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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 …
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.
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 …
Axios:
DOJ releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden scoffs at Trump claim he declassified Mar-a-Lago documents: ‘Come on’
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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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.
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
Discussion: The Hill
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.”
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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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:   Failed effort to recall George Gascón had a good chance of winning, new poll shows
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for L.A. mayor
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Just The News
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
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?”
Discussion: CNN
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
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Guardian
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 …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Monetary Policy and Price Stability
New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.  —  This article has been updated to reflect news developments.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
‘The definition of fascism’: Biden uses F-word to describe Trump Republicans
OCCRP:
Inventing Anna: Ukrainian-Born Scammer Posed with Trump and Wandered Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Rachel Van Gilder / WOOD-TV:
Poll: Whitmer leads early in gubernatorial race
Discussion: Eschaton
 Earlier Items: 
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Everything's Coming Up Schumer
Axios:
Former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world
Christo Grozev / bellingcat:
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Judge rips fake electors' claims they shouldn't have to testify in Trump probe
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Flip the Script  —  Earlier this cycle, a seasoned Democratic strategist argued …
 

 
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