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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Legal Problems All Converged Into One Day of Spectacular Failures — Democrats can get his taxes. The Trump Organization is careening toward a fraud trial. The FBI might get the upper hand. And Donald Trump could get taken down like Bill Cosby.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seeking to Question Pence in Jan. 6 Investigation — Prosecutors want to speak with the former vice president as a witness to former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in power, and he is said to be considering how to respond. — The Justice Department is seeking …
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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
WATCH: CNN Stunned As Their Narrative on Gay Club Shooter Gets Crushed
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RedState, New York Post, Media Research Center and The Daily Caller
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton / Breitbart:
Report: Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooting Suspect Identifies as Non-Binary, Uses ‘They/Them’ Pronouns
Report: Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooting Suspect Identifies as Non-Binary, Uses ‘They/Them’ Pronouns
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Colorado club shooting suspect is non-binary, attorneys say
Colorado club shooting suspect is non-binary, attorneys say
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John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Twitter Is Just a Guy Now — On the evening of Friday, November 18, fresh off another chaotic week at the helm of Twitter, Elon Musk decided to resolve a nagging issue: the matter of Donald Trump. He posted a Twitter poll asking users whether he should bring back the former president's account.
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New York Times:
As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid
As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid
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Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Elon Musk's Twitter Reinstates Anti-Trans Activists on Same Weekend as Club Q Attacked
Elon Musk's Twitter Reinstates Anti-Trans Activists on Same Weekend as Club Q Attacked
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Politico:
Senators alarmed over potential Chinese drone 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.
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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.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC's Inquiry Into FTX — The ‘Blockchain Eight’ wrote a bipartisan letter in March attempting to chill the SEC's information requests to crypto firms. FTX was one of those firms. — Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee …
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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 …
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McKenzie Beard / Washington Post:
Vaccinated people now make up a majority of covid deaths — Good morning and thanks for reading. The Health 202 will be off Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving, so enjoy your holiday weekend and have a slice of pie on us. We'll be back in your inbox Monday.
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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.
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Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
The science on remote schooling is now clear. Here's who it hurt most. — Academic progress for American children plunged during the coronavirus pandemic. Now a growing body of research shows who was hurt the most, both confirming worst fears and adding some new ones.
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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.
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Insider, The Texas Tribune, New Republic, Vanity Fair and Daily Kos
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Political animal Kevin McCarthy is unworthy of House speakership — If it is silly to put lipstick on a pig, it is almost indescribably foolish to try a whole makeover to pretend the pig is a peacock. Yet that's what Republican leader Kevin McCarthy did on Fox News Sunday morning.
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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None. — For the sake of the planet, Les Knight, the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction movement, has spent decades pushing one message: “May we live long and die out.” — Buckley interviewed Mr. Knight in Portland and was surprised to find him curiously uplifting.
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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 …
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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”
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Garrett Quinn / The Bulwark:
The Last Authoritarian World Cup — The World Cup and the Olympic Games are too important to the common life of the world to be surrendered to rich autocracies. — In 1986, the International Olympic Committee voted to split the Winter and Summer Olympics so they would alternate every …
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Ban — Georgia's ban took effect in July, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. — The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated the state's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. The high court put …