- Trump-McConnell rift threatens GOP’s Senate hopes (Politico) – Republicans need to pick up only one seat in next year’s midterms to win back the majority, but the GOP could be mired in a protracted civil war over the former president’s role in the party.
- Facebook Blocks News In Australia Over Government Plan To Force Payment To Publishers (NPR) – Under the proposed Australian legislation, tech platforms would have to negotiate with publishers over access to links to news stories.
- Rush Limbaugh has died. Here’s what he said on one of his final broadcasts (Deseret News) – “I wasn’t expected to be alive today,” he said. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”
- Low-income Californians to receive $600 state stimulus (USA Today) – The state proposal will be expedited for legislative approval next week. Also included is more than $400 million in new federal funds for stipends of $525 per enrolled child for all state-subsidized providers of child-care and preschool.
- U.S. attorney, FBI investigating Cuomo’s handling of nursing home deaths (NBC News) – In recent weeks, the administration revealed that 15,000 long-term care residents have died, up from the 8,500 previously disclosed.
- Mostly united over covid relief, Democrats face divisions over Biden’s massive second economic plan (Washington Post) – Fights loom on infrastructure, climate and other major — and competing — agenda items.
- Biden says he’s uncomfortable with how much he’s waited on in the White House. Trump had bragged about the opulence at a similar point in his presidency. (Business Insider) – “I was raised in a way that you didn’t look for anybody to wait on you,” he said. “I find myself extremely self-conscious,”
- I called into the ‘Rush Limbaugh Show,’ and it didn’t go as intended (Deseret News) – “It was fitting that I was at my grandmother’s house the day I embarrassed myself on national radio.”
