Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests  —  The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sought …

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91  —  Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.

Senate Rating Changes: Arizona, Pennsylvania to Leans Democratic  —  Dear Readers: This is our only planned issue of the Crystal Ball this week.  We'll be back following Labor Day.  But before the holiday weekend, we have 2 notable rating changes to make in the Senate.

US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback  —  The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.  —  The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021 …

Charlie Crist resigns from Congress as campaign for governor heats up  —  Democratic U.S. Rep. Crist has been representing Pinellas County in Congress since 2016.  —  U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, is resigning early from Congress …

West Point Has a K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall  —  A special congressional commission that recommends the removal of Confederate symbols at U.S. military sites flagged the bronze plaque in a new report.  —  For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy …

Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid  —  Alaska's experiment with ranked choice elections will determine whether Sarah Palin becomes a member of Congress on Wednesday — and advocates of the system are already plotting where to expand it next.

A device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun in moments is wreaking havoc on American streets  —  The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals …

Democrats emphasize Herschel Walker's threats against ex-wife in new Georgia ad  —  Democrats are escalating their attacks on Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker with a new television ad that calls attention to the violent episodes in Walker's past.

Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram …

Digital Revenue Dies in Drumpfness  —  How the Washington Post tripped over the Trump trap (and the New York Times did not)  —  When Wordle was for sale earlier this year, I figured the buyer would be the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal.  My reasoning was that the Times already …

Ex-Federal Prosecutor: Trump's Attorneys Need To Lawyer Up After New DOJ Filing  —  Andrew Weissmann said if he were advising Trump's attorneys, he'd tell them to “stop talking” and “get the best defense counsel you can possibly get.”  —  A former federal prosecutor suggested …

The “fairness” debate over student loan forgiveness, explained  —  Why economists are fighting over whether canceling debt is a good idea.  —  For many of the 43 million Americans with federal student loan debt, President Joe Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in debt is unequivocally good news.

MLB's Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions  —  At least 20 teams have promoted or funded groups that advocate or are directly involved in child gender transitions, an NR analysis finds.  —  Like most of the nation's major sports leagues, Major League Baseball (MLB) has embraced a number of left-wing causes in recent years.

Why the Biden administration stopped talking about a ‘longer and stronger’ nuclear deal with Iran  —  A combination of political calculus and an understanding of the reality of the scope of the negotiations took hold last year  —  Not long after Joe Biden clinched the Democratic nomination in 2020 …

MIGOP restricting access to Capitol lawn for rally raises 1st Amendment issues, experts say  —  Capitol Commission vice chair would vote to deny permits if attempted again  —  The Michigan Republican Party held a rally on the Capitol lawn Saturday — but not everyone was welcome at the festivities on public land.

Maria Bartiromo will be deposed in defamation case against Fox News  —  Maria Bartiromo will be the next Fox News star to appear for a deposition in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against the network over its airing of false claims made about the company during 2020 presidential election coverage.