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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 …
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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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Andrew Perez / The Lever:
Inside The Right's Historic Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer — Editor's note: This story was co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. — Click here to join our free newsletter and get breaking news like this in your inbox, if you haven't already.
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 …
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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 …
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The Federalist, CNN, Fortune, The Daily Beast, Washington Times and IJR
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?' — Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is criticizing the sweeping climate, health-care and deficit-reduction bill signed into law by President Biden arguing that it includes wasteful spending …
Saja Hindi / Denver Post:
Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism — Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican, announced Monday morning that he is changing his party affiliation to Democrat. — Priola, considered …
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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 …
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Washington Post:
Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers — Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.
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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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing
Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
The global reach of Alexander Dugin
The global reach of Alexander Dugin
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RADAR, Washington Post, Spectator and Fortune
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’
Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’
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Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Trump PAC's $650,000 ‘charitable contribution’ to the Smithsonian will pay for portraits of Donald and Melania Trump — Save America, one of Donald Trump's political committees, donated $650,000 to the Smithsonian. — A Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider that the money will fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump.
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Trafalgar Group:
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Rich Lowry / New York Times:
Can You Tell Me What Would Happen if the F.B.I. Were Investigating a Democrat? — 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 …
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 …
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Phil Davison / Washington Post:
David Kay, weapons inspector who helped disprove Iraqi WMDs, dies at 82 — He concluded that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq and that intelligence agencies had badly misjudged the available evidence — David A. Kay, the weapons proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation …
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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 …
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The Daily Beast, Breitbart and BizPac Review
Gallup:
In U.S., Poor Life Ratings Reach Record High — The “suffering” rate has climbed for both Democrats and Republicans — The percentage of adults classified as “thriving” has dropped again, to 51.2% — Daily stress and worry remain steady and near pre-pandemic levels
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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 …
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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
Academy of Pediatrics Responds on Trans Treatment for Kids — To ‘affirm’ a child or teen means destigmatizing gender variance and promoting the child's self-worth. — Regarding Julia Mason and Leor Sapir's op-ed “The American Academy of Pediatrics' Dubious Transgender Science” (Aug. 18) …
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