Latest Economist Intelligence: EIU growth forecasts (2020) 🌍-4.7% 🇺🇸 -3.8% 🇨🇦 -5.8% 🇨🇳 1.8% 🇯🇵 -6.4% 🇮🇳 -9.8% 🇮🇩 -2.2% 🇰🇷 -1% 🇦🇺 -4.5% 🇹🇼 -0.2% 🇪🇺 -7.5% 🇪🇺EZ -8% 🇩🇪 -5.8% 🇫🇷 -9.5% 🇮🇹 -9.1% 🇪🇸 -12.7% 🇬🇧 -9.5% 🇷🇺 -4.4% 🇹🇷 -3.9% 🇧🇷 -5.2% 🇲🇽 -9.1% 🇦🇷 -11.3% 🇸🇦 -4.2% 🇦🇪 -5.5% 🇮🇱 -5.7% 🇿🇦 -7.7% 🇳🇬 -3.3%

An unidentified illness has hospitalized more than 300 people in southeastern India, including one who has died, according to local officials investigating the cases cnn.it/37E2ME5

A sweeping multistate legal effort by President Trump and his supporters to override President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has reached the end of the line, with losses in courts at all levels including the U.S. Supreme Court on.wsj.com/39Wc296

President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block millions of votes from four battleground states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden cnn.it/3mY39Qd

President Trump asked Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday if he would be willing to argue a case seeking to invalidate election results in states Trump lost if it reaches the Supreme Court — which is a long shot. Cruz agreed. nyti.ms/37MLIfb

A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to publicly acknowledge what's been widely known for weeks but what they've refused to say: Joe Biden won the presidency and will be sworn in on January 20 cnn.it/373XlyU

#BREAKING #China is revoking visa exemption for U.S. diplomat passport holders visiting China's Hong Kong, Macao SARs, as countermeasure on U.S. sanctions on Chinese officials, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Thursday.

Mastercard and Visa said they had banned the use of their credit cards on the adult website Pornhub after the New York Times Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof reported that the platform included videos of child abuse and rape. nyti.ms/3gwSeKY

"Spin aside, it's worth asking the question: How much trouble could Hunter Biden actually be in? The short answer is we simply don't know yet," writes @CillizzaCNN | Analysis cnn.it/2ICKhHF

President Trump filed a brief at the Supreme Court that featured some of the same false and misleading claims Trump has been making on Twitter. The lawyer who filed the Trump brief made a series of inaccurate claims in arguing the President's position. cnn.it/3n8oYwy

'Texit' test: Texas lawmaker floats referendum to secede from U.S. fxn.ws/3oEJlBQ

I was interviewed recently by The China Post , #Taiwan 台灣象徵不是珍奶！美國山林攝影師揭寶島「最珍貴資產」 | Landscape photographer tells why you should hike in Taiwan chinapost.nownews.com/20201207-19010…

In one of our most-read articles of 2020, our Lexington columnist wrote that Republicans' adulation of Donald Trump represents the triumph of a four-year propaganda campaign econ.st/3nry1Ja

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We believe in democracy. #WeAreOne

Was wondering if I was the only person who noticed this… cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/…

In the February 2021 issue—Akshay Kumar as Hindtuva’s poster boy; Dispatches from the farmer protests; The genealogy of a new Dalit assertion; Remembering Shamsur Rahman Faruqi; Shaheen Bagh as a model for the future; and more. Subscribe now: bit.ly/3dopO3l

How is Indian sovereignty challenged when the world finally started taking note of serious human rights violation? #TyrantModi #IndianFarmers

Adults will be able to claim a free marijuana joint when they receive a Covid-19 vaccine in Washington State. The promotion, called “Joints for Jabs,” is part of the state’s push to increase vaccinations. nyti.ms/3pvxaZL

A small Afghan girl was lifted up over the high perimeter wall and passed into the hands of an American soldier at Kabul airport, capturing the sense of desperation among many Afghans who are fleeing because of fear of persecution reut.rs/3xV3ckB