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New York Times:
Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay  —  Mr. Musk, Twitter's new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”  —  Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk …
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The Verge:
Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk's ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter  —  Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.  And right on deadline, the farewell emojis started pouring into Twitter's Slack.
NBC News:
McCarthy skips Pelosi's retirement speech as some Republicans pay grudging respect  —  WASHINGTON — When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement from congressional leadership on Thursday, the House chamber was packed with Democratic lawmakers in anticipation of the announcement from an icon of American politics.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Pelosi's big decision: 'There's a life out there, right?'  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the attack on her husband, Paul, by an intruder in their family home made her think about staying on as the House Democratic leader because she “couldn't give them that satisfaction” of intimidating her out of politics.
NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, says she'll step down as Democratic leader  —  Pelosi, 82, has been the Democratic leader for two decades.  She is expected to remain a member of the House, at least temporarily.  —  WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Nancy Pelosi's tenure as House Speaker is unlikely to be surpassed
Discussion: Daily Kos and Bloomberg
Reuters:
Hakeem Jeffries favored to lead U.S. House Democrats after Pelosi exit
Associated Press:
US moves to shield Saudi crown prince in journalist killing  —  The Biden administration declared Thursday that the high office held by Saudi Arabia's crown prince should shield him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, a turnaround from Joe Biden's passionate …
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Biden administration says Mohammed bin Salman should be granted sovereign immunity in Khashoggi civil case  —  Court filing says Saudi crown prince's promotion to the role of prime minister meant that he was ‘the sitting head of government and, accordingly, immune’
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
US Backs Immunity for Saudi Leader in Lawsuit Over Khashoggi Murder
Discussion: HotAir and Common Dreams
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden rewards Saudi leader's impunity with legal immunity
Discussion: Vox
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump  —  A Republican political strategist was convicted of illegally helping a Russian businessman contribute to Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.  —  Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime …
Discussion: The Daily, The Hill and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Rep. Lauren Boebert race too close to call, with margin inside recount threshold  —  With nearly all votes counted, the Republican incumbent led Democrat Adam Frisch by a small margin  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert, a far-right Republican from Colorado, was locked in a race that was too close …
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Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:
Republican Boebert's tight race likely headed to recount  —  Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a renowned conservative firebrand whose combative style helped define the new right, is likely headed to an automatic recount in her bid to fend off a surprisingly difficult challenge by a Democratic businessman from the ritzy ski town of Aspen.
Associated Press:
North Korea test-fires ICBM with range to strike entire US  —  North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the U.S. mainland.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Congress took millions from FTX.  Now lawmakers face a crypto reckoning.  —  The stunning collapse of the world's third-largest exchange has forced politicians to grapple with the costs of legislative inaction  —  The sudden collapse of one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges rattled …
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Financial Times:
Let crypto burn
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Writer Who Accused Trump of Rape to File New Defamation Lawsuit  —  E. Jean Carroll, whose first defamation lawsuit faced challenges because Donald J. Trump was then the president, will sue him again over similar statements he made after leaving office.  —  When the writer E. Jean Carroll …
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson Show Notes:
Against Poo Flinging Monkeys  —  It is official.  Republicans have taken back the House of Representatives.  They gathered yesterday to announce their first official act: an investigation into Hunter Biden.  —  Dumbasses.  —  What a bunch of idiots.  The American people just rejected the GOP “own the libs” strategy.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'You've gotta have a war every five or 10 years'  —  It's not every day that a senator quotes a famous mob movie to describe the state of his political party after a week of infighting.  —  “You've gotta have a war every five or 10 years to get rid of the bad blood,” Sen. John Kennedy …
Discussion: The Hill
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Trumps had role in fraud scheme, Allen Weisselberg testifies at company's trial  —  Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified in court Thursday, describing how Donald Trump and two of his children allegedly participated in a scheme to defraud tax authorities.
Nicole Chavez / CNN:
4 largest cities in America will be led by Black mayors  —  When Rep. Karen Bass is sworn in as Los Angeles mayor next month, Black people will be leading the four largest cities in America.  —  “As Black mayors continue to win elections this cycle, we are excited that, for the first time …
Discussion: Plain Dealer and Bloomberg
The Guardian:
FBI director ‘very concerned’ by reports of secret Chinese police stations in US  —  Christopher Wray says the FBI is investigating the existence of stations in New York, which could violate sovereignty  —  The United States is deeply concerned about the Chinese government setting up unauthorised …
Piper French / Bolts:
Los Angeles Voters Ousted Their Sheriff—and Then Just Kept Going  —  Voters last week took every opportunity at their disposal to challenge the scandal-ridden Los Angeles County's sheriff department and demand change.  —  Angelenos ousted Alex Villanueva, a first-term sheriff dubbed the …
Michael Weiss / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow  —  TALLINN, Estonia — “The Russians have no idea,” Alexander Toots, the head of Estonian counterintelligence, tells me, laughing.  —  “They have absolutely no idea he is here.
Discussion: Atlantic Council and New Yorker
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Starbucks Workers Strike at Dozens of Stores Nationally  —  Workers said they were protesting the company's refusal to bargain in good faith and other anti-union activity.  —  Starbucks employees went on strike on Thursday at dozens of unionized locations nationwide, citing …
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Democrats can keep young voters in their corner
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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows
NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee interviews former Trump Secret Service agent Bobby Engel
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Bomb threat at Jewish school in Philadelphia forces students to evacuate
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