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New York Times:
Trump Search Live Updates: Justice Dept. Releases Redacted Affidavit Used for Warrant — The document describes the government's push to recover highly classified materials taken from the White House by the former president. The affidavit was heavily redacted to protect witnesses …
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Politico:
Trump Mar-a-Lago affidavit reveals ‘handwritten notes,’ highly classified material led to warrant request — Federal investigators obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month by pointing to a raft of highly classified material …
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NBC News:
Redacted FBI affidavit used to justify search of Mar-a-Lago is released — WASHINGTON — A redacted copy of the FBI affidavit used to justify the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was unsealed Friday, revealing details of the federal government's efforts …
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Washington Post:
Affidavit to search Trump's Mar-a-Lago says 184 classified files found in January — Some White House documents sent to the National Archives in January appear to contain Trump's handwritten notes, court filing says. — BREAKING NEWS: This story will be updated frequently with additional details from the affidavit.
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August National Poll: Biden Bounces Back On Approval and 2024 Ballot; Voters Split on Student Debt Relief and Student Loan Program Value — Home Polls August National Poll: Biden Bounces Back On Approval and 2024 Ballot; Voters Split on Student Debt Relief and Student Loan Program Value
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Mariko Paulson / Issues:
The Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: Budgetary Costs and Distributional Impact — Print to PDF Summary: President Biden's new student loan forgiveness plan includes three major components. We estimate that debt cancellation alone will cost up to $519 billion, with about 75% …
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People's Policy Project, HotAir, Insider, The Hill, The Atlantic, National Review, Americans for Tax Reform, The Daily Caller, Townhall and Mother Jones
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
GOP ad blitz mocks Biden's student loan plan
GOP ad blitz mocks Biden's student loan plan
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Muzzle Velocity, Morning Shots, Breitbart and National Review
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Revealed: leaked video shows Amy Coney Barrett's secretive faith group drove women to tears — Wife of founder of People of Praise says members ‘were always crying’ during discussions about women's subservience to men — The People of Praise, a secretive Christian faith group that counts …
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Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Judge rips fake electors' claims they shouldn't have to testify in Trump probe — Somewhat lost during a newsy day at the Fulton County special grand jury was a scathing order from Judge Robert McBurney that could have significant implications into the ongoing investigation …
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Election Law Blog
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
In fiery midterm speech, Biden says GOP's turned toward ‘semi-fascism’ — It was some of the strongest language used by Biden, a politician long known — and at times criticized for — his willingness to work with members of the opposite party — President Biden on Thursday night launched …
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Josh Marcus / The Independent:
White House trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene for student loan criticism: ‘She had $183k in PPP loans repaid’
White House trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene for student loan criticism: ‘She had $183k in PPP loans repaid’
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Biden asks Republicans to shun ‘MAGA’ in November, vote Democrat
Biden asks Republicans to shun ‘MAGA’ in November, vote Democrat
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Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner's memoir is only inadvertently revealing — All memoirs are self-serving — it's just a matter of degree. But Jared Kushner's memoir, “Breaking History,” is, at its core, an extended news release that exists primarily to exculpate its author after his role …
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Virginia Canter / Just Security:
Need for US Ethics Reform Is Far from History: Kushner-MBS Deal Reflects Broken System
Need for US Ethics Reform Is Far from History: Kushner-MBS Deal Reflects Broken System
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The Guardian
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Monetary Policy and Price Stability — At “Reassessing Constraints on the Economy and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming — Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. — At past Jackson Hole conferences …
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Politico, CBS News, Axios, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Powell declares war on inflation, predicts “pain” ahead
BREAKING: Powell declares war on inflation, predicts “pain” ahead
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump fan who assaulted Capitol cops with Trump flag, billboard on Jan. 6 gets over 3.5 years in prison — WASHINGTON — A “pissed off” Donald Trump fan was sentenced to 46 months in prison Friday for assaulting law enforcement officers with a Trump flag and joining a mob to use …
Marco Rubio / Fox Business:
President Biden, your student loan handout plan is the opposite of the Paycheck Protection Program — The student loan handout program announced Wednesday will not stimulate our economy, create jobs or rescue our small businesses — Biden's student loan handout will 'make college more expensive …
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Fox News, HotAir, Insider, Talking Points Memo, Erick Erickson's Confessions … and Florida Politics
Christo Grozev / bellingcat:
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy — Three minutes before midnight on 14 September 2018, the cell phone of Andrey Averyanov began to ring. Despite the late hour, phone records show Maj. General Averyanov, the commander …
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The Daily Beast, RADAR and The Guardian
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Privately Blew Up Biden Nominee Needed to Enact Regulatory Agenda … Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was the one to scuttle President Joe Biden's choice to head the obscure but all-important Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to sources familiar with the standoff.
Politico:
Dr. Oz shifts strategy as campaign ails — PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz sees an opening to rescue his floundering Senate campaign: After largely refraining from making his opponent's health an issue, the celebrity doctor has decided to go there. — Oz's Democratic opponent, John Fetterman …
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Alternet.org and Twitchy
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Flip the Script — Earlier this cycle, a seasoned Democratic strategist argued that his party's success in the midterms wouldn't be predicated on policy successes but by turning out the 2018/2020 coalition of anti-Trump voters. This strategy, however, of trying to turn the midterms …
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for L.A. mayor — Rep. Karen Bass has built a double-digit lead in the Los Angeles mayor's race with a little over two months to go until election day, firming up her base among the city's Democratic voters …
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Political Wire
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Everything's Coming Up Schumer … Chuck Schumer had the ease of someone already on summer vacation. “I'd much rather be in New York than Washington any day of the week,” he said during a Zoom conversation from his Manhattan office in mid-August. The Senate Democrats had just passed …
New York Times:
Trump Golf Course in New York City Will Host Saudi-Backed Event — The Aramco Team Series women's event, separate from the LIV Golf tour that upended the PGA Tour, will be held at Trump Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx in October. — A New York City-owned golf course managed …
Peter Beinart / New York Times:
Has the Fight Against Antisemitism Lost Its Way? — Over the past 18 months, America's most prominent Jewish organizations have done something extraordinary. They have accused the world's leading human rights organizations of promoting hatred of Jews. — Last April, after Human Rights Watch issued …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Defendants targeted in DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were told they could vote — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Several people who were arrested last week as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were notified by official government entities they were eligible to vote, according to court documents and interviews.
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The Guardian
Scott Dworkin / Newsweek:
Joementum Has Arrived and It's Propelling Democrats to Victory — , EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION — Despite all the exuberant predictions from the Right, Democrats aren't in disarray. Far from it. — Right now, according to recent polling average updates for Senate races …
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Politico, CNN, Washington Post, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
Newly released memo to Barr was just cover for exonerating Trump — In response to a court order, the Justice Department has released a 2019 internal memorandum to then-Attorney General William P. Barr concerning whether the evidence gathered by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III …
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Letters from an American, IJR and Daily Kos
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families — The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say. — Sandy Hook victims' families asked a federal bankruptcy court on Thursday to order …
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The Hill, Associated Press, Hartford Courant, The Daily Wire, Connecticut Public and Washington Examiner
Rachel Van Gilder / WOOD-TV:
Poll: Whitmer leads early in gubernatorial race — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Incumbent Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a strong lead over Republican challenger Tudor Dixon in the race for Michigan governor, a new poll shows. — The EPIC-MRA poll released Friday morning shows …
Axios:
Former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world — Former President Trump and a number of his close allies have argued that the multiple investigations he's facing, and in particular the search of his Mar-a-Lago property, are something out of a “banana republic.”