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12:10 PM ET, December 14, 2023

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Greg Walters / VICE:
Trump Got a Big Sign the Supreme Court Doesn't Have His Back  —  Donald Trump may have handpicked three members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority.  That doesn't mean they are doing him any favors.  —  Former President Donald Trump has tried every legal trick in the book to postpone …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Pulls Ahead in Michigan as Union, Women Voters Sour on Biden  —  Biden now trails Trump in seven swing states on economic concerns, the latest Bloomberg News/Morning Consult Poll shows.  —  Donald Trump has pulled ahead of President Joe Biden in must-win Michigan as voters remain pessimistic …
Victoria Prodeline / Monmouth University …:
Trump Broadly Favored in GOP Primary  —  Democrats back Biden but with little enthusiasm  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Former President Donald Trump enjoys widespread support among an enthusiastic and motivated base of potential Republican primary voters in Michigan, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University-Washington Post Poll.
Carlos Lozada / New York Times:   Liz Cheney's Checkered History
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Lawyer Fani Willis calls proposed pause on Trump's election case ‘silly notion’
Liz Cheney / Wall Street Journal:
Checks and Balances Won't Stop Trump
Discussion: The Hill, The Bulwark and Raw Story
James Bennet / The Economist:
When the New York Times lost its way  —  America's media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves  —  Are we truly so precious?  " Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, asked me one Wednesday evening in June 2020.  I was the editorial-page editor of the Times …
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Politico:
Playbook: The politics that could make or break a border deal  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT YOUR MEDIA FRIENDS ARE TEXTING ABOUT — The Economist's James Bennet is out with a very buzzy, nearly 17,000-word piece on the culture war roiling …
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends  —  Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly all of his landholdings …
Politico:
Kamala Harris pushes White House to be more sympathetic toward Palestinians  —  Her response to the Israel-Hamas war underscores how Democrats are walking a fine line between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian constituencies.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris has been telling colleagues …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Is it time for a second look at Kamala Harris?  —  With Biden's polling worse than ever, the Kamala question deserves a serious answer.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Speaking at a fundraiser in Massachusetts last week, Joe Biden reportedly said that “If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running, but we cannot let him win.”
CNN:
Rudy Giuliani now won't testify in defamation trial brought by former Georgia election workers  —  Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani will no longer testify in his defamation damages trial over how much he should pay two Georgia election workers millions of dollars in damages …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
It's the Beginning of the Disastrous End for Rudy Giuliani
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Behind Hunter Biden's unexpected appearance: A surprising ally and a heads-up to his dad  —  The California Democratic lawmaker confirmed to POLITICO that he reserved the space for the president's son to deliver dramatic Wednesday morning remarks.  —  Hunter Biden pulled off his surprise appearance …
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Stephen Neukam / The Messenger:
Jamie Raskin Rails Against Republicans at Hunter Biden-less Deposition (Exclusive)
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Baseless House Republican Impeachment Stunt  —  The American people need their leaders in Congress to take action on important priorities for the nation and world.  —  On Tuesday, I met with the President of Ukraine, who is leading his people in a battle for freedom against Russian aggression.
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Reuters:
Biden impeachment inquiry authorized by House Republicans, despite lack of evidence
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Senate Passes Defense Bill, Steering Clear of Far-Right Policy Dictates
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioter with ‘Foxmania’ pleads guilty to felony Capitol attack charge  —  “You want war?”  Anthony Alexander Antonio shouted during the Jan. 6 attack.  “We got war. 1776 all over again.”  —  WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant whose attorney said was infected with “Foxmania” …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden campaign names top voter turnout operative as chief of staff  —  Sara Schreiber's hiring comes as Biden's campaign staffs up at headquarters and in battleground states.  —  Joe Biden's campaign is installing a top voter turnout operative as its chief of staff.
Discussion: Journal Sentinel and The Messenger
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Navy officer serving prison sentence in Japan for fatal crash returning to US, family says  —  A Navy officer who has been serving a prison sentence in Japan over a car crash that killed two people has been transferred into U.S. custody and is being returned to the United States.
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
New York Appeals Court Rejects Trump's Challenge of Gag Orders  —  After 11 weeks of proceedings, Trump's civil fraud trial ended on Wednesday, and he's been under a gag order since Oct. 3  —  A New York appellate court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump's attempt …
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite, Raw Story and NBC News
New York Times:
Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. to Malign U.S., Report Finds  —  Content from at least 30 channels in the network drew nearly 120 million views and 730,000 subscribers since last year.  —  In a faintly stilted tone and with slightly awkward grammar, the American-accented voice on YouTube …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: McCarthy eyes AI for new career, can imagine working with Musk … The ornate first-floor room was Rep. Nancy Pelosi's hideaway, before the GOP evicted her to make room for McCarthy after he lost the gavel.  — “AI is where California is going to come back,” he added.
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
GOP critics decry ‘regulatory harassment’ as FCC denies Elon Musk's Starlink $900M in subsidies  —  Republican critics raged after the Federal Communications Commission rejected nearly $900 million in subsidies for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service - a move they decried as a vindictive play by the Biden administration.
 
 
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Max Burns / The Hill:
Bush v. Gore destroyed us
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Fox News:
Democrat senator blasts ‘failure’ of university leaders to protect Jewish students, asks Biden admin to review
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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The GOP's Refusal to Fund Ukraine's Defense Is an Absolute Scandal
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Carnegie Mellon Student Sues Over Prof's ‘Cruel Campaign of Antisemitic Abuse’
Discussion: Fox News and Bloomberg
James LaPorta / The Messenger:
One US Marine Dead, Dozen More Hospitalized After Training Accident in California