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11:45 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.
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
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
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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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Tony Romm / Washington Post:   As debt ceiling fight rages, Democrats bring up an old idea: Abolish it
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Access Journalism-House Republican Mind Meld
NBC News:
GOP witnesses undermined Jan. 6 cases with conspiracy theories, FBI says  —  Two men who testified in a House hearing Thursday had their security clearances revoked for their actions on Jan. 6 cases, as did another agent who was on Capitol grounds that day.  —  WASHINGTON — Two of the three …
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CNN:
Jim Jordan's FBI whistleblowers testify publicly before Congress as questions about their legitimacy remain
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Key exchanges highlight dicey GOP ‘weaponization’ hearing
David Smith / The Guardian:   Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warns
Hamed Aleaziz / Los Angeles Times:
Why border crossings have fallen since Trump-era rules expired last week  —  Immigration and the Border,Mexico & the Americas  —  crossing the southern border of the U.S., and the doomsday scenarios that many politicians feared would follow the expiration of the pandemic-era restrictions known as Title 42 have not
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Times
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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 …
Discussion: Fox News
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
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis' Secret Invitations for a Wednesday Campaign Announcement  —  The campaign is intentionally giving false dates to some people to test who would leak details to the press. … The invitation for Ron DeSantis' de facto presidential campaign kickoff Wednesday in Miami isn't fancy.
Adam Wren / Politico:
Pence's prepared speech lifted words directly from Trump  —  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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
WFLA-TV:
Tampa pride event cancelled after DeSantis signs ‘anti-drag’ bill  —  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Organizers of Tampa Pride on the River have cancelled one of the region's largest pride celebrations, citing the expansion of the Parental Rights in Education Act — what critics call the 'Don't Say Gay' Law.
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.
Ben Wilson / Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal Celebrity Chef Exempt From Gas Stove Ban, California City Says  —  A California city will make an exception to its natural gas ban for world-famous chef José Andrés, after the landlords for the chef's planned restaurant warned Andrés may pull out over the regulation.
Emily Pontecorvo / Heatmap News:
Colorado Just Uncorked Billions in Free Climate Money  —  Thanks to a flurry of state legislation, Coloradans now stand to win big from the Inflation Reduction Act.  They can even pick up one of the last new Chevy Bolts for $15,000 or less.  —  No one really knows how big the United States' signature climate legislation could become.
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel and Bloomberg
Eli Lake / The Free Press:
The FBI Didn't Persecute Hillary.  It Protected Her.  —  For the last seven years, conventional wisdom has told us a singular story about the FBI and Hillary Clinton.  That story had a clear headline: the FBI was out to get her.  —  Let's go back to 2016, when the FBI was investigating …
 
 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

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