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Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization's Financial Dealings — Motion to Compel Filed After Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., — and Ivanka Trump Refuse to Provide Sworn Testimony
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New York Times:
N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business — The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation into whether the company misrepresented the value of its assets, but her office did not file a lawsuit.
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Washington Post:
N.Y. attorney general alleges Trump's business inflated property values, wealth statements — NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged on Tuesday that former president Donald Trump's business inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations …
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John Archibald / al.com:
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ — Ramon Perez came to court last month ready to fight the tickets he'd been handed by Brookside police, including one for rolling through a stop sign and another for driving 48 mph in a 40 zone.
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Mark Kelly supports change to Senate's filibuster rule for voting-rights legislation — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., will support a change to the filibuster rule, The Arizona Republic has learned, showing for the first time a willingness to bend on an issue that has tied the Senate in knots …
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Matthew Yglesias / Grid News:
The case for a better way to poll — Issue polling makes America seem very liberal. Combining party trust polling would help explain why Republicans win elections. — Editor-at-Large — In recent years, progressives have invested heavily in crafting a narrative which holds …
Doug Jones:
Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote
Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Voting Rights Fight, Democrats Train Ire on Sinema and Manchin
In Voting Rights Fight, Democrats Train Ire on Sinema and Manchin
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before publicly announcing he was negative — Acknowledgment of positive tests came after Tribune inquiries, records request. — (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elder Gerrit W. Gong …
CNN:
Exclusive: Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle's phone records subpoenaed by January 6 committee — Washington (CNN)The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump's children …
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Police said the male suspect (pictured) is believed to be homeless and fled through the back door before calming walking down an alley — The architectural design student from Pacific Palisades was alone in the Croft House store on La Brea Avenue in LA's upscale Fairfax neighborhood when a man entered around 1:50 p.m. and stabbed her.
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Prosecutors reveal new details of alleged Jan. 6 plotting by Oath Keepers — The details come in a new court filing aimed at keeping a suspect behind bars. — In an effort to keep a newly-arrested member of the Oath Keepers militia group charged in last week's seditious conspiracy indictment behind bars …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Firearms, a drone and 30 days of supplies: New details of Oath Keepers Jan. 6 weapons cache
Firearms, a drone and 30 days of supplies: New details of Oath Keepers Jan. 6 weapons cache
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Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Is in Retreat — What's next? — The latest Omicron developments continue to be encouraging. New Covid-19 cases are plummeting in a growing list of places. The percentage of cases causing severe illness is much lower than it was with the Delta variant.
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
How many people has Murdoch killed during pandemic? — We'll never know … Subscribe to PRESS RUN — After spending much of 2020 and the first half of 2021 raging against mask mandates and whining about how forcing workers to get vaccinated represented the trampling of individual liberties …
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United States Department of State:
Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy — The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv as part of our close and continued coordination with Ukraine following …
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Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Florida could shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees …
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Sources: State health officer Pino placed on administrative leave after vaccination email — Dr. Raul Pino, who became a trusted voice of the pandemic response in the nation's tourist capital, has been placed on administrative leave from his post as the state's chief health officer …
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Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
Biden renewed a free program to feed needy kids. Most states haven't even applied. — At its height, Pandemic-EBT fed millions of low-income students. Now it's faltering as burdened administrators opt out. — Odessa Davis worked three jobs to get by, until the pandemic shutdowns …
Washington Post:
The long slide: Inside Biden's declining popularity as he struggles with multiple crises — The second week of August began as a time for vacation for President Biden and some of his team. Then Afghanistan imploded. The reports out of Kabul were harrowing: Images of desperate Afghan nationals clinging …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Administration Knew the Afghan Air Force Would Collapse after a U.S. Withdrawal — On the menu today: A declassified special-inspector-general report proves that the Pentagon and the Biden administration were warned in January 2021 that Afghanistan's air force did not have the capabilities to survive after a U.S. withdrawal.
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Republican Parallel Universes Strategy — And how Democrats can break through it. — Shortly after the 2020 election I was chatting with a Republican strategist who'd done some work for several vulnerable-seeming GOP candidates who ultimately won their races, outperforming Donald Trump by several points.
New York Times:
André Leon Talley, Editor and Fashion Industry Force, Dies at 73 — Called “a creative genius,” he was the rare Black editor at the top of a field that was mostly white and notoriously elitist. — André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor who shattered …
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Politico:
Biden plans giveaway of 400M masks as Omicron surges — The Biden administration is planning to distribute hundreds of millions of free, high-quality masks through pharmacies and community health centers, a White House official said Wednesday. — The 400 million newly available masks …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.
Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.
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Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state — (CNN)Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year's elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups.
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Fairfax Schools Tell Children Of Military Members That They Have ‘Privilege’ — A Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools curriculum has students play “privilege” bingo, giving them privilege points if they are white, male, employed or “involved in extra curricular [sic] activities,” or “feel represented in the media.”
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The Dworkin Report:
Lev Parnas just explained how Rudy Giuliani acquired Russian disinformation for Trump — Scott and Grant interview Lev Parnas, a former political associate of President Trump and a close confidant to his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. This is the first part of a special two-part interview with Lev Parnas …
The White House:
Memorandum on Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community Systems — MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT — THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY — THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE — THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE — THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Silvio Berlusconi Angles for Italy's Presidency, Bunga Bunga and All — The billionaire former prime minister is working hard to persuade lawmakers to vote for him next week, despite an unusual résumé for a job resting on moral authority. — ROME — Early this month …
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Financial Times
Vanessa Chalmers / New York Post:
Man's agonizing penis pain is found to be rare side effect of COVID — A man's agonizing penis pain was blamed on COVID infection, as docs warned of the rare side effect. — Writing in a medical journal, the Iranian team described how the virus led to blood clotting in the poor man's shaft.
Ylan Mui / CNBC:
Nearly 4 million kids could fall into poverty this month after end of tax credit payments, study says — Nearly 4 million children could fall into poverty this month following the end of pandemic-linked monthly child tax credit payments, according to a new analysis from Columbia University.