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New York Times:
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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CNN, Mediaite, b'Raw Story, Occupy Democrats, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Vanity Fair, New York Post, PoliticusUSA, HillReporter.com, Political Wire and Washington Post
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence — Both threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life. Experts blame dehumanizing and apocalyptic language. — The armed attack this week on an F.B.I. office in Ohio by a supporter …
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Euphoric Recall
Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
SEE IT: Donald Trump lashes out after FBI search warrant unsealed by calling it a ‘scam’ — Former President Donald Trump has lashed out at the FBI in the wake of the search warrant used in its raid on Mar-a-Lago being unsealed. — “Like all of the other Hoaxes and Scams that they've used …
Philip Klein / National Review:
Trump's Explanation of Document Declassification Doesn't Pass the Smell Test — Whatever anybody thinks about the FBI's actions at Mar-a-Lago, can we all agree that Donald Trump's claim — that there was a “standing order” that said whatever he brought to his Florida residence was automatically declassified — is patently absurd?
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HotAir and The Gateway Pundit
Matt Bai / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's chamber of secrets — National security being what it is, we may never know the exact contents of the documents that FBI agents carried out of Mar-a-Lago this week. But we can already see what Donald Trump's defense will be. — These documents can't be classified …
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HuffPost, Letters from an American, Insider and New Yorker
NBC News:
‘It worried people all the time:’ How Trump's handling of secret documents led to the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
‘It worried people all the time:’ How Trump's handling of secret documents led to the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
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NPR, PennLive, NewsNation and Associated Press
Alia Shoaib / Insider:
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 latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified
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Reuters and b'Raw Story
Andrew Solender / Axios:
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
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
West Virginia coal country will test power of Democrats' climate bill — After decades of deindustrialization, the Inflation Reduction Act tries to revive U.S. manufacturing jobs. Obstacles loom. — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Travis Elswick used to spend his days detonating millions …
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NBC News:
How Democrats' surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals
How Democrats' surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals
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Bangor Daily News and Twitchy
New York Times:
A Detailed Picture of What's in the Democrats' Climate and Health Bill
A Detailed Picture of What's in the Democrats' Climate and Health Bill
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Washington Post, WOOD-TV, Axios, High Plains Blogger and The Washington Current
New York Times:
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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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Outside the Beltway, NBC News, CBS News, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Slate, Breitbart, Florida Politics, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, NewsNation, USA Today, PoliticusUSA, RedState, Black Westchester Magazine, globalnews.ca, Townhall, WV MetroNews, Insider and UPI
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
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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Twitchy and b'Raw Story
New York Times:
The New York Times's Interview With Carolyn Maloney — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. … Jyoti Thottam: So, just to begin.
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Bari Weiss / Common Sense:
We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning — Words are not violence. Violence is violence. — We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in common with Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini …
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The Book Haven, Slate and HotAir
New York Times:
Dan Goldman N.Y. District 10 — New York's chaotic primary elections for Congress, which will be held on Aug. 23, are the outcome of Democrats in Albany having tried to do an end run around the state Constitution's ban on partisan gerrymandering. The courts smacked them down for that …
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Bloomberg
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Dave Karpf / The Future, Now and Then:
Against Jackpot-Longtermism — Examining the stories tech billionaires tell themselves — I've been reading a lot about Longtermism this week. — Longtermist philosopher William MacAskill has a book coming out soon, and he's been on quite the media blitz.
Nate Hochman / National Review:
Source Backs Bari Weiss Account That New York Times Wanted to Run Tim Scott Op-Ed by Schumer — A senior editor even provided the email address of a Schumer rep, NR is told. — The New York Times has repeatedly denied the explosive account from former Times journalist Bari Weiss …
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Newsbusters, BizPac Review and Instapundit
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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 …
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
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 …
TMZ.com:
Alec Baldwin Must Have Pulled Trigger in ‘Rust’ Shooting, FBI Concludes — The FBI has concluded that Alec Baldwin must have fired the gun normally on the set of “Rust” — which took Halyna Hutchins' life ... this according to a new report. — ABC News published a bombshell story Friday …
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, Deadline, WND and RedState
CNN:
Suspect in Salman Rushdie attack pleads not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges, attorney says — The man suspected of stabbing renowned author Salman Rushdie in western New York pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder in the second degree and other charges, his attorney says.
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Joshua Goodman / NBC New York:
Who Is Hadi Matar? NJ Man Charged With Attempted Murder in Salman Rushdie Attack
Who Is Hadi Matar? NJ Man Charged With Attempted Murder in Salman Rushdie Attack
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Fox News, The Times of Israel, The Hill, Telegraph, Associated Press, E! Online, Algemeiner.com, Insider, Al Jazeera, WGN-TV, The Daily Beast, Reuters, New York Post, The Contrarian, Breitbart, NewsNation, The Periscope and NECN