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,
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,
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Idaho hospital closes its maternity ward, citing state’s ‘political climate,’ after Idaho’s Republican-run government implemented strict abortion ban,
@TODAYshow
rpts; all its OBGYNs left the state; women now struggle for care:
BREAKING: US House unveils two articles of impeachment against Pres Trump, alleging abuse of power & obstruction of Congress for pressuring vulnerable Ukraine to investigate American political rival; vote in Judiciary Committee possible within days, full House vote by Christmas.
In overwhelmingly bipartisan deal that eluded past administrations, Congress sends to Pres Biden landmark financial overhaul of Postal Service, which
@USPS
says will allow it to modernize & invest in efficient service,
@washingtonpost
rpts; 6-day service:
JUST IN:
#FBI
Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of
#Russia
or Had Unwittingly Fallen Under Moscow’s Influence,
@nytimes
rpts; “consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security”:
In UK, Pres Trump says he doesn’t know Britain’s Prince Andrew, embroiled in
#Epstein
scandal—even though they had breakfast meeting & walk in June, smiling at Westminster Abbey, & at party together several years ago,
@washingtonpost
rpts:
Once again,
@realDonaldTrump
’s repeated false claim voting by mail leads to widespread “corruption” debunked by top election officials in states nationwide—including those from his own party,
@Hearst
TV National Investigative Unit
#factcheck
found July 17:
The 2020 Election will be totally rigged if Mail-In Voting is allowed to take place, & everyone knows it. So much time is taken talking about foreign influence, but the same people won’t even discuss Mail-In election corruption. Look at Patterson, N.J. 20% of vote was corrupted!
DEVELOPING: Airstrike at Baghdad airport in
#Iraq
kills
#Iran
’s most revered military leader, “seems certain to send tensions soaring” between US & Iran,
@washingtonpost
rpts:
BREAKING: Pres Trump makes unannounced
#Thanksgiving
visit to Afghanistan to see US troops, serve turkey, meet Afghan president to announce resumption of Taliban peace talks, press pool says; Trump had left Mar-a-Lago under cover of night,
@politico
rpts:
Commander of historic bin Laden raid, Adm. William McRaven, warns in Op-Ed after Director of National Intelligence ousted by Pres Trump for Russia election briefing: “If good men like Joe Maguire can’t speak the truth, we should be deeply afraid”:
#SOTU
: HAPPENING NOW: In Democratic response, Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) expected to say, "This administration isn’t just targeting the laws that protect us – they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection.";
@CBSNews
live stream:
In Trump White House, women make just 69¢ on the male $1—far worse than 82¢ national average,
@19thnews
rpts; GOP had tried to boast of president’s commitment to gender equality at
#RNC2020
:
In unprecedented move despite 1924 law, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says he won't give Pres Trump’s tax returns to Congress, all but ensuring court battle,
@washingtonpost
rpts:
BREAKING: Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s forner personal attorney, pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Trump real estate project in
#Russia
,
@AP
rpts; latest conviction or plea in Special Counsel Mueller probe.
Chelsea Manning, transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to
@Wikileaks
, files to run for U.S. Senate in
#MD
, challenging Democrat
@SenatorCardin
,
@washingtonpost
rpts:
MORE: Cohen admits making false statements to Senate Intelligence Cmte about plan to build Trump Tower in Moscow; Cohen already pleaded guilty to charges involving his taxi businesses, bank fraud & his campaign work for Pres Trump,
@AP
rpts:
JUST IN: Speaker Pelosi, 2nd in line of presidential succession, speaks to Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley "to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike"; READ:
UPDATE:
#CA
man sentenced to 20 years in prison for making fake emergency calls to authorities across US, including one that led police to fatally shoot a
#KS
father of two,
@CBSNews
rpts:
#swatting
Top UN officials make some of most dire warnings yet about deteriorating situation in northern
#Ethiopia
's
#Tigray
region,
@axios
rpts; "The social fabric is being ripped apart and civilians are paying a horrific price”:
Maria Mercader, beloved CBS News colleague, dies from coronavirus
#COVID19
Sunday at 54,
@CBSNews
rpts; president
@szirinsky
: “Even more than her talents as a journalist, we will miss her indomitable spirit... Maria was part of all of our lives”:
On the same day a new
#Ebola
outbreak declared in
#Congo
, top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly, team disbanded,
@washingtonpost
learns:
#health
#NaomiJudd
, Kentucky-born singer of Grammy-winning duo The Judds & mother of Wynonna & Ashley Judd, dies at 76,
@AP
rpts; The Judds were to be inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame Sunday; “We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness”:
JUST IN: Former head of
@CDCgov
Tom Frieden, who led public briefings for years on key medical issues, arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment,
@CNBC
rpts:
UPDATE from
@JulianneMcShane
: Pregnant with no OB-GYNs around: In Idaho, maternity care becomes casualty of abortion ban,
@NBCNews
rpts; after Idaho hospital cut obstetrics dept, pregnant women in county left without nearby care—their OB-GYNs fled state:
One distinguishing feature of Scott Pruitt’s tenure as
@EPA
director? He likes to travel first-class on “secretive, costly & frequent” trips,
@washingtonpost
learns; $1,600 for a 35-min flight—6x his aides’ tickets:
MORE: Pres Biden claims, “We’re sending back the vast majority of families that are coming” over US border—but actually, his administration expelled just *13%* of migrant families in past last week,
@axios
#FactCheck
finds:
Hardline White House immigration advisor Stephen Miller tells
@FaceTheNation
Trump administration will do whatever is necessary to get
#borderwall
, including government shutdown this week— days before
#Christmas
,
@CBSNews
rpts:
Pres Trump skipping daily written intelligence report and relies on oral briefing, breaking tradition with his past seven predecessors,
@washingtonpost
rpts; “not Trump’s preferred ‘style of learning’”:
JUST IN: Off-duty
@TSA
officer falls from balcony inside
@MCO
#Orlando
airport, dies, agency says; amid confusion, passengers “scattered” past security without screening; ground stop now in effect for all
#MCO
arriving flights,
@FAA
says, while travelers rescreened; full release:
Becoming only the 2nd country in the world after the US,
#Guatemala
to move embassy to
#Jerusalem
, backing Pres Trump’s controversial decision,
@Reuters
rpts:
JUST IN: Federal judge finds “by a preponderance of the evidence” that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort lied to FBI, Special Counsel Mueller, grand jury *after* signing plea deal in Russia probe; finding likely to impact sentencing; READ four-page order:
.
@Delta
cracks down on flyers w/untrained service or support animals due to “serious safety risks,” doubling of complaints, & travelers bringing “comfort turkeys, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes, spiders” onboard; statement:
#travel
MORE:
@CBSNews
reports “there’s a difference in both scope & scale”:
•10 docs from Biden as VP retrieved by
@USNatArchives
next day *vs*
•300+ docs from Trump as president held for year+ as Trump refused to return all of them:
HAPPENING NOW: In historic summit, Donald Trump meets
#NorthKorea
dictator Kim Jong Un; first sitting US president to meet head of reclusive North Korean regime; US seeks denuclearization in hours-long talks;
@CBSNews
live stream:
#TrumpKimSummit
America enduring stretch of gun violence that spiked during pandemic & has yet to subside,
@washingtonpost
rpts; Shannon Watts, founder of
@MomsDemand
: “We are not free if we’re worried that no matter where we are, we’re at risk of being shot”:
Robert Pattinson's gritty superhero adventure
#TheBatman
still No. 1 movie at domestic box office for 3rd weekend in a row, now $300M+ in North America—only 2nd pandemic-era movie to do that,
@Reuters
rpts:
For first time in state’s history,
#Missouri
Legislature, led by Republicans, has called itself into a special session; lawmakers to consider impeaching GOP Gov. Eric Greitens,
@AP
rpts:
‘Hate in the Homeland’ Special Report: Hour-long broadcast with new reporting, analysis, & exclusive joint interview with *7* attorneys general from around US—airing nationwide this month on your local
@Hearst
station or anytime online; WATCH:
•PREVIEW:👇
JUST IN: Newly revealed incident at American embassy in
#Uzbekistan
raises suspicions of Russian involvement in sonic attacks targeting U.S. diplomats in
#Cuba
,
@steve_dorsey
at
@CBSNews
learns:
JUST IN:
@DHSgov
issues National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin warning of threats to US from “domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence, and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists…”; READ bulletin:
Passionate letters supposedly from parents to school districts across US opposing masks actually copy-&-paste, part of well-financed conservative campaign to undermine regulations health authorities say necessary to contain
#COVID19
,
@washingtonpost
rpts:
New
@ABC
News poll finds:
•65% of Americans disapprove of Pres Trump’s handling of
#COVID19
;
•67% think president too slow to respond to pandemic;
•68% don’t trust what Trump says about coronavirus;
•2 to 1 think Biden has more respect for military:
Former VP Pence’s national security adviser & Trump’s chief of staff, press secretary, daughter all tried to get then-president to call for end to violent attack by his supporters on
#USCapitol
, but he refused to intervene—& kept watching,
@nytimes
rpts:
#BillPlante
, one of longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history & award-winning CBS News correspondent, dies of respiratory failure at 84 years old,
@CBSNews
rpts; covered all presidential elections from 1968-2016:
BREAKING: After nearly 18-month bipartisan investigation,
#January6thCommittee
refers to
@TheJusticeDept
for possible prosecution former President Donald Trump for insurrection, obstruction, conspiracy; refers 4 members of Congress to Ethics Cmte for not complying with subpoenas.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tells members "undisputedly" no evidence people linked to Antifa participated in deadly siege on
#USCapitol
& said he urged Pres Trump to call Pres-elect Biden,
@axios
rpts:
Ambushed in
#Ukraine
:
@SkyNews
journalists recount how they survived,
@CNN
rpts; “I hope people understand the price that journalists pay, you know, to bring them the truth. Because in Ukraine, right now, it's a very high price”; LISTEN:
MORE: Judge finds Gableman violated oath as attorney, that “Gableman's demeaning conduct has discredited the profession and every other person sworn 'to commit themselves to live by the constitutional processes of our system,”
@AP
rpts:
#WIPolitics
MORE: Pelosi says in letter to colleagues, "If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action," previewing possible historic 2nd impeachment of Pres Trump after his incitement of followers to insurrection at
#USCapitol
.
Ukraine’s president gets
@JFKLibrary
’s
#ProfilesinCourage
award for defending democracy—along with 4 US leaders standing up for free & fair elections amid pressure from Trump, many Republicans to overturn democracy,
@AP
rpts:
Wisconsin judge rules Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into 2020 found "absolutely no evidence of election fraud”—but did reveal contempt for open records law by GOP Speaker Robin Vos & his partisan investigator,
@AP
rpts:
#wipolitics
Hugh Downs, omnipresent television broadcaster for more than half century who once held world record for most time on air, dies at 99,
@washingtonpost
rpts:
‘Gutted’: All of nation’s top Cabinet departments overseeing nation’s security now run by acting officials who have been in job just weeks—or even hours—as Trump administration turmoil continues in final days,
@politico
rpts:
HAPPENING NOW: Train-borne casket of 41st president of the United States, George HW Bush, arrives in
#CollegeStation
,
#TX
for burial at
@Bush41
Library next to former First Lady, Barbara Bush; thousands gathered;
@CBSNews
live stream:
MORE:
#JacksonvilleLanding
shooting “reportedly happened at a Madden NFL video game tournament,”
@WESH
rpts; gunshots could be heard on tournament livestream:
Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels—hobbies & side businesses of ultrawealthy create huge write-offs letting them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time,
@propublica
finds:
Republican Party officials hid purchases of
#COVID19
masks—derided at the time by Pres Trump and GOP allies—by labeling the face covering buys as “building maintenance” in federal disclosure documents,
@businessinsider
rpts:
Amid rising concern about baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, bipartisan pair of congressmen on introduce resolution condemning fringe movement, calling on law enforcement to block criminal activity by adherents,
@Reuters
rpts:
US Supreme Court endorses Native American tribal police powers, backing authority of tribal officer in
#MT
to stop & search non-Native American motorist on public road on reservation land,
@Reuters
rpts:
#SCOTUS
With first primetime
#January6th
committee hearing this week, ranking Republican Liz Cheney says insurrection “ongoing threat,”
@CBSSunday
rpts; “People must watch, & they must understand how easily our democratic system can unravel if we don't defend it”:
#Election2022
: In upset, Democrat Mary Peltola wins special US House race, will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress, first woman to hold state’s lone seat; defeats 2 Republicans including fmr Alaska gov & GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin,
@adndotcom
rpts:
Trump won Hood County,
#TX
, in landslide—then his supporters hounded elections administrator anyway until she resigned,
@TexasTribune
/
@propublica
report; Michele Carew, non-partisan elections administrator with 14 years of experience, out:
MORE:
#FactCheck
with
#AZ
Sec of State
@katiehobbs
@SecretaryHobbs
:
Q: Could equipment been tampered with?
A: “Yes”
Q: Should they be replaced?
A: “Yes”
Q: Cost?
A: “$6 million dollars was the original contract”
Q: Who pays?
A: “The taxpayers of Arizona”