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With Feds Circling, Trump Asks Allies: Who's ‘Wearing a Wire’? — Donald Trump is worried he may have a rat — or multiple rats — in his midst. He's wondering if his phones are tapped, or even if one of his buddies could be “wearing a wire.” — As the federal and state investigations …
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FBI Quest for Trump Documents Started With Breezy Chats, Tour of a Crowded Closet — Why interactions between FBI, Trump team soured remains a mystery — FBI Searches Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home — Created with sketchtool. … 1x — Around lunchtime on June 3, a senior Justice Department …
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Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where — The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents …
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Mar-a-Lago Search Shows the Swamp's Trump Obsession — An FBI raid against a former president should never happen. End of discussion. — WSJ Opinion: Mar-a-Lago and the Swamp's Obsession With Donald Trump — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Tweets that have aged extremely poorly, FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago edition
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Citizen Trump may have broken a law that President Trump made a felony
Citizen Trump may have broken a law that President Trump made a felony
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
'You Can't Play the Cable-News Game in Court'
'You Can't Play the Cable-News Game in Court'
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Republicans' response to the Mar-a-Lago search is disturbing and dangerous
Republicans' response to the Mar-a-Lago search is disturbing and dangerous
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump's Campaign-Style Video Sets Off 2024 Talk, but There's a Back Story
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FBI delivers subpoenas to several Pa. Republican lawmakers: sources say — 1,070 … - Meadows' former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the House Select Committee that Perry was among a small group of people who talked with Meadows about a potential appearance by Trump at the Capitol following …
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Seizure of Congressman's Phone Is Latest Sign of Escalating Election Inquiry
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Why Scott Perry stands out in the FBI's investigations of Trump allies
Why Scott Perry stands out in the FBI's investigations of Trump allies
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Search, seizure rankle Republicans
Search, seizure rankle Republicans
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Historians privately warn Biden that America's democracy is teetering — When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before WWII — President Biden paused last week …
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Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge — “Let's find out if he has children... where they go to school, where they live... EVERYTHING,” one person wrote on a message board where the judge's address was posted. — David Gilbert
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Trump and James sat across from each other for hours as he said ‘same answer’ again and again. — The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, sat across from Donald J. Trump as he repeatedly declined to answer questions, invoking his right against self-incrimination during a deposition on Wednesday …
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Yellen directs IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of Americans making less than $400,000 — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday directed the Internal Revenue Service not to use any of the new funding allocated in the Democrats' new health care and climate bill …
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Why Wait? Here's Liz Cheney's Concession Speech in Advance — Liz Cheney is facing an awkward challenge. A few days from now, she will deliver the most consequential speech of her career to date. The polls indicate it will almost certainly be a concession speech.
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Yearning for a Banana Republic — Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies. — What an amazingly stupid time this is. — Here's an easy thought experiment. Imagine a Third World banana republic.
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Gas Prices in the U.S. Fall Below $4 a Gallon — After peaking in mid-June, they have tracked a global decline in oil prices and are back where they were in March. — Gas prices in the United States fell below $4 a gallon on Thursday, retreating to their lowest level since March …
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Inflation drops to zero in July due to falling gas prices
Inflation drops to zero in July due to falling gas prices
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Joe Arpaio loses 3rd comeback bid in town mayoral race — Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Arizona sheriff who was a once powerful figure in Republican politics but was ousted nearly six years ago amid frustration over his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles …
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Europe's Energy Crisis May Get a Lot Worse — I don't think many Americans appreciate just how tense and tenuous, how very touch and go the energy situation in Europe is right now. — For months, as news of the Ukraine war receded a bit, it was possible to follow the energy story unfolding across …
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An unusual deal gave Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin $8.5 million in stock. He paid $0 in tax on it. — In January 2020, Glenn Youngkin, now the Republican governor of Virginia, got some welcome news. A complex corporate transaction had gone through at the Carlyle Group …
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How Not To Talk To The Public About Monkeypox — A case study in hiding the ball, public health official-style — Happy Wednesday! You may have seen some FBI-related news this week — if you're interested in the Mar-a-Lago raid, including some inferences about the status of the investigations …
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Scoop: Miami mayor eyes White House — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's political operation is making subtle but significant moves toward a potential White House run, Axios has learned. … - Suarez is nonetheless considered a rising political star who's overseen the ascendance of one of America's fastest-growing and most dynamic cities.
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How did Ukraine strike deep inside Russian-occupied Crimea? — How did Ukraine blow up Russia's Saki Air Base in southwest Crimea on Tuesday? Was it with supersonic ballistic missiles, perhaps made in the United States? Or did it send a SEAL Team 6-style special ops, dropped deep behind enemy lines, to set explosions?
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Bored to Death by Trump — Sooner or later, every last thing in American life becomes about the former president. It's incredibly tedious. — I — am inordinately bored of Donald Trump. — I'm bored of the man himself. I'm bored of his opponents. I'm bored of his supporters.
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Biden gets some closure — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With help from Allie Bice. — President JOE BIDEN arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon for a family vacation on Kiawah Island.
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Staff allegedly took down an Escambia County teacher's posters of Black heroes. He quit — An Escambia County public school teacher resigned this week over what he characterized as racist behavior by a school district employee. — The teacher, Michael James, emailed a letter …
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