1. Ossoff Now Leads by 16,370 Votes With 98% In: Georgia Count

  INCHING CLOSER 

The margin between Perdue and Ossoff is currently 0.4 percent—a gap tight enough to entitle the GOP incumbent to request a machine recount if it remains unchanged.

2. Warnock Makes History as Georgia’s First Black Senator

 ‘WORK FOR ALL OF GEORGIA’ 

While the numbers indicate he defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, she told supporters she still saw “a path to victory.”

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3. This Fake Sunrise Actually Gets Me Up Every Morning

 RISE AND SHINE 

The TITIROBA Wake-Up Light helped me finally say goodbye to being jostled awake by incessant alarms.

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4. China Blocks WHO’s Virus Team From Entry at Last Minute

 SOMETHING TO HIDE? 

It took months of negotiations for Beijing to agree to allow a team of WHO investigators into the country with the aim of probing the how the pandemic began.

5. Feds Investigating Threat to Fly Plane Into Capitol: Report

 CHILLING 

Air traffic controllers received an audio message in which an unidentified voice says, “We are flying a plane into the Capitol on Wednesday. Soleimani will be avenged.”

6. The Space-Saving, Non-Stick, Our Place Always Pan Is on Sale

 ALWAYS, FOREVER 

It’s one of our favorite pans thanks to its do-it-all attitude and spoon rest, and you better believe it’s on sale.

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7. America Sets a Horrifying New Record: 3,775 Dead in One Day

 SO MUCH SUFFERING 

Pandemic trackers at Johns Hopkins University also recorded an additional 229,055 new cases of COVID-19 across the nation Tuesday.

8. Assange Won’t Go Free Despite Rejection of Extradition Order

 NO CAN DO 

The bail decision came two days after a judge refused to extradite Assange to the United States, fearing he would be at risk of killing himself in harsh prison conditions.

9. Proud Boys Brawl With D.C. Cops Ahead of Pro-Trump March

 ‘HEADS ARE GONNA ROLL’ 

“We had your f*cking back, but we ain’t got your back no more!” one man told police, noting that he and other members of the group have military training.

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10. N. Korean Prison Escapee Seeking Lost Daughter Dies of COVID

 NEVER GIVE UP 

Yun Jong-su, a South Korean fisherman who escaped after being abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, has died while searching for his child who was abducted in 2008.

11. Pence Told Trump Over Lunch He Can’t Overturn Election: NYT

 REALITY CHECK 

Trump insists the two are “in total agreement” about Pence having the “power” to overturn the Nov. 3 election. (He doesn’t.)

12. Hawley Admits Pence Can’t Do Anything to Change Election

 TRUTH CAN’T HIDE 

“I don’t think the vice president actually counts under the law. He’s sort of just there. This is really on Congress,” Hawley informed Laura Ingraham on Tuesday night.

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13. Rep. Kevin Brady Tests Positive for COVID-19

 ‘SHLD BE FINE’ 

The highest-ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee was on the House floor for voting this week.

14. Dr. Dre Says He’s ‘Doing Great’ After Brain Aneurysm

 SCARY 

The music mogul was reportedly rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles on Monday.

15. Nebraska Guv: No Vaccine for Undocumented Meat Plant Workers

 HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 

He claims all the workers are legal, so it won’t be a problem. The union says that’s a lie.

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