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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump ‘will do whatever’ he can to ‘help the country’ after FBI raid: ‘Temperature has to be brought down’ — Trump said his representatives reached out to DOJ to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago — Fox News Flash top headlines for August 15
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Insider, The Hill, USA Today, Mediaite, Metro.co.uk, WGN-TV, One America News Network, The Wildfire Newsletter, The Daily Wire, b'Raw Story, The Federalist and CBS News
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New York Times:
Trump's Shifting Explanations Follow a Familiar Playbook — The former president and his allies have given often conflicting defenses of his retention of classified documents, without addressing why he had kept them. — WASHINGTON — First he said that he was “working and cooperating with” …
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Insider, The Hill, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, The Decent America Newsletter, The Status Kuo, DonaldsHeroes's Newsletter, Based Politics, pjmedia.com, Outside the Beltway, Law Dork, with Chris Geidner, Today's Edition Newsletter, JustOneMinute, b'Raw Story, NewsNation, BizPac Review, emptywheel and Objectivity is the Objective
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump's dumbest, scariest stunt yet — A defeated former president who was at the center of a failed coup allegedly walks out the door with nuclear secrets, refuses to give them back and then leaves a creepy, semi-threatening message for the attorney general — that's apparently where we are.
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The Atlantic, Bloomberg and IJR
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
KJP: We don't get briefed on legal probes into Trump
KJP: We don't get briefed on legal probes into Trump
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Washington Examiner, The Root, b'TheBlaze', IJR and HuffPost
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside the White House's plan to sell itself
POLITICO Playbook: Inside the White House's plan to sell itself
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Reuters, CNN, Casper Star-Tribune, Washington Times, b'National Memo' and The Hill
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds — GOP nominees who dispute the 2020 results could be positioned to play a critical role in the next presidential election — First came Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor from Detroit who claimed without evidence …
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Common Dreams
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Arizona Republican Party's Anti-Democracy Experiment — First, it turned against the establishment. Now it has set its sights on democracy — the principles, the process and even the word itself. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Linda Rawles / Arizona Republic:
There's only 1 way to fix the Arizona GOP: Make it lose in November — Opinion: The Arizona GOP is broken to this lifelong Republican, and the only way to fix it is to ensure our most deranged candidates lose in November. — What on earth has happened to the Arizona Republican Party?
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Graham must testify in Ga. probe of effort to overturn 2020 election, judge rules — A federal judge on Monday denied Sen. Lindsey O. Graham's (R-S.C.) request to quash his subpoena in Georgia prosecutors' investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election …
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New York Post, Rolling Stone and Daily Kos
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Federal judge rejects Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to quash grand jury subpoena in Georgia case — A federal judge in Georgia denied Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to avoid testifying before a Atlanta-area grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election, rejecting the Trump ally's claim …
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CBS News, Politico, CNN, b'Raw Story, The Hill, NBC News, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Fox News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bangor Daily News, The Daily Caller and Just The News
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Liz Cheney's political life is likely ending — and just beginning — JACKSON, Wyo. — The 2-minute video, meant ostensibly as the closing appeal to voters here, likely served much more as the launching point of a campaign that will last for years to come. — “No matter how long we must fight …
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CBS News, One America News Network, CNN, Roll Call, USA Today and The American Spectator
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Washington's Top Labor Prosecutor Battles Whole Foods Over Black Lives Matter Masks — In June 2020, the week after a police officer murdered George Floyd, Jeff Bezos endorsed Black Lives Matter. “I support this movement,” Bezos replied via email to a customer who'd complained about seeing a BLM banner on Amazon.com.
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:
Iran denies involvement in Rushdie attack, says he brought it on himself — Iran denied any involvement Monday in last week's attack that left author Salman Rushdie with severe injuries after he was stabbed in the neck and abdomen onstage at an event in western New York.
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Financial Times, United States Department …, The National, New York Post, Associated Press, UPI, The Times of Israel, TNT Radio, Fox3 Now, Forbes, NBC New York and Insider
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Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect 'Had Contact With Iran's Revolutionary Guard'
Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect 'Had Contact With Iran's Revolutionary Guard'
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Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Rules Out Releasing Billions in Afghan Funds After Strike — Presence of al Qaeda's leader in Kabul raised concerns in West about resurgence of global terrorism from Taliban-ruled country — The Biden administration has decided it won't release any of the roughly $7 billion …
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Insider, Vox, Politico and Washington Post
NBC News:
The U.S. could see a new ‘extreme heat belt’ by 2053 — Climate change effects are forcing more Americans to move — An “extreme heat belt” reaching as far north as Chicago is taking shape, a corridor that cuts through the middle of the country and would affect more than 107 million people …
Erin Cox / Washington Post:
President Biden to rally Democrats in Maryland next week — The Democratic National Committee event will look ahead to midterms. — President Biden will speak at a Democratic National Committee event in Maryland next week, rallying voters ahead of November's midterm elections.
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Too little, too late: Disband the CDC now — Dissolve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. — Last week, the CDC released updated COVID-19 guidance. The agency now believes we should be taking an individual approach to mitigating our COVID risk. In layman's terms, we are all Florida 2020 now.
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bad cattitude
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Morning News-UT poll: After massive media bounce, Beto now at ... 39% — Two weeks ago, Texas Democrats proclaimed themselves “upbeat” about Robert Francis O'Rourke's chances of unseating Gov. Greg Abbott in November. Since then, Beto has gone full bore on gun control …
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Bloomberg, RedState and Off the Kuff
Philip Lenczycki / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden's CIA Director Employed Undisclosed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite DC Think Tank — CIA Director William Burns formerly headed a prominent D.C. think tank while it employed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.
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Liberty Unyielding