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12:35 PM ET, August 31, 2022

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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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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 …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Steve Doocy Flatly Asks Why Classified Documents Were in Trump's Desk: ‘These Are the Biggest Secrets in the World!’  —  Steve Doocy asked the question that most reasonable people have following a midnight DOJ filing that revealed stunning details surrounding the search and seizure at Mar-a-Lago …
Discussion: Alternet.org, PoliticusUSA and CNN
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Garland's perilous path to prosecuting Trump  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland has a mantra when it comes to politically charged investigations: “We will follow the facts and the law, wherever they lead.”  —  But Garland's mantra won't get him the answers he wants in the gargantuan decision …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
DOJ says special master in Trump case would harm national security interests
Associated Press:
Trump team may have hidden or moved classified material, DoJ says
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 …
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New York Times:
F.D.A. Authorizes Updated Covid Booster Shots, Targeting Omicron Subvariants
Discussion: Fortune and Al Jazeera
Salt Lake Tribune:
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
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
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 …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Gorbachev's reputation rests on the world's amnesia
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Marilyn Berger / New York Times:
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91
The White House:
Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
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.
Discussion: American Greatness
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: The Root and The Hill
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Madison Fernandez / Politico:   Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
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 …
Discussion: Wisdom of Crowds
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.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Our Latest Covid Poll  —  Americans on the left end of the political spectrum have become less anxious about Covid.  —  Almost six months ago, when my Morning colleagues and I released our last poll about Covid, the deep anxiety among Americans identifying as “very liberal” was one of the main findings.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Biden's midterm misdirection pitch: Gun control, weapons bans ... and get yourself an F-15?  —  Just how desperate is Joe Biden to change the narrative in the midterms?  In a cycle with inflation at 40-year highs and where American households have had their real disposable personal income shrink …
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The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on the Safer America Plan
Discussion: Washington Post, Power Line and Reason
ProPublica:
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 …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
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.
Discussion: RedState and The College Fix
 
 
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Associated Press:
New York to restrict gun carrying after Supreme Court ruling
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Wall Street Journal:
Social-Media Firms Would Have to Consider Children's Health Under Bill Passed by California Legislature
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Inside a U.S. Navy Maritime Drone Operation Aimed at Iran
Discussion: HotAir and KTVX-TV
Mira Wassef / PIX11:
Former NYPD cop claims he was canned for supporting ‘MAGA’ ideals: lawsuit
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
What if Trump's pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?
Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
Why the Biden administration stopped talking about a ‘longer and stronger’ nuclear deal with Iran
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MLB's Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Ex-Federal Prosecutor: Trump's Attorneys Need To Lawyer Up After New DOJ Filing
Laina G. Stebbins / Michigan Advance:
MIGOP restricting access to Capitol lawn for rally raises 1st Amendment issues, experts say
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Maria Bartiromo will be deposed in defamation case against Fox News
Chaya Raichik / Human Events:
LIBS OF TIKTOK: Mainstream media isn't mad about gender surgeries on teens, they're mad you found out
Discussion: Breitbart
Uri Berliner / NPR:
Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Army Grounds Entire Fleet of Chinook Helicopters