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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Days before Mar-a-Lago subpoena, Trump lawyer claimed she scoured Trump's office, closets and drawers — Just six days before the Justice Department subpoenaed to recover highly sensitive documents housed at Mar-a-Lago, one of Former President Donald Trump's attorneys scoured the estate searching …
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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The photo of classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, annotated — Perhaps the most intriguing component of the court filing submitted Tuesday night by the Justice Department did not involve legal argumentation or an articulation of the department's possible case against former president Donald Trump.
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges — Federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election to announce any charges against Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar. — The unprecedented prospect …
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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 …
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Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Are Trump's Passports the FBI's Smoking Gun?
Are Trump's Passports the FBI's Smoking Gun?
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
If It Were Anyone Else, They'd Be Prosecuted
If It Were Anyone Else, They'd Be Prosecuted
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New York Times:
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 …
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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers May Become Witnesses or Targets in Documents Investigation
Trump's Lawyers May Become Witnesses or Targets in Documents Investigation
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Associated Press:
Michigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative — A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Michigan board blocks certification of abortion rights ballot measure, throwing it to the courts
Michigan board blocks certification of abortion rights ballot measure, throwing it to the courts
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
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 …
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Washington Post:
Peter Thiel rebuffs Mitch McConnell over Senate rescue in Arizona — The Senate minority leader and the billionaire venture capitalist each say the other should be subsidizing Blake Masters in the final months of his campaign — After J.D. Vance won the Republican primary for Senate in Ohio …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Republican super PAC drops $4M in New Hampshire Senate primary
ABC News:
Pennsylvania's John Fetterman ramps back up campaign schedule with Hamptons fundraiser — The Democratic nominee regularly attacks Dr. Mehmet Oz as an elitist celebrity. — By Will McDuffieVideo by Jessie DiMartino — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee …
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
John Fetterman is ducking Dr. Oz and it might cost him
John Fetterman is ducking Dr. Oz and it might cost him
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
When Fetterman Declined to Debate, Oz Made His Stroke an Issue
When Fetterman Declined to Debate, Oz Made His Stroke an Issue
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Why Yesterday's DOJ Filing Suggests a Trump Indictment Is Coming — Former president Trump is likely to be charged with obstruction of justice and causing false statements to be made to investigators. — WORLD — The Good Loser — By THE EDITORS August 31, 2022
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Miami Herald:
Cases against arrested voters on shaky legal ground. Florida issued them voter IDs — Two weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's top election officials stood in a Broward County courtroom and announced the arrest of 20 people for voting illegally, the state's case is starting to fall apart.
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Raw Story
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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Darryl Campbell / The Verge:
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.
Karl Salzmann / Washington Free Beacon:
‘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.
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Townhall, Daily Mail, Breitbart and OutKick
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 …
Yahoo News:
Report: Drunk Russian soldiers in Kherson fired assault rifles at FSB officers in deadly incident — When Viktor Zolotov, director of the Russian National Guard, briefed his boss, President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday on the status of military operations in Ukraine, one remark in particular stood out.
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Kevin Williams / Washington Post:
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.
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
A Wisconsin ‘fake elector’ works for Ron Johnson's reelection campaign — One of Wisconsin's “fake electors” has been working as a paid staffer for Sen. Ron Johnson's reelection campaign. — Alexa Henning, a spokeswoman for Johnson, R-Wis., confirmed to NBC News the campaign's employment of Pam Travis …
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Lawrence Andrea / Journal Sentinel:
One of Wisconsin's Republican false electors is working for Ron Johnson's reelection campaign
One of Wisconsin's Republican false electors is working for Ron Johnson's reelection campaign
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Raw Story, Heartland Signal and MyNorthwest.com
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 …
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Breitbart
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Gavin McInnes Allies Believe Proud Boys Founder Faked Arrest — What once looked like an arrest now looks like a desperate bid for attention. — When Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes suddenly vanished last Thursday while recording his internet show, moments he claimed that someone had barged …
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American Prospect:
Why Obama-Era Economists Are So Mad About Student Debt Relief — It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession. — A vacant home surrounded by a chain link fence is seen in Los Angeles, February 16, 2010. — President Biden's long-awaited decision …
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Vox
Axios:
The big scrub — Republican candidates around the country are trying to disappear the hardline anti-abortion stances they took during their primaries. … - Some GOP nominees also are curbing their focus on voter-fraud conspiracies about the 2020 election and other far right or Trump-centered topics.
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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.
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