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Alexandra Koch / Fox News:
It's official: Biden signs new law, designates bald eagle as ‘national bird’  —  Bald eagle officially named U.S. national bird  —  The White House announced on Christmas Eve President Joe Biden signed a bill officially designating the bald eagle as the national bird.
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Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Russia launches major Christmas Day attack on Ukraine's energy system  —  Zelenskyy describes cruise and ballistic missile strikes, which caused blackouts in several regions, as ‘inhuman’  —  Christmas morning in Ukraine was overshadowed by a massive Russian aerial attack using cruise missiles …
JD Conte / KLTV-TV:
Texas Sovereignty Act would allow Texas to declare federal actions unconstitutional  —  TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Senator Bob Hall of Canton has introduced Senate Bill 80, allowing Texas to declare federal actions unconstitutional.  —  Senator Hall has dubbed it the Texas Sovereignty Act.
Washington Post:
This company rates news sites' credibility.  The right wants it stopped.  —  NewsGuard, which prizes its nonpartisan criteria, has become a prime target of the GOP's battle against disinformation watchdogs.  —  When veteran newsmen L. Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill started their news site rating company …
Laura Gersony / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's recent lavish travel expenses broke the law, watchdog group alleges  —  A government watchdog group has filed a complaint against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, alleging that her recent pricey travel expenditures broke campaign-finance laws.  —  The nonprofit Citizens …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Kyrsten Sinema may have broken the law on the way out the door: watchdog group
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia  —  What's New  —  Elon Musk has urged his followers not to donate to Wikipedia, which he branded “Wokepedia,” until “they restore balance to their editing authority.”  —  The tech billionaire made the claim on X,  —  , in response to another user …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
How to have a Trumpy Christmas, and make the president-elect richer, too  —  Donald Trump is profiting off his election in unprecedented ways as his family business sells $92 MAGA hat Christmas ornaments and $22 golden wrapping paper.  —  The Trump Store has a gift for every patriot on your Christmas list.
Rogé Karma / The Atlantic:
The Walmart Effect  —  New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.  —  No corporation looms as large over the American economy as Walmart.  It is both the country's biggest private employer …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Republicans Fear Speaker Battle Means They 'Can't Certify the Election'  —  What's New  —  to publicly reaffirm support for him to avoid a lengthy battle to replace him that could delay the certification of Trump's election victory in January.  —  Newsweek has contacted spokespeople …
Discussion: Raw Story, Alternet.org and Fox News
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John T. Bennett / Roll Call:
Protracted GOP speaker fight could complicate Electoral College count
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Robert Greenall / BBC:
Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control  —  The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory.
David Smith / The Guardian:
Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump's second term, says his ex-national security adviser  —  John Bolton delivers scathing critique of Trump's lack of knowledge or coherent strategy: 'I'm very worried'  —  A major international crisis is “much more likely” …
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Rep. Granger's Hill absence, revelation of ‘dementia issues’ reignite age debate  —  The 81-year-old congresswoman's situation reanimated a simmering discussion over the health and mental acuity of aging elected officials, with several of Granger's colleagues calling for changes and raising worries about the nation's oldest leaders.
Discussion: Salon and Alternet.org
ABC News:
Letter urging residents to report ‘brown folks’ condemned by Oregon officials  —  Oregon officials called the anonymous letter “racist.”  —  Oregon state flag waving in the wind.  —  Several officials in Lincoln County, Oregon have received an anonymous letter urging people to report …
Discussion: Raw Story
Fox News:
Second US Navy fighter jet narrowly avoided being shot down in ‘friendly fire’ incident: source  —  A second SM-2 missile was fired from USS Gettysburg, Navy official confirms  —  EXCLUSIVE: On the same night a U.S. Navy fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea, a second jet nearly suffered the same fate.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump and Musk Want to Cut Billions From the Budget.  It Won't Be Easy.  —  Efforts to cut government spending and eliminate waste are dwarfed by the rising costs of the social safety net programs and interest expenses.  —  When Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the businessmen …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Raw Story
 
 
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Ry Rivard / Politico:
How prosecutors' evidence mistakes could let Menendez walk away from corruption charges
Discussion: Raw Story
Richard Davis / The Hill:
We were warned: First term aides told us about Trump's governing style
Halina Bennet / New York Times:
Pro-Palestinian Activists Removed From Michigan's Student Government
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ramesh Ponnuru / Washington Post:
Congressional Republicans have a new headache: Elon Musk
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
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Sharon McGowan / The Hill:
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New York Times:
The Men and Women Swirling Around Elon Musk
Sara Eisen / CNBC:
Biggest banks sue the Federal Reserve over annual stress tests
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David Strom / HotAir:
When Whoopi Goldberg Is the Voice of Reason...
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Jack Jenkins / RNS:
At Trump's inauguration, reports of a pay-to-pray
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill