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2:25 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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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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’
Sophia Ankel / Insider:
GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir
Discussion: The Hill, Comic Sands and Raw Story
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
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 …
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John Frank / Axios:
Colorado lawmaker leaves GOP citing Jan. 6 attack and Trump
Discussion: The Hill and Alternet.org
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:   State Sen. Kevin Priola switches his party registration to Democrat from Republican, citing 2020 election conspiracies
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 …
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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?
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 and Washington Examiner
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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and BizPac Review
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's risky quest for votes in deep-red Texas  —  On a road trip to find untapped votes, the Democratic challenger for governor faces armed protestors, shouting matches and a stolen catalytic converter.  —  SPEARMAN, Tex. — Everyone in this 3,087-person Panhandle city knows …
Discussion: Townhall
Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants  —  Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there's also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
Alise Fisher / James Webb Space Telescope:
Webb's Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes  —  With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on.  Now, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet.  Webb's Jupiter observations will give scientists …
Discussion: CBS News and The Daily Beast
 
 
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Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Man acquitted in Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot speaks out
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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
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 …
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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
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate prepares to pick up the judicial-pick pace as November looms
Discussion: NPR, The Federalist and The Hill
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
A Russian soldier's journal: ‘I will not participate in this madness’