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Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Daughter of prominent Putin supporter killed in Moscow car bomb attack  —  Daria Dugina's nationalist father Alexander Dugin said to have influenced Russian leader's decision to invade Ukraine  —  The daughter of a Russian ideologue who is one of the most prominent supporters …
New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Opens Murder Investigation After Blast Kills Daughter of Putin Ally  —  Daria Dugina died after the vehicle she was driving exploded outside Moscow on Saturday.  Her father, Aleksandr Dugin, is said to have influenced President Vladimir Putin's views, including on the war in Ukraine.
New York Times:
As Attacks Mount in Crimea, Kremlin Faces Rising Domestic Pressures  —  With the drumbeat of Ukrainian strikes inside Russian-held territory, the visceral reality of war is becoming increasingly apparent to Russians.  —  Nearly six months into the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin still refers …
Discussion: BBC, The Guardian and Voice of America
CNN:
Car bomb kills daughter of ‘spiritual guide’ to Putin's Ukraine invasion - Russian media  —  Russian authorities said Sunday they had opened a murder investigation after the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.
Washington Post:
Car explosion kills daughter of key Putin ally Alexander Dugin, Russia says
Discussion: New York Times and Bloomberg
Gözde Bayar / Anadolu Ajansı Güncel Haberler:
Daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin killed in car explosion
Discussion: ZeroHedge and Big League Politics
Laurence Dollimore / Daily Mail:
Putin's new false flag operation? …
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Why Trump voters are hurting their own cause in the midterms  —  The Democratic Party has no better friend at the moment than Donald Trump.  —  An overwhelming majority of voters pronounce themselves unsatisfied with the condition of the country: Gross domestic product has fallen …
Politico:
Trump's throw-everything-against-the- wall response to the Mar-a-Lago search  —  As she entered the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach on Thursday to bear witness to a hearing on the potential release of the FBI's basis for searching Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's attorney Christina Bobb paused …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:   Trump pushes for un-redacted affidavit's release, despite the risks
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump set to ask court for ‘special master’ to review Mar-a-Lago evidence
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Texas migrant buses overwhelm New York, Washington D.C.  —  New York and Washington, D.C., have become overwhelmed as Texas continues to send buses of migrants to those cities. … This immediately puts migrant families into subpar conditions right when they arrive.
Discussion: Twitchy
Mike DeForest / WKMG:
3rd resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election  —  Joan Halstead avoids jail time under pre-trial diversion program  —  THE VILLAGES, Fla. - A third resident of The Villages has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election, court records show.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
My final column: 2024 and the dangers ahead  —  Before signing off, Margaret Sullivan offers advice to her fellow journalists on how to cover a perilous election  —  After a recent announcement that I've decided to retire this column and leave The Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by email …
Phillip W. Magness / AIER:
The Suicide of the American Historical Association  —  A bizarre string of events is unfolding at the American Historical Association (AHA).  Last week, AHA president James H. Sweet published a column in the organization's magazine on the problem of “presentism” in academic historical writing.
New York Times:
The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers  —  Government documents that President Donald J. Trump had accumulated were with him in roughly two dozen boxes in the White House residence.  They were to go to the National Archives, but at least some ended up in Florida.
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Ousted Republican reflects on Trump, democracy and America: ‘The place has lost its mind’  —  Rusty Bowers was speaker of Arizona's house of representatives when he stood up to the former president's demand that he overturn the election result.  He paid the price but has no regrets
Discussion: The Hill
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Trump in ‘Really Dangerous Territory,’ Maybe Committed ‘Treason’: Kirschner  —  Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Friday that Donald Trump is in “really dangerous territory” legally, and that the former president may have committed “treason.”  —  Trump faces multiple investigations …
Discussion: Insider
Washington Post:
As the FBI comes under threat, its leader tries to stay out of fray  —  FBI Director Christopher A. Wray confronts a rise in threats against the FBI stemming from the search for classified documents at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago  —  From the moment news broke of the FBI's search …
 
 
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Kelsey Vlamis / Insider:
Trump's ex-chief of staff said it's hard to understand how such highly classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago and that they are ‘not accidentally moved anywhere’
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Sam Janesch / Baltimore Sun:
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