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9:00 AM ET, November 5, 2022

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NBC News:
Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation  —  Mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday battered the teams primarily responsible for keeping the platform free of misinformation, potentially hobbling the company's capabilities four days before the end of voting …
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The Verge:
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted  —  About half of Twitter's 7,500 employees are now gone, with teams focused on trust and safety issues hit the hardest.  —  Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter's 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted …
Platformer:
Twitter, cut in half  —  I. The Snap  —  The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday.  —  For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes of hearing something directly from their new owner.  Instead, they had heard only from Elon Musk's intermediaries, and even then usually not directly.
Washington Post:
Twitter layoffs gutted election information teams days before midterms  —  With half of the company gone, political campaigns are gripped with anxiety over how to address election misinformation and potential threats  —  Devastating cuts to Twitter's workforce on Friday …
Discussion: Twitchy and Slate
New York Times:
Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter's Staff  —  The layoffs hit across many divisions, including the engineering and machine learning units, the teams that manage content moderation, and the sales and advertising departments.  —  SAN FRANCISCO …
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Twitter Recommends Ye as Top Follow on ‘The Jews’ as Company Does Mass Layoffs  —  “The Jews” and “#IStandWithKyrie” are trending on Elon Musk's Twitter.  —  Jason Koebler  —  “The Jews” is trending on Twitter, and its algorithm has selected Ye as a “Top” person to follow …
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Twitter's Advertisers Pull Back as Layoffs Sweep Through Company
Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
What Twitter's Shake-Up Could Mean: Midterm Misinformation Run Amok
Discussion: NPR, The Guardian and PolitiFact
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
New York Democrats are bracing for stunning Election Day losses, and they already have a fall guy  —  Democratic officials and strategists in New York tell CNN they are bracing for what could be stunning losses in the governor's race and in contests for as many as four US House seats largely in the suburbs.
CNN:
House January 6 committee interviewing Secret Service agents in Trump's motorcade on day of attack  —  The House January 6 select committee is getting a window into former President Donald Trump's motorcade on the day of the US Capitol attack, interviewing on Friday the Secret Service agent …
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CNN:
House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents
Reuters:
What if Biden does not run again?  —  The U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday will do much more than shape the next two years of Joe Biden's presidency.  They will also help determine whether he will run in 2024 as well, political analysts and advisers believe.
Discussion: Associated Press and DNyuz
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Oregon 2022: Independent Candidates' Support Melts As Democrat Tina Kotek Leads Republican Christine Drazan by Four for Governor  —  Home Polls Oregon 2022: Independent Candidates' Support Melts As Democrat Tina Kotek Leads Republican Christine Drazan by Four for Governor
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Former CEOs of MoviePass and Parent Company Charged in Securities Fraud Scheme  —  An indictment was unsealed today in Miami charging two Florida men for their roles in a scheme to defraud investors of Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY), a publicly traded Florida- and New York-based company …
Asmita Pant / cnbctv18.com:
Some of world's biggest brands have quietly paused ads on Twitter  —  The advertising giant Interpublic Group has also reportedly recommended that IPG Media Brands agencies' clients suspend all their paid advertising on Twitter for at least a week.  —  General Motors last Friday temporarily …
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Can Licht Make the Cuts?  —  A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN.  —  When Chris Licht became chairman and chief executive of CNN, back in May, his boss David Zaslav asked him to conduct a six-month review of the 4,500-person global news business.
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: House Republicans cry politics over IRS outreach  —  House Republicans are threatening to investigate the Treasury Department, if they win back the majority, over the mid-October timing of 9 million letters the Internal Revenue Service sent out reminding Americans of their eligibility for certain tax credits.
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Evictions are piling up across the U.S. as Covid-era protections end and rents climb  —  WASHINGTON — On a recent Friday morning, more than 100 renters facing eviction filed through Arizona Judge Anna Huberman's court in what's becoming a typical day for her, as a wave of evictions hits Phoenix …
Discussion: The Colorado Sun and MLive.com
Jason Willick / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's Israeli victory shows how not to stop Trump  —  “Israel is a speck on the map of the world,” Walter Russell Mead writes in his new book, “The Arc of a Covenant,” but “it occupies a continent in the American mind.”  The Jewish state is a crucible for global contests over nationalism …
Washington Post:
Investigators search for pricey gifts to Trump from foreign leaders  —  Golf clubs, diamond earrings and a soccer ball from Putin are among the gifts that House Oversight has asked the National Archives to find.  —  Congressional investigators are looking for dozens of pricey mementos gifted …
Laura Packard / Op-Eds:
Say Goodbye to Healthcare if Republicans Win  —  Campaign commercials are jamming the airwaves, and everyone is claiming to be a health care champion.  Republicans' votes say otherwise.  —  My name is Laura Packard and the Affordable Care Act saved my life.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC Cuts Ties Unexpectedly With Weekend Host Tiffany Cross … Tiffany Cross, the MSNBC weekend host who was known for running the freewheeling Saturday commentary program “Cross Connection,” is leaving the NBCUniversal-owned cable-news outlet.  —  Her production staff was informed …
Jeff Coltin / City & State New York:
Is gender bias hurting Kathy Hochul?  —  The first woman governor of New York is trailing among men, and political consultants said this is a very familiar “likeability” issue.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Hillary Clinton campaigned this week in New York City.
Discussion: Politico
Amudalat Ajasa / Washington Post:
A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Election Day  —  The total eclipse will last for nearly 90 minutes from coast to coast across the U.S.  —  Hours before citizens across the country cast their votes in a contentious midterm election, a sinister red moon will loom in the sky.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Psaki, DOJ fight social-media speech suit subpoena  —  Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki and the Justice Department are fighting an effort to force her to testify in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of violating the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies …
Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
Women under 25 could be the MVPs of the midterms  —  Thousands protest outside Supreme Court after abortion draft ruling leak  —  Polling for the upcoming midterm election has been teetering back and forth between which party will win the most seats, but the prevailing sentiment is that Democrats …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Guardian
JSOnline:
Ron Johnson fought for a tax cut as his family was amassing luxury real estate around the country  —  The small corporations and trust controlled by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's family members own about two dozen properties around the nation with assessed values of $21 million.
Discussion: Associated Press
Alec Karam / The Daily Beast:
Nike Cuts Ties With Kyrie Irving Over ‘Hate Speech’  —  JUST DID IT  —  Nike has halted its relationship with Kyrie Irving in the wake of the Brooklyn Nets suspending the player for promoting an antisemitic film.  “At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form …
Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Argentina's Kirchner Stokes Speculation On Presidential Run  —  Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called for a political “reorganization,” on Friday, hinting at the possibility of a presidential run next year as speculation builds about her candidacy.
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
How to be a widow: A guide from a wife who doesn't know either  —  When I lost my husband to brain cancer, I learned there is no road map for grief  —  Since my husband, Bill, died of brain cancer in June, I've found myself unclear about what it means to grieve.
 
 
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C. Todd Lopez / U.S. Department of Defense:
Stratcom Commander Says U.S. Should Look to 1950s to Regain Competitive Edge
Discussion: CNN and Washington Examiner
Shannon McCaffrey / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Walker, Warnock both men of faith
Timmy Facciola / The Intercept:
GOP Candidate Playing Up Veteran Status Finds Loophole for His Claim
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
‘Ready to party’: Zeldin and Stefanik plot New York Republican revival
Discussion: Breitbart, New York Times and DNyuz
T. Keung Hui / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC Supreme Court orders state to increase funding for public schools in Leandro case
Discussion: Carolina Journal
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Ex-NYC buildings boss Eric Ulrich spent $40K at eateries with past reported links to mobsters: records
Andrea Cavallier / Daily Mail:
NBC News mysteriously PULLS its exclusive report on how Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul, 82, calmly opened door to cops in his underpants …
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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