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10:55 AM ET, November 18, 2022

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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows  —  Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked.  —  The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran.  It was so crisp, that some initially thought …
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘A Crazy Old Man Fighting With Himself’: Can Trump Do to DeSantis What He Did to Bush?  —  To become president, Donald Trump had to vanquish a Florida governor.  To become president again, he might have to do it once more.  —  The most important story in politics in the coming weeks …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump  —  A Republican political strategist was convicted of illegally helping a Russian businessman contribute to Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.  —  Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime …
Discussion: CNN, The Daily, The Hill and Raw Story
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Trumps had role in fraud scheme, Allen Weisselberg testifies at company's trial
The Verge:
Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk's ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter  —  Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.  And right on deadline, the farewell emojis started pouring into Twitter's Slack.
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New York Times:
Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay  —  Mr. Musk, Twitter's new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”  —  Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk …
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Dems get in array on future leadership after Pelosi departs  —  House Democrats are increasingly likely to elect their troika of top leaders for the next Congress without any major confrontation, ensuring a show of unity as they enter the minority.  —  And it didn't happen without some work …
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Molly Ball / TIME:
Nancy Pelosi Reflects On the Not-Quite-End of An Era  —  Ever since the election, Nancy Pelosi says, congressional Democrats have been begging her to remain as their leader.  Of course, she knew what they were really doing: currying favor, just in case.  —  “Our members were just exploding …
Reuters:
Hakeem Jeffries favored to lead U.S. House Democrats after Pelosi exit
Associated Press:
US moves to shield Saudi crown prince in journalist killing  —  The Biden administration declared Thursday that the high office held by Saudi Arabia's crown prince should shield him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, a turnaround from Joe Biden's passionate …
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Reuters:
Biden administration says Saudi prince has immunity in Khashoggi killing lawsuit
Wall Street Journal:
Trump or Biden?  How About Neither?  —  Walking away from the presidency is like giving up the car keys because you're too old to drive safely.  —  Joe Biden and Donald Trump: Please do the country a service and don't run for president in 2024.  America is in gridlock over the both of you …
Washington Post:
Rep. Lauren Boebert race too close to call, with margin inside recount threshold  —  With nearly all votes counted, the Republican incumbent led Democrat Adam Frisch by a small margin  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert, a far-right Republican from Colorado, was locked in a race that was too close …
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Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:
Republican Boebert's tight race likely headed to recount  —  Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a renowned conservative firebrand whose combative style helped define the new right, is likely headed to an automatic recount in her bid to fend off a surprisingly difficult challenge by a Democratic businessman from the ritzy ski town of Aspen.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'You've gotta have a war every five or 10 years'  —  It's not every day that a senator quotes a famous mob movie to describe the state of his political party after a week of infighting.  —  “You've gotta have a war every five or 10 years to get rid of the bad blood,” Sen. John Kennedy …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson Show Notes:
Against Poo Flinging Monkeys  —  It is official.  Republicans have taken back the House of Representatives.  They gathered yesterday to announce their first official act: an investigation into Hunter Biden.  —  Dumbasses.  —  What a bunch of idiots.  The American people just rejected the GOP “own the libs” strategy.
Andy Biggs / American Greatness:
I Cannot Vote for Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker  —  It is time to make a change.  —  During this midterm campaign, I attended hundreds of events in my district, around Arizona, and around the country.  The issue I was asked about most often was whether I or the Republicans in the House …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
North Korea test-fires ICBM with range to strike entire US  —  North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the U.S. mainland.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Congress took millions from FTX.  Now lawmakers face a crypto reckoning.  —  The stunning collapse of the world's third-largest exchange has forced politicians to grapple with the costs of legislative inaction  —  The sudden collapse of one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges rattled …
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Reuters:
A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment  —  USA-TRANSYOUTH/TOPSURGERY  —  Adolescents assigned female at birth account for a significant majority of minors receiving gender-affirming care, including top surgery, fueling debate about the influence of peer groups and social media.
Discussion: The Hastings Center
The Right Scoop:
BREAKING: Lee Zeldin confirms he's emailed committee members about running for RNC Chair  —  It does appear that Lee Zeldin will be running for the RNC Chair against Ronna McDaniel.  —  Politico reported today that he emailed committee members about his potential bid.  —  Here's their reporting:
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Zeldin moves closer to bid for GOP chair
 
 
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Washington Post:
Jeffries announces bid for House Democratic leader that would make history
Discussion: New York Times
Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:
Lauren Boebert's double-barreled blasphemy
Matt Dixon / Politico:
GOP to DeSantis: Thanks for helping us flip the House
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Democrats can keep young voters in their corner
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
The Guardian:
FBI director ‘very concerned’ by reports of secret Chinese police stations in US
Michael Weiss / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow
 Earlier Items: 
Nicole Chavez / CNN:
4 largest cities in America will be led by Black mayors
Discussion: Plain Dealer and Bloomberg
NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee interviews former Trump Secret Service agent Bobby Engel
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Bomb threat at Jewish school in Philadelphia forces students to evacuate
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Starbucks Workers Strike at Dozens of Stores Nationally
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden will ask Supreme Court to revive student debt relief plan
Politico:
GOP plans to punish ‘woke’ Wall Street
 

 
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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
2024 Pulitzer Prize winners: NYT for Investigative Reporting, WaPo and Reuters for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting for Oct. 7 coverage

Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times:
Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining

Wall Street Journal:
Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named

 
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