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2:30 PM ET, August 28, 2022

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CBS News:
GOP seat lead shrinks as Biden approval ticks up — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Republicans head into the fall still in position to gain enough House seats for a majority, but a tumultuous summer has made their advantage appear a little smaller today — with a trend so far pointing toward narrow gains instead of a wave.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Michael Stern / Just Security:
Assessing Trump's Claim of ‘Executive Privilege’ on FBI Access to MAL Docs  —  The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and former President Donald Trump are locked in a long running dispute over records taken from the White House in January 2021.
Discussion: Townhall
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Chloe Folmar / The Hill:
Judge announces intent to appoint special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents
Jason Miciak / Political Flare:
WaPo Bombshell: Trump Took Boxes of Material on Trips Around the World for ‘No Reason’  —  There are a couple of salient facts that many people do not know regarding the problem with Trump keeping Top-Secret/SCI files.  They paint a very sinister picture.  —  First, these boxes at issue …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Inside Trump's war on the National Archives
Ronald G. Shafer / Washington Post:   ‘Mutilated by rats,’ burned, trashed: 200 years of presidential papers lost
Liz Essley Whyte / Wall Street Journal:
Latest Covid Boosters Are Set to Roll Out Before Human Testing Is Completed  —  The FDA and vaccine makers say they are confident that shots targeting Omicron subvariants will work safely  —  Covid Variants Keep Getting More Infectious.  Here's Why.  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:   Fall Vaccination Campaign Will Bring New Shots, Worse Access
Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
‘The US could lose the right to vote within months’: Top official warns on threat to democracy  —  Jena Griswold urges Americans to pay attention to crucial but often overlooked races for secretary of state  —  Colorado's secretary of state, Jena Griswold, is warning anyone who will listen …
Discussion: Alternet.org
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Duke volleyball game in Utah moved after racist abuse hurled at Black player  —  Duke University women's volleyball match on Saturday was moved to an alternate location in Provo, Utah, after racial slurs were hurled at a Black player from the crowd during Friday's match with BYU, school officials said.
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Glynn A. Hill / Washington Post:
BYU bans fan, relocates volleyball match after racist incident
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
Justice Alito's Crusade Against a Secular America Isn't Over  —  He's had win after win—including overturning Roe v. Wade—yet seems more and more aggrieved.  What drives his anger? … Some baby boomers were permanently shaped by their participation in the countercultural protests …
Discussion: Althouse
Brad Lendon / CNN:
US sends two warships through Taiwan Strait, in first transit since Pelosi trip  —  China fires missiles towards Taiwan strait in drill after Pelosi visit  —  Two United States Navy warships have entered the Taiwan Strait in what is the first US naval transit in the waterway since US-China tensions spiked …
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats hammer Republicans over Social Security as conservative candidates grab the ‘third rail’  —  WASHINGTON — When Blake Masters was running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Arizona, he floated what he called a “fresh and innovative” idea.  —  “Maybe we should privatize Social Security.
Detroit News:
Insider: Top Michigan Democrats may not need to debate GOP opponents, lawmaker suggests  —  Lansing — State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who's gained national attention for her approach to taking on Republican attacks, is contending that top Michigan Democrats don't necessarily need to participate …
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
They were some of the last journalists at their papers.  Then came the layoffs.  —  The latest cutbacks at Gannett come amid an industry-wide trend of shrinking newspaper newsrooms.  —  The only full-time news reporter at the Daily Jeffersonian kept busy until recently.
CNN:
A once-bullish GOP now sees a smaller House majority in its future, presenting a challenge to McCarthy  —  Democrats closing the enthusiasm gap but the midterms will still be an “uphill battle”  —  House Republicans are starting to grow pessimistic about their chances of winning a massive majority …
Discussion: HotAir, Raw Story and Breitbart
Chris Stirewalt / Politico:
Fox News Fired Me After I Said Biden Won.  That Wasn't the Worst of It.  —  My first meeting in Roger Ailes' boardroom of doom was on Election Day 2010.  —  At the time, I was the network's new political editor.  Republicans were poised to deliver a serious walloping to President Barack Obama …
Henry Foy / Financial Times:
EU set to suspend visa travel agreement with Russia  —  Plan to freeze 2007 deal will make it harder and more expensive for Russians to get Schengen-area documents  —  EU foreign ministers are this week set to back a suspension of the bloc's visa facilitation agreement with Moscow in an effort …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump is turning the midterms from a referendum into a choice  —  Republicans could pay a price in November as the former president's dominance of the party changes the equation for midterm campaigns  —  It's long been said that midterm elections are all about the current occupant of the White House …
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
In New Hampshire, Republicans Weigh Another Hard-Right Candidate
Mike Allen / Axios:
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Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Wire:
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Sarah Vowell / New York Times:
What's With All the Fluff About a New Civil War, Anyway?
NBC News:
Black Covid long-haulers felt invisible to the health care system, so they formed their own support groups
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Discussion: Financial Times
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TMZ.com:
Sydney Sweeney's Hoedown Party for Mom Branded Right-Wing, MAGA-Leaning
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
WATCH: Karl Rove says Secret Service could have ratted Trump out over classified docs
Discussion: Political Flare and Politico
 

 
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