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7:50 PM ET, December 31, 2021

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TMZ.com:
Betty White Dead at 99  —  EXCLUSIVE  — 1.24M … 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.
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Betty White, one of the most endearing and enduring faces on television, dies at 99  —  Betty White, an Emmy Award-winning comic actress who was best known for playing a man-hungry TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s and a ditzy widow on “The Golden Girls” …
Richard Severo / New York Times:
Betty White, a TV Fixture for Seven Decades, 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 …
Discussion: The Mahablog, Variety and NPR
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 …
Discussion: RedState and Twitchy
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Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Where Is Ron DeSantis?  Photos Fuel Speculation About Whereabouts of Florida Governor  —  Photos circulating on social media have raised new questions about the whereabouts of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as he faces criticism amid a surge in COVID-19 in his state.
Andrew Naughtie / The Independent:
Desantis's staff blast AOC over Miami vacation to shift focus from questions about governor's absence
Discussion: National Review and Townhall
Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
EXCLUSIVE: AOC Spotted in Miami Beach as NYC Reports Record Covid Cases
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
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 …
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump appointee at FDIC 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.
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.
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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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Biden plans to reaffirm support for Ukraine in call Zelenskyy on Sunday
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Biden's call with Putin produced predictably underwhelming results
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
‘Crazy’ omicron surge could peak soon, but the virus is unpredictable as the pandemic enters its third year  —  Columbia University researchers estimate infections could top out during the week of Jan. 9  —  The rapid surge of omicron infections in the United States may be relatively brief …
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Amy Cheng / Washington Post:
Omicron has passed peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, authorities say
Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election  —  As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it.
Michael Williams / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz's daughter takes to TikTok to discuss life as senator's kid  —  Answering questions from followers on TikTok, she discusses the pros and cons of being a senator's daughter.  —  Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz found himself in a predicament this week that would make any parent working …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Louisiana Judge Michelle Odinet Resigns Over Shocking Racial Slur Video  —  QUITTING TIME  —  A Louisiana judge has resigned weeks after footage from her home appeared to show her repeatedly using the N-word and comparing a burglary suspect to a “roach.”  Michelle Odinet was Lafayette City …
Discussion: UPI, KLFY-TV and Raw Story
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.
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 …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Joe Biden's Year of Hoping Dangerously  —  It was a brutal start for the new President.  —  The best thing you can say about 2021 is that it will soon be over.  A year that started with an insurrection at the Capitol is ending with more than eight hundred thousand Americans dead in the covid pandemic …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kimberly Atkins Stohr / The Boston Globe:
A year after a seditious insurrection, why won't federal prosecutors treat it that way?  —  History is full of examples where other uprisings have resulted in charges of sedition conspiracy and insurrection, something that — despite ample video evidence and the admissions of those involved — hasn't happened here.
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
 
 
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