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3:20 PM ET, August 22, 2022

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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs  —  The group of congressional leaders charged with reviewing the most sensitive intelligence information has asked the Biden administration for access to the documents seized from former President Donald Trump's private residence in Florida …
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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 …
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 Stanton / Newsweek:   Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’
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 …
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?
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John Wagner / Washington Post:   Walker, criticizing climate law, asks, 'Don't we have enough trees around here?'
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John Frank / Axios:
Colorado lawmaker leaves GOP citing Jan. 6 attack and Trump
Discussion: The Hill and Occupy Democrats
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
State Sen. Kevin Priola switches his party registration to Democrat from Republican, citing 2020 election conspiracies
Discussion: HuffPost
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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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
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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 …
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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David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Upstate N.Y., a test for Democrats running on abortion to stop GOP wave
Discussion: ABC17NEWS and Roll Call
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes.
Discussion: Althouse
Trafalgar Group:
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Annie Todd / Argus Leader:
Attorney general's office to investigate ethics complaint against Gov. Kristi Noem  —  An ethics board investigating a pair of complaints leveled against Gov. Kristi Noem voted to refer one of those complaints to the South Dakota Attorney General's Office for investigation.
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:   Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’
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
Grid News:
Behind the lie of ‘87,000 armed agents’: How an obscure factoid was bent into a popular GOP talking point  —  Amid a spike in threats against federal law enforcement, Republicans place their sights on an old target: the Internal Revenue Service.  —  A strange, false claim is all over conservative cable TV …
Financial Times:
UK inflation projected to hit 18.6% as gas prices surge  —  Bank raises forecast as European gas price sets new record  —  Surging wholesale gas prices are putting the UK on a path to exceed 18 per cent inflation next year, the highest rate among larger western economies, according to a report from Citigroup.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Biden bottoms out, pops back to 47% approval  —  With the help of Democrats bailing out his sinking approval ratings, President Joe Biden has started to recover just in time to begin a national 2022 election trip.  —  Rasmussen Reports, the sole pollster still conducting daily presidential approval ratings …
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports
 
 
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Liz Cheney Dares Kevin McCarthy And Jim Jordan To Subpoena Her
Discussion: Daily Kos
Paul J. Weber / Associated Press:
Election staff abruptly quits, upending rural Texas county
Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Trump PAC's $650,000 ‘charitable contribution’ to the Smithsonian will pay for portraits of Donald and Melania Trump
Discussion: Financial Times
Associated Press:
In sign of support, US bombers fly over Dubrovnik, Balkans
Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Man acquitted in Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot speaks out
Discussion: Associated Press, HotAir and RedState
George Thomas / The Atlantic:
Mike Pence Owes the Country an Explanation
Olivia Yarvis / The Texas Tribune:
Watch: With a “feeling of betrayal,” one family flees Texas in search of safer climate for their transgender daughter
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Warren Rojas / Insider:
Sen. Ron Johnson says he sees no need to testify before the January 6 committee because he was involved in Trump's fake electors scheme for ‘a couple of seconds’ only …
Alise Fisher / James Webb Space Telescope:
Webb's Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes
Discussion: CBS News and The Daily Beast
Gallup:
In U.S., Poor Life Ratings Reach Record High
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Senate Candidates Say Better Call Mitch (McConnell)
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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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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