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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, Townhall and MSNBC
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
Discussion: WOOD-TV and NewsNation
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Records May Have Been Moved to Obstruct Probe, DOJ Says
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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David Cohen / Politico:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's final leader, dies
The White House:
Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev
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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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 …
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.
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Mediaite
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2022: Walker Holds Two-Point Lead Over Warnock in Tight Senate Race; Kemp Leads Abrams by Four
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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Madison Fernandez / Politico:   Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid
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 …
Discussion: NPR
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:   Fox News stars questioned by election tech company in defamation case
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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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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Chaya Raichik / Human Events:
LIBS OF TIKTOK: Mainstream media isn't mad about gender surgeries on teens, they're mad you found out  —  Two weeks ago you may have seen a lot of news segments surrounding Boston Children's Hospital.  Deleted videos and archived web pages pointed to the fact that they were providing …
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Ari Drennen / Media Matters for America:
Libs of TikTok vows to continue targeting hospitals after Twitter suspension for hateful conduct
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Truth Social Android app not approved on Google Play Store  —  Former U.S. President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social has not yet been approved for distribution on Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Play Store due to insufficient content moderation, according to a Google spokesperson on Tuesday.
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Woke Up and Went on a 60-Post, QAnon-Fueled Social Media Spree
NBC News:
Trump shares barrage of QAnon content and other conspiracy theories on his social media platform
Discussion: Raw Story, MSNBC and Mediaite
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Trust linked to Gavin Newsom's in-laws made contribution to DeSantis PAC  —  A family trust run by Kenneth Siebel made a $5,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC, records show  —  Ron DeSantis: Charlie Crist put his foot in his mouth  —  EXCLUSIVE: Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom …
Laina G. Stebbins / Michigan Advance:
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.
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Overview: GOP Control No Longer a Foregone Conclusion  —  Three months ago, it looked like a category five hurricane was heading for President Biden and House Democrats clinging to a flimsy 221-214 seat edge.  Today, not only has it weakened to a tropical depression …
Discussion: New York Post
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Homophobic Creep Threatens to Kill Eric Swalwell at His Office  —  PHONED IN  —  A staffer for California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) fielded a threatening call Tuesday when a man claimed he was en route to the lawmaker's office with an assault rifle to kill him.
Discussion: Raw Story
Howard Fischer / Arizona Daily Star:
Kelli Ward: Arizona GOP at risk if personal phone records released  —  PHOENIX — If a federal judge lets the Jan. 6 Committee access Kelli Ward's phone records it will endanger not only her rights, but those of the entire Arizona Republican Party, her lawyer says.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
 
 
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