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PUNISH PUTIN
Trump doubted that the Kremlin had anything to do at all with the attempt on the opposition leader’s life. The Biden administration has no such questions.
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THE RECEIPTS
Former diplomat Andrii Telizhenko becomes the second of Giuliani’s Ukraine “scandal” team to be named by the U.S. government as part of a Kremlin influence campaign.
IT’S OVER
Trump finally concedes that he will leave office on January 20 after the VP oversaw the formal certification of Biden’s victory.
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OUT OF NOWHERE
Paul Behrends, who lost his job on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after links to Russia were reported, suffered a head injury close to his home on Friday night.
NO SELF-RESPECT
Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was caught corrupting a Swiss investigation into Russia’s biggest public fraud, but Switzerland is planning to do her bidding anyway.
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
The Scottish actor died in his sleep in the Bahamas, with his family around him.
END OF AN ERA
Labour leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor over the party’s handling of anti-Semitism just six months after he stepped down.
WHO CAN YOU TRUST?
British and U.S. signals intelligence are so tightly bound that the two agencies are more loyal to each other than their own domestic leaders, according to “Behind the Enigma.”
CRUSHING WHISTLEBLOWERS
The Pentagon Papers whistleblower said the U.S. government wanted to extradite the WikiLeaks founder in order “to crush” future whistleblowers.
CHEMICAL WEAPON
The German government says it has “unequivocal proof” that a Novichok agent was used on the leading Russian opposition leader.
