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11:15 AM ET, December 28, 2020

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New York Post:
The Post says: Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation's  —  Mr. President, it's time to end this dark charade.  —  We're one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country.  —  On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine …
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Elizabeth Wasserman / Bloomberg:
New York Post Tells Trump to ‘Give It Up’ Over Election Claim
Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and HotAir
Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP officials invoked Trump's legacy in pleas to sign coronavirus relief bill  —  Getting a cranky, stubborn President Trump to belatedly sign the COVID relief bill, after unemployment benefits had already lapsed, was like being a hostage negotiator, or defusing a bomb.
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Washington Post:
Trump signs stimulus and government spending bill into law, averting shutdown  —  The president had demanded changes to the stimulus bill but on Sunday moved to release the stimulus funds after all  —  President Trump unexpectedly capitulated Sunday night and signed the stimulus bill into law …
Benjamin Swasey / NPR:
Trump Signs COVID-19 Relief Deal After His Criticism Threatened To Derail It
Fox News:
Ayotte and Comstock: Year of Republican women continues - now it's Kelly Loeffler's turn in Georgia  —  After years of setbacks, 2020 election yielded historic gains for GOP women in Congress  —  Loeffler, Perdue will see ‘huge turnout’ in Georgia Senate runoffs: Alyssa Farah
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NBC News:
Ossoff, Warnock warn about running low on funds, seek last-minute donations  —  LITHONIA, Ga. — Eight days out from Election Day in Georgia's crucial Senate runoff races, Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are “sounding the alarm” about their ability to keep pace with GOP spending …
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Loser Trump Wants to Drag the Republican Party Down With Him
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Florida Phoenix
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump got nothing  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THAT'S IT?  President DONALD TRUMP made all this noise about the Covid relief and government funding bill only to sign it and get nothing in return?  —  TRUMP got taken to the cleaners.  —  WHAT A BIZARRE, embarrassing episode for the president.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Political Reckoning  —  The year 2020 brought extraordinary and unexpected challenges that tested the strength of basic institutions, demanded courage and sacrifice in the face of a raging pandemic, underscored racial and economic inequities, and produced the biggest turnout of voters in the history of U.S. elections.
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Examiner
Will Feuer / CNBC:
Biden will invoke Defense Production Act to boost Covid vaccine production, advisor says  — President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of Covid vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said.
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and CBS News
Al Jazeera:
Saudi women's rights activist al-Hathloul given prison sentence  —  Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to five years and eight months in prison by a Saudi court.  —  A Saudi terrorism court has sentenced prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison …
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Associated Press:   Saudi women's rights activist Loujain Alhathloul sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison: state-linked media
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudi Women's Rights Activist Convicted But Could Be Freed Soon
Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to nearly 6 years
Discussion: Reuters and The Daily Caller
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom.  It's Working.  —  She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history.
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Chinese Citizen Journalist Sentenced to 4 Years for Covid Reporting  —  Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, is the first known person to be tried for challenging the Chinese government's narrative about the coronavirus pandemic.  —  A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a citizen journalist …
Politico:
Meet the GOP freshmen taking on the squad  —  On the first day of Congress' freshman orientation, four incoming GOP members realized they shared a special connection: All had first- or second-hand experience living in communist or socialist countries.  —  The crew quipped that their family histories …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Rubio is right: Fauci has repeatedly lied because he thinks you're stupid  —  Nearly a year into our 15 days to slow the spread, our political class still refuses to call out our supposed medical experts for repeatedly discrediting themselves with noble lie after noble lie.
Discussion: The Federalist, RedState and Townhall
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden builds out White House digital operation  —  (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named a slate of digital operatives to his incoming White House staff, preparing for an administration that, at least at the outset, will conduct most of its public-facing business digitally amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Mark Judge / The Stream:
‘They Were Relentless’: How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media  —  Some of the best advice for dealing with the media can be found in He Leadeth Me, a 1973 book by American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek.  Father Ciszek was captured by the Russian army during World War II.
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
5 Big Things We Learned About Our Elites In 2020  —  It's been a hard year but at least we know, beyond all doubt, that our elites despise us and will do anything to expand their power.  —  For as difficult as the past year has been, from politics to the pandemic, it has at least helped …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Washington Post:
Authorities identify Anthony Warner as Nashville bomber, say his remains were found in the wreckage  —  Neighbors describe Warner as a “recluse” with an interest in home security.  —  Anthony Quinn Warner was responsible for the Christmas morning explosion that rocked downtown Nashville …
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Alec Baldwin's wife became Hollywood's Rachel Dolezal because of our sniveling, bootlicking press  —  The fading celebrity trophy life ranks as one of the easiest jobs of modern life: refresh your fillers enough that the Daily Mail can never describe you as “tired-looking” …
Discussion: Mediaite, The US Sun and Althouse
 
 
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USA Today:
Donald Trump delivers an historic week of disarray from America's Nihilist-in-Chief
Discussion: Raw Story
Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
The UK is struggling to manage illegal immigration too
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:
The Year That Changed the Internet
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
Joe Biden's Death Knell for the Death Penalty
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
How cancel culture keeps COVID-19 lockdown-doubters silent
Shi-Ling Hsu / Slate:
Republicans Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Borderline Socialist
 Earlier Items: 
Lawrence Wright / New Yorker:
The Plague Year  —  The mistakes and the struggles behind America's coronavirus tragedy.
more at Mediagazer »
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
What 2020 might teach us
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Trump's legacy: An enduring contempt for truth?
Scott Gottlieb / Wall Street Journal:
Turning the Corner on Covid
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Waiting for Joe Biden: How to make it through the final, awful days of Donald Trump
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81
New York Times:
1 of every 17 people in the U.S. has been infected, and 1 in 1,000 has died. Yet the worst may lie ahead.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Axios
Meghan Cox Gurdon / Wall Street Journal:
Even Homer Gets Mobbed
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say the TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump's 2020 ban attempt
 
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