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 …

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 …

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

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.

Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion  —  The one time I saw Mikhail Gorbachev in public was on November 9, 2014.  I can pin the day down because it was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  We were in a very large, very crowded Berlin reception room …

Save Our Political System: Impeach and Convict Joe Biden  —  In this country, Congress makes the laws - and it must reassert this authority.  —  If we keep doing what we're doing, we'll keep getting what we get.  To avoid getting what we're increasingly likely to get, Congress should impeach and convict President Biden.

‘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.

West Point Has 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 at West Point …

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 …

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.

Performing Punditry  —  My Shadi Hamid Problem—And Yours.  —  I took a poll on Twitter asking whether I should write about the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev or my beef with Atlantic writer and Brookings fellow Shadi Hamid.  My followers indicated they'd rather read about Gorbachev than hear me gripe …

Oberlin's Revenge Mania: College Finally Runs Out of Appeals in Campaign Against Family-Owned Bakery  —  The long and vengeful campaign of Oberlin College against a small family-owned grocery has come to an end at the cost of a breathtaking $36 million for defamation.

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 …

What if Trump's pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?  —  Some tall tales have been raised by former president Donald Trump and his apologists to explain the presence of classified government documents among Trump's things at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.

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.

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 …