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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday afternoon that the Republican-controlled chamber won't consider a stand-alone bill to increase COVID relief payments to $2,000.
- The omnibus government-spending-and-COVID-relief bill passed last week also includes provisions authorizing two new D.C. museums: a Smithsonian museum for women's history, and the National Museum of the American Latino.
- A reporter who rode on the first domestic Boeing 737 MAX flight since the plane's grounding said the trip was unremarkable, aside from the presence of the American Airlines president and a bunch of other reporters.
- Retired NFL star Terrell Owens blamed his former Philadelphia Eagles teammate Donovan McNabb for their Super Bowl loss in 2005, alleging that McNabb was hungover from partying the night before the game.
- Dawn Wells, the actor who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19.
- Evangelical singer/pastor/failed Republican congressional candidate Sean Feucht is planning to hold three separate New Year's celebrations in Los Angeles that are being derided as "super-spreader" events. The preview looks intense.
- For what it's worth, Alec Baldwin went by "Xandy" in high school.
- Will the pandemic kill Dryuary?
- Andrew Yang Has A Van.
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