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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia — Rudolph W. Giuliani, as former President Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer, spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power. — ATLANTA — Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target …
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ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani now ‘target’ of Georgia criminal probe into effort to overturn 2020 election: Sources
Rudy Giuliani now ‘target’ of Georgia criminal probe into effort to overturn 2020 election: Sources
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CNN:
Federal judge rules that Graham must testify in Georgia 2020 investigation
Federal judge rules that Graham must testify in Georgia 2020 investigation
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Washington Post:
Giuliani is target in Georgia criminal probe of possible interference in 2020 election, lawyer says
Giuliani is target in Georgia criminal probe of possible interference in 2020 election, lawyer says
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Washington Post:
Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal — A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment …
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b'Raw Story and Political Wire
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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Associated Press:
Hannity video edited to add 2020 DeSantis footage — CLAIM: A video shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Fox News' “Hannity,” saying that the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was “not a raid.” — AP'S ASSESSMENT: Altered video.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Did Trump Take Classified Documents in the First Place? — We now know that the reason the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Donald Trump's Palm Beach residence last week is because the 45th president is under investigation for pocketing classified documents related to nuclear weapons …
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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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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump should announce run for 2024 soon to avoid indictment, source says
Trump should announce run for 2024 soon to avoid indictment, source says
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Justice Department subpoenas former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann — A federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack has subpoenaed Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann for documents and testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo and b'Raw Story
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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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New York Times:
Trump's Shifting Explanations Follow a Familiar Playbook
Trump's Shifting Explanations Follow a Familiar Playbook
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Senate G.O.P. Campaign Arm Slashes TV Ad Buys in Three States — In a sign that fund-raising trouble is taking a serious toll, a key political committee cancels ad plans in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Garion Frankel / Chalkboard Review:
REPORT: Minneapolis Will Fire ‘White Teachers’ First — MPS Violates Civil Rights Act — A new contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the local teachers union mandates that white teachers must be fired first when any kind of staff downsizing is initiated.
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Eugene Volokh / Reason:
Race-Based Layoff Scheme at Minneapolis Schools — The Minneapolis Public Schools have adopted a race-based layoff provision that violates the Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. “A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before …
Evan Stambaugh / Alpha News:
Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first
Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first
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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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Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Mercer County man charged with threats to kill FBI agents after Mar-a-Lago search — A Mercer County man threatened to murder FBI agents last week after the bureau's search of Donald Trump's Florida estate, saying “come and get me you piece of [expletive] feds” and “I am going to [expletive] …
New York Times:
Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer — WeWork's founder is back with a billion-dollar venture. — WeWork's founder is going residential — Adam Neumann, the founder of WeWork, whose spectacular rise and fall has been chronicled in books, documentaries and a scripted television series, has a new venture — and a surprising backer.
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New York Times:
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score — Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost? — Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig and Rumsey Taylor
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Substack, Newslit Daily and Unfogged, more at Techmeme »
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Longtime GOP insider Cheri Jacobus: America is “not going to recover from Donald Trump” — Former Republican strategist says her party can't be salvaged — and if Trump isn't punished, America is “done for” — The numerous catastrophes of the Age of Trump could all have been averted, or greatly mitigated.
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Occupy Democrats
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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Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine:
The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars — Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right? — The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini.
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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.
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Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
Starbucks asks labor board to pause union elections over ‘improper’ conduct
Starbucks asks labor board to pause union elections over ‘improper’ conduct
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Townhall, The Western Journal, Common Dreams, Jacobin, Associated Press, WOOD-TV, NPR and The Daily Wire
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?
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Arizona Republican Party's Anti-Democracy Experiment
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 …
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Washington Examiner, The Verge and The Hill