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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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NBC News:
Elon Musk says he can stop child exploitation on Twitter. So far, he's axed jobs and pushed out watchdogs.
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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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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Norman Responds To TPM Revelations Of His Call For ‘Marshall Law’: Texts Came From ‘Source Of Frustration’
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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.
CNN:
House GOP divided over whether McCarthy should give in on ‘motion to vacate’
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Jacob Rubashkin / Inside Elections:   The 6,670-Vote Majority: How Republicans Barely Won the House
New York Times:   Despite Modest GOP Gains, Democrats Maintain Grasp on Suburbs
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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CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried criminal charges unsealed: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering
Washington Post:
After Bankman-Fried's arrest, Washington seeks answers — and distance
Discussion: Slate and Alaska Beacon
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Samuel Bankman-Fried accused of making illegal campaign contributions
Discussion: 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
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 …
Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:   The AP Interview: Hutchinson says Trump worst choice for GOP
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 …
About.usps.com:
U.S. Postal Service Reveals Additional Stamps for 2023  —  Civil Rights Leader John Lewis, Art of the Skateboard and Florida Everglades Are Featured  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Postal Service announced seven new stamp subjects for 2023.  —  This group, along with the stamps announced in October …
Discussion: ABC News, Associated Press and CBS News
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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   Postal Service will debut John Lewis stamp in 2023
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
U.S. Postal Service announces stamp honoring late Rep. John Lewis
Discussion: Axios, CBS News, The Hill and CNN
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Oregon Governor Kate Brown commutes sentences of 17 people on death row  —  Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced plans Tuesday to commute the sentences of the 17 people on Oregon's death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, likely using her executive clemency powers for the last time as governor.
Discussion: KSNT-TV, Associated Press and KVIA-TV
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Hillary Borrud / Oregonian:   Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of all 17 people on Oregon's death row
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:   Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes State's Death Sentences
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and 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.
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.
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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Congressman Mike Gallagher:
Gallagher, Rubio Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok
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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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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Republic
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:   Fox's Kellyanne Conway Didn't Disclose RNC Paid Her While Praising Its ‘Great Job’
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’
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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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
MAGA Pastor Shane Vaugh Wants Election Rules Changed Because Republicans Keep Losing
Politico:
Democracy for America on track to shut down
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
GOP operative who allegedly kicked a dog hired as top aide to new congressman
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Binance withdrawals hit $1.9 bln in 24 hours, data firm says
 Earlier Items: 
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Man With Neo-Nazi Links Arrested With Ghost Gun and Wearing Body Armor
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Epstein Victim Says She Was Forced Into Threesome With Alan Dershowitz
Discussion: Raw Story and Jezebel
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Russian Trolls Made Fake Kid Rock Fan Accounts — and Fooled Donald Trump Jr.
Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
CPI Report Shows U.S. Inflation Eased in November
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025
 
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