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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by FBI, Justice Dept. tells judge — A “filter team” has “completed its review” of material possibly covered by attorney-client privilege, the court filing says. — FBI agents have already finished their review of possibly privileged documents seized …
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Jessica Levinson / MSNBC:
Trump's response to the FBI search is definitely paying off — for DOJ — Donald Trump ramps up attacks against government agencies following FBI search of Mar-a-Lago — Former President Donald Trump's response to the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago residence is paying off ... for the Justice Department, not for him.
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New York Times:
Trump's Legal Team Scrambles to Find an Argument
Trump's Legal Team Scrambles to Find an Argument
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Document Inquiry Poses Unparalleled Test for Justice Dept.
Document Inquiry Poses Unparalleled Test for Justice Dept.
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New Republic, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
DOJ tells judge it has completed review of possible attorney-client privileged materials seized from Mar-a-Lago
DOJ tells judge it has completed review of possible attorney-client privileged materials seized from Mar-a-Lago
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham's vile ‘riots’ threat gives away Trump's game — “If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox News, there will be “riots in the streets.” — The South Carolina Republican's quote has been relentlessly skewered …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Graham predicts ‘riots in the streets’ if Trump prosecuted over classified docs
Graham predicts ‘riots in the streets’ if Trump prosecuted over classified docs
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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Ukrainian forces begin ‘shaping’ battlefield for counteroffensive, senior US officials say — Ukrainian forces have begun “shaping” operations in southern Ukraine to prepare the battlefield for a significant Ukrainian counteroffensive, two senior US officials briefed on the intelligence told CNN.
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Daria Shulzhenko / The Kyiv Independent:
Ukraine reportedly begins advancing to liberate country's south
Ukraine reportedly begins advancing to liberate country's south
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New York Post:
DeSantis pulls out of $25K-a-plate Zeldin fundraiser over ‘unforeseen tragedy’ — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had to pull out of a big-bucks fundraiser for New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin on Long Island on Sunday because of an “unforeseen tragedy,” the candidate's rep told The Post.
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
3 dead, including suspected shooter, in Oregon grocery store attack — Gunman opens fire in Oregon grocery store, killing two — Three people, including the suspected shooter, are dead following an attack Sunday night at a grocery store in Bend, Oregon, police said.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Proud Boy sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in Jan. 6 case, still says election was stolen — WASHINGTON — A former D.C. bartender and Proud Boy who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison on Monday. — Joshua Pruitt, 40, pleaded guilty in June …
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Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
Meghan of Montecito … The conditions are right for confession. It is a beautiful August day in Montecito, in a beautiful sitting room, in a beautiful home. Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, a lively 3-year-old with a shock of ginger curls identical to his father's, toddles into the room demanding …
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Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
Trump's Second Term Would Look Like This — Ever since the U.S. Senate failed to convict Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection and disqualify him from running for president again, a lot of people, myself included, have been warning that a second Trump term could bring about the extinction of American democracy.
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Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
It's Open Season on Jews in New York City — Of the hundreds of hate crimes committed against Jews in the city since 2018, many of them documented on camera, only a single perpetrator has served even one day in prison — The attack that sent 31-year-old Yossi Hershkop to the hospital …
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Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Greenland ice sheet set to raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study finds — New research suggests the massive ice sheet is already set to lose more than 3 percent of its mass, even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today — Human-driven climate change has set …
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Nature, The Guardian and Althouse
NBC News:
Persuadable voters are breaking for the Democrats, NBC News poll finds — WASHINGTON — If it's Monday ... NASA places Artemis I rocket launch was scrubbed for Monday. ... The Biden administration announces it will suspend taking orders for free at-home Covid tests due to a lack of congressional funding, per NBC's Monica Alba. ...
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Wall Street Journal:
The Comey-Clinton Document Standard and Trump — WSJ Opinion: What Did We Learn From Justice's Mar-a-Lago Affidavit? — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
When an election denier becomes an election chief — Many of the election deniers running for secretary of state this year have spent their time talking about something they can't do: “decertifying” the 2020 results. — The bigger question — amid concerns about whether they would fairly administer …
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Family Dunks on DeSantis: You're ‘Stealing’ Our Bit! — Donald Trump says the Florida governor is mirroring the former president — right down to the hand gestures — DONALD TRUMP HAS been complaining that Ron DeSantis is “stealing” from him. — According to three people who've spoken …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: National Republicans going all-in for Herschel Walker — Was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talking about Herschel Walker recently when he referred to “candidate quality” as he downplayed Republicans' chances of retaking the Senate? McConnell has never offered more detail …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the Ocean Floor — Mining in parts of the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poor countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access to prized seabed sites with metals crucial to the green energy revolution.
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data that Tracks People at Reproductive Health Clinics, Places of Worship, and Other Sensitive Locations — Agency Alleges that Kochava's Geolocation Data from Hundreds of Millions of Mobile Devices Can Be Used to Identify People and Trace Their Movements
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
QAnon Accounts Found a Home, and Trump's Support, on Truth Social — Researchers identified 88 users promoting the conspiracy theory on Donald Trump's platform, and said he had reposted messages 65 times. — Dozens of QAnon-boosting accounts decamped to Truth Social this year …
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NewsGuard, The Federalist and The Daily Dot
Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
Biden will head to these two swing states on Labor Day — President Joe Biden will visit a pair of key swing states on Labor Day. — While most of the country enjoys a day off, Biden will head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two states that swung from former President Donald Trump …
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Politico, The Hill, Washington Times and Associated Press
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden picks Hunter laptop denier for presidential intelligence board — President Joe Biden's latest pick for his Intelligence Advisory Board is an MSNBC pundit who was among dozens of former intelligence officials to sign a letter in 2020 claiming, without evidence …
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Washington Free Beacon, Townhall and Twitchy
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton posts dance floor pic in support of Finnish PM Sanna Marin — Hillary Clinton is throwing down in support of Finland's party-loving prime minister, Sanna Marin, reliving her own scandal from strutting her stuff in office — and urging her to “keep dancing” through the backlash.
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George Phillies / Independent Political Report:
New National LP Group Underway — Independent Political Report has learned that a new national Libertarian group, the — Association of Libertarian State Parties — is in the process of being formed. It is our understanding that this group: — will have as members only state parties, not individual people;
New York Times:
Manhattan Has a Glut of Empty Offices. Hochul Wants to Build More. — Despite near record-high office vacancies, Gov. Kathy Hochul has backed a real estate project at the New York transit hub that would be one of the largest in American history. — In a bid to reshape Midtown Manhattan …
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
In Facebook video, Doug Mastriano thanked pro-Confederate armed men for supposedly defending Gen. Lee statue — Mastriano also told someone wearing a half-American, half-Confederate flag: “I can't think of a better cape.” — In one of his regular Facebook livestreams …
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