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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!
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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Raw Story, 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 …
Talking Points Memo:
Texts Reveal Four Trump Allies Mixed Requests For Pardons With Big Lie Boosterism — The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack show how frantically former President Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results in the 2020 election.
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New York Times:
Despite Trump's Lobbying, McCarthy's Speaker Bid Remains Imperiled on the Right — Representative Kevin McCarthy is dealing with a group of right-wing detractors who appear impervious to negotiation, and who have yet to be moved even by the entreaties of the former president.
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CNN, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Congressional Integrity … and Raw Story
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CNN:
McCarthy and McConnell on collision course as Congress barrels toward messy finish — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy took to Fox News primetime last week and dinged his counterpart across the Capitol: Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. — Republicans are “wrong” if they want to cut …
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Washington Times, The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Just The News
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Can the ‘Never Kevin’ caucus hold the line?
Can the ‘Never Kevin’ caucus hold the line?
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Breitbart, The Post Millennial and Rumble
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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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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Slate and Alaska Beacon
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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Law & Crime
CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried criminal charges unsealed: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering
Sam Bankman-Fried criminal charges unsealed: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering
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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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New York Times:
Federal prosecutors say 2 U.S. nationals and 5 Russians conspired to feed Moscow's ‘war machine.’ — U.S. Poised to Send Patriot Missiles to Ukraine … U.S. is poised to send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, officials say. — WASHINGTON — The United States is poised to approve sending …
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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Tesla shares have fallen 28% since Elon Musk took over Twitter, lagging other carmakers — Tesla stock is faring poorly since CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter. — Musk sold billions of dollars' worth of his Tesla holdings to finance the Twitter takeover and has been embroiled in controversy ever since.
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Platformer:
Twitter's risky plan to save its ads business — Agree to personalize your ads — or else — A month ago, when Elon Musk's Twitter first set out to revamp the Twitter Blue subscription, workers at the company identified a problem. Musk had promised that subscribers to the $8-a-month service …
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ESPN:
Attorneys demand removal of ex-Washington cheerleader images — The attorneys for more than three dozen former Washington Commanders employees demanded the removal of “sexualized and salacious photographs” of the organization's former cheerleaders from any congressional records.
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Washington Examiner, Politico and Raw Story
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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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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The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Aris Folley / The Hill:
House GOP pushes members to vote against short-term funding bill — House GOP leadership is urging Republicans to vote against a short-term government funding bill lawmakers are hoping to quickly pass ahead of a looming shutdown deadline. — House Minority Whip Steve Scalise's (R-La.) …
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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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Bloomberg, New York Daily News and Insider
Alexey Ippolitov / U.S. Department of Justice:
Five Russian Nationals, Including Suspected FSB Officer, and Two U.S. Nationals Charged with Helping the Russian Military and Intelligence Agencies Evade Sanctions — The Defendants Conspired to Obtain Military-Grade and Dual-Use Technologies from U.S. Companies for Russia's Defense Sector
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
7 charged, including 2 US residents, in scheme to smuggle sniper ammo to Russia
7 charged, including 2 US residents, in scheme to smuggle sniper ammo to Russia
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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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Hillary Borrud / Oregonian:
Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of all 17 people on Oregon's death row … - Jesse Caleb Compton, a Springfield methamphetamine user who was convicted of killing Tesslyn O'Cull, the 3-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. The girl's body, found in a shallow grave in 1997 …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why the 2024 Race Is Eerily Quiet — Just under a month since Donald Trump announced his third consecutive White House bid, some of his loudest advocates are nowhere to be found. — Only one GOP senator — the former football coach last heard claiming Democrats support reparations for …
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Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:
The AP Interview: Hutchinson says Trump worst choice for GOP
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Republicans Need a Reckoning — The party of Lincoln must end its embrace of sedition. — The pretense that the seditionists in the GOP are limited to a handful of kooks who worship Donald Trump is no longer sustainable. If there are any Republicans left who care about the Constitution, the time to speak up is now.
Jacob Rubashkin / Inside Elections:
The 6,670-Vote Majority: How Republicans Barely Won the House — Ultimately, not only did a Red Wave fail to materialize, but Republicans barely cleared the lowest of bars they had set for themselves at the beginning of the cycle: winning back the House of Representatives.
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New York Times and Common Dreams
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
GOP operative who allegedly kicked a dog hired as top aide to new congressman — A veteran Georgia Republican operative who is slated to be chief of staff for incoming Rep. Mike Collins was arrested last month for allegedly kicking a dog. — Brandon Phillips was arrested on Nov. 17 …
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Political Wire
Washington Post:
House committee asks National Archives to review Trump storage unit — Rep. Carolyn Maloney says the storage facility and other properties ‘may contain presidential records that were not the focus of the search and therefore have not been turned over to the federal government’