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 …

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.”

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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% …

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 …

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?”

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 …

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 …

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.