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10:30 AM ET, November 23, 2022

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WAVY-TV:
Chesapeake Walmart mass shooting: 7 dead, including the shooter  —  7 dead, including the gunman  —  CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Authorities say 7 people, including the suspect, are dead following a mass shooting Tuesday night at a Walmart just off Battlefield Blvd. in Chesapeake, Virginia.
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NBC News:
Walmart worker in Virginia opens fire, killing at least 6, police say  —  Virginia Walmart gunman was employee of store, police say  —  A Walmart employee opened fire Tuesday night at a Virginia store, killing at least six people before taking his own life, police said.
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Multiple People Are Fatally Shot at a Walmart in Virginia  —  The shooter was found dead at the store, in Chesapeake, Va.  —  Multiple people were shot and killed inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., on Tuesday night, according to a spokesman with the Chesapeake Police Department.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court clears way for Trump tax returns to go to Congress  —  High court again rules against former president Donald Trump in a case involving his finances, requests to withhold information  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a congressional committee …
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Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Accountant testifies Trump claimed decade of huge tax losses  —  Donald Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010, his longtime accountant testified Tuesday, confirming long-held suspicions about the former president's tax practices.
Politico:
Trump has (yet another) bad legal day
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Legal Problems All Converged Into One Day of Spectacular Failures
Discussion: The Bulwark, Forbes and CBS News
Washington Post:
LGBTQ club shooting suspect's troubled past was obscured by a name change, records show  —  After suffering online bullying as a boy, Anderson Lee Aldrich altered his identity, documents confirm  —  Years before he allegedly walked into a Colorado LGBTQ bar with an assault-style rifle …
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Kevin Tober / Newsbusters:
WATCH: CNN Stunned As Their Narrative on Gay Club Shooter Gets Crushed
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Colorado club shooting suspect is non-binary, attorneys say
New York Times:
As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid  —  Mr. Musk and his advisers are examining all types of expenses at Twitter.  Some of the social media company's vendors have gotten stiffed.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Before Elon Musk bought Twitter last month …
Discussion: Eschaton and KTLA, more at Techmeme »
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New York Times:
White House Extends Pause on Student Loan Payments  —  The Biden administration said it will hold off on collecting payments to give courts time to rule on lawsuits that have blocked the president's debt cancellation plan.  —  The Biden administration extended the years-long pause …
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Bloomberg:
UK's Top Court Quashes Scotland's Bid for New Independence Vote  —  The UK's top judges threw out an attempt by the Scottish government to bypass Westminster and call a second independence referendum, thwarting nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon's plan for a vote next year.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Buffeted by Economic Woes, U.K. Starts to Look at Brexit With ‘Bregret’  —  Stung by inflation and bracing for tax increases, the country is in the midst of its gravest slump in a generation, leading many to wonder how much the split with the European Union is to blame.
CNN:
Appeals court is dubious of Trump's arguments for special master review of Mar-a-Lago search  —  A panel of federal appeals court judges - all appointed by Republican presidents - on Tuesday were dubious of former President Donald Trump's arguments for why the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago required …
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Appeals panel grills Trump lawyer over FBI search of Mar-a-Lago  —  In hearing appeal of special master appointment, judges seem skeptical that court-approved search was improper or unlawful  —  ATLANTA — A panel of three appeals court judges expressed deep skepticism Tuesday …
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
How SBF Created the New Playbook for Manipulating Washington, D.C.  —  Disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried bent Washington to his will using “every mechanism available,” with sophistication and speed.  “He played D.C. like a fiddle.”  —  In late May, Sam Bankman-Fried joined a roundtable put …
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Rolling Stone:
Kanye West Used Porn, Bullying, ‘Mind Games’ to Control Staff  —  Former Yeezy team members claim West showed them explicit images of Kim Kardashian and used fear and manipulation to assert dominance.  A scathing open letter to Adidas claims execs “turned their moral compass off”
CNN:
Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker getting tax break in 2022 on Texas home intended for primary residence  —  Republican Herschel Walker is getting a tax break intended only for a primary residence this year on his home in the Dallas, Texas, area, despite running for Senate in Georgia.
Politico:
Drones over D.C.: Senators alarmed over potential Chinese spy threat  —  Hundreds of Chinese-manufactured drones have been detected in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., in recent months, a trend that national security agencies fear could become a new means for foreign espionage.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
The educational divide between voters is growing  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  As we approach Thanksgiving, THANK YOU to all of our readers and for your thoughtful emails.  We're grateful you're taking this journey with us.  —  PROGRAMMING NOTE: To celebrate Thanksgiving …
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Judge Upholds $49 Million Verdict Against Alex Jones, Despite Cap  —  Texas law limits punitive damages to far below what a jury awarded in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a Sandy Hook victim, but the judge called it “a rare case.”  —  A Texas judge said on Tuesday that she would order …
Washington Post:
Ukrainian energy systems on brink of collapse after weeks of Russian bombing  —  KYIV, Ukraine — After just six weeks of intense bombing of energy infrastructure, Russia has battered Ukraine to the brink of a humanitarian disaster this winter as millions of people potentially face life …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Reuters:
Bolsonaro challenges Brazil election he lost to Lula  —  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged the election he lost last month to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, arguing votes from some machines should be “invalidated” in a complaint that election authorities met with initial skepticism.
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida Legislature poised to change law to aid a DeSantis presidential run  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's top Republican leaders say they are willing to change state law to smooth the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024.  —  Both House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) …
 
 
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Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
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Lindsay Watts / WTTG-TV:
Man who helped pass DC criminal code overhaul shot, killed in southeast
Discussion: Fox News
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. creates special representative post focused solely on Palestinian affairs
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Dawn Stover / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate change
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The Hill:
McCarthy calls on DHS Secretary Mayorkas to resign, threatens impeachment inquiry
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mike Pence staffs up with an eye on 2024
Discussion: The Hill
NBC News:
Brett Favre helped an experimental drug maker get $2M in welfare money. Experts doubt the drug can work.
Alex Burness / Bolts:
To Boost Turnout, Some Cities Just Synced Up Their Local Elections With National Cycles
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Soraya Nadia McDonald / Andscape:
Two new movies, ‘Till’ and ‘U.S. and the Holocaust,’ help us connect the dots between Jim Crow and fascism With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news …
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+
 
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