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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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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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Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
Trump claims FBI agents seized THREE of his passports during ‘sneak attack’ raid at Mar-a-Lago - as he warns DOJ ‘terrible things are going to happen’ if it doesn't cool things down
Trump claims FBI agents seized THREE of his passports during ‘sneak attack’ raid at Mar-a-Lago - as he warns DOJ ‘terrible things are going to happen’ if it doesn't cool things down
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Steve Doocy: It would be great if Trump would call for an end to the threats being made against the FBI
Steve Doocy: It would be great if Trump would call for an end to the threats being made against the FBI
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller and Political Flare
Associated Press:
Hannity video edited to add 2020 DeSantis footage
Hannity video edited to add 2020 DeSantis footage
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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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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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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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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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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
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.
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] …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Pennsylvania man arrested for threats against FBI after Mar-a-Lago search
Pennsylvania man arrested for threats against FBI after Mar-a-Lago search
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The Guardian, Metro.co.uk and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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RedState, Not the Bee, Summit News, Liberty Unyielding, Shot in the Dark, The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
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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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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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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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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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
New York District 10 Primary Poll: Goldman Leads Pack While Niou, Rivera, and Jones Remain Top-Tier Contenders — Home Polls New York District 10 Primary Poll: Goldman Leads Pack While Niou, Rivera, and Jones Remain Top-Tier Contenders — The final Emerson College Polling/Pix11/The Hill survey …
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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 »
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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New York Times and b'Raw Story
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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
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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Jack Queen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Inside the Alex Jones jury room: tensions, pizza and ‘lizard people’ — As the jury in the Alex Jones defamation trial gathered in a conference room in a Texas courthouse on Aug. 5 to decide how much the U.S. conspiracy theorist owed to two parents of a murdered Sandy Hook first-grader …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Schumer Backs Nadler Over Maloney in N.Y. Democratic Primary — Senator Chuck Schumer is the first member of the state's congressional delegation to choose a side in the heated primary contest between two Democratic stalwarts. — Senator Chuck Schumer, New York's most powerful Democrat in Washington …
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