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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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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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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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Aris Folley / The Hill:
House GOP pushes members to vote against short-term funding bill
House GOP pushes members to vote against short-term funding bill
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CNN:
McCarthy and McConnell on collision course as Congress barrels toward messy finish
McCarthy and McConnell on collision course as Congress barrels toward messy finish
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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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Jacob Rubashkin / Inside Elections:
The 6,670-Vote Majority: How Republicans Barely Won the House
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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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 …
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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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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
Trump in trouble: Republican support for his 2024 bid falls amid political, legal setbacks
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why the 2024 Race Is Eerily Quiet
Why the 2024 Race Is Eerily Quiet
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Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:
The AP Interview: Hutchinson says Trump worst choice for GOP
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
Sam Bankman-Fried criminal charges unsealed: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering
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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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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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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Postal Service will debut John Lewis stamp in 2023 — A stamp honoring Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2020, will be available for purchase next year, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday. — The preliminary design for the Lewis stamp uses a photograph …
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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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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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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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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Oregon Governor Kate Brown commutes sentences of 17 people on death row
Oregon Governor Kate Brown commutes sentences of 17 people on death row
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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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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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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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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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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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Reuters:
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.
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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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