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10:00 PM ET, December 13, 2022

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New York Times:
Musk Shakes Up Twitter's Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs  —  Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past two weeks, Elon Musk has shaken up Twitter's legal department …
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NBC News:
Elon Musk says he can stop child exploitation on Twitter. So far, he's axed jobs and pushed out watchdogs.
Talking Points Memo:
Inside Team Trump's Chaotic Attempts To Overturn The 2020 Vote In Georgia  —  It was Nov. 5, 2020.  Votes were still being counted in the presidential race, but it was looking increasingly grim for President Donald Trump.  Mark Meadows, Trump's White House chief of staff, had an idea to turn things around.
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Talking Points Memo:
Texts Reveal Four Trump Allies Mixed Requests For Pardons With Big Lie Boosterism  —  The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack show how frantically former President Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results in the 2020 election.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Norman Responds To TPM Revelations Of His Call For ‘Marshall Law’: Texts Came From ‘Source Of Frustration’
New York Times:
Despite Trump's Lobbying, McCarthy's Speaker Bid Remains Imperiled on the Right  —  Representative Kevin McCarthy is dealing with a group of right-wing detractors who appear impervious to negotiation, and who have yet to be moved even by the entreaties of the former president.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
2022 Review: How Republicans Lost Despite Winning the Popular Vote  —  There were several reasons Republicans struggled to translate votes into seats, including candidate quality and strength in the wrong places.  —  Here's a figure about the 2022 midterm elections that might surprise you …
Aris Folley / The Hill:
House GOP pushes members to vote against short-term funding bill
Jacob Rubashkin / Inside Elections:   The 6,670-Vote Majority: How Republicans Barely Won the House
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:   MAGA Pastor Shane Vaugh Wants Election Rules Changed Because Republicans Keep Losing
New York Times:   Despite Modest GOP Gains, Democrats Maintain Grasp on Suburbs
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis outflanks Trump on the right with his call for Covid vaccine probe  —  For about a year, Donald Trump's confidants, advisers and boosters have worried that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was positioning himself to get to the right of the former president over the issue of Covid vaccines.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump in trouble: Republican support for his 2024 bid falls amid political, legal setbacks  —  By double digits, GOP voters prefer DeSantis as the 2024 presidential nominee  —  Republican support for Donald Trump's presidential bid in 2024 has cratered, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds …
Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:   The AP Interview: Hutchinson says Trump worst choice for GOP
CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried diverted FTX customer funds to donate to political campaigns, authorities charge  — Federal authorities charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with using tens of millions of dollars of misappropriated customer funds to make illegal political donations to both Democratic and Republican candidates.
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CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried criminal charges unsealed: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering
Washington Post:
After Bankman-Fried's arrest, Washington seeks answers — and distance
Discussion: Slate and Alaska Beacon
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Samuel Bankman-Fried accused of making illegal campaign contributions
Discussion: Law & Crime and New York Post
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Exclusive: US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine  —  The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official.
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New York Times:
Federal prosecutors say 2 U.S. nationals and 5 Russians conspired to feed Moscow's ‘war machine.’  —  U.S. Poised to Send Patriot Missiles to Ukraine … U.S. is poised to send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, officials say.  —  WASHINGTON — The United States is poised to approve sending …
Hillary Borrud / Oregonian:
Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of all 17 people on Oregon's death row … - Jesse Caleb Compton, a Springfield methamphetamine user who was convicted of killing Tesslyn O'Cull, the 3-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend.  The girl's body, found in a shallow grave in 1997 …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Oregon Governor Kate Brown commutes sentences of 17 people on death row
Discussion: KSNT-TV, Associated Press and KVIA-TV
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:   Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes State's Death Sentences
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Postal Service will debut John Lewis stamp in 2023  —  A stamp honoring Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2020, will be available for purchase next year, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday.  —  The preliminary design for the Lewis stamp uses a photograph …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
U.S. Postal Service announces stamp honoring late Rep. John Lewis
Discussion: Axios, CBS News, The Hill and CNN
Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: An intel analyst tried to prevent the Jan. 6 attack — but DHS failed to act  —  On Dec. 20, 2020, a 21-year-old intelligence analyst went online to search for local Washington, D.C., fishing holes and stumbled upon the blueprint of a plot to storm the Capitol and execute members …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Tesla shares have fallen 28% since Elon Musk took over Twitter, lagging other carmakers  — Tesla stock is faring poorly since CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter.  — Musk sold billions of dollars' worth of his Tesla holdings to finance the Twitter takeover and has been embroiled in controversy ever since.
New York Times:
Trump Organization Was Held in Contempt After Secret Trial Last Year  —  The company was fined $4,000 after failing to turn over documents.  The case is one of several in which investigators have found the ex-president or his company loath to hand over papers.
ESPN:
Attorneys demand removal of ex-Washington cheerleader images  —  The attorneys for more than three dozen former Washington Commanders employees demanded the removal of “sexualized and salacious photographs” of the organization's former cheerleaders from any congressional records.
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Lawmakers unveil bipartisan bill to ban TikTok nationwide  —  Bipartisan lawmakers introduce bill to ban TikTok  —  WASHINGTON — A group of lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation Tuesday that would ban TikTok in the U.S., following warnings from the FBI director …
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Congressman Mike Gallagher:
Gallagher, Rubio Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok
Alexey Ippolitov / U.S. Department of Justice:
Five Russian Nationals, Including Suspected FSB Officer, and Two U.S. Nationals Charged with Helping the Russian Military and Intelligence Agencies Evade Sanctions  —  The Defendants Conspired to Obtain Military-Grade and Dual-Use Technologies from U.S. Companies for Russia's Defense Sector
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
“The RNC has done a great job”: Fox's Kellyanne Conway repeatedly praised RNC without disclosing it paid her over $800K  —  Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway repeatedly went out of her way to praise the efforts of the Republican National Committee around the midterm elections …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Republic
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:   Fox's Kellyanne Conway Didn't Disclose RNC Paid Her While Praising Its ‘Great Job’
Washington Post:
House committee asks National Archives to review Trump storage unit  —  Rep. Carolyn Maloney says the storage facility and other properties ‘may contain presidential records that were not the focus of the search and therefore have not been turned over to the federal government’
Jen Christensen / CNN:
Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US, study says, but the fight isn't over  —  The Covid-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives, a new study says - and that estimate is most likely a conservative one, the researchers say.
 
 
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Politico:
Democracy for America on track to shut down
CNN:
House GOP divided over whether McCarthy should give in on ‘motion to vacate’
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
GOP operative who allegedly kicked a dog hired as top aide to new congressman
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Binance withdrawals hit $1.9 bln in 24 hours, data firm says
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Man With Neo-Nazi Links Arrested With Ghost Gun and Wearing Body Armor
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
Epstein Victim Says She Was Forced Into Threesome With Alan Dershowitz
Discussion: Raw Story and Jezebel
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Russian Trolls Made Fake Kid Rock Fan Accounts — and Fooled Donald Trump Jr.
Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
CPI Report Shows U.S. Inflation Eased in November
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill

Scott Nover / Fast Company:
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram
 
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