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8:45 PM ET, May 18, 2023

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida  —  A new office complex, and relocation of a division from California, would have created more than 2,000 jobs but was scuttled as the company and Gov. Ron DeSantis continue to feud.  —  In March, Disney called Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus, mass employee relocation amid DeSantis feud  — Disney will no longer be moving forward with the construction of its Lake Nona, Florida, employee campus.  — The company will also no longer be requiring California-based employees to relocate.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Disney cancels plan to move 2,000 workers to Florida amid DeSantis fight  —  Walt Disney Co. has canceled its plan to open a new Florida campus that would've relocated some 2,000 employees to the state, a change that comes as the company is engaged in a long brawl with the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.
Wall Street Journal:
Disney Ends Plans to Relocate Thousands of Employees to New Florida Campus  —  Move comes as company is cutting costs, reversing moves by previous CEO and fighting with Florida  —  Walt Disney Co. has ended two major investments in Florida amid a high-profile dispute with state lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Disney CEO Wasn't Bluffing: Robert Iger Cancels Plans for $1 Billion Office Complex in Orlando
Discussion: The Mahablog
New York Times:
Feinstein Suffered More Complications From Illness Than Were Publicly Disclosed  —  Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, whose recent bout with shingles included contracting encephalitis, is frailer than ever.  But she remains unwilling to entertain discussions about leaving the Senate.  —  Reporting from Capitol Hill
Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus calls on McCarthy to suspend debt ceiling negotiations  —  The House Freedom Caucus said it's calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend his negotiation on raising the debt limit with the White House and instead focus on getting the House-passed “Limit, Save, Grow Act” through the Senate.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Access Journalism-House Republican Mind Meld
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
As debt ceiling fight rages, Democrats bring up an old idea: Abolish it
CNN:
McCarthy and Schumer optimistic about the state of debt talks
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
CNN:
Jim Jordan's FBI whistleblowers testify publicly before Congress as questions about their legitimacy remain  —  Three self-described FBI whistleblowers, who are key to the Republican narrative that the FBI is weaponized against conservatives, testified at a House hearing Thursday …
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Fox News:
FBI employees had security clearances revoked after speaking out against ‘politicized rot’: House report
David Smith / The Guardian:
Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warns
Discussion: Washington Post
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Ex-Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Arrested As ‘Fugitive From Justice’  —  Sam Brinton, the “nonbinary” activist tapped by Joe Biden for a key nuclear role before he was fired for repeatedly stealing women's clothes, was arrested Wednesday night as a “fugitive from justice,” The Daily Wire has learned.
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Gorsuch slams pandemic emergency power as intrusion on civil liberties  —  Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday slammed the use of emergency power during the pandemic as a mass intrusion on civil liberties.  —  The high court on Thursday dismissed as moot a case seeking …
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Kennedy24:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Names Dennis Kucinich as Campaign Manager  —  The Presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich will serve as its campaign manager.  —  Mr. Kucinich has long been known as one of the foremost progressive voices in American politics.
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NBC News:
Robert Kennedy Jr. names Dennis Kucinich as 2024 campaign manager
Discussion: Breitbart
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Meet the Wall Street executive funding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine group
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
New York Post:
NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer  —  The lawyer for a Manhattan hospital worker accused of taking a Citi Bike from a young black man — who claimed that he paid for the two-wheeler — provided receipts he says shows she was the one who purchased …
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive |  ESPN Plans to Stream Flagship Channel, Eyeing Cable TV's Demise  —  ESPN is laying the groundwork to sell its channel directly to cord-cutters and has begun talks with sports leagues and cable partners.
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Cornyn says Trump can't win in 2024, GOP needs someone else as presidential nominee  —  Texas senator joins growing anyone-but-Trump caucus among Republicans in Congress.  —  Update: 2:15 p.m. with details on other endorsements.  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. John Cornyn has joined the anyone-but-Trump caucus …
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New York Times:
DeSantis Is Set to Enter 2024 Presidential Race Next Week
Virginia Heffernan / Wired:
Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang  —  Sure, the US secretary of transportation has thoughts on building bridges.  But infrastructure occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind.  —  The curious mind of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve.
Rebecca Onion / Slate:
America's Leading Republican Pipsqueak Has a New Book on How to Fix Men.  It's a Hoot.  —  Josh Hawley's long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here.  Savor it with me.  —  Josh Hawley calls influencer Andrew Tate onto the carpet in his new book, Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs …
Washington Post:
U.S. officials walk back claim drone strike killed senior al-Qaeda leader  —  The acknowledgement comes as terrorism experts and the dead man's family have cast doubt on a Pentagon statement indicating the operation targeted a high-ranking militant in Syria  —  QORQANYA, Syria …
Dylan Byers / Puck:
When It Rains, It Amanpours  —  Notes on the ongoing fallout from a cable news makeover.  —  On Wednesday afternoon, CNN's revered chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour took the lectern to deliver the commencement address at Columbia Journalism School, in Morningside Heights.
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Rebecca Rosenberg / Fox News:
Witness to Jordan Neely chokehold death calls Daniel Penny a ‘hero’  —  NYC passenger says Marine vet ‘cared for people’ and ‘that is his crime’  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — A retiree who witnessed Marine veteran Daniel Penny fatally choke an erratic homeless man on a train earlier this month called …
Nick Pinto / Hell Gate:
The NYPD Took This Dog Into Custody Because His Owner Filmed the Police  —  Harvey's owner is just one of 2,746 humans who have been arrested for filming the NYPD in the last two years alone.  —  On May 3, 2020, Molly Griffard stepped out of her Bed-Stuy apartment to take her dog Harvey, a nine-year-old Yorkie, for a walk.
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
Accounting Error Leaves Pentagon With $3 Billion More in Arms for Ukraine, U.S. Says  —  Defense Department wrongly used valuation for new equipment, rather than for used equipment drawn from U.S. stocks  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has overcounted the value of the weaponry it has sent …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Greene says she feels ‘threatened’ by Bowman after Capitol steps encounter  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday she feels “threatened” by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) following an encounter they had the day before on the steps of the Capitol.
Stephanie Slade / Reason:
The Post-Liberal Authoritarians Want You To Forget That Private Companies Have Rights  —  On Wednesday night, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) took the stage at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and declared—to the astonishment of many who subsequently read the quote online—that …
CNN:
US signals to allies it won't block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine  —  The Biden administration has signaled to European allies in recent weeks that the US would allow them to export F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, sources familiar with the discussions said, as the White House comes under …
Adam Wren / Politico:
Pence lifts words directly from old Trump speech  —  Mike Pence's prepared remarks include a two-sentence passage almost identical to words used by Donald Trump in 2019.  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence's prepared remarks for a speech in New Hampshire this week lifted words directly …
Catalist:
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED … NATIONAL RESULTS  —  Recent midterms have typically involved national waves that favor one party over the other, particularly when there's backlash against a party that controls the presidency and both chambers of Congress.  —  Figure 1.  Two-Way Democratic Support in General Elections (1976 to 2022)
ProPublica:
The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” Author  —  Co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education … On a family trip to the Jersey Shore in the summer of 2021, Sophia's go-to meal was the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich.
 
 
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