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New York Times:
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 …
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Politico:
Trump team likely sought to conceal classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells judge — Prosecutors obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after receiving evidence that there was “likely” an effort to conceal classified documents there in defiance …
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Alternet.org, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review and Associated Press
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. says Trump team may have hidden, moved classified papers — Prosecutors' filing suggests Trump advisers misled officials trying to recover sensitive papers; photo shows papers marked “Top Secret” spread out on the floor. — Former president Donald Trump and his advisers repeatedly failed …
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Rolling Stone, UPI and New York Post
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
DOJ says special master in Trump case would harm national security interests — DOJ responds to Trump's special master request — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday night that it had evidence classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate were …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump likely obstructed classified records probe, DOJ says — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — THE ‘O’ WORD — Just minutes before a midnight deadline, the Justice Department filed a stunning response to former President DONALD TRUMP's request …
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Nevada Independent
Tom Porter / Insider:
Some of the documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago were so secret that FBI agents needed a special clearance to look at them, DOJ says
Some of the documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago were so secret that FBI agents needed a special clearance to look at them, DOJ says
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Daily Kos, JONATHAN TURLEY, The Unz Review, Raw Story, Politics NY, National Review, WOOD-TV, CBS News and NewsNation
CNN:
Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely ‘concealed and removed’ to block investigation
Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely ‘concealed and removed’ to block investigation
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CNBC, Financial Times, Insider, HuffPost, Washington Times, The Sun, Voice of America, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and ABC News
CNN:
READ: The Justice Department's response to Trump's request for a special master
READ: The Justice Department's response to Trump's request for a special master
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Mercury News, Alternet.org and Just The News
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Records May Have Been Moved to Obstruct Probe, DOJ Says
Trump Records May Have Been Moved to Obstruct Probe, DOJ Says
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The Guardian, Al Jazeera and The Daily Beast
Marilyn Berger / New York Times:
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.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Gorbachev's reputation rests on the world's amnesia
The White House:
Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev
Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev
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Washington Examiner, Telegraf and rbc.ru
David E. Hoffman / Washington Post:
Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91
Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91
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Reuters, Associated Press, Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast and The Guardian
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
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.
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The Daily Wire and Mediaite
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David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Is Dr. Oz done? Republicans still see a path to a comeback against Fetterman — Mehmet Oz remains behind John Fetterman in the race for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat 10 weeks until Election Day. — But Republicans now see seeds for a potential rebound against the Democratic front-runner …
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The Hill, NBC News, PennLive and Too Close To Call
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate Rating Changes: Arizona, Pennsylvania to Leans Democratic
Senate Rating Changes: Arizona, Pennsylvania to Leans Democratic
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Wire and Breitbart
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Fetterman won't participate in early-September debate with Oz
Fetterman won't participate in early-September debate with Oz
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NBC News, RedState, CBS News, Insider, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
Josh Barro / Very Serious:
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 …
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New York Times:
Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles — With digital subscriptions and digital advertising revenue stagnating, the company is on pace to lose money this year. — In the years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, business boomed.
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Fox News, Townhall, RedState, New York Post, OutKick, Twitchy, National Review, The Daily Caller, Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, Just The News, Mediaite, Instapundit and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
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 …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Alaska to tabulate ranked-choice ballots as Palin attempts political comeback — Alaska elections officials will tabulate the state's ranked-choice ballots for the first time on Wednesday, determining whether former Gov. Sarah Palin will make a political comeback by winning a special election for the state's lone House seat.
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Washington Post
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Madison Fernandez / Politico:
Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid
Romy Ellenbogen / Tampa Bay Times:
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 …
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Politico, Washington Post and Florida Politics
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
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 …
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New York Post and The Hill
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Republicans in key races scrap online references to Trump, abortion — Attempts by GOP candidates in competitive contests to pivot away from these issues have emboldened Democrats to mount an aggressive offense — Yesli Vega, a Republican running for the U.S. House in a competitive Virginia district …
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Zandar Versus The Stupid, Unsafe, Overtime, Breitbart, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Washington Examiner
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:
Gibson's Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal — Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson's Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end. The Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million. — Telegram — Gab — MeWe
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The Ohio Star, Associated Press, The College Fix, Ace of Spades HQ, HotAir, The Daily Wire, Power Line and National Review
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
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.
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Washington Post and Political Wire
Nate Hochman / National Review:
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.
CNN:
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 …
Uri Berliner / NPR:
Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today — Resistance to nuclear power is starting to ebb around the world with support from a surprising group: environmentalists. — This change of heart spans the globe, and is being prompted by climate change …