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Ben Whedon / Just The News:
Full text of National Archives letter to Trump on classified documents  —  Just the News has obtained the full text of the letter that the National Archives sent to former President Donald Trump requesting classified documents.  —  Evan Corcoran Silverman Thompson 400 East Pratt Street Suite 900
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New York Times:
Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago  —  The National Archives found more than 150 sensitive documents when it got a first batch of material from the former president in January, helping to explain the Justice Department's urgent response.
Politico:
Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government's most classified, letter shows  —  The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in the government …
John Solomon / Just The News:
Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos
Washington Post:
Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’  —  In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges the company misled regulators about lax security and spam
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CNN:
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies  —  Video by John General, Zach Wasser and Logan Whiteside, CNN Business,  —  Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders …
Hannah Dellinger / Houston Chronicle:
Katy ISD police ‘investigated’ a library book after complaint alleged it was ‘harmful to minors’  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A Katy ISD police officer temporarily removed a copy of a book from a high school library last month as part of an investigation after a woman filed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
CBS, The Hill: Can Florida Democrats take down DeSantis?  —  Er ... nope.  But for one day only, the media want to believe, man.  —  In one sense, CBS has today's primary in Florida correct — it's “all about Ron DeSantis.”  The incumbent governor isn't facing any challenger in the GOP primary today.
Discussion: Mediaite and Townhall
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Politico:
The biggest special election since Dobbs: What to watch on Tuesday's primary day
Discussion: Insider, UPI and Fox News
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
The Koch network and other Trump allies are quietly backing his biggest GOP critic: Rep. Liz Cheney  — Two PACs backing Liz Cheney hired i360, a data and technology company financed by billionaire Charles Koch, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Associated Press:
2 men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer  —  A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a swift victory for prosecutors in a foiled plot that was described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.
Discussion: Forbes, WDIV-TV and Associated Press
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New poll indicates a Liz Cheney presidential run would hurt Biden more than Trump  —  46th Vice President of the United States  —  President of the United States since 2021  —  Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has vowed to do “whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office” …
Discussion: Political Wire and PinkNews
TMZ.com:
Nancy Pelosi's Husband Paul Pelosi Pleads Guilty To DUI  —  Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, just pled guilty to a DUI charge stemming from his May car accident and arrest.  —  According to court records, obtained by TMZ, Pelosi pled guilty to one count of DUI.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
CNBC poll: 59% think Biden's next big pander will make inflation worse  —  Alternate headline: Six in ten Americans sense a pattern to Joe Biden's incompetence.  —  During the campaign, Biden played footsie with progressives on student-loan debt but hasn't delivered anything more than a couple …
Discussion: NBC News, Momentive and Just The News
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Washington Post:
Biden nears decision on canceling $10,000 in student loans as allies feud
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden's ‘bodyman’ and close confidante to depart the White House  —  Inside President Joe Biden's tight-knit inner circle, few — if any — White House aides have spent more time by his side in the last three years than Stephen Goepfert.  That will change at the end of this week.
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
Bethania Palma / Snopes.com:
Is This a List of ‘Banned Books in Florida Schools and Libraries’? … Amid a push by U.S. Republican legislators to limit children's access to books in schools and libraries about sensitive topics, some social media users in August 2022 posted a list that allegedly contained titles of …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Is Warner-Discovery “Fixing” CNN?  —  1. You Can't Appease Bad-Faith Critics  —  Brian Stelter was canned by CNN pour encourager les autres.  CNN's parent company, the Warner-Discovery, is in a load of trouble and “fixing” CNN has become a corporate priority.
Discussion: Mediaite
U.S. Department of Justice:
Tennessee State Representative & Former Chief of Staff Indicted In Bribery & Kickback Conspiracy  —  NASHVILLE -Tennessee State Representative Glen Casada, 63, of Franklin, Tennessee, and his former Chief of Staff Cade Cothren, 35, of Nashville, were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Exclusive: Yelp to flag listings for crisis pregnancy centers  —  Yelp is adding a prominent consumer notice to crisis pregnancy center listings to more clearly distinguish them from clinics that provide abortion services, in a policy change shared first with Axios.
Discussion: RedState
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Pete Buttigieg's Feeble Policy on Flight Cancellations  —  The transportation secretary could be doing far more with his existing authority.  The new DOT rule could make matters worse for consumers.  —  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies before the House Transportation …
Mary Katharine Ham / Reason:
A Belated Vindication for School Reopeners  —  The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, by Anya Kamenetz, PublicAffairs, 352 pages, $17.99  —  Twelve years after he was acquitted of murder, O.J. Simpson and a ghostwriter penned a book called If I Did It.
BBC:
Finnish PM Sanna Marin sorry for topless guest photo at official residence  —  Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for a topless photo of guests at her official residence.  —  It comes days after she deflected accusations of having an excessive party lifestyle, by voluntarily taking a drug test - which came back clean.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Legacy Is Convincing Idiots That They Should Run for Office  —  I get the appeal of having “outsiders” come in and “shake up the system.”  But MAGA candidates are proving the folly of the know-nothing candidate. … Donald Trump has left his mark on the American body politic in myriad ways.
Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Problem With Right-Wing ‘Regime’ Talk  —  What the new paranoid buzzword reveals about the New Right.  —  In the right-wing commentariat's reaction to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, a new buzzword dropped.  —  “The regime's decision to take out Trump Banana Republic-style was woefully miscalculated.”
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: Why CNN's efforts to appease democracy's enemies will backfire  —  Since 2016, MAGA propagandists like Kayleigh McEnany, Jason Miller, Jeffrey Lord, Rick Santorum, Ben Ferguson, Steve Cortes, Corey Lewandowski have at one time or another been on the CNN payroll.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America has gone backward since George Floyd  —  August is never really a slow news month.  Amid the latest frenzy out of Mar-a-Lago, we've barely noticed the story that matters most.  The world is drying up, in climate change's worst year yet.  Routine 100-plus-degree days for two months have crippled China.
Discussion: Raw Story
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
America's Fire Sale: Get Some Free Speech While You Can  —  Two years ago, a friend emailed me: Some writers were composing an open letter to appear in Harper's; it would address the growing threats to freedom of expression in this country.  Did I want to read and possibly sign it?
Washington Post:
Car-bomb killing sows unease among cheerleaders of Putin's war  —  A top Russia propagandist who cheerleads for the war against Ukraine was walking in a Moscow park this weekend when one of her personal security guards sprinted ahead, alarmed by a child's ball on a nearby bench.  It could have been a bomb.
 
 
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Google Partners With Top Universities For This Prestigious Fellowship. Lawyers Say the Racial and Gender Quotas It's Imposing Are Illegal.
Discussion: Penn CURF
David Folkenflik / NPR:
People of color at ‘New York Times’ get lower ratings in job reviews, union says
CNN:
‘All of it is a lie’: Russian paratrooper condemns his country's war in Ukraine
Discussion: New York Times and RTÉ
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Super PAC Charges $100,000 For Candlelight Dinner With Former President At His Club
Yunping Tong / Pew Research Center:
India's Sex Ratio at Birth Begins To Normalize
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Idea That Letting Trump Walk Will Heal America Is Ridiculous
MSNBC:
Right-wing dark money gets $1.6 billion donation from one donor
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philly FOP picked problematic doctors for police ‘injured on duty’ benefit
 Earlier Items: 
Bryan Bender / Politico:
White House launches new war on secrecy
Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
‘The Future We Deserve’: This Florida Gen Z Candidate Thinks He Can Chart a New Path For the Youth
Darel E. Paul / Compact Magazine:
The Republic of Work Isn't Working
U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine
Mark Kelly:
Momentum grows as more Republican leaders back Mark Kelly's campaign
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis
 

 
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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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