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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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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 …
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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ABC13 and Just The News
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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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, The King's Necktie, PolisPandit, BizPac Review and b'Raw Story
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest eruption underscores the danger of a GOP House
Trump's latest eruption underscores the danger of a GOP House
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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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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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Political Wire
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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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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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
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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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Washington Examiner, The Root, b'TheBlaze', IJR and HuffPost
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 and b'Raw Story
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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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, Responsible Statecraft, Vox, Politico and Washington Post
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Spencer Brown / Townhall:
9 Times the Biden Admin Said Afghanistan Wouldn't Fall to the Taliban
9 Times the Biden Admin Said Afghanistan Wouldn't Fall to the Taliban
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Fox News, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Newsbusters and Twitchy
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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Newslit Daily and Unfogged, more at Techmeme »
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 Hill and UPI
Paul Rosenzweig / The Bulwark:
Trump's Investigation Miscalculation — If he thinks that announcing a 2024 campaign will bring an end to his legal woes, he is mistaken. — Donald Trump is making a serious mistake. The FBI's execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago is, he apparently thinks, of great political benefit to him.
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b'Raw Story
Julia Carpenter / Wall Street Journal:
Inflation Widens Married Couples' Money Lead Over Their Single Friends — Rapidly rising prices and more than two years of living in a pandemic increase the financial stress on those without pooled assets — The U.S. Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed in 2022 — Created with sketchtool.