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4:10 PM ET, December 13, 2022

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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  — Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed eight separate charges against disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, including several counts of conspiracy and fraud.
New York Times:
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas  —  A statement by the government of the Bahamas said Mr. Bankman-Fried was arrested after prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges.  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX …
New York Times:
Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents Under Scrutiny in FTX Collapse  —  The FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's mother and father, who teach at Stanford Law School, are under scrutiny for their connections to their son's crypto business.  —  At the height of its corporate power, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX convened …
CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested following FTX collapse.  Here's what happens next  — Following his arrest in Bahamas on Monday, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces the potential of a lengthy prison sentence.  — FTX collapsed last month following a liquidity crunch at the crypto exchange.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX
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 …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House GOP reckons with ‘candidate quality’ problem after midterms — and ahead of 2024  —  Lackluster candidates nearly cost Republicans what once looked like a can't-miss House majority.  Inside the party, discussions about how to keep that from happening again in 2024 have already started.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
West Virginia Republicans hit the ground running to topple Joe Manchin in 2024  —  Joe Manchin is among the last of a dying breed — a Democratic senator representing a deep red state.  He's managed to hang on time and time again in West Virginia by bucking his party on key votes and building a reputation as a centrist.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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 …
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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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Ken White / The Popehat Report:
Goodbye, Twitter  —  Everything Ends, And That's Okay.  —  Today I was thinking of all the websites I've spent time on, and the people I've met there.  —  I messed around on the internet in the days of screeching dial-up modems, but I didn't really start to contribute regularly to online communities until 1995 or so.
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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: Raw Story
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Norman Responds To TPM Revelations Of His Call For ‘Marshall Law’: Texts Came From ‘Source Of Frustration’  —  Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), whose Jan. 17, 2021 text to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows called for Donald Trump to invoke “Marshall Law,” has responded to the revelations.
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Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
CPI Report Shows U.S. Inflation Eased in November  —  Price increases have eased this fall from a four-decade high earlier in year, while Federal Reserve continues to move aggressively  —  Consumer prices rose last month at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021 …
Brittany Trang / STAT:
Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study  —  This Wednesday will mark two years since nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the U.S. to receive a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial.  A study released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund shows …
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Jen Christensen / CNN:
Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US, study says, but the fight isn't over
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and UPI
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’
Discussion: Bloomberg, Raw Story and Political Wire
Reuters:
Binance withdrawals hit $1.9 bln in 24 hours, data firm says  —  Binance has registered $1.9 billion of withdrawals in the past 24 hours, blockchain data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, as the world's biggest crypto exchange said it had “temporarily paused” withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin.
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Russian Trolls Made Fake Kid Rock Fan Accounts — and Fooled Donald Trump Jr.  —  The former president's son reposted a conspiracy theory on Ivermectin and oil supplies from “KidRockOfficial.”  The account was a Russian troll trying to meddle in the U.S. election
Discussion: The Daily Dot and CyberScoop
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Washington Post caught stealth-editing report that initially labeled Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss ‘conservative’  —  Taibbi, Weiss have reported this month on Twitter files released by new CEO Elon Musk  —  Recent release of ‘Twitter files’ reveals employees were ecstatic over Trump ban
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
GOP operative who allegedly kicked a dog hired as top aide to new congressman  —  A veteran Georgia Republican operative who is slated to be chief of staff for incoming Rep. Mike Collins was arrested last month for allegedly kicking a dog.  —  Brandon Phillips was arrested on Nov. 17 …
The Daily Beast:
Epstein Victim Says She Was Forced Into Threesome With Alan Dershowitz  —  The Harvard lawyer denies the claim, which was made in a 2017 deposition that was just unsealed.  —  A victim of multimillionaire sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein says she was coerced into a threesome …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden seeks political boost from slowing inflation  —  Battered for months over rising prices, Biden now seeks momentum from better economic news ahead of his reelection.  —  President Biden on Tuesday sought to capitalize on positive economic news that inflation numbers are cooling …
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Man With Neo-Nazi Links Arrested With Ghost Gun and Wearing Body Armor  —  A New York man connected to a dangerous fascist group was arrested in November during a traffic stop.  —  Mack Lamoureux  —  A man connected to neo-Nazi networks was arrested during what appears …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell blames Trump for ‘candidate quality’ issues in midterms  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday blamed the power former President Trump exerted in GOP primaries for the “candidate quality” issues his party struggled with in key races.
Discussion: NBC News, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Alex Oliveira / Daily Mail:
Shocking moment female-to-male transgender ice hockey player is tackled to the ground and CONCUSSED by much larger male-to-female rival at controversial NHL-backed tournament  — Trans hockey player Danny Maki was left concussed after a much larger player collided with him during a trans hockey tournament last month
Peter Kasperowicz / Fox News:
LGBTQ activist activist exposed by Rep. Nancy Mace: ‘Do you believe your rhetoric is a threat to democracy?’  —  Mace said the next Congress would feature witnesses who 'know what they're talking about'  —  Twitter Files show 'left's primary focus' is to ‘shut down the conversation’: Tammy Bruce
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Elon Musk Is the Nation's Foremost Culture Warrior  —  His unwillingness to swallow the orthodoxies of the elite media and progressive establishment has made him a heretic.  —  Elon Musk, who has never called himself a conservative, is now the nation's foremost culture warrior.
Discussion: RedState and The Triad
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The midterms should be a stake through the heart of the mobilization myth  —  Turnout was great for Republicans, but they lost most of the key races anyway  —  In recent years, I've become obsessed with making an argument that would have struck people as too obvious to even write about 20 years ago …
New York Times:
Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities  —  The arrival of up to 1,000 migrants, the latest big group to have crossed the border, was one of the largest single crossings in recent years in West Texas, which has seen a surge in migration.  —  EL PASO — After nightfall on Sunday …
U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio:
Rubio, Gallagher Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok  —  TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, is required by Chinese law to make the app's data available to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  From the FBI Director to FCC Commissioners to cybersecurity experts …
 
 
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CNN:
House GOP divided over whether McCarthy should give in on ‘motion to vacate’
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Free Beacon:
Atlantic Council Parts Ways With Prominent Iran Apologist
Discussion: Algemeiner.com
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Inside Chuck Schumer's Long Game On Judges
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Government Remains Americans' Top Problem in 2022
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg:
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Discussion: Fortune