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New twist in FBI raid: Trump had ‘standing order’ to declassify documents taken to residence — Donald Trump's office told Just the News on Friday that the classified materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate were declassified under a “standing order” while he was president …
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Cracks emerge in GOP's Mar-a-Lago response — Republicans are dividing over how or whether to defend former President Trump after the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago — and what to do about some members' heated rhetoric toward law enforcement. … - But even some Intelligence Committee Republicans …
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b'Raw Story and Politico

Trump's latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified — Trump's new explanation for Mar-a-Lago documents is that “everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time.”
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Reuters and b'Raw Story

As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, G.O.P. Splits Over Assailing F.B.I. — WASHINGTON — Republicans struggled to come together on how to respond to the F.B.I.'s search of Mar-a-Lago as it emerged on Friday that federal law enforcement officers had recovered top secret files from former President Donald J. Trump's home.
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Why Trump is wrong to suggest Obama personally kept ‘33 million pages of documents’
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HuffPost, CNN, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Washington Examiner and Media Matters for America

Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned — The lawyer signed a statement in June that all documents marked as classified and held in boxes in storage at Mar-a-Lago had been given back. The search at the former president's home on Monday turned up more.
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New York Post, Washington Post and Political Wire
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Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents' Families
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FBI investigating ‘unprecedented’ number of threats against bureau in wake of Mar-a-Lago search
FBI investigating ‘unprecedented’ number of threats against bureau in wake of Mar-a-Lago search
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Global Community Weekly, Axios, USA Today, UPI, Beyond The Optics and Washington Post
Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service:
Synagogue of judge who approved Trump's search warrant cancels Shabbat service
Synagogue of judge who approved Trump's search warrant cancels Shabbat service
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Will Saletan / The Triad:
Merrick Garland Gets to the Point
Merrick Garland Gets to the Point
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Listen: Lauren Boebert's neighbors' 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox — Garfield County Sheriff's deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswoman's husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.
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Insider and New York Post

Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party's longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals …

How Democrats' surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals — WASHINGTON — Like many others in this town, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema first saw the news on Twitter. — Her fellow centrist Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia …
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A Victory of Biden, and a Bet on America's Future
A Victory of Biden, and a Bet on America's Future
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Crossing the Rubicon at Mar-a-Lago — In response to the outrageous invasion of Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, several people have suggested the deep state in general—and the FBI in particular—have “crossed the Rubicon.” — On Monday, Buck Sexton told Jesse Waters:

Who Is Hadi Matar? NJ Man Suspected in Salman Rushdie Attack Had Shia Extremist Sympathies — Police are learning more information about the suspect who allegedly stormed onto a New York stage and stabbed author Salman Rushdie in the neck on Friday. — The suspect, 24-year-old Hadi Matar …
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Telegraph, The Times of Israel, Breitbart, The Periscope and NECN
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Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Author Salman Rushdie attacked at speaking event in New York state
Author Salman Rushdie attacked at speaking event in New York state
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The White House and Twitter Censorship — There's new evidence that Biden officials wanted the site to ban Alex Berenson. — WSJ Opinion: Censorship as Usual as Elon Musk Abandons Twitter Bid — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels — The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation. — In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed …

Fetterman says he is ‘grateful’ to be alive in first Senate campaign rally since suffering a stroke — Fetterman ‘grateful’ to be alive after suffering stroke, says wife saved his life — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania …
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Fire Xavier Becerra — How Democrats' insistence on 'treating the cabinet as an identity-politics Rubik's cube' got us an incompetent-yet-unfireable HHS secretary — Back in January, before most of us had ever really thought about monkeypox, the Washington Post ran a lengthy …
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Politico

Documents show how Trump landed Lincoln Memorial for Fox News event — Trump's 2020 ‘town hall’ was held inside the memorial, an area where events have long been barred by federal regulations — In the spring of 2020, National Park Service personnel were preparing for an event President Donald Trump …
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Best of frenemies: Ron DeSantis stalks Trump with Republican primary tour — The Florida governor has been dubbed a ‘mini-Trump’ and was once boosted by the ex-president but a potential rivalry in 2024 has turned relations sour — As Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis …
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HuffPost and b'Raw Story