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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

“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 …

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.

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’

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 …

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.

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 …