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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 …
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.
Discussion: HotAir, Washington Post and Raw Story
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.
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
3 big things we learned from the Mar-a-Lago affidavit
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  —  Home Polls August National Poll: Biden Bounces Back On Approval and 2024 Ballot; Voters Split on Student Debt Relief and Student Loan Program Value
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion  —  Well, no one ever said that math was Joe Biden's strong suit.  A new estimate just out from the non-partisan Penn Wharton Budget Model analysts show that the student-loan forgiveness plan …
Malcom Kyeyune / Compact Magazine:
Why the Right Lost the Student-Loan Fight
Discussion: Townhall
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 …
Discussion: DSCC and HuffPost
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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.
Discussion: CNBC, Washington Post and CNN
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.”
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 …
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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Vicky Ward Investigates:   Will The Real Jared Kushner Please Stand Up
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.
Discussion: Roll Call, Associated Press and Newsy
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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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Twitchy
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Guardian
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC fires national spokesperson  —  Paris Dennard had been serving as the Republican National Committee's national spokesman and director of Black media affairs for the committee.  —  The Republican National Committee has fired Paris Dennard as its national spokesman, according to two people familiar with the move.
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
 
 
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OCCRP:
Inventing Anna: Ukrainian-Born Scammer Posed with Trump and Wandered Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Rachel Van Gilder / WOOD-TV:
Poll: Whitmer leads early in gubernatorial race
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
Discussion: UPI and Forbes
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Flip the Script  —  Earlier this cycle, a seasoned Democratic strategist argued …
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