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1:10 PM ET, August 22, 2022

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.  —  I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fauci Says He Will Step Down in December to Pursue His ‘Next Chapter’  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who has advised seven presidents and spent more than half a century at the National Institutes of Health, will leave government service by the end of the year.  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said on Monday …
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Fauci plans to step down in December after half a century in government  —  Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks as the face of the coronavirus pandemic response under two presidents …
Discussion: CNN, Fortune and IJR
Politico:
Fauci will step down in December  —  Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who led the federal government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic across two presidential administrations, will step down at the end of this year.  —  The 81-year-old Fauci …
New York Times:
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says FBI's evidence for searching Mar-a-Lago is ‘reliable’  —  The federal magistrate judge who authorized the warrant to search Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate emphasized Monday that he “carefully reviewed” the FBI's sworn evidence before signing off and considers the facts contained …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Judge Reinhart formally rejects DOJ argument to keep Trump affidavit sealed, calls raid ‘unprecedented’  —  Reinhart ruled ‘given the intense public and historical interest’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 22  —  Judge Bruce Reinhart on Monday admitted the FBI's raid …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:   Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs
Politico:
‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump  —  In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation …
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Rich Lowry / New York Times:
A Defense of G.O.P. Paranoia  —  The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans.  Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police, voices on the right are calling …
Discussion: The Federalist
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
There's a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can't stand it  —  The Reproductive Freedom for All Act reveals deeper debates about post-Roe America.  —  Amid threats over the last year that the Supreme Court might abolish the right to an abortion …
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Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
‘The world flipped upside down’: will end of Roe galvanize Democrats' base in midterms?
Discussion: ABC17NEWS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: National Republicans bolster Herschel Walker with Senate control on the line  —  Republicans need a net gain of just one Senate seat to take control of the chamber in a political climate that favors the GOP.  So why is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lowering expectations of a flip?
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and New York Times
Trafalgar Group:
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing  —  The daughter of a prominent ultranationalist, herself a hawkish commentator, was killed by a car bomb deep in Russian territory.  —  A brazen car bombing in a Moscow suburb that killed the daughter of a prominent backer …
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Mark Galeotti / Spectator:
What the Dugin assassination tells us about Russia
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
Discussion: NaturalNews.com
New York Times:
Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends  —  New York's mayor vowed to boost nightlife establishments in every corner of the city.  But again and again, he returns to the same spot, run by friends with troubled pasts.  —  Before he took office, Eric Adams vowed to boost …
Discussion: Wide World of News
Chris Giles / Financial Times:
UK inflation to hit 18.6% next year according to Citi  —  Investment bank raises forecast as wholesale gas prices surge  —  UK inflation is on course to hit 18.6 per cent in January — the highest peak in almost half a century — because of soaring wholesale gas prices …
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The left's mask slips on brazen Trump bias  —  Sam Harris deserves our gratitude.  With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming …
Associated Press:
Kansas recount confirms results in favor of abortion rights  —  A decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights in traditionally conservative Kansas was confirmed with a partial hand recount, with fewer than 100 votes changing after the last county reported results Sunday.
Discussion: New York Magazine, Insider and Jezebel
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Senate Candidates Say Better Call Mitch (McConnell)  —  Struggling nominees in swing states turn to the Republican Leader to save their campaigns.  —  WSJ Opinion: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Heads Into Overtime  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.
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Alise Fisher / James Webb Space Telescope:
Webb's Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes
Discussion: CBS News and The Daily Beast
Grid News:
Behind the lie of ‘87,000 armed agents’: How an obscure factoid was bent into a popular GOP talking point
Discussion: The Daily Beast and BizPac Review
John Fetterman Guest / Times Leader:
Their View: To support working Pennsylvanians, we need to hold Washington accountable
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's risky quest for votes in deep-red Texas
Discussion: Townhall
Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants
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Ivan Penn / New York Times:
Expansion of Clean Energy Loans Is ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Climate Bill
Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden
Discussion: Alternet.org
Sophia Ankel / Insider:
GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and CBS News
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate prepares to pick up the judicial-pick pace as November looms
Discussion: NPR, The Hill and The Federalist
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
A Russian soldier's journal: ‘I will not participate in this madness’
Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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