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12:45 AM ET, December 13, 2021

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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Graham criticizes McConnell over debt ceiling, says GOP leaders must work with Trump  —  Sen. Lindsey O. Graham on Sunday continued his criticisms of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for adopting a bipartisan deal that allowed Democrats to raise the debt ceiling.
Discussion: Insider
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News as Right-Wing Hosts Hold Sway  —  The “Fox News Sunday” anchor had been with the network for 18 years, and often dissented from the views of his pro-Trump colleagues.  —  The star Fox News anchor Chris Wallace announced on Sunday that he was leaving for CNN …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Chris Wallace exits Fox News Channel for CNN's streaming service
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Chris Wallace to Join CNN Plus After Fox News Channel Departure
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Chris Wallace bolts Tucker Carlson's Fox News
Discussion: Fox News, Coverage Notes and Raw Story
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:   Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News to Join CNN+ in Industry Shocker (UPDATE)
Washington Post:
Chris Wallace leaves Fox News for a CNN streaming show: 'I'm ready for a new adventure'
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Harris trashes her media coverage
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CNN:
Meadows said National Guard would be ready to ‘protect pro Trump people’ before Capitol insurrection, House investigators say  —  Washington (CNN)Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent an email saying the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ in the lead …
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Mediaite
Reuters:
The curious case of a map and a disappearing Taiwan minister at U.S. democracy summit  —  A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a different color to China, which claims the island as its own.
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
White House cut Taiwanese official's video feed over map: report  —  After a Taiwanese minister showed a map that labeled Taiwan in a different color than China during President Biden's Summit for Democracy last week, the video of her presentation was reportedly cut by the White House over diplomatic concerns.
Discussion: Power Line
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Pelosi will stay around to lead House Democrats through the next election — and perhaps beyond  —  (CNN)Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House's top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond.
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Ben Smith / New York Times:
A Comedy Nails the Media Apocalypse  —  With “Don't Look Up,” Adam McKay makes a star-studded allegorical satire that shows the news media whistling past the climate-change graveyard.  —  After the president, a former nude model, tries to cover up a major discovery, two astronomers leak …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Puts Spotlight on Phone Ban  — Online retailer is returning to a cell phone ban in warehouses  — Workers say they want access to weather alerts, communication  —  An Amazon.com Inc. warehouse collapse on Friday night that killed at least six people …
MSN:
Marshall: ‘I still remain concerned’ Biden didn't win 2020 election fair and square  —  Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) responds to Bob Dole's final interview about President Trump and says that while he “absolutely” believes he won his own 2020 election fair and square, he “remains concerned” that President Biden did not.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Nothing is more important than Team Trump's January PowerPoint urging a full-blown coup  —  In 1971, the brilliant musician Gil Scott-Heron warned America that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”  So far that's been true, but who knew that in 2021 the counterrevolution …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Satellite images, expert suggest Iranian space launch coming  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran appears to be preparing for a space launch as negotiations continue in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, according to an expert and satellite images.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Maria Abi-Habib / New York Times:
Haiti's Leader Kept a List of Drug Traffickers.  His Assassins Came for It.  —  In the months before his murder, President Jovenel Moïse took a number of steps to fight drug and arms smugglers.  Some officials now fear he was killed for it.  —  PORT-AU-PRINCE — President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was about to name names.
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Satellite Images Show Russian Military Forces Keep Massing Near Ukraine's Border  —  KYIV — Tanks and other menacing self-propelled artillery.  A Russian Buk surface-to-air missile system like the one that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.  Thousands more troops.
Carlie Porterfield / Forbes:
Meet The Texas-Born Italian Princess Who's Selling A $532 Million Roman Villa With A Caravaggio Ceiling  —  Rita Jenrette scandalized Washington in the 1980s when, as the wife of a disgraced congressman, she posed for Playboy.  After reinventing herself as a New York real estate broker …
Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Rand Paul Opposition to Previous Disaster Relief Resurfaces as He Seeks Aid for Kentucky  —  Critics slammed Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul for requesting federal aid to help his state recover from devastating tornadoes after he previously voted against relief when other states were struck by natural disasters.
Denisse Quintanilla / CNBC:
Student-loan forgiveness would mean everything to Latinx students stuck in a debt cycle  —  The amount of student loan debt in the United States is $1.8 trillion dollars — and counting.  The price to get an education has never been more expensive.  —  The student loan crisis has affected …
Bloomberg:
For Americans Shocked by Inflation, Argentines Have Some Advice  — Inflation at 40-year highs is unnerving American shoppers  — Argentines learned inflation survival tactics the hard way  —  For many Americans, the sudden burst of inflation that has rocked the economy has been disorienting.
Discussion: Twitchy
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Negotiating with the Taliban to save lives in Afghanistan  —  When the U.S. pulled up stakes in Afghanistan this past August, the Biden administration didn't expect the Taliban to seize control of the country so quickly.  Twenty years of nation building and an Afghan military crumbled within days.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Hans Von Der Burchard / Politico:
G7 warns Russia of ‘massive consequences’ if it attacks Ukraine  —  Major economic powers back Kyiv's right to ‘determine its own future.’  —  Russia will face “massive consequences and severe cost” if it pursues further military aggression against Ukraine, foreign ministers from the G7 group of democratic powers warned Sunday.
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Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Diplomats Warn Russia of ‘Massive Consequences’ if It Invades Ukraine
Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg
 
 
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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