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2:25 AM ET, November 23, 2022

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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court clears way for Trump tax returns to go to Congress  —  High court again rules against former president Donald Trump in a case involving his finances, requests to withhold information  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a congressional committee …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
In Blow to Trump, Supreme Court Permits House to Obtain His Tax Returns  —  Ending a long legal fight, the Supreme Court rejected the former president's request that it block the I.R.S. from turning over the files.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for a House committee …
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Accountant testifies Trump claimed decade of huge tax losses  —  Donald Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010, his longtime accountant testified Tuesday, confirming long-held suspicions about the former president's tax practices.
Politico:
Trump has (yet another) bad legal day  —  It was a nightmare day for Donald Trump in court.  Again.  —  The former president has had no shortage of legal and political setbacks since leaving the White House.  But in recent weeks, the sheer volume of acute threats — both criminal and civil …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court allows release of Trump's tax records to House Democrats
WAVY-TV:
Chesapeake Walmart mass shooting: Multiple fatalities, injuries  —  CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Chesapeake police say the suspect behind a mass shooting at a Walmart just off Battlefield Blvd. is dead.  —  It's still unclear just how many people were killed or injured in the shooting …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Multiple People Are Fatally Shot at a Walmart in Virginia  —  The shooter was found dead at the store, in Chesapeake, Va.  —  Multiple people were shot and killed inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., on Tuesday night, according to a spokesman with the Chesapeake Police Department.
Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
How SBF Created the New Playbook for Manipulating Washington, D.C.  —  Disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried bent Washington to his will using “every mechanism available,” with sophistication and speed.  “He played D.C. like a fiddle.”  —  In late May, Sam Bankman-Fried joined a roundtable put …
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New York Times:
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Quest to Win Friends and Influence People  —  In just three years, the FTX co-founder built a massive operation to woo politicians, regulators and nonprofits to support his crypto goals.  —  In May, the founder of a Chicago nonprofit that works …
Liz Hoffman / Semafor:
Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Elon Musk's Twitter Reinstates Anti-Trans Activists on Same Weekend as Club Q Attacked  —  As the LGBTQ community mourned the people killed in the Colorado attack, the social media site brought back influencers who had previously run afoul of its anti-trans harassment policy.  —  Mack Lamoureux
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Washington Post:
Musk's ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say
Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America:
Elon Musk is unilaterally reinstating banned Twitter accounts, despite assuring civil rights groups and advertisers that he wouldn't
CNN:
Appeals court is dubious of Trump's arguments for special master review of Mar-a-Lago search  —  A panel of federal appeals court judges - all appointed by Republican presidents - on Tuesday were dubious of former President Donald Trump's arguments for why the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago required …
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Appeals panel grills Trump lawyer over FBI search of Mar-a-Lago  —  In hearing appeal of special master appointment, judges seem skeptical that court-approved search was improper or unlawful  —  ATLANTA — A panel of three appeals court judges expressed deep skepticism Tuesday …
Washington Post:
LGBTQ club shooting suspect's troubled past was obscured by a name change, records show  —  After suffering online bullying as a boy, Anderson Lee Aldrich altered his identity, documents confirm  —  Years before he allegedly walked into a Colorado LGBTQ bar with an assault-style rifle …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Colorado club shooting suspect is non-binary, attorneys say
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Buffeted by Economic Woes, U.K. Starts to Look at Brexit With ‘Bregret’  —  Stung by inflation and bracing for tax increases, the country is in the midst of its gravest slump in a generation, leading many to wonder how much the split with the European Union is to blame.
New York Times:
White House Extends Pause on Student Loan Payments  —  The Biden administration said it will hold off on collecting payments to give courts time to rule on lawsuits that have blocked the president's debt cancellation plan.  —  The Biden administration extended the years-long pause …
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The Hill:
McCarthy calls on DHS Secretary Mayorkas to resign, threatens impeachment inquiry  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that GOP lawmakers will consider impeachment next year if he does not step down.
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida Legislature poised to change law to aid a DeSantis presidential run  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's top Republican leaders say they are willing to change state law to smooth the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024.  —  Both House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) …
Max Tani / Semafor:
AP fired a reporter after a dangerous blunder.  Slack messages reveal a chaotic process.  —  Your Email addressSign Up  —  A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack between journalists at the Associated Press resulted in an erroneous report last week that appeared momentarily to bring tensions between NATO …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why Trump and Kevin McCarthy should fear a Warnock victory  —  If Sen. Raphael G. Warnock wins the runoff election in Georgia, the biggest losers might prove to be not just Herschel Walker and Mitch McConnell, but also Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy.  —  Trump and House Minority Leader McCarthy appear …
Discussion: Fox News, RedState and The Atlantic
Reuters:
Bolsonaro challenges Brazil election he lost to Lula  —  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged the election he lost last month to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, arguing votes from some machines should be “invalidated” in a complaint that election authorities met with initial skepticism.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. creates special representative post focused solely on Palestinian affairs  —  The Biden administration notified congress on Tuesday that it has appointed Hady Amr as a new special representative for Palestinian affairs, a senior State Department official said.
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Alex Burness / Bolts:
To Boost Turnout, Some Cities Just Synced Up Their Local Elections With National Cycles  —  Voters across the country approved ballot measures earlier this month that will move their local elections from odd-numbered to even-numbered years.  The changes are primed to send turnout soaring …
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
After Pushing Conspiracies, Tulsi Gabbard Lectures Special Ops Students on Avoiding Disinformation  —  Former Democratic congresswoman and conservative-media pundit Tulsi Gabbard gave a guest lecture to students at the Army's psychological warfare school last week on several topics, including disinformation, Military.com has learned.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork, with Chris Geidner:
Failures of capital punishment: Alabama, Missouri, and Oklahoma  —  Incompetence, racism, and ... wanting to kill so badly that you set an execution date when the man isn't even in your custody.  —  The death penalty has been in the news a lot in month of November, with three executions carried …
WBTV-TV:
WBTV mourning the loss of meteorologist Jason Myers, pilot Chip Tayag  —  The two people were killed in a helicopter crash.  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - WBTV Meteorologist Jason Myers and Sky3 pilot Chip Tayag were killed in a helicopter crash early Tuesday afternoon.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mike Pence staffs up with an eye on 2024  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence is building out his political staff, the latest indication that he's prepping a White House bid that will pit him against his former boss, ex-President Donald Trump.  —  Ali Kjergaard, a spokesperson for outgoing Nebraska …
Discussion: The Hill
Soraya Nadia McDonald / Andscape:
Two new movies, ‘Till’ and ‘U.S. and the Holocaust,’ help us connect the dots between Jim Crow and fascism With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever  —  In 1937, as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American covering …
 
 
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Joe Manchin Charted a Better Course for House GOP
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
Lindsay Watts / WTTG-TV:
Man who helped pass DC criminal code overhaul shot, killed in southeast
Discussion: Fox News
Dawn Stover / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate change
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
‘Trans Women Are Women’: NHL Goes Ultra Woke, Supports All-Trans and Nonbinary Hockey Tournament
Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Cecilia ‘Cissy’ Marshall, keeper of Thurgood Marshall's legacy, dies at 94
Discussion: WTOP News and Associated Press
NBC News:
Brett Favre helped an experimental drug maker get $2M in welfare money. Experts doubt the drug can work.
 Earlier Items: 
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November Verified Voter Omnibus
Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
Fauci says he ‘will cooperate fully’ with GOP oversight hearings even though he's leaving the government
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
US renews push for COVID boosters as data show they protect
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
'I'm Done With You!' Karine Jean-Pierre Blows Up at Reporter for Interrupting Colleague in Explosive Briefing Room Clash
Chloe Malle / Vogue:
Exclusive: Naomi Biden On Her White House Wedding
 

 
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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