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5:50 PM ET, October 11, 2022

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Matthew Champion / VICE:
Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report  —  The world's richest man spoke directly with Vladimir Putin, Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer wrote.  —  MC  —  Elon Musk spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war …
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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
Elon Musk Has the World's Strangest Social Calendar  —  When the world's richest man isn't tweeting, he's flying to Burning Man, trying to impress comedians and hopping on yachts.  —  When a snapshot of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell surfaced on social media in 2020, the Tesla …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Mother Jones and ABC News
Anna Merlan / VICE:
Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn't Put on Air  —  Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about “fake children,” as well as describing visions of “kinetic energy” cities sent to him by God.  —  Anna Merlan
New York Times:
Biden's Folksiness Can Veer Into Folklore, or Falsehoods  —  President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.  —  WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during Hurricane Ian …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden to Re-evaluate Relationship With Saudi Arabia After Oil Production Cut  —  Angered by the kingdom's decision to team up with Russia to slash petroleum output, the president signaled openness to retaliatory measures, including a halt to arms sales and a new antitrust measure.
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
“Election Interference”: Oil Price Hike Is Saudi Arabia's October Surprise Against Biden … When, just one month before midterm elections, Saudi Arabia announced it would be slashing oil production by 2 million barrels a day, White House officials called it a “hostile act” and said the administration was …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Plan Debt Crisis to Force Cuts to Medicare, Social Security … The November elections will likely give Republicans control of the House of Representatives as a platform from which to oppose the Democratic-controlled White House.  And one thing Republicans will do with this power …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:   Why Republicans Could Prevail in the Popular Vote but Lose in the House
New York Times:
She Went Out on a Limb for Trump.  Now She's Under Justice Dept. Scrutiny.  —  Christina Bobb is a former Marine and a fervent believer that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump.  She went to work for him and quickly found herself enmeshed in an obstruction investigation.
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
What does Madison Cawthorn do now?  —  The defeated congressman's next chapter may offer insight into how redemption works, or doesn't, for a scandal-plagued Republican who still loves Trump  —  Madison Cawthorn left his Capitol Hill office on a recent afternoon like a man with a purpose …
Discussion: Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
Marist Poll:
Bennet Leads O'Dea in Colorado Senate Race... Polis with Double-Digit Lead Over Ganahl in Governor's Contest  —  In the race for U.S. Senate in Colorado, Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet has a 7-point advantage over his Republican challenger Joe O'Dea among registered voters statewide.
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2022: Sen. Warnock Leads Walker by Two; Gov. Kemp Leads Abrams by Five
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden says Putin ‘totally miscalculated’ by invading Ukraine but is a ‘rational actor’  —  Watch Jake Tapper's exclusive interview with President Joe Biden on CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday.  —  CNN —  President Joe Biden said in an exclusive CNN interview Tuesday …
Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:
Biden calls on Nury Martinez, other L.A. councilmembers to resign after audio leak  —  President Biden believes Nury Martinez and other councilmembers should resign from the Los Angeles City Council over racist remarks heard in leaked recordings that were made public this week, a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.
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Los Angeles Times:
Protests, anger, tears roil L.A. City Council meeting over leaked racist recordings  —  The City Council struggled to begin its meeting Tuesday as Angelenos flooded the chambers and screamed with anger two days after a surreptitious recording surfaced on which Councilmember Nury Martinez …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Joe Biden Just Crushed China's Semiconductor Industry  —  Dark Brandon strikes again.  —  1. Chips  —  There was some big, important news on Friday and no one really noticed: The Biden administration hit China, hard, with a series of export controls that are going to hurt.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Bolduc raises unsubstantiated possibility of 2022 election impropriety ahead of New Hampshire Senate contest  —  New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, a Republican who has pushed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen, raised the unsubstantiated prospect that the same could happen …
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Bolts:
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2022 General Elections
CNN:
Supreme Court declines to hear fetal personhood case  —  The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to wade into the so-called fetal personhood debate, deciding not to take up a case out of Rhode Island over whether fetuses should have constitutional rights.  —  A Catholic group and two pregnant women wanted …
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NBC News:
Fetterman says his stroke recovery ‘changes everything,’ but that he's fit to serve as senator  —  BRADDOCK, Pa. — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, still struggles to understand what he hears and to speak clearly following a stroke in May.
Joshua Kaplan / Articles and Investigations:
How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law  —  A User's Guide to Democracy  —  Congress Works For You.  Here's How to Be a Better Boss.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was incensed.  Late last year, the state's Republican legislature …
Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price  —  Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma.
ABC News:
Herschel Walker claims ex-girlfriend, whose identity he says he knows, is lying about abortion  —  Walker said he's had no conversations with her since reports of the allegation.  —  Herschel Walker talks to ABC's Linsey Davis, Oct. 11, 2022, in Atlanta.  —  Senate hopeful Herschel Walker …
Discussion: Politico and The Root
Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:
The Biden administration acknowledges biological reality  —  To President Joe Biden's administration , men are men, and women are women — at least in one instance.  —  While Biden may be a part of the political party that thinks gender is limitless and people are whatever …
U.S. Department of Justice:
U.K. Businessman Arrested For Sanctions Evasion Benefitting Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska  —  Deripaska's Property Manager Arrested in U.K. for Funding U.S. Properties for Deripaska's Benefit and for Attempting to Expatriate Deripaska's Artwork from U.S. through Deception
Manu Raju / CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell ignores Trump's attacks and says ‘I have the votes’ in quest to make history  —  It's become a throwaway line at former President Donald Trump's campaign rallies: GOP senators must boot Mitch McConnell from the leadership position he's held longer than any Republican in American history.
Discussion: Mercury News
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump  —  As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy.  As a government attorney, he was known for his zealous adherence to the letter of the law.
The White House:
G7 Statement on Ukraine, 11 October 2022  —  1. We, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), convened today with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  Our meeting took place against the backdrop of the most recent missile attacks against civilian infrastructure and cities across Ukraine, leading to the death of innocent civilians.
Jen Fifield / Votebeat Arizona:
Hand-counting ballots would cause “downright chaos” in an Arizona county, experts say  —  Cochise County officials consider plan for manually tallying votes in November — a method that produces inaccurate results and takes much longer, research shows.  —  Cochise County officials …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Biden Proposal Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers  —  A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The Herschel Walker Abortion Exceptions Policy  —  For today's GOP, abortion is acceptable when it is for the convenience of the father, politics, and personal interest.  —  GOP Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker makes a solemn promise to his audience as part of his stump speech …
 
 
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Manisha Sinha / CNN:
Why I hope 2022 will be another 1866  —  Editor's Note: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair …
Discussion: USA Today
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Breakthrough Diplomacy in the Middle East
Discussion: USA Today, CBS News and Haaretz
James Doubek / NPR:
NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Archives pushes back on Trump claims that other presidents mishandled records
Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
New Affordable Care Act Rule Expands Subsidies to Families
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
Newly Drawn OR-06 Moves from Lean Democrat to Toss Up
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 Earlier Items: 
Michael Anton / American Greatness:
The Dishonest and Dishonorable Disagreements of Former Friends
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How will Tommy Tuberville's corporate backers respond to his racist diatribe?
Wall Street Journal:
Government Officials Invest in Companies Their Agencies Oversee
Igor Kossov / The Kyiv Independent:
What's behind Russia's unusually big missile attack on Ukraine?