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New York Times:
Musk Shakes Up Twitter's Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs — Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures. — SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past two weeks, Elon Musk has shaken up Twitter's legal department …
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Elon Musk says he can stop child exploitation on Twitter. So far, he's axed jobs and pushed out watchdogs. — Less than a month after taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk said addressing child sexual exploitation content on the social media platform was “Priority #1.”
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Twitter is Going Great!
CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried diverted FTX customer funds to donate to political campaigns, authorities charge — Federal authorities charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with using tens of millions of dollars of misappropriated customer funds to make illegal political donations to both Democratic and Republican candidates.
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Sam Bankman-Fried criminal charges unsealed: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering — Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed eight separate charges against disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, including several counts of conspiracy and fraud.
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Washington Post:
After Bankman-Fried's arrest, Washington seeks answers — and distance
After Bankman-Fried's arrest, Washington seeks answers — and distance
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Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Samuel Bankman-Fried accused of making illegal campaign contributions
Samuel Bankman-Fried accused of making illegal campaign contributions
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New York Post and Law & Crime
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX
SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis outflanks Trump on the right with his call for Covid vaccine probe — For about a year, Donald Trump's confidants, advisers and boosters have worried that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was positioning himself to get to the right of the former president over the issue of Covid vaccines.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump in trouble: Republican support for his 2024 bid falls amid political, legal setbacks — By double digits, GOP voters prefer DeSantis as the 2024 presidential nominee — Republican support for Donald Trump's presidential bid in 2024 has cratered, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds …
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Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:
The AP Interview: Hutchinson says Trump worst choice for GOP
Talking Points Memo:
Inside Team Trump's Chaotic Attempts To Overturn The 2020 Vote In Georgia — It was Nov. 5, 2020. Votes were still being counted in the presidential race, but it was looking increasingly grim for President Donald Trump. Mark Meadows, Trump's White House chief of staff, had an idea to turn things around.
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PoliticusUSA and Mock Paper Scissors
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Justice Department has tried to access GOP Rep. Scott Perry's text messages — The Justice Department has tried to gain access to Republican Rep. Scott Perry's text messages as part of a criminal investigation into 2020 election interference, facing off with his lawyers in a secret court proceeding …
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Norman Responds To TPM Revelations Of His Call For ‘Marshall Law’: Texts Came From ‘Source Of Frustration’ — Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), whose Jan. 17, 2021 text to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows called for Donald Trump to invoke “Marshall Law,” has responded to the revelations.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
2022 Review: How Republicans Lost Despite Winning the Popular Vote — There were several reasons Republicans struggled to translate votes into seats, including candidate quality and strength in the wrong places. — Here's a figure about the 2022 midterm elections that might surprise you …
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The Hill, Semafor, HotAir, Common Dreams and Raw Story
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
MAGA Pastor Shane Vaugh Wants Election Rules Changed Because Republicans Keep Losing
Jacob Rubashkin / Inside Elections:
The 6,670-Vote Majority: How Republicans Barely Won the House
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House GOP reckons with ‘candidate quality’ problem after midterms — and ahead of 2024
House GOP reckons with ‘candidate quality’ problem after midterms — and ahead of 2024
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Mediaite
Allan Smith / NBC News:
West Virginia Republicans hit the ground running to topple Joe Manchin in 2024
West Virginia Republicans hit the ground running to topple Joe Manchin in 2024
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RedState, Breitbart and Vanity Fair
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Exclusive: US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine — The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Lawmakers unveil bipartisan bill to ban TikTok nationwide — Bipartisan lawmakers introduce bill to ban TikTok — WASHINGTON — A group of lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation Tuesday that would ban TikTok in the U.S., following warnings from the FBI director …
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CNN:
House GOP divided over whether McCarthy should give in on ‘motion to vacate’ — The House Republican Conference is still entrenched in an internal war over whether to reinstate an arcane rule that would empower any member to bring up a vote to oust a speaker at any time.
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Scott Wong / NBC News:
Can the ‘Never Kevin’ caucus hold the line?
Can the ‘Never Kevin’ caucus hold the line?
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Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: An intel analyst tried to prevent the Jan. 6 attack — but DHS failed to act — On Dec. 20, 2020, a 21-year-old intelligence analyst went online to search for local Washington, D.C., fishing holes and stumbled upon the blueprint of a plot to storm the Capitol and execute members …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Organization Was Held in Contempt After Secret Trial Last Year — The company was fined $4,000 after failing to turn over documents. The case is one of several in which investigators have found the ex-president or his company loath to hand over papers.
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Insider, Bloomberg and New York Daily News
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
U.S. Postal Service announces stamp honoring late Rep. John Lewis — The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday it would memorialize the late Rep. John Lewis with a new stamp next year. — In its announcement, the USPS said the stamp “celebrates the life and legacy” of Lewis.
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
“The RNC has done a great job”: Fox's Kellyanne Conway repeatedly praised RNC without disclosing it paid her over $800K — Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway repeatedly went out of her way to praise the efforts of the Republican National Committee around the midterm elections …
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Ken White / The Popehat Report:
Goodbye, Twitter — Everything Ends, And That's Okay. — Today I was thinking of all the websites I've spent time on, and the people I've met there. — I messed around on the internet in the days of screeching dial-up modems, but I didn't really start to contribute regularly to online communities until 1995 or so.
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Jen Christensen / CNN:
Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US, study says, but the fight isn't over — The Covid-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives, a new study says - and that estimate is most likely a conservative one, the researchers say.
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The Daily Beast:
Epstein Victim Says She Was Forced Into Threesome With Alan Dershowitz — The Harvard lawyer denies the claim, which was made in a 2017 deposition that was just unsealed. — A victim of multimillionaire sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein says she was coerced into a threesome …
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
7 charged, including 2 US residents, in scheme to smuggle sniper ammo to Russia — Five Russian nationals and two U.S. residents were charged in a scheme to obtain military-grade technology from American companies and with smuggling sniper rifle ammunition to support Moscow's war effort …
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Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
CPI Report Shows U.S. Inflation Eased in November — Price increases have eased this fall from a four-decade high earlier in year, while Federal Reserve continues to move aggressively — Consumer prices rose last month at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021 …
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