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CNN:
Trump considering releasing surveillance footage of FBI Mar-a-Lago search — Some allies of former President Donald Trump are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago residence, a proposal that has drawn mixed reaction inside his orbit, CNN has learned.
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Washington Post:
Trump rakes in millions off FBI search at Mar-a-Lago — The former president's political fundraising surged to over $1 million a day last week after sagging earlier this year. — Former president Donald Trump bombarded his supporters with more than 100 emails asking for money based …
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New York Times:
Pence Calls on Republicans to Stop Assailing the F.B.I. After Mar-a-Lago Search
Pence Calls on Republicans to Stop Assailing the F.B.I. After Mar-a-Lago Search
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Biden ‘rejects’ defunding the FBI amid calls from some Republicans
Biden ‘rejects’ defunding the FBI amid calls from some Republicans
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The Last Refuge, Twitchy, Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and Ace of Spades HQ
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Grand Jury Has Subpoenaed White House Documents — The subpoena, issued in May to the National Archives, demanded all of the documents the agency had provided to the House committee's parallel investigation. — Federal prosecutors investigating the role that former President Donald J. Trump …
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ABC News:
Weeks before Mar-a-Lago search, ex-Trump DOD official vowed to publish classified documents from National Archives — Kash Patel said he planned to post documents from the National Archives online. — In June of this year, seven weeks before the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Mar …
New York Times:
Plea Deal Requires Weisselberg to Testify at Trump Organization Trial — The chief financial officer of the former president's business is expected to admit to 15 felonies on Thursday and to take the stand at the company's trial. — Allen H. Weisselberg, who for decades was one of Donald J. Trump's …
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Victoria Bekiempis / Rolling Stone:
Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg Will Implicate Trump Companies in Guilty Plea
Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg Will Implicate Trump Companies in Guilty Plea
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Anti-Anti-Trump Theory of Liz Cheney's Loss — Playing make-believe in order to avoid hard choices. — 1. A Is A — I don't have much to add to Charlie's excellent write-up of Liz Cheney's defeat last night. But I do want to talk a little bit about a class of conservatives/Republicans who are intent on playing make-believe.
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Politico, MSNBC, HotAir and Morning Shots
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Bloomberg:
Biden Called Cheney After Her Loss to Trump-Backed Challenger
Biden Called Cheney After Her Loss to Trump-Backed Challenger
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why Liz Cheney's defeat will help this Massachusetts Democrat
John Nichols / The Nation:
Liz Cheney Is No Abraham Lincoln
Liz Cheney Is No Abraham Lincoln
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Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, Fox News, USA Today, Breitbart, CNN, Gingrich 360, New Jersey Online and Vanity Fair
Financial Times:
Student makes $110mn trading meme stock favourite Bed Bath & Beyond — 20-year old Jake Freeman amassed big stake in struggling retailer before share price soared — A 20-year-old university student has made a roughly $110mn gain by selling a stake in struggling retailer Bed Bath & Beyond …
CREW:
Secret Service held onto Pelosi threat until after insurrection … The Secret Service knew of a threat to Nancy Pelosi on January 6th days before the insurrection, but did not pass it along until hours after the Capitol had been breached, according to Secret Service emails obtained by CREW.
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Sophia Bollag / San Francisco Chronicle:
Secret Service waited to tell Capitol Police of Pelosi threat until the Jan. 6 riot was underway — SACRAMENTO — A government watchdog group says it has obtained emails showing the Secret Service identified a social media account threatening Speaker Nancy Pelosi two days before the Jan. 6 insurrection …
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CREW, CNN, Balloon Juice, Common Dreams and Raw Story
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Trader Joe's Workers Decided To Unionize. The Company Abruptly Closed Their Store. — Workers say they were just days from going public with their union campaign when the company shuttered the Union Square wine shop. — Workers at the Trader Joe's Wine Shop in Manhattan spent …
Emily Woodruff / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana hospital denies abortion for fetus without a skull — Baton Rouge woman's predicament illustrates gray area in Louisiana's abortion rules — At the beginning of July, Nancy Davis started feeling nauseous. The Baton Rouge resident considered COVID-19 or the flu, then decided to take a pregnancy test just in case.
Emerson Polling:
Ohio 2022: JD Vance Leads Tim Ryan In Competitive Bid for US Senate; Gov. DeWine Holds 16-Point Lead Over Democratic Challenger — Home Polls Ohio 2022: JD Vance Leads Tim Ryan In Competitive Bid for US Senate; Gov. DeWine Holds 16-Point Lead Over Democratic Challenger
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Wall Street Journal:
WWE's Board Finds Vince McMahon Paid $5 Million to Donald Trump's Charity — CEO's contributions to Trump foundation coincided with real-estate developer's appearances at a WrestleMania event and on ‘WWE Raw’ — Contributions totaling $5 million to Donald Trump's charity in 2007 and 2009 …
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The Hill
Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
‘Dark Brandon’ Rises, and Buoys Biden's Beleaguered Faithful — Inside the White House, the vibe is shifting, even if the polls have not budged much. — Nobody would ever accuse Joe Biden of being Extremely Online. — As a candidate, he strongly implied that he was not especially interested in social media.
Benjamin Ryan / NBC News:
Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests — Since the outset of the global monkeypox outbreak in May, public health and infectious disease experts have told the public that the virus is largely transmitting through skin-to-skin contact, in particular during sex between men.
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HotAir, Vox, The American Conservative and BuzzFeed News
Adam Sabes / Fox News:
Putin critic living in exile found dead outside upscale DC apartment after police respond to ‘jumper’ call — Washington, D.C., police say no foul play is suspected in Rapoport's death — Fox News Flash top headlines for August 17 — A businessman and fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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Washington Examiner, Daily Mail, Just The News and New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
China to Join Russia Military Exercises as U.S. Rivals Deepen Ties — Moscow plans to hold drills in its Far East region near the border with China and North Korea from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5 — What China's Military Exercises Reveal About Its Taiwan Strategy — Created with sketchtool.
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Washington Post:
Boston Children's Hospital says it faces threats after right-wing tweets — Last week, Twitter accounts popular on the far right circulated what the hospital called misinformation about its transgender care — New England's largest pediatric hospital said Wednesday that it was fending off …
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David Gilbert / VICE:
Far-Right Extremists Are Threatening to ‘Execute’ Doctors at a Children's Hospital
Far-Right Extremists Are Threatening to ‘Execute’ Doctors at a Children's Hospital
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The Daily Beast, BizPac Review, Townhall, The New Christendom Daily, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, LifeSite and Libs of TikTok
Tina Vásquez / Prism:
Abortion funds have been inundated with donations and volunteer requests, but some are still struggling to survive — At least eight Texas abortion funds have been forced to pause operations, causing a ripple effect for out-of-state groups now struggling to support a rising tide of patients
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Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
New Marquette Law School Wisconsin survey finds Barnes with 7-point lead over Johnson in U.S. Senate race, Evers ahead of Michels by 2 points in the race for governor, and Biden approval rating unchanged — MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll survey of Wisconsin finds a close race …
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Washington Examiner, Slate and Talking Points Memo
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Rupert Neate / The Guardian:
Japan's government launches competition to get people drinking — Contest asks young adults for ideas to revitalise popularity of alcoholic drinks after big fall in tax revenues — The Japanese government has launched a nationwide competition calling for ideas to encourage people to drink …
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Financial Times
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Ex-CIA chief rates today's Republicans as most ‘dangerous’ political force in history — Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorsed the assessment that Republicans today are the most “dangerous” political force in history. — Edward Luce, the U.S. national editor and columnist at the Financial Times …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Lawmaker Tearily Explains Teen Almost Lost Uterus Because of Abortion Law He Voted For — ‘WHAT WE DO MATTERS’ — A South Carolina lawmaker on Tuesday had to fight back tears as he explained that an anti-abortion law he'd voted for led to a young woman nearly losing her uterus, and even put her life at risk.
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Comic Sands, Insider and Occupy Democrats
Shadi Hamid / Wisdom of Crowds:
Careful How You Bring Trump Down — There is no reason to celebrate the recent turn of events. This is a time to be nervous. — Presumably like many of you, I've been preoccupied most by the controversies surrounding the Trump raid and investigation. I'm not thrilled to be writing about this …
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
Anshu Jain, Who Took Deutsche Bank to Wall Street, Dies at 59 — As co-chief executive, he helped remake the German company into an investment banking power but stepped down after the complex activities he pushed caused regulatory problems. — Anshu Jain, who helped transform Deutsche Bank …
Wall Street Journal:
The American Academy of Pediatrics' Dubious Transgender Science — As other countries turn away from hormones and surgery, the AAP won't even allow a debate. — A spate of headlines this month declared that America's surge in transgender identification wasn't being caused by a social contagion.
John Light / Talking Points Memo:
The Christian Right Plots How To Avenge The FBI Raid — The anointed one is besieged, and themes of war abound. — Right-wing Christian media kicked into high gear in the days following the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, coalescing around a defense of former President Donald Trump based …
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