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11:20 AM ET, November 17, 2022

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New York Times:
Key Allies Are Inching Away From Trump  —  Early signs suggest he may struggle to win over Republican Party leaders for his third presidential bid, after a string of disappointments, but Donald Trump's staunchest voters are another matter.  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Three billionaire donors …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Barely Won the House.  Now Can They Run It?  —  A thin margin, ideological differences and competing pressures could make managing the “people's House” virtually impossible.  But the G.O.P. majority, however slim, will still be a challenge for President Biden.
Yuval Levin / New York Times:
Democrats Lost the Midterms, Too  —  The surprising results of the midterm elections were understandably received by Democrats with an elated mix of relief and vindication.  A president's party normally does much worse in his first midterms, and polls suggested this time would be no different.
Discussion: New York Magazine, E&E and Euractiv
Washington Post:
Republicans narrowly win House, ending full Democratic control of Congress  —  The GOP takeover will end two years of one-party control on Capitol Hill  —  Republicans on Wednesday were projected to win back control of the U.S. House with a narrow majority, dealing a blow to President Biden …
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
House of Horrors: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress Is Upon Us  —  Democrats beat midterms expectations, but still fell short of keeping the House.  The chamber under Kevin McCarthy, and with an emboldened right flank, may “exist exclusively as a vessel state of MAGA nation,” Rep. Eric Swalwell tells Vanity Fair.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Republicans Gain Control of the House  —  With a victory in California, Republicans captured the 218 House seats required to take a narrow majority and frustrate President Biden's agenda.  In Los Angeles, Karen Bass became the first woman elected as mayor of the nation's second-largest city.
Washington Post:
Trump's early 2024 launch fails to rally GOP around him  —  The announcement is not immediately clearing the field as Trump hoped, but he has used party divisions to his advantage before  —  Former president Donald Trump has told associates and advisers that he wants his third White House bid …
CNN:
Inside the White House's months of prep-work for a GOP investigative onslaught  —  More than four months before voters handed Republicans control of the House of Representatives, top White House and Department of Homeland Security officials huddled in the Roosevelt Room to prepare for that very scenario.  
Discussion: Raw Story
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Pence says he will not testify before U.S. House Jan. 6 panel
Scott Wong / NBC News:
House Republicans plan investigations and possible impeachments with new majority
Discussion: The Federalist and emptywheel
New York Times:   Nonprofits With Ties to Democrats Plan Counteroffensive Against Congressional Investigations
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
GOP Authoritarianism Isn't Going Away After the Midterms
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: All eyes on Pelosi
Discussion: CNN
Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
The Pollster Who Predicted a Red Wave Explains Himself
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fortune
Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58  —  Mr. Gerson helped shape President George W. Bush's messaging after the 9/11 attacks and then moved to The Washington Post, where he wrote about politics and faith  —  Michael Gerson, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster  —  Michael Gerson, 58, died on Thursday.  For 15 years beginning in 2007, he wrote a twice-weekly column for The Post — including this beautiful meditation, originally published on Aug. 19, 2013, on what it felt like to drop off his son at college.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Michael Gerson followed his faith — and America was better for it  —  One of the biblical injunctions sometimes cited by Michael Gerson, who died Thursday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer, comes from the New Testament book of Colossians: “Let your conversation be always full of grace …
Ankush Khardori / New York Times:
Trump Faces Five Major Investigations.  He Has Dozens of Ways Out.  —  Mr. Khardori is a lawyer and legal analyst.  He spent several years as a prosecutor at the Department of Justice.  Before he joined the federal government, he defended corporate clients against charges of fraud and other crimes.
Discussion: Althouse, CBS News, USA Today and CNN
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Trump's running for president again. Does that get him off the legal hook?
Discussion: The Guardian
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
At long last, Trump gives his concession speech
Bloomberg:
Trump Candidacy Will Complicate, But Not End, DOJ Investigations of Him
John Nichols / The Nation:
Donald Trump Knows How to Win the Republican Presidential Nomination
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
John Mearsheimer on Putin's Ambitions After Nine Months of War  —  The realist political scientist explains why Russia's move to annex four Ukrainian provinces isn't imperialism.  —  Back in February, a few days after Russia launched its war in Ukraine, I spoke with the political scientist John Mearsheimer.
Discussion: National Review
Andrew Weissmann / Just Security:
Mar-a-Lago Model Prosecution Memo  —  This model prosecution memorandum (or “pros memo") assesses the potential charges against former President Donald Trump emanating from his handling of classified documents and other government records since leaving office on January 20, 2021.
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory  —  The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election.  The board's former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.”
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
Julia Wick / Los Angeles Times:
Karen Bass elected mayor, becoming first woman to lead L.A.  —  Rep. Karen Bass has defeated businessman Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor's race, according to an Associated Press projection Wednesday, making her the first woman and second Black Angeleno elected to lead the city in its 241-year history.
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
LA elects US Rep Karen Bass mayor, first Black woman in post
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emeritus?  —  The longtime Democratic leader, a fixture of the House for decades, will step back into a chairman-like role in the minority rather than retire immediately, giving her time to manage her succession and ensure the stability of her caucus through the forthcoming McCarthy era.
Wall Street Journal:
FTX's Collapse Leaves Employees Sick With Anger  —  Many say they learned of crypto exchange's deteriorating situation through media and lost access to their funds  —  How FTX Went Bankrupt: What Went Wrong  —  Created with sketchtool. … One FTX executive vomited when he learned …
Filipp Lebedev / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Brittney Griner taken to penal colony in Russia's Mordovia region - source  —  U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been taken to a penal colony in the Russian region of Mordovia, a source familiar with the case told Reuters on Thursday.  —  In August, Griner was sentenced …
 
 
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Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
North Korea fires missile after threatening ‘fiercer’ step
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal:
Russia Sanctions Disrupting Putin's Military Efforts, Treasury Official Says
Discussion: Reuters, Al Jazeera and UPI
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
U.S. will begin deporting Cubans by plane in ‘coming weeks,’ U.S. officials say
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Associated Press:
MH17 verdicts: 2 Russians, 1 Ukrainian convicted of murders
Yossi Melman / Haaretz:
Under U.S. Pressure, Israel Funded ‘Strategic Materials’ for Ukraine
Sune Engel Rasmussen / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Hands Out More Death Sentences to Protesters
Discussion: Iran Human Rights
New York Times:
'This Is Not Ukraine's Fault': Tensions Ease Over Missile Strike in Poland
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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