Trump team makes its 11th hour plea for independent review  —  WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Donald Trump's lawyers contended Wednesday that the Department of Justice is trampling on his rights and demanded an independent review of materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Live results: The return of Sarah from Alaska?  —  Tonight's the night we finally learn who won the special election to be Alaska's new representative in the House that was held, uh ... 15 days ago.  —  Life moves more slowly in Alaska.  —  Read this post if you missed it on Friday …

Are Trump's Passports the FBI's Smoking Gun?  —  DOJ's latest filing suggests the proximity of Trump's personal identification to top secret government documents could prove the former president is personally culpable. … When the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar …

What Republicans refuse to grasp about the ‘Clinton standard’  —  For those who don't care about factual details, the GOP's “Clinton standard” framing may very well have superficial appeal.  But it's still ridiculous.  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing quite a bit of criticism over his …

Michigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative  —  A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot.

Peter Thiel rebuffs Mitch McConnell over Senate rescue in Arizona  —  The Senate minority leader and the billionaire venture capitalist each say the other should be subsidizing Blake Masters in the final months of his campaign  —  After J.D. Vance won the Republican primary for Senate in Ohio …

US war-gamed with Ukraine ahead of counteroffensive and encouraged more limited mission  —  Ukraine launches offensive in Russian-occupied Kherson region 02:19  —  In the buildup to the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, the US urged Kyiv to keep the operation limited in both its objectives …

Fetterman campaign says stroke recovery factors into fall debate plans  —  Advisers say Fetterman can engage in one-on-one conversations but struggles with more chaotic auditory environments  —  Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman's Senate campaign said Wednesday that his stroke recovery …

Biden's Approval Rating Surges After Hitting Low Mark In July, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Half Of Americans Say Trump Should Be Prosecuted On Criminal Charges Over His Handling Of Classified Documents  — mail_outline  —  Six weeks after President Joe Biden scored …

Why Yesterday's DOJ Filing Suggests a Trump Indictment Is Coming  —  Former president Trump is likely to be charged with obstruction of justice and causing false statements to be made to investigators.  —  WORLD  —  The Good Loser  —  By THE EDITORS August 31, 2022

Cases against arrested voters on shaky legal ground.  Florida issued them voter IDs  —  Two weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's top election officials stood in a Broward County courtroom and announced the arrest of 20 people for voting illegally, the state's case is starting to fall apart.

A New York City Rug Expert Weighs In On Mar-a-Lago's Flooring  —  It's likely ‘machine-made.’  —  When the FBI released the photo of records allegedly taken by former President Trump strewn around a floor in Mar-a-Lago, it revealed not only haphazard keeping of the government's secrets, but also an incredibly tasteless rug underneath.

The Humiliating History of the TSA  —  There's no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travelers any safer — so why does the theater of airport security persist?  —  all the time.  So when Jai Cooper heard sobbing from the back of the security line, it didn't really faze her.

‘Shoot.  Me.  Now.’: Obama Wanted To Drop ‘Condescending’ Biden, New Book Says  —  Barack Obama and Joe Biden had such a “fraught relationship” that Obama wanted to drop Biden from the 2012 Democratic ticket, according to excerpts from a new book obtained by the Daily Mail.

The fan who was banned by BYU does not appear to have yelled slurs at volleyball match, campus police say  —  University officials are asking for help with their investigation after police initially reviewed footage of game against Duke.  —  By Courtney Tanner and Kevin Reynolds

A neighborhood's cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’ … MURPHY, N.C. — It's midnight, and a jet-like roar is rumbling up the slopes of Poor House Mountain.  Except there are no planes overhead, and the nearest commercial airport is 80 miles away.

Commuter Tunnel Under the Hudson Won't Be Finished Until 2035  —  The crucial Gateway transit link from New Jersey to New York will now open three years later than expected and is likely to cost $2 billion more to construct.  —  Eight years ago, the head of Amtrak warned …

Jackson's Mayor Wanted To Create The ‘Most Radical’ City On Earth.  Now They Have No Drinking Water  —  Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Democratic mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, promised to make the capital “the most radical city on the planet” during his 2017 campaign, but so far he's been unable …