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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
3 big things we learned from the Mar-a-Lago affidavit — In the Mar-a-Lago saga, Donald Trump has offered several big defenses. First, he has reportedly insisted to aides that he primarily took from the White House documents that were “mine.” Second, he has suggested he always intended …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Shows Trump Kept Some of America's Top Secrets, Is In Huge Trouble — Even with about half of its 38 pages blacked out for security reasons, the Justice Department's affidavit to get a warrant to search Donald Trump's residency at Mal-a-Largo is more damning than many of the former president's critics expected.
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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:
Mar-a-Lago affidavit says many witnesses interviewed, 184 classified files returned in January
Mar-a-Lago affidavit says many witnesses interviewed, 184 classified files returned in January
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden scoffs at Trump claim he declassified Mar-a-Lago documents: ‘Come on’
Biden scoffs at Trump claim he declassified Mar-a-Lago documents: ‘Come on’
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New York Times, New York Post and KFOR-TV
Reuters:
Exclusive: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College — Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP super PAC cancels ad buys in Arizona, Alaska — Senate Republicans' primary super PAC is canceling nearly $10 million in Arizona and Alaska ad reservations, raising questions about the party's commitment to Blake Masters, its Senate nominee in the Copper State.
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CNN:
Arizona GOP Senate candidate attempts to soften anti-abortion stance in pivot to general election — Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters attempted to tone down his position on abortion Thursday, scrubbing his website of his support of a “federal personhood law” and a host …
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters lies about opponent's abortion views
Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters lies about opponent's abortion views
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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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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
August National Poll: Biden Bounces Back On Approval and 2024 Ballot; Voters Split on Student Debt Relief and Student Loan Program Value
Washington Post:
How President Biden decided to go big on student loan forgiveness
How President Biden decided to go big on student loan forgiveness
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion
BREAKING: Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion
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Fortune, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Biden Mocks Trump's Claim He Declassified Mar-a-Lago Documents — President Joe Biden mocked former President Donald Trump's claim that he declassified documents the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. — “I've declassified everything in the world, I'm president, I can do it all?”
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Privately Blew Up Biden Nominee Needed to Enact Regulatory Agenda
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
It's clear now: Liberals increase government spending so that they can tell their critics to shut up
It's clear now: Liberals increase government spending so that they can tell their critics to shut up
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Reason, HotAir, Vanity Fair and alicublog
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
DeSantis suspends four Broward County School Board members, appoints replacements — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday suspended four Broward County School Board members for engaging in what the governor described as “incompetence, neglect of duty, and misuse of authority.”
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Considers Cutting Back Programming Hours in Prime Time — Network has discussed giving 10 p.m. hour to local station partners, a cost-cutting move as interest in broadcast TV wanes — NBC is considering reducing the number of hours it programs in prime time, people familiar with the matter said …
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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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC fires national spokesperson — The Republican National Committee has fired Paris Dennard as its national spokesman, according to two people familiar with the move. — Dennard had been serving as a national spokesman and director of Black media affairs for the committee.
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The Hill, Raw Story and Just The News
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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Insider, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, Outside the Beltway and All in Her Head
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Document reveals identity of donors who secretly funded Nikki Haley's political nonprofit — Many of the GOP's biggest donors are among those who funneled anonymous contributions to former U.N ambassador Nikki Haley's nonprofit as she lays the groundwork for a prospective 2024 presidential bid …
New York Times:
Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech Over Covid Vaccine Technology — Two lawsuits filed in Massachusetts and Germany claim the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine violated Moderna's mRNA patents. — The vaccine manufacturer Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech on Friday, claiming …
CNBC:
Powell comments fuel 1,000-point market rout Friday as stocks slide for a second week — UBS's Art Cashin: Powell accomplished exactly what he wanted — Stocks plummeted Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in his Jackson Hole speech the central bank won't back off in its fight against rapid inflation.
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Abortion issue has deflated Republicans' hopes for November; question now is how badly — The Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade and ending the nationwide guarantee of abortion rights achieved a goal the Republican Party had pursued for more than four decades.
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for L.A. mayor
In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for L.A. mayor
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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 …
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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Donald Trump's Truth Social Reportedly Faces Major Money, Trademark Woes — A major vendor claims it was stiffed by Trump's social media operation, suggesting finances are in “significant disarray,” reported Fox Business. — Donald Trump's social media operation appears …
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