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10:50 AM ET, November 22, 2022

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Semafor:
Donald Trump's third party threat looms over 2024  —  Shelby is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from the Daily Caller.  Morgan is a Political and National Security Reporter for Semafor, joining us from The Hill.  Sign up for the daily Principals newsletter to get our insider's guide to American power.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Beware, DeSantis is as much a threat to America as Trump  —  If you believe Florida's Republic Gov. Ron DeSantis would be a less dangerous presidential candidate than former president Donald Trump, take a moment to consider the recent ruling striking down DeSantis's “Stop WOKE Act.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Voters name Trump as biggest loser of midterms
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
The White House girds for combat
Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Times and CNN
Jared Malsin / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Launches Assault to Oust Russia From Key Black Sea Peninsula  —  Kinburn Spit, occupied by Russia for months, lies at maritime choke point and is coveted prize for Kyiv  —  Ukraine's military said it launched an operation to push Russian forces from a strategic peninsula …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Associated Press reporter fired over erroneous story on Russian attack  —  Journalist James LaPorta had provided information for story that inaccurately suggested Russia launched a missile strike on Poland  —  The Associated Press on Monday fired a national security reporter …
New York Times:
On the Dnipro River at Night, Ukrainian Fighters Ambush Russian Forces  —  Ukrainian units plying the Dnipro River venture behind enemy lines under the cover of darkness, carrying out reconnaissance and sabotage.  —  ON THE BANKS OF THE DNIPRO RIVER, Ukraine — Under cover of darkness …
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Cut the Baloney Realism  —  In recent weeks, General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, created alarm among Ukraine's friends by suggesting in several forums that Ukraine has fought Russian forces to a “standstill,” and that given the emerging stalemate on the ground …
Lorenzo Tondo / The Guardian:   Russians accused of burning bodies at Kherson landfill
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Army Veteran Went Into ‘Combat Mode’ to Disarm the Club Q Gunman  —  Richard M. Fierro, who served for 15 years in the military, was at the nightclub in Colorado Springs with his family when the gunman opened fire.  “I just knew I had to take him down,” he said.
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CNN:
Special counsel in Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations begins work with no sign probes will slow down  —  Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith is getting to work with no signs yet that the two investigations he now oversees around Donald Trump will slow down - despite being stuck in the Netherlands due to a cycling injury.
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Washington Post:
From Europe, Trump special counsel takes over Mar-a-Lago, Jan. 6 probes  —  Prosecutor Jack Smith must assemble a team, find office space and catch up on the long-running cases involving Donald Trump  —  Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith continues to work remotely from Europe …
Elizabeth Stauffer / Washington Examiner:   DOJ sets the stage to interfere in yet another election
New York Times:
Iran Arrests 2 Actresses for Participating in Protests  —  World Cup soccer players, movie personalities and other prominent Iranians have shown support for the protests that have engulfed the country.  —  At the World Cup in Qatar, Iran's soccer players on Monday declined to sing their country's national anthem.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A Georgia Senate runoff poll points to challenges for Walker, Warnock  —  A new poll focusing on the Dec. 6 runoff between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker shows a close race with challenges for both rivals as they rush to rebuild their coalitions.
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
CBS ‘confirms’ Hunter Biden laptop is real 769 days after Post broke story
Chloe Malle / Vogue:
Exclusive: Naomi Biden On Her White House Wedding  —  On the Tuesday evening before her wedding, under the watchful eye of a Secret Service agent, Naomi Biden, 28, and her soon-to-be husband, Peter Neal, 25, came downstairs from their living quarters on the third floor of the White House residence to practice their first dance.
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why fewer states than ever could pick the next president  —  The results of this month's election point toward a 2024 presidential contest that will likely be decided by a tiny sliver of voters in a rapidly shrinking list of swing states realistically within reach for either party.
NBC News:
Ian was one of the most lethal hurricanes in decades.  Many of the deaths were preventable.  —  Hurricane Ian killed at least 148 people in Florida, most of them in coastal communities where the danger of storm surge is well documented but not widely understood.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: Biden's Approval Remains Underwater As Majority of GOP Voters Support Trump As Republican Nominee for 2024  —  Home Polls National Poll: Biden's Approval Remains Underwater As Majority of GOP Voters Support Trump As Republican Nominee for 2024
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William Barr / New York Post:
Trump threatens to burn down the GOP, it's time to move on
Discussion: HotAir
Koh Gui Qing / Reuters:
Exclusive: Bankman-Fried's FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million  —  Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought at least 19 properties worth nearly $121 million in the Bahamas over the past two years, official property records show.
Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
From Twitter to Mastodon: What Happens When Journalists Flock Platforms  —  Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.”  What happens when they move in?  —  It's one thing to hope for a better community online, and another, very different one, to build it.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Court Docs Rip Into DOJ for ‘Fiddling Away’ on Matt Gaetz Case  —  More than two years after the DOJ opened an investigation into the congressman, there are no charges against him.  The lawyer for an alleged co-conspirator can't believe that.  —  The Florida lawyer who gave the feds …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Probes Into Oversight of Officials' Stock-Trading Conflicts  —  Campaign Legal Center files complaints with federal agencies following WSJ series  —  A nonpartisan group that monitors government ethics filed a series of legal complaints alleging the federal government …
Jay Reeves / Associated Press:
Alabama pausing executions after 3rd failed lethal injection  —  Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.  Ivey's office issued a statement saying …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
How one man quietly stitched the American safety net over four decades  —  Robert Greenstein isn't a household name.  But his career lobbying for the poor has changed the lives of millions of Americans.  —  When it comes to poverty in America, we have to hold two contradictory thoughts in our heads at the same time.
Punchbowl News:
11/22/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … AND NOW MCHENRY WILL BE IN A CRITICAL SPOT AS THE U.S. ECONOMY GRAPPLES WITH RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND GLOBAL INSTABILITY.  —  MCHENRY HAS SERVED ON THE PANEL SINCE COMING TO CONGRESS IN 2005.  SINCE 2018, HE'S BEEN THE TOP REPUBLICAN …
 
 
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Jan. 6 Troll ‘Baked Alaska’ Is Going to Jail in 2023 for Attacking Security Guard
Discussion: Raw Story
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
VMI's first Black superintendent under attack by conservative White alumni
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