FBI Investigates Journalist Over Joke Tweet, Ohio Passes 'Heartbeat Bill,' Trump Named Time Person of the Year: A.M. Links

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  Time magazine cover

  Donald Trump was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.

• Both houses of the Ohio legislature have approved a measure that would ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which occurs about three weeks post conception.
• Angela Merkel endorsed a prohibition on full-faced veils in Germany "wherever it is legally possible."
• "Even a cursory investigation or application of common sense would have shown my tweet to be a joke," writes Nick Baumann, a Huffington Post journalist being investigated by the FBI over a joke tweet.
• A new Bloomberg Politics poll finds 69 percent of Americans are fine with Trump's stated plan to turn his businesses over to his children while he serves as president.
• Scientists at the University of Vienna say that the frequency of Cesarean-section births is having an impact on human evolution by letting more women with narrow pelvises live.
• Julian Assange published statements he gave to Ecuadoran prosecutors regarding rape allegations in Sweden.
• "Aside from not actually being a country," Liberland— the liberty-loving utopia project on the banks of the Danube—"is also beginning to seem not all that free," writes Morgan Childs in GQ.

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