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FBI searches Trump safe at Mar-a-Lago Club, former president says — A person familiar with the investigation said the search was court-authorized, related to the potential mishandling of classified documents — Former president Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI had raided his Mar …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet — Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Searches Trump's Home in Florida — The former president said in a statement that Mar-a-Lago had been “raided, and occupied by a large group of F.B.I. agents.” — Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe …
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Axios:
Trump says Mar-a-Lago raided by FBI — Former President Trump in a statement Monday said his Mar-a-Lago resort has been raided by FBI agents. … - “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said.
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New Yorker:
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals — How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief. — In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
New Book Chronicles Trump's Fraught Relationship With Top Military Officials
New Book Chronicles Trump's Fraught Relationship With Top Military Officials
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn't Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims
Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn't Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
First on CNN: Alex Jones' texts have been turned over to the January 6 committee, source says — Approximately two years' worth of text messages sent and received by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection …
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Politico:
Dark Brandon Begins: How WH aides appropriated the meme of their boss as an underworld kin — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. — In November 2020, a week after JOE BIDEN was declared the winner of the presidential election …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Brandon returns, darkly: Democrats turn an insult into a pro-Biden meme — With “Let's go, Brandon,” Biden's critics found a way to curse him. His supporters are seizing on the “Dark Brandon” meme to vaunt his superpowers. — It's not President Biden as many have come to know him.
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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America's Past, Dies at 89 — His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator's voice in documentary films was familiar to millions. — David McCullough, who was known to millions as an award-winning …
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Associated Press:
David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89 — NEW YORK — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.
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Glenn Rifkin / Washington Post:
David McCullough, master chronicler of American history, dies at 89
David McCullough, master chronicler of American history, dies at 89
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Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
Two vulnerable House Democrats suggest support for Manchin-Schumer bill could be in jeopardy over energy fee — Fox News Digital asked two vulnerable Texas Democrats what they thought of the fee and if they supported the legislation — Inflation Reduction Act won't reduce inflation: Concha
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Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Bitter Triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act
The Bitter Triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
This is what happens when the party in charge cares about governing
This is what happens when the party in charge cares about governing
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Why the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is no such thing
Why the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is no such thing
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Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Progressive group polling finds Ron DeSantis may be in a closer race than expected … Jacob Ogles — Jacob Ogles has covered politics in Florida since 2000 for regional outlets including SRQ Magazine in Sarasota, The News-Press in Fort Myers and The Daily Commercial in Leesburg.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million — Axios has signed a deal to sell to its most recent lead investor, Cox Enterprises, the companies announced Monday. The cash deal values the company at $525 million, according to sources familiar with the deal.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Axios to Sell Itself to Cox Enterprises for $525 Million
Axios to Sell Itself to Cox Enterprises for $525 Million
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Politico:
DOJ pushes back against Eastman effort to reclaim his cellphone — The Justice Department on Monday rejected an effort by attorney John Eastman — a key ally in Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election — to reclaim his cellphone, which was seized by FBI agents in June.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Welcome to the strangest Senate race in America — Utah is home to the Great Salt Lake, the NBA's Jazz and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Oh, and the strangest Senate race in America. — There's Evan McMullin, a former presidential candidate who's convinced Utah Democrats …
David Petraeus / The Atlantic:
Afghanistan Did Not Have to Turn Out This Way — A year after the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport, the outcome of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is heartbreaking and tragic for many Afghans and devastating for their country. The Afghan government that fell, leading to the return of the Taliban …
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Maps in Four States Were Ruled Illegal Gerrymanders. They're Being Used Anyway. — A Supreme Court shift, frowning on changes close to elections, gives House Republicans a big advantage in November. — WASHINGTON — Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found …
Peter Salter / Lincoln Journal Star:
Norfolk mother and daughter accused of illegal abortion, burning and burying body — A Norfolk woman is facing five criminal charges — including three felonies — alleging she helped her teenage daughter abort, burn and bury her fetus earlier this year. — Jessica Burgess, 41 …
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U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa:
U.S. Navy Recovers F/A-18E from Mediterranean Sea — By U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa / U.S. Sixth Fleet Public Affairs — On Aug. 3, the U.S. Navy successfully recovered the F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW 1), embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman …
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CNN:
She helped Trump win Florida twice. Now she could lead his expected 2024 campaign — Susie Wiles was searching for her next act when Donald Trump came knocking last spring. Plotting a comeback after his supporters violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 …
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: Paul Manafort admits he passed Trump campaign data to a suspected Russian asset — Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, sat down for an exclusive interview with Insider. — Manafort made his first public admission that he shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik …
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New York Times:
In Lawsuits, Ex-Employees Offer Harsh Portrait of Project Veritas — One former employee described the conservative group as having a “highly sexualized” atmosphere where drinking and drug use were commonplace. — The conservative group Project Veritas has for years sought …
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
GOP Sen. Tim Scott Claims Democrats Want Abortions Up To 52 Weeks — Human pregnancies last for about 40 weeks. — In his latest fundraising email, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) paints a very dark picture for the GOP if the party doesn't win back the Senate in November.
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Los Angeles Times:
Their town was polluted with radioactive waste. Now, they may lose their homes — Illustrations by MAURICIO RODRÍGUEZ PONS — This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. — The “death map” tells the story of decades …