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  • RIP: beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek died of cancer today at age 80.
  • Meet the Republican QAnon believer who is currently ahead in the race for a southern Brooklyn State Assembly seat.
  • Here's everything we know so far about the Trump campaign's magnificently absurd press conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping company, next to an adult bookstore, across the street from a crematorium.
  • Trump has not called President-elect Biden to concede or congratulate him, but former president George W. Bush did.
  • Two NYC newlyweds who tragically drowned while swimming in the Caribbean on their honeymoon are mourned and remembered as "shining lights who touched everyone."
  • The New Yorker's Dana Goodyear considers the significance of Madam Vice President Kamala Harris.
  • Two census takers have come forward to say they were pressured "to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases" before the count's deadline.
  • The Washington Post takes a closer look at America's vote counters, who were subjected to enormous pressure and hostility from Republican observers this year: "I could only imagine what it would feel like, trying to do your job, having these people hover and sneer at you and yell at you and make something so simple, something that’s supposed to be so patriotic, so hard."
  • And finally, here's beautiful slow-motion video of a bald eagle being released after being treated for its injuries: