From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies: Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears
Date: 16 December 2020
By Davey Alba and Sheera Frenkel
Davey Alba
Election-related falsehoods have subsided, but misleading claims about the coronavirus vaccines are surging — often spread by the same people.
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Minnesota Releases Myon Burrell, Man Given Life Sentence After a Murder
Date: 16 December 2020
By Will Wright
Will Wright
Mr. Burrell, who has maintained his innocence, was 16 when an 11-year-old was killed by a stray bullet. The case posed challenges for Senator Amy Klobuchar during her presidential campaign.
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Axios Buys Charlotte Agenda, a Digital Start-Up, as Part of Push Into Local News
Date: 17 December 2020
By Edmund Lee
Edmund Lee
The site focuses on service journalism for North Carolina’s largest city. Now it has been scooped up in a deal valued at nearly $5 million and will be a partial model for other cities.
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Takashi Oka, Journalist Who Interpreted Japan for U.S., Dies at 96
Date: 17 December 2020
By Ben Dooley
Ben Dooley
A former war crimes trial interpreter, he was the first native-born Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times and a longtime correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.
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Watch Live: Powell Holds News Conference
Date: 16 December 2020
By Reuters
The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, will hold a news conference after the end of the central bank’s final scheduled meeting of the year.
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Putin says Russians may get one vaccine shot, not two, to speed things up.
Date: 17 December 2020
By Anton Troianovski
Anton Troianovski
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that his government was considering giving each member of the public just one dose of its main coronavirus vaccine, instead of two, in order to get the vaccine quickly to more people.
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Dominion demands that Sidney Powell retract ‘baseless and false allegations’ about voting machines.
Date: 17 December 2020
By Alan Feuer
Alan Feuer
Dominion Voting Systems sent a blistering letter on Wednesday night to the right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding that she publicly retract her “wild, knowingly baseless and false accusations” about the company’s voting machines, which have repeatedly found themselves at the heart of conspiracy theories surrounding the election.
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Putin Denies Involvement in Poisoning of Navalny
Date: 17 December 2020
By Anton Troianovski
Anton Troianovski
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia laughed off a question about the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny at a marathon news conference, where he praised his country’s Covid-19 response and President Trump.
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Chicago Mayor Apologizes to Social Worker Who Was Handcuffed Naked
Date: 17 December 2020
By Maria Cramer
Maria Cramer
Police body-camera footage of a 2019 raid on Anjanette Young’s apartment shows her screaming and crying as she tells the officers that they had the wrong person.
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Stimulus Negotiations Have Made ‘Major Headway,’ McConnell Says
Date: 16 December 2020
By Reuters
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, said congressional leaders are approaching agreement on a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief package.
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