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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Fox's Kellyanne Conway Didn't Disclose RNC Paid Her While Praising Its ‘Great Job’  —  CONFLICT OF INTEREST?  —  Fox News paid contributor Kellyanne Conway lauded the Republican National Committee on Fox during the midterms, praising them for doing a “great job” with voter outreach.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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’

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.

Binance withdrawals hit $1.9 bln in 24 hours, data firm says  —  Binance has registered $1.9 billion of withdrawals in the past 24 hours, blockchain data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, as the world's biggest crypto exchange said it had “temporarily paused” withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin.

Democracy for America on track to shut down  —  Democracy for America, a liberal group founded by former presidential candidate Howard Dean, is planning to shut down unless a last-minute savior comes through, according to three people familiar with the plans.

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 …

Tesla Stock Has Never Been This Cheap — And It Could Still Drop Further  —  Tesla Inc. shares are trading at their cheapest-ever level, as the electric-car maker's stock slumps more than 50% this year.  —  Chief Executive Elon Musk's focus on his recent acquisition of Twitter is among …

Rubio, Gallagher Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok  —  TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, is required by Chinese law to make the app's data available to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  From the FBI Director to FCC Commissioners to cybersecurity experts …

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.