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 …

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 …

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 …

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?”

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% …

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.”

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Will The Real Jared Kushner Please Stand Up  —  Jared Kushner in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 1, 2018.  (Photo by Oliver Contreras - Pool/Getty Images)  —  “Vicky Ward Investigates” is reader-funded and entirely ad-free.  If you're enjoying this newsletter and want to support my work …

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 …

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 …

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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