Dec. 2021 News, Views
Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in December, 2021
Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this.
Dec. 1
Top Headlines
New York Times, Analysis: Supreme Court Seems Poised to Uphold Mississippi’s Abortion Law, Adam Liptak- Washington Post, Live Reports: Justices hear arguments over Miss. abortion law challenging Roe v. Wade
- Washington Post, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says hack breached about 400,000 patients’ information
- Washington Post, Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across U.S., Amy Gardner, Tom Hamburger and Josh
Dawsey - Washington Post, Marcus Lamb, head of Daystar, a large Christian network that discouraged vaccines, dies after getting
covid-19 - Washington Post, Fourth victim dies in Mich. school shooting; suspect charged as an adult with terrorism and murder
Virus Victims, Responses
- Washington Post, Stricter coronavirus testing being weighed for all travelers to U.S.
Washington Post, FDA advisers narrowly recommend authorization of first antiviral pill to treat covid-19, Carolyn Y. Johnson and Katie Shepherd, Dec. 1, 2021 (print ed.).- Washington Post, Trump-appointed judges block Biden administration vaccine mandate for health-care workers
- Washington Post, Nigeria reports West Africa’s first omicron cases, igniting confusion
over timeline - Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 803,045
- Washington Post, 196.8 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated
Trump Watch, White Supremecists, Cults
Palmer Report, Opinion: No wonder Mark Meadows is cooperating against Donald Trump, Bill Palmer- Washington Post, Prosecutors demanded records of Sidney Powell’s fundraising groups as part of criminal probe
- Washington Post, Opinion: Trump’s coverup of his Jan. 6 corruption takes an ominous new turn, Greg Sargent
- Rolling Stone, The Fringe QAnon ‘Cult’ Is Still Waiting for a JFK Jr. Miracle in Dallas
U.S. Law, Courts, Crimes
- Washington Post, Epstein accuser says Maxwell and Epstein groomed her
- Washington Post, Wife of Mexican drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ sentenced to 3 years in prison
Washington Post, Author Alice Sebold apologizes to man wrongfully convicted of her rape- Washington Post, Ex-D.C. priest in prison for sexual abuse found guilty in separate case
- Washington Post, Philip Heymann (1932–2021); Legal scholar and aide to Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox dies at 89
- Washington Post, An assistant principal in D.C. also worked as a principal in Rhode Island — at the same time
Investigations
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