Russian ambassador to U.S. dies in Moscow of ‘chronic illness,’ foreign ministry says
The Washington Post's live blog leads with Russian authorities' report that Ambassador to the U.S. Alexander Darchiev died in Moscow at 66, which the Foreign Ministry attributes to a "chronic illness" and the embassy calls sudden. It also tracks the North Carolina Senate recount margin, Tennessee's bid to shield its lethal-injection supplier, a government-funding impasse ahead of Dec. 11, the dark-money group United Futures Inc., Alex Karp's and Jon Tester's Palantir comments, and House Freedom Caucus post-election demands.
