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Justice News:
Florida Residents Plead Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property — Pleas Follow Filing of Criminal Information Alleging Defendants Stole Property Belonging to Immediate Family Member of a Then-Former Government Official — Damian Williams …
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, The Daily Caller and emptywheel
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New York Times:
Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden's Daughter's Diary — Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy that saw Ashley Biden's diary end up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 campaign.
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CNBC, Associated Press and PoliticusUSA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Two plead guilty to trafficking Ashley Biden's diary, property
Two plead guilty to trafficking Ashley Biden's diary, property
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Washington Post and Associated Press
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Some of Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Critics Went to College for Less Than $400 per Year — When the Biden Administration announced Wednesday that it would cancel $10,000 of federal student loans for Americans making under $125,000 per year, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients at the same income level …
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The Hill, Bangor Daily News, Insider, CBS News, Committee for a …, Liberté pour Tous, Political Wire and GZERO
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Wall Street Journal:
The Half-Trillion-Dollar Student-Loan Executive Coup
The Half-Trillion-Dollar Student-Loan Executive Coup
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Tangle, Washington Post, Protocol, Cafe Hayek, NBC News, Law & Crime, CBS News, WRIC-TV and Reason
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump slams Biden student loan handout as ‘election enhancing money grab’: ‘Stop voting for Democrats!’
Trump slams Biden student loan handout as ‘election enhancing money grab’: ‘Stop voting for Democrats!’
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RedState, Financial Times, Washington Times, New York Times and Just The News
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Democrats' student loan backlash
Democrats' student loan backlash
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Pew Research Center, HotAir, Roll Call, National Review, Plain Dealer, People.com, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Townhall and The Nevada Independent
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump reportedly oversaw collection of classified Mar-a-Lago docs — The more Donald Trump took a direct, hands-on role in keeping highly classified materials, the more he's personally responsible for this scandal. — In the wake of the FBI's search at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's Republican allies …
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Media Matters for America, The Hill and The Daily Caller
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The gaping hole in our knowledge of the Trump documents — THE GAPING HOLE IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUMP DOCUMENTS. There have been several new reports about the number and the sensitivity of documents seized in the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, the winter home of former President Donald Trump.
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Baltimore Sun, Raw Story and HotAir
Washington Post:
Trump's secret papers and the ‘myth’ of presidential security clearance
Trump's secret papers and the ‘myth’ of presidential security clearance
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Raw Story
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Congressman-Elect Deems Trump ‘Essentially Traitorous,’ Says 'If I Had Done What He Did, I Would've Been in Jail'
Congressman-Elect Deems Trump ‘Essentially Traitorous,’ Says 'If I Had Done What He Did, I Would've Been in Jail'
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Breitbart and New York Post
Richie McGinniss / Newsweek:
‘I Was in Kenosha Two Years Ago, Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not a Hero’ — Before the shooting started, at 11:36 p.m. on August 25, 2020, I ran into Kyle Rittenhouse in front of a gas station and interviewed him for several minutes. He was a 17-year-old kid with a semi-automatic rifle …
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Mediaite
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman Holds Four-Point Lead Over Oz for US Senate; Shapiro Leads Mastriano by Three — Home Polls Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman Holds Four-Point Lead Over Oz for US Senate; Shapiro Leads Mastriano by Three — Majority of Voters Say Oz's NJ Residence Makes Them Less Likely to Vote for Him
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Fox News, RedState, HotAir, Washington Times and Political Wire
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Not-So-Enthusiastic Pennsylvania GOP Support for Oz
The Not-So-Enthusiastic Pennsylvania GOP Support for Oz
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CNN and Common Dreams
New York Times:
Justice Dept. to Submit Redacted Affidavit Used in Trump Search Warrant — In its most complete form, the document would disclose important details about the government's justification for taking the extraordinary step of searching Mar-a-Lago this month. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department …
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Daily Kos and The Guardian
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Politico:
How Trump has spent his days since the feds searched his home — As he finds himself, once more, in legal jeopardy—standing at the epicenter of a media storm of his own making, his political future changing course in real time—Donald Trump has done what Donald Trump likes to do.
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘A Wrong Never Righted’: Court Upholds Mississippi's 1890 Jim Crow Voting Law — The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a Jim Crow law that Mississippi's white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life.
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Raw Story and Mississippi Today
The Daily Beast:
Eight Sources Say Feds Are Not Done With Matt Gaetz — It's been a quiet couple months in the probe into allegations that Rep. Matt Gaetz was involved in underage sex trafficking. But few involved think it's over. — When Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) beat his primary challenger Tuesday …
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PoliticusUSA, Alternet.org and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An expert on the right urgently warns: Beware of another Oklahoma City — Consider the events of this month alone: Members of a militia in Michigan were convicted of a plot to kidnap the state's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. We've seen numerous threats and attempts at violent attacks against the FBI.
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's home swatted a second time in two days — An individual reported a fake crime at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) home early Thursday morning, the second “swatting” incident at her residence in as many days, authorities said. — A local 911 call center received …
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NBC News, RedState, The Daily Dot, Raw Story, LGBTQ Nation and Ground News
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘swatted’ for second time in two days, police say
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘swatted’ for second time in two days, police say
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The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, IJR and CNN
CBS News:
Sen. Klobuchar plans to bring Pete Buttigieg to the State Fair butter carving booth Thursday — FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — A lot of people lined up outside the gates of the Minnesota State Fair Thursday morning, and among them was Sen. Amy Klobuchar. — “I think people now see the lighthouse on the horizon.
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Politico and Balloon Juice
Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
Trump Calls For Mitch McConnell To Be ‘Immediately’ Replaced As Senate GOP Leader — Trump has repeatedly attacked McConnell since the GOP leader admitted Republicans are struggling in their attempt to win Senate control. — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed Senate Minority …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, Big League Politics and Insider
Washington Post:
Tesla demands removal of video of cars hitting child-size mannequins — The move comes amid heightened sensitivity to criticism of the software that is under public and regulatory scrutiny — SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla is demanding an advocacy group take down videos of its vehicles striking …
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The Verge, Washington Examiner and Electrek
Bloomberg:
UN Rights Chief Vows to Publish Xinjiang Report by Tenure's End — UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet vowed to release a long-awaited report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang, despite significant work remaining with six days left in her tenure. — “I had fully intended for it to be released …
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CNN, Al Jazeera and Associated Press
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sean Hannity and Other Fox Stars Face Depositions in Defamation Suit — The depositions are one of the clearest indications yet of how aggressively Dominion Voting Systems is moving forward with its suit against the media company. — Some of the biggest names at Fox News have been questioned …
CNN:
Minnesota's GOP nominee for top elections official called changing voting rules ‘our 9/11’ after ‘the big rig’ in 2020 — The Republican nominee to be the top elections official in Minnesota said changing the rules around voting following the 2020 “big rig” was “our 9/11,” …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Obama enters the chat — Former President Barack Obama is jumping full-on into the midterms with a fundraiser for the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, Axios has learned. … - Tickets for the New York City event are $25,000-a-pop for general admission and $50,000 for VIP, the invite says.
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Western Journal and The Hill
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texans who perform abortions now face up to life in prison, $100,000 fine — Texas, the largest state to restrict abortions, now has three significant bans on the books, setting up a potential legal minefield. — Copy link — Performing an abortion is now a felony punishable by up to life …
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HotAir, Houston Chronicle, Townhall, Off the Kuff, The 19th and LifeNews.com
Craig Pittman / Florida Phoenix:
Developers back out of Florida panther protection proposal — A Florida panther that had been hit by a car is released back into the wild with a collar attached to track it. Credit: Brandon Basino, FWC — Quality Journalism for Critical Times — August is usually the worst month to be in Florida.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump World's Mar-a-Lago Offensive Backfires — It turns out the former president tried to block FBI access to retained classified documents, but Biden intervened. — In my columns Monday and Tuesday, I stressed that President Trump could talk himself into being charged by the Justice Department …
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HotAir, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Wire, The Hill, Washington Times, Just The News, Twitchy, Townhall, USA Today and Bloomberg
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Stop improving things right now! Everyone must suffer as I did! — DISGUSTING! AWFUL! I have just received word that life is getting marginally better for some people, and I am white-hot with fury! This is the worst thing that could possibly happen!
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Althouse
Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:
Gov. Kemp's attempt to avoid testifying in Trump election investigation in court today — A Fulton County judge on Thursday morning will hear arguments about whether Gov. Brian Kemp should be forced to testify before a grand jury examining potential criminal interference in Georgia's 2020 elections.
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Politico, Washington Post and Albuquerque Journal
David Enrich / New York Times:
How a Corporate Law Firm Led a Political Revolution — The untold story of Jones Day's push to move the American government and courts to the right. — On a balmy Saturday night in June, Traci Lovitt hosted a 50th birthday party for her husband, Ara, at their 9,800-square-foot Westchester mansion overlooking Long Island Sound.
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Alternet.org and Raw Story