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7:35 AM ET, December 29, 2020

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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Bernie Sanders to delay defense veto override in bid for $2,000 checks  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders will filibuster an override of President Donald Trump's defense bill veto unless the Senate holds a vote on providing $2,000 direct payments to Americans.  —  “McConnell and the Senate want to expedite …
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Washington Post:
A day on the golf course helped change Trump's mind on the stimulus bill  —  The frantic campaign to persuade President Trump to sign a massive spending and coronavirus relief bill came to a head on Christmas Day, on the greens and fairways of West Palm Beach, Fla.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Democrats Plot to Keep Senate In Session Over $2,000 Payments  —  Bernie Sanders is leading a strategy that would force the Senate to stay in Washington through New Year's Day to try to force the vote.  —  Dayen-Sanders-122820  —  Bernie Sanders is committed to forcing a vote on $2,000 payments …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to boost stimulus checks to $2,000 with bipartisan support  —  Lawmakers voted to meet a Trump demand that nearly upended the massive spending-and-stimulus bill.  Senate action is uncertain.  —  The House on Monday voted to beef up stimulus checks set to go out to American households …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
House backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000
Politico:
Judge blocks voter purge in 2 Georgia counties  —  A federal judge in Georgia on Monday ordered two counties to reverse a decision removing more than 4,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.
Discussion: Reuters and Axios
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
House Votes to Override Trump's Veto of Military Bill  —  Republicans joined with Democrats to hand President Trump a rare legislative rebuke in the final days of his presidency.  The bill will next be taken up by the Senate, where it is expected to pass.  —  WASHINGTON — The House voted …
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New York Times:
Trump's Veto Threat Did Little to Alter Stimulus Package
Discussion: Fox Business, The Week and TheGrio
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
House overrides Trump veto of defense bill
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
House Advances $2,000 Stimulus Checks Demanded by Trump
Louie Gohmert:
Rep. Gohmert Issues Statement on Pence Lawsuit  —  Congressman Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed against the Vice President:  —  “The 2020 presidential election was one we'd expect to see in a banana republic, not the United States of America.
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker sues Pence in bid to overturn Biden win
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
On The Trail: The political losers of 2020  —  In an election in which more voters cast ballots than ever before in American history, just about everyone had reason to celebrate.  Democrats won the White House.  Republicans made surprising gains in the House and held Senate seats even they had expected to lose.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
On The Trail: The political winners of 2020  —  © Getty Images/Greg Nash/Madeline Monroe  —  Marred by a global pandemic and its devastating economic consequences, 2020 is a year we all want to forget.  But the consequences of the 58th presidential election in American history …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
$2,000 vs. $600 stimulus payments isn't the real issue  —  There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with the covid-19 stimulus compromise President Trump signed on Sunday.  —  Its shortcomings, however, are not the specific provisions that populists on both the left and right are complaining about.
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The Times of Israel:
Ivanka Trump said weighing run for US Senate or Florida governor  —  After president's daughter and husband Jared Kushner buy $31 million mansion in Miami, speculation swirls about her political ambitions  — 2,698 shares  —  The recent purchase of a Florida mansion by Ivanka Trump …
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Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Donald and Melania Trump eye Palm Beach homes near Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: The US Sun
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Warnock, Ossoff appeal to young voters at hip-hop focused DeKalb rally  —  Do the names J.I.D., Tokyo Jetz, Shelley FKA DRAM and BRS Kash ring a bell?  If not, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock's latest campaign event wasn't for you.These hip hop artists performed at Monday's drive-in rally …
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
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Washington Post:
Biden accuses Trump appointees of obstructing transition on national security issues  —  President-elect Joe Biden on Monday accused President Trump and his political appointees of obstructing the transition of power to his incoming administration, particularly on national security issues …
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Alleges Trump Administration Obstructing National Security Transition
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
2020 Was the Year Reaganism Died  —  The government promised to help — and it did.  —  Maybe it was the visuals that did it.  It's hard to know what aspects of reality make it into Donald Trump's ever-shrinking bubble — and I'm happy to say that after Jan. 20 we won't have to care …
Discussion: Raw Story
Breck Dumas / TheBlaze:
Alec Baldwin's wife hit with allegations that she has lied for years about her Spanish heritage  —  Let's be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white.'  —  Hilaria Baldwin, the wife of actor Alec Baldwin, has been hit with a barrage of accusations claiming …
Heidi Siegmund Cuda / Byline Times:
How a Crisis in Masculinity Paved the Way for Fascism  —  Heidi Siegmund Cuda speaks to the historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about the new global rise in authoritarianism and why the recent defeat of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election was so significant  —  Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat's latest book …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Biden to fill Trump COVID vacuum with blunt warning of rising death rate  —  President-elect Biden, who has vowed to be clear-eyed and straight about the pandemic, plans a renewed warning in remarks on COVID-19 in Wilmington today, a transition official tells Axios.
Discussion: CNN and TheGrio
Agence France-Presse:
Russia admits to world's third-worst Covid-19 death toll … Russia said on Monday that its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities.  —  For months, the Russian president …
Bill Chappell / NPR:
‘I Regret Nothing’: Doctor Who Criticized Trump Parade Works Last Day At Walter Reed  —  Dr. James Phillips, the Walter Reed physician who criticized President Trump's decision to greet supporters outside the facility where he was being treated for COVID-19, has worked his last shift at the hospital.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Is Marriage Becoming Irrelevant?  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are less inclined now than in recent years to see marriage as critical for couples who have children together or for couples who plan to spend the rest of their lives together.  Most U.S. adults have been married at some point in their lives …
Gordon G. Chang / The Hill:
How Joe Biden risks the biggest giveaway ever to China in space  —  People on the NASA transition team of Joe Biden are urging the United States to start what could be the biggest transfer of technology to China.  The giveaway could result in the Chinese military dominating space and, with it, world affairs.
Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
We Have to Let Teenagers Make Mistakes and Grow  —  One teenager used a racial slur in a video, another made it go viral, and adults made the whole thing worse  —  This weekend, The New York Times reported on some teenage drama.  In 2016, a high school freshman named Mimi (who is white) …
Discussion: Twitchy, TheBlaze and RedState
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
The Newest Trump-Boosted Viral MAGA Star Has Ties to The Epoch Times  —  The president has pushed out a video from Seth Holehouse.  Not mentioned is Holehouse's ties to group that thinks Trump will bring on judgment day.  —  Little-known jewelry auctioneer Seth Holehouse burst into MAGA stardom last week …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Rowan Moore Gerety / The Atlantic:
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New York Times:
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Amy Harmon / New York Times:
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The Hill:
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Glenn Greenwald:
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
BuzzFeed News:
We Found The Factories Inside China's Mass Internment Camps
Discussion: The National Interest
New York Times:
How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor
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Rachel Handler / Grub Street:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer

Sammy Gecsoyler / The Guardian:
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