Subscribe View in browser 1. Judge: 4,000+ Georgia Voters Were Wrongly Purged From Rolls DIRTY TRICKS Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, the sister of top Democrat Stacey Abrams, reversed the attempted voter purge ahead of next week’s Senate run-offs. POLITICS 2. GOPer Who Got COVID Blames Trump’s Maskless Hanukkah Bash ‘PAYING THE PRICE’ Tom Mountain told the Boston Globe: “I didn’t listen to the warnings of my own family, and now I’m paying the price.” POLITICS Corrupt characters can’t hide from the Beast. Support us and we’ll dig deep. Join Beast Inside 3. Start the New Year With a New Health Routine AD BY SEED Seed uses science to deliver the most punch for your pre- and probiotic punch. SCOUTED Advertisement 4. WHO: Sure, COVID’s Been Bad, but Next Pandemic May Be Worse ARE YOU KIDDING? In an ominous warning, a top WHO expert warned: “This pandemic has been very severe… it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one.” SCIENCE 5. South Africa Bans Booze Sales as COVID-19 Variant Runs Riot SOBERING STATISTICS President Ramaphosa explained in a TV address that cases were rising at an “unprecedented rate,” with more than 50,000 new cases reported since last Thursday. WORLD Daily Beast Crossword Have you done this week's puzzle? Play Now 6. I’ll Be Wearing These Slippers for the Rest of Winter GLASS SLIPPER Not only do these slippers make me feel good, they do good, too. SCOUTED Advertisement 7. Kayleigh Proves Tapper Right, Effortlessly Lies on Fox CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP McEnany peddled a long-debunked claim about Biden supposedly only outperforming Hillary Clinton in a handful of metro areas in swing states Trump lost. MEDIA 8. Vindman on Career-Ending Trump Testimony: I Regret Nothing ‘SERVED MY NATION’ The Army Lt. Col. was forced out of the military following his explosive testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry last year. POLITICS 9. Ohio Cop Fired After Shooting and Killing Unarmed Black Man ‘SENSELESS VIOLENCE’ Horrific body-cam footage showed Adam Coy opening fire on Andre Hill in the garage of a Columbus home he was visiting last week. U.S. NEWS Advertisement 10. NY Post’s Hunter Biden Source Sues Twitter for Defamation POST-POST In the lawsuit, John Paul Mac Isaac says Twitter’s branding of him as a “hacker” led to him being forced to shutter his store. POLITICS 11. Man Wins $20K From Trump Campaign for Alleged 2015 Assault ART OF THE DEAL The campaign paid to settle the claim from Rod Webber, a New England-based peace activist known as the “Flower Boy.” POLITICS 12. NJ Man Says Facial-Recognition Software Led to False Arrest WATCH OUT Nijeer Parks was arrested and jailed for 10 days, using since-banned software from Clearview AI. U.S. NEWS Advertisement 13. Scientists Reporting Severe Psychosis in COVID-19 Patients IT GETS WORSE? As with much of the more rare symptoms of the coronavirus, medical researches do not yet know much about what causes these effects. SCIENCE 14. Fired Tyson Boss Says COVID Betting Pool Was ‘Morale Boost’ EXCUSES, EXCUSES Don Merschbrock was one of several supervisors axed for gambling on how many workers at the Iowa plant would test positive for the virus. U.S. NEWS 15. ‘Black-ish’ Creator Locked in Ugly Feud With Sister SIBLING RIVALRY He’s filed for a restraining order against her, reportedly claiming she’s leeching off his name and fame. ENTERTAINMENT Read More Advertisement © Copyright 2020 The Daily Beast Company LLC 555 W. 18th Street, New York NY 10011 Privacy Policy If you are on a mobile device or cannot view the images in this message, click here to view this email in your browser. To ensure delivery of these emails, please add emails@thedailybeast.com to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, or think you have received this message in error, you can safely unsubscribe. |