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6:20 PM ET, December 14, 2022

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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Ron DeSantis Holds Early Lead Over Donald Trump Among GOP Primary Voters, WSJ Poll Shows  —  The former president's standing among Republican voters has fallen after candidates he promoted lost in midterm elections  —  Republican primary voters have high interest in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans have little appetite for Biden-Trump rematch in 2024  —  There's little appetite for a 2020 rematch in the coming presidential election, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as majorities of registered voters within each party say they'd rather see someone new nominated in 2024.
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Jennifer Calfas / Wall Street Journal:
SEC Charges Eight Influencers in $100 Million Securities Fraud  —  Complaint accuses social-media influencers of engaging in pump-and-dump scheme since at least January 2020  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission charged eight influencers in an alleged $100 million stock-manipulation scheme …
Reuters:
The supply chain that keeps tech flowing to Russia  —  In March this year, a new firm appeared in Turkey's corporate registry.  Azu International Ltd Sti described itself as a wholesale trader of IT products, and a week later began shipping U.S. computer parts to Russia.
NBC News:
Florida pastor and his son are arrested in alleged $8 million Covid scam  —  A Florida pastor and his son were arrested Wednesday on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal Covid relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Walt Disney World.
Discussion: Law & Crime and NBC New York
Talking Points Memo:
Texts Show How Members Of Congress Advanced ‘Antifa’ Conspiracy Theories In The Wake Of Jan. 6  —  Within two hours of protesters breaking the first barricades at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, right-wing politicians and media figures were already texting President Trump's Chief …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
QAnon, adrift after Trump's defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk's Twitter  —  Among some QAnon devotees, Musk has become a figure of prophecy on par with Donald Trump  —  Twitter owner Elon Musk's boosting of far-right memes and grievances has injected new energy into the jumbled set …
Bloomberg:
In 60 Seconds Before CPI Hit, Heavy Trading Drove Mystery Rally  —  Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for President Joe Biden, quickly brushed off the question when it came in toward the end of her daily press conference Tuesday.  No, she said, there was no chance that anyone …
Discussion: New York Post and Frontpage Mag
TMZ.com:
‘Ellen’ DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Dead at 40 by Suicide  —  9:49 AM PT — Ellen DeGeneres just paid tribute to her friend, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, writing, “I'm heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light.  He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart.  I will miss him.
Washington Post:
Texas attorney general's office sought state data on transgender Texans  —  HOUSTON — Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton's office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender …
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren: The Federal Reserve Is Trying ‘To Get More People Fired’  —  Democrats are increasingly worried about the Federal Reserve tanking the economy.  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is coming under increasing political pressure to stop raising interest rates as aggressively as it has done so this year.
Discussion: Insider, Fortune, Reuters and Bloomberg
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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Fed raises rates by half a percentage point in last 2022 hike
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
Iran ousted from U.N. women's commission after U.S. campaign  —  Iran was ousted from a United Nations women's body on Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed by the United States after Tehran's brutal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in custody.
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The White House:
Statement by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on UN Vote to Remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Trump Org. was secretly held in contempt for hindering probe  —  Donald Trump's company impeded a grand jury investigation last year by repeatedly failing to turn over evidence in a timely fashion, leading to a secret contempt finding and a $4,000 fine, according to court records made public Tuesday.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Jury Room for the Trump Org Criminal Trial
Discussion: Raw Story
Steve Miller / RealClearInvestigations:
With Passenger Mask Mandate Gone, Flight Turbulence Stats Improve Markedly  —  Flight cabin disruptions over masks, like the one shown, are much less likely now.  With a Biden administration mandate overturned, incidents are down 74%.  —  The friendly skies too often resembled “season's beatings” …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and In The Know
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Don't Have a ‘Candidate-Quality Problem,’ They Have a Crazy-People Problem … The most consistent theme articulated by the Republican Establishment in response to the midterm elections is a determination to solve what Mitch McConnell euphemistically called its “candidate-quality problem.”
Washington Post:
House votes to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author from Capitol  —  The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would remove a bust at the U.S. Capitol of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who authored the majority Supreme Court opinion protecting slavery in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Discussion: CBS News and Insider
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Michelle Obama's Fashion Declaration of Independence  —  The former first lady dressed with a new sense of freedom on her book tour.  —  When is a book tour not just a book tour?  When it is a platform for the refashioning, literally, of a major public figure — when it is a way for someone whose image …
Discussion: W and Althouse
getrevue.co:
a native internet protocol for social media  —  By subscribing, you agree with Revue's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that jack's will receive your email address.  —  jack's  —  There's a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles.  Here's my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started  —  In 2018, a typhoon stranded thousands of people at Kansai International Airport, near Osaka, Japan.  Among them were some tourists from Taiwan.  Normally, this story might not have had much political meaning.
Discussion: The Hill
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
Oregon governor commutes sentences for state's 17 death row inmates  —  Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Tuesday commuted the sentences of all 17 people on the state's death row, changing their punishment from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Nick Reynolds / Newsweek:
Trump on ‘Fast Track’ to Prosecution as DOJ Gets Documents Needed to Indict  —  Attorneys representing the Department of Justice (DOJ) will likely soon get their hands on a number of classified documents necessary to bring charges against former President Donald Trump, legal observers contend …
ProPublica:
Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination  —  Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change elections and anti-discrimination laws.
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Antiabortion movement seeks to jail people for ‘trafficking’ illegal pills  —  Six months after their Supreme Court victory, conservatives complain that strict new laws are not being sufficiently enforced  —  The largest anti abortion organization in Texas has created a team of advocates assigned …
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Texas Veterans Affairs sued by nurse over compelled abortion services  —  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires its facilities to offer abortion counseling and procedures is being challenged in court by health professionals who said it violates their religious liberties.
Discussion: The Hill, Military Times, CNN and Fox News
John Kenneth White / The Hill:
Is this Donald Trump's Joe McCarthy moment?  —  Former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago dinner with anti-Semite and Adolf Hitler admirer Kanye West (now known as Ye) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, followed by his declaration that the U.S. Constitution should be “terminated” …
Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:
For new NCI director, work turns personal: She is diagnosed with cancer  —  Monica Bertagnolli says she has early-stage breast cancer and expects to recover fully  —  Last summer, when Boston cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli heard she might be selected to lead the National Cancer Institute …
Discussion: UPI
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Buttigieg Vacationed in Europe as Rail Unions Were on Verge of Strike  —  As rail contract negotiations entered a period of crisis in September, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg phoned in from over 3,500 miles away during a vacation in Porto, Portugal, a posh tourist destination best known …
 
 
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Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
Right-Wing Student Leader's Racist Post Sparks Firestorm at Mizzou
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Globe journalist forced to testify despite First Amendment concerns
Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
Shelby ending career as Alabama's longest-serving senator
Discussion: Fox News, Associated Press and al.com
NBC News:
Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger calls for an end to runoff elections
 Earlier Items: 
Noah Kirsch / The Daily Beast:
Musk Didn't Even Vote in Midterms He Cared So Much About
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Bipartisan Bill To Ban TikTok Is Unworkable and Unnecessary
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Hunter Biden's Laptop and 2020's First Big Lie
Discussion: Instapundit
Politico:
December spending gloom falls on GOP: 'I'm so disgusted'
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senate Dems prepare to join the investigative fray
Discussion: HotAir, New Republic and PoliticusUSA
 

 
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representatives to propose a new performance-based compensation regime, as Amazon and Netflix work on similar plans

Neal Mohan / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan argues that creators should be eligible for Emmys, as the awards “should reflect what viewers are actually watching on their TV screens”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Hunterbrook Media's publisher failed to disclose its ownership stake in a rival to a company that was recently the subject of a critical Hunterbrook article

 
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