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2:05 AM ET, August 3, 2022

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Nancy Pelosi / Washington Post:
Why I'm leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan  —  Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is speaker of the House of Representatives.  —  Some 43 years ago, the United States Congress overwhelmingly passed — and President Jimmy Carter signed into law — the Taiwan Relations Act …
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Pelosi's Taiwan trip a culmination of decades of challenging China  —  Over several administrations, the congresswoman often held an opinion unpopular among Democratic colleagues, and her posture at times was viewed as unhelpful in U.S.-China relations  —  In 1991, Rep. Nancy Pelosi stood …
Xinhua:
Statement by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Pelosi's visit to Taiwan  —  China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday issued a statement on Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan region.  Following is the full text of the statement:
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The real crisis over Taiwan will start after Pelosi comes home  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her delegation have landed in Taiwan, where the immediate worry is the small, but serious possibility, of direct military confrontation with China.  But the larger impact of Pelosi's visit …
Bloomberg:   Pelosi's Taiwan Trip Spurs Chinese Battery Giant to Pause Plant Debut
Wall Street Journal:
Nancy Pelosi's Plane Took Three-Hour Detour to Get to Taiwan
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Insider
CNN:
First on CNN: Jan. 6 text messages wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials  —  (CNN)The Defense Department wiped the phones of top departing DOD and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration, deleting any texts from key witnesses to events surrounding the January 6 …
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New York Times:
Arizona Officials Warned Fake Electors Plan Could ‘Appear Treasonous’  —  Politicians involved in Donald Trump's effort to put forth electors to falsely claim he had won Arizona said doing so without first filing a legal challenge could look like a crime.  —  Two Arizona Republicans recruited …
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Kansas voters reject constitutional amendment granting lawmakers ability to regulate abortion  —  Kansas became the first state in the nation to vote on abortion following the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 2
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Kansas Voters Rush to Defense of Abortion Rights  —  The state resoundingly rejected an amendment erasing the right to abortion from its Constitution.  In Missouri, the scandal-plagued Eric Greitens was trounced in his Senate primary by Eric Schmitt, the state's attorney general.
NBC News:
Justice Department sues Idaho over abortion ban in first post-Roe litigation  —  Garland announces Justice Department lawsuit challenging Idaho abortion law  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that Idaho's near-total abortion ban violates federal law …
New York Times:
Kansas Abortion Amendment Election Results
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Signal and PoliticusUSA
Shefali Luthra / The 19th:
Kansas voters reject effort to eliminate state abortion protections
ABC News:
Ex-White House counsel subpoenaed by federal grand jury investigating Jan. 6 attack  —  Pat Cipollone spoke to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee last month.  —  A federal grand jury has subpoenaed former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone in its investigation into the Jan. 6 assault …
Associated Press:
Two top House Democrats decline to say Biden should run in 2024  —  NEW YORK — Two powerful House Democrats from New York each declined Tuesday to say that President Joe Biden should run for the White House again in 2024.  —  Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, two of the party's establishment liberals …
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Scott Wong / NBC News:
Senate passes veterans health bill after Republicans cave to pressure  —  The $280 billion package will provide health care benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits.  It passed after days of protests from former service members and comedian Jon Stewart.  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate …
New York Times:
Trump Faces Questions About His Net Worth in Interview He Tried to Avoid  —  Former President Donald J. Trump has embraced the verbal sparring of legal depositions in the past, but now faces significant risk.  —  For decades, Donald J. Trump has boasted with impunity about a subject close to his heart and ego: his net worth.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Vertuno / Associated Press:
Sandy Hook parents: Alex Jones claims created ‘living hell’  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Fighting back tears and finally given the chance to confront conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the parents of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting described being put through a …
Tessa Weinberg / Missouri Independent:
Missouri AG Eric Schmitt beats Hartzler, Greitens to claim GOP Senate nomination  —  Attorney General Eric Schmitt poses with a supporter after claiming the Republican nomination for Missouri's open U.S. Senate seat on Aug. 2, 2022 .  —  ST. LOUIS — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt beat …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Misleading Kansas abortion texts linked to Republican-aligned firm  —  The numbers used to spread the texts were leased to Alliance Forge, a Nevada-based firm that provides texting services to Republican campaigns  —  The text messages arrived on Monday, the day before Kansans were set …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Profits Slump at CNN as Ratings Plummet  —  The network is on a pace to drop below $1 billion in profit for the first time in years, according to people familiar with its operations, amid steep declines in TV viewership.  —  One of the first moves the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery …
Financial Times:
Samsung and SK Hynix rethink China exposure following US Chips act  —  Leading Korean chipmakers re-evaluate further Chinese investments in response to Washington restrictions  —  Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are re-evaluating their investments in China, as the leading Korean chipmakers respond …
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Zawahiri appeared on his balcony.  The CIA was watching — and ready to kill him.  —  After eluding U.S. intelligence agencies for two decades, the al-Qaeda leader showed up on the balcony of a house in downtown Kabul  —  Ayman al-Zawahiri, the 71-year-old leader of al-Qaeda …
Financial Times:
Nick Clegg becomes latest Meta executive bound for London  —  Global affairs chief will split his time between UK and California as social media group embraces remote leadership  —  Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Meta, is partly relocating to London, joining a growing list …
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Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
Trump's purported free speech social media platform Truth Social is hiding user posts, threatening to create a ‘curated echo chamber,’ research group finds  — A new report found instances where Trump's TRUTH Social kept posts from being visible.  — The posts discussed abortion …
Wall Street Journal:
The IRS Is About to Go Beast Mode  —  The Schumer-Manchin bill has $45.6 billion to audit the middle class.  —  Progressives want Joe Biden to unleash what they call “beast mode” executive power, and the Schumer-Manchin tax bill supplies the cash to turn the Internal Revenue Service into Wolverine.
Discussion: DonnyFerguson.com
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, was arrested on suspicion of DUI on May 28  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 2  —  Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
 
 
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Bill Glauber / Journal Sentinel:
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
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Christopher Condon / Bloomberg:
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
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Jan Wolfe / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Variety, Washington Examiner and UPI
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Heather Stewart / The Guardian:
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
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CBS News:
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Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
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