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9:55 AM ET, November 18, 2022

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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
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘A Crazy Old Man Fighting With Himself’: Can Trump Do to DeSantis What He Did to Bush?  —  To become president, Donald Trump had to vanquish a Florida governor.  To become president again, he might have to do it once more.  —  The most important story in politics in the coming weeks …
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 …
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:   Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Trumps had role in fraud scheme, Allen Weisselberg testifies at company's trial
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.
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Dems get in array on future leadership after Pelosi departs  —  House Democrats are increasingly likely to elect their troika of top leaders for the next Congress without any major confrontation, ensuring a show of unity as they enter the minority.  —  And it didn't happen without some work …
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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.
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
NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, says she'll step down as Democratic leader
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’
Reuters:
Biden administration says Saudi prince has immunity in Khashoggi killing lawsuit
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.
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: Washington Examiner and The Hill
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.
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
Wall Street Journal:
Trump or Biden?  How About Neither?  —  Walking away from the presidency is like giving up the car keys because you're too old to drive safely.  —  Joe Biden and Donald Trump: Please do the country a service and don't run for president in 2024.  America is in gridlock over the both of you …
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 …
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.
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
 
 
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Andy Biggs / American Greatness:
I Cannot Vote for Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Democrats can keep young voters in their corner
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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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Starbucks Workers Strike at Dozens of Stores Nationally
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden will ask Supreme Court to revive student debt relief plan
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Congress is letting international money launderers off the hook
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden's Top Aides Plan Exit as Economy Takes Center Stage in 2024 Election
Politico:
GOP plans to punish ‘woke’ Wall Street
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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