For months, aides to President Joe Biden have been backchanneling to
keep OPEC from cutting oil exports and, in turn, raising oil and gas
prices around the world.

So much for all that.

On Wednesday, OPEC+ announced that it will cut oil production by 2
million barrels per day starting next month — a move that “sharply
undercuts President Biden’s effort to avoid an increase in gas prices
ahead of the midterm elections, while setting back his push to constrain
the oil revenue Russia is using to pay for its war in Ukraine,” write
NYT’s David Sanger and Ben Hubbard.

And two days after setting the political world aflame with its report
that in 2009, Herschel Walker — who is running for U.S. Senate in
Georgia while touting his opposition to abortion rights — paid for his
then-girlfriend to obtain an abortion, the Daily Beast’s Roger
Sollenberger lit more kindling on Wednesday night: “She Had an Abortion
With Herschel Walker. She Also Had a Child With Him.”

Plus, FDA reporter Katherine Foley stops by to dissect the stars for
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Reps. Lloyd Doggett
(D-Texas), Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.). Happy
birthday!

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