Page 1 Roundup (12/09)

The Daily News: Staff morale plummets at troubled federal lockup where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

New York Post: Mount Sinai Hospital emergency department is a ‘war zone,’ workers say

Caroll Spinney, puppeteer and voice behind Big Bird, dead at 85

The New York Times: Trump cripples World Trade Organization as trade war rages

How Giuliani led Trump to the brink of impeachment

Barr dives into the culture wars, and social conservatives rejoice

The Wall Street Journal: Shooting at Navy base in Florida is probed as terrorism

Experts predicted not long ago that the varied topography of English speech would be hammered flat by the internet and digital technologies. Instead, dialects like Scots are thriving on social media.