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3:01 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 …
Politico:
Fauci will step down in December
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John Frank / Axios:
Colorado lawmaker leaves GOP citing Jan. 6 attack and Trump  —  A state senator in Colorado is resigning from the Republican Party and becoming a Democrat, citing the party's complicity in the Jan. 6 insurrection and 2020 election denial as the reason.  — “I cannot continue to be a part …
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
Discussion: HuffPost
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?'
Hanna Arhirova / Associated Press:
Ukraine: 9,000 of its troops killed since Russia began war  —  Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers since it began nearly six months ago, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.
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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 …
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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
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and BizPac Review
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.
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
 
 
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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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
Associated Press:
In sign of support, US bombers fly over Dubrovnik, Balkans
Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Alise Fisher / James Webb Space Telescope:
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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)
Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
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