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6:45 AM ET, November 18, 2022

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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.
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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 …
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.
Reuters:
Hakeem Jeffries favored to lead U.S. House Democrats after Pelosi exit  —  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to step down from her leadership role after her fellow Democrats lost their majority in last week's midterm elections positions Hakeem Jeffries …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Nancy Pelosi's tenure as House Speaker is unlikely to be surpassed
Discussion: Bloomberg
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden On Speaker Nancy Pelosi Stepping Down from Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives
Andrew Ferguson / Washington Free Beacon:   Good Riddance, Madame Speaker
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.
Washington Post:
Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum  —  The number of likely departures prompted Musk to ease his return-to-office edict and managers to meet to decide which engineers to ask back  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of Twitter employees refused Thursday to sign a pledge …
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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’
Discussion: Informed Comment
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden rewards Saudi leader's impunity with legal immunity
Discussion: Common Dreams, DAWN and 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: Raw Story and The Hill
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
Discussion: American Prospect and Bloomberg
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee interviews former Trump Secret Service agent Bobby Engel  —  WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee on Thursday interviewed Bobby Engel, who was the lead Secret Service agent for then-President Donald Trump when the insurrection took place, three sources familiar with the session said.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Cheney hits back as Pence says January 6 committee has ‘no right’ to testimony
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
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden's Top Aides Plan Exit as Economy Takes Center Stage in 2024 Election  —  President Joe Biden's top economic adviser, Brian Deese, is expected to leave the White House next year, part of a broader reshuffle that will offer Biden a chance to make over his coterie of aides on an issue central to an expected reelection bid.
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 …
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: New Yorker
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 …
Politico:
GOP plans to punish ‘woke’ Wall Street  —  Wall Street loves Republican tax cuts and deregulation.  It's going to hate the GOP's plans for 2023.  —  Republican lawmakers, who will be in the House majority come January, are pressing party leaders to send a message to big financial firms …
 
 
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The Guardian:
FBI director ‘very concerned’ by reports of secret Chinese police stations in US
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Bomb threat at Jewish school in Philadelphia forces students to evacuate
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden will ask Supreme Court to revive student debt relief plan
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Congress is letting international money launderers off the hook
Media Matters for America:
Fox's coverage of violent crime dropped after the midterms
Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Beast
Resolute Square:
TRAPPED: THE GOP IS STUCK WITH TRUMP
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