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New York Times:
Trump Inquiry Fueled in Part by Concern Over Intelligence Sources — Documents related to the work of clandestine sources are some of the most sensitive and protected in the government. F.B.I. agents found some in boxes retrieved from Donald J. Trump's home.
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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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Media Matters for America, Lawyers, Guns & Money, American Greatness and The Daily Signal
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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CNN, Law & Crime, Power Line, PoliticusUSA, Crooks and Liars and IJR
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 …
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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The Daily Caller, Raw Story and DonaldsHeroes's Newsletter
New York Times:
Inside the 20-Month Fight to Get Trump to Return Presidential Material
Inside the 20-Month Fight to Get Trump to Return Presidential Material
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KFOR-TV, Political Wire, Los Angeles Times and Washington Examiner
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
William Barr Rips Trump For ‘Pandering To Outrage’ Over Mar-A-Lago Search
William Barr Rips Trump For ‘Pandering To Outrage’ Over Mar-A-Lago Search
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New York Post and Breitbart
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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Washington Examiner, New York Times, KFOR-TV, Arizona Mirror, GZERO, The Mahablog, The Hill, Vox and Balloon Juice
NBC News:
Redacted FBI affidavit used to justify search of Mar-a-Lago is released
Redacted FBI affidavit used to justify search of Mar-a-Lago is released
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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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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Doug Mastriano Wore a Confederate Uniform in a Faculty Photo
Doug Mastriano Wore a Confederate Uniform in a Faculty Photo
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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 …
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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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Washington Examiner, The Hill, CNN, CNBC, HotAir, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Washington Post and Must Read Alaska
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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PolitiFact, IJR, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars and Just The News
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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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Governor Ron DeSantis Suspends Four Broward School Board Members from Office
Governor Ron DeSantis Suspends Four Broward School Board Members from Office
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The Hill, WPLG-TV, National Review, The Daily Caller, Florida Politics and The Daily Wire
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
DeSantis Suspends 4 Elected School Board Members After Report on Parkland
DeSantis Suspends 4 Elected School Board Members After Report on Parkland
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UPI, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, KOB.com and Washington Times
Brad Moss / The Daily Beast:
It's Over: Trump Will Be Indicted — There is little left for the Justice Department to do but decide whether to wait until after the midterms to formally seek the indictment from the grand jury. … I have finally seen enough. Donald Trump will be indicted by a federal grand jury.
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Insider, Raw Story, Townhall and Political Wire
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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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, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
‘The definition of fascism’: Biden uses F-word to describe Trump Republicans
‘The definition of fascism’: Biden uses F-word to describe Trump Republicans
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Coverage of Ron DeSantis shows the media has learned nothing from Trump — Mainstream-media journalists are completely unprepared to cover a presidential candidate who would use the power of the state against his political enemies, who stokes division with racist conspiracy theories …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
Defendants targeted in DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were told they could vote
Defendants targeted in DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were told they could vote
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Daily Kos and The Guardian
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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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Failed effort to recall George Gascón had a good chance of winning, new poll shows — Los Angeles Dist. Atty. George Gascón got a lucky break when his opponents failed to gather enough valid signatures to put a recall on the ballot. If it had gone before voters …
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HotAir and Political Wire
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Abortion issue has deflated Republicans' hopes for November; question now is how badly
Abortion issue has deflated Republicans' hopes for November; question now is how badly
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Roll Call, Associated Press and Newsy
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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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 …
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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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Hill and Just The News
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 …
Virginia Langmaid / CNN:
Appeals court upholds Mississippi Jim Crow-era voting restriction law — The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday kept in place a Jim Crow-era voting restriction in Mississippi's constitution that removes voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, ruling that the provision …
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Washington Examiner
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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