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Politico:
Intel officials to assess national security fallout from Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents — The U.S. intelligence community will evaluate the potential national security risks stemming from former President Donald Trump's possession of top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence …
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CNN:
US intelligence chief tells Congress she's conducting damage assessment of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago — Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting …
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Wall Street Journal
Aila Slisco / Newsweek:
Joe Biden Mocks Donald Trump Over Claim He ‘Declassified Everything’ — President Joe Biden has mocked former President Donald Trump for claiming that he secretly declassified all of the classified documents that were recovered by the FBI during the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
WATCH: Karl Rove says Secret Service could have ratted Trump out over classified docs — A Secret Service member tasked with safeguarding former President Donald Trump may have been the one to spill the beans about the classified material at Mar-a-Lago, according to Karl Rove.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Reading between the redacted lines: What affidavit tells us about DOJ's Trump intentions — Predictably, it was much nothing about ado. — To what should be the surprise of no one, the Justice Department so thoroughly redacted the affidavit supporting the FBI's raid of Donald Trump's Mar …
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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Trump legal team says redacted affidavit raises ‘more questions than answers’ — Trump's legal team claims that heavily redacted document is evidence that a neutral third party is necessary to monitor DOJ handling of evidence — What did we learn from the heavily redacted affidavit?
Andrew Weissmann / New York Times:
What the Redacted Affidavit Shows in the Trump Mar-a-Lago Case — We always knew that whatever information about the Mar-a-Lago search would be released on Friday by a federal court was not going to help Donald Trump. — We know that not just because Judge Bruce Reinhart already concluded …
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NBC News:
Intel officials will assess ‘risk to national security’ from documents found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Intel officials will assess ‘risk to national security’ from documents found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Trump's narrative takes big hit with affidavit's release
The Memo: Trump's narrative takes big hit with affidavit's release
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge
Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge
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Wall Street Journal:
The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit: Is That All There Is? — The redacted 38-pages add to the evidence …
The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit: Is That All There Is? — The redacted 38-pages add to the evidence …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump's future grows — Payment disputes and a dwindling audience have fueled doubts about the former president's Twitter clone — Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
First on CNN: Motorist charged with threatening Utah Senate candidate with gun — Utah independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has accused a motorist of brandishing a firearm and pointing it at him and his wife as the couple was driving home from a campaign event in April.
New York Times:
Promoting His Memoir, Kushner Offers Tortured Defenses of Trump — Jared Kushner, who spent his years in the White House evading responsibility for his father-in-law's most extreme moves, has had to answer for some of them on his book tour. — WASHINGTON — Making the rounds promoting his new memoir …
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
As DeSantis Campaigns on Education, Crist Picks Teacher as Running Mate — Karla Hernández-Mats, head of the largest teachers union in the region, criticized the Republican governor for attacking educators. “This is what dictators do,” she said. — MIAMI — In choosing the head …
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
As Republicans stumble - could Democrats really hold on to the Senate? — Republicans need just one seat to regain the chamber, but recent failures mean things are looking up for the Democrats — Things appear to be looking up for Democratic Senate candidates.
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Zachary D. Carter / In The Long Run:
The Real Student Debt Debate — It's about the social order. — I have a new piece up for Slate on the history of debt relief as an essential safety valve for a functioning credit-based economy. Hillary Frey is running a great shop over there, and I encourage you to read Mark Joseph Stern's piece …
TMZ.com:
Sydney Sweeney's Hoedown Party for Mom Branded Right-Wing, MAGA-Leaning — SYDNEY SWEENEY Hoedown Party for Mom BRANDED AS RIGHT-WING, MAGA-LEANING — UPDATE — 4:08 PM PT — Sydney has addressed the controversy, writing ... “You guys this is wild. An innocent celebration …
Olesia Plokhii / Washington Post:
Roland Mesnier, White House pastry chef for a sweet quarter-century, dies at 78 — He was a confident and methodical patissier who took as his motto ‘perfection is no accident’ — Roland Mesnier, the French-born pastry chef who whipped up desserts for five presidents and dignitaries …
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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter
The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter
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