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A step closer to a second COVID-19 vaccine. Nearing a new stimulus deal. A hack of federal agencies is worse than first thought. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Friday, December 18, 2020:
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The country’s refugee camps are packed and squalid, so the government is moving perhaps 100,000 Rohingya Muslims to a tiny island. Will life for them improve? Military tactics can be misleading; sometimes they are outright trickery. Our defence editor looks at the past and future of military deception. And why Christmas dinner involves such different fare around the world.
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Since the presidential election, local Republicans in states that Joe Biden flipped blue have been arguing about what went wrong. The difference in Georgia is, the election isn’t totally over - and the upcoming runoff election will decide which party controls the Senate.
So with all eyes on Georgia, why do the state's Republicans seem just as intent on tearing into each other as holding onto their seats?
Guest: Rusty Paul, Mayor of Sandy Springs, Georgia.
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Living in an age awash with information can sometimes obscure its extraordinary fragility. Indeed, as Richard Ovenden demonstrates in Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press, 2020), the burning of books and the looting of archives has long been a tool for controlling access to information and the power that it offers. Many rulers throughout history have deliberately targeted libraries and archives for plundering and destruction, knowing that doing so limits the ability of their victims to benefit from the knowledge therein. Ordinary individuals have often engaged in similar actions on a smaller scale in an attempt to control public perceptions of themselves and how they will be remembered. Ovenden shows how these efforts highlight the role that libraries and archives have long served in society, both as repositories of information and as institutions that work to ensure that knowledge and the power that comes from it is available to everyone and not just the few who seek to limit it for their own benefit.
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The news to know for Friday, December 18th, 2020!
What to know about:
Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!
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Sources:
FDA Panel Recommends Moderna Vaccine: WaPo, AP, WSJ
VP Pence Getting Vaccine Today: NBC News, Axios, ABC News
U.S. Sets New COVID-19 Records: NY Times, Johns Hopkins, COVID Tracking
Southern California has 0% ICU Capacity: LA Times, AP, NPR
France’s Macron Gets COVID-19: WaPo, CNN, Axios, Reuters
Biden Picks Interior Secretary: WaPo, NPR, FOX News, Biden Transition, Haaland Tweet
See the Rest of Biden’s Climate Team: Biden Transition
Russia’s Olympics Ban Upheld: USA Today, NY Times, WaPo, AP
'Grave Risks' From Cyberattacks: NY Times, AP, USA Today, Politico, Bloomberg, CISA
Google’s 3rd Antitrust Lawsuit: AP, NY Times, The Verge
'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Comes Out: NPR, USA Today, Netflix
'McCartney III' Released: AP, Rolling Stone, Billboard
Feel Good Friday: Friendship Bracelets for Charity: NY Times, NPR, Buy a Bracelet Here
Congressional leaders are putting together the final pieces of an emerging deal on COVID relief, but the negotiations could continue into the weekend. We spoke to Congressman Ro Khanna about the relief bill, the Biden transition and what gives him hope for next year.
This year saw the largest-ever racial justice uprisings since the 1960s, following the racist killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other Black Americans. We looked back at some of the conversations we’ve had with activists, journalists, and elected officials about the movement and what it means to them.
For our final round of headlines, we focused on the issue of policing: the botched raid of Anjanette Young’s apartment in Chicago and the city’s attempt to keep it quiet, new studies that show giving police military gear doesn’t lower crime rates, and Tamika Palmer’s open letter to Joe Biden about her daughter, Breonna Taylor.
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Visa and Mastercard are reportedly blocking payments on Pornhub due to allegations of child pornography on Pornhub. What is going on here?
Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for the New York Times recently wrote a heartbreaking column on the children of PornHub, telling some of the stories of the children of PornHub. What are some of those stories?
How can people stand up to PornHub and their aiding and abetting of child porn?
Haley McNamara, the director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation in the UK, and a Vice President at the U.S. based National Center on Sexual Exploitation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.
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In what will surprise no one who listens to this show, Sidney Powell's double secret expert military intelligence witness on election theft is.... a dude named Josh who is actually none of those things. Andrew takes us through the latest from the top notch legal team trying to overturn the election, and how it differs from actual lawsuits filed in Georgia for good reasons.
Links: Spyder affidavits, FRE rule 702, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), WaPo: Sidney Powell’s secret ‘military intelligence expert,’ key to fraud claims in election lawsuits, never worked in military intelligence, real law suits: Plaintiff, v. MIKE KAPLAN, SU20CV0594, 20-CV-003112, 2020V123366K, Calendar law: Georgia Code Title 21. Elections § 21-2-385, § 21-2-14