelenskyy, says he ‘made it clear’ to Putin that Russia cannot invade  — President Joe Biden plans to speak with Ukraine President Zelenskyy on Sunday to express support amid Russia's military buildup on the border, a White House official said.
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gableman subpoenas election officials and city IT departments as GOP election review widens  —  MADISON - Assembly Republicans hit the state Elections Commission and municipal IT departments with subpoenas in recent days as part of their wide-ranging, months-long review of the 2020 election.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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