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 …

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.

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

Conservative Lawyer a Likely Target in Atlanta Trump Investigation, His Lawyer Says  —  John Eastman, who developed strategies to block certification of the 2020 election, appeared before a grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday.  —  ATLANTA — John Eastman, the lawyer who developed strategies …

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.

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 …

‘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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gorbachev's reputation rests on the world's amnesia  —  Failing upward into the world's gratitude, Mikhail Gorbachev became a hero by precipitating the liquidation of the political system he had tried to preserve with reforms.  He is remembered as a visionary because he was not clear-sighted …