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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Trump search inventory released, reveals new details on docs — FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.
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Politico, NewsNation, Rolling Stone and Albuquerque Journal
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Empty folders among items found in FBI search of Trump home — FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.
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Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News and Raw Story
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
FBI materials seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home included 90 empty folders — Revelation raises possibility that some of government's most highly sensitive documents may still be unaccounted for — Among the items the FBI retrieved from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort this month …
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Financial Times, Insider and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
F.B.I. Found 48 Empty Folders That Had Contained Classified Documents at Trump's Home — A detailed inventory of items seized in the F.B.I.'s search of Mar-a-Lago raised the question of whether the government had fully recovered the documents or any remained missing.
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Judge unseals more detailed inventory of what FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago
Judge unseals more detailed inventory of what FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago
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NBC News, Fox News, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and Talking Points Memo
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Mar-a-Lago search inventory shows documents marked as classified mixed with clothes, gifts, press clippings
Mar-a-Lago search inventory shows documents marked as classified mixed with clothes, gifts, press clippings
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East Bay Times
Wall Street Journal:
Court Releases Detailed FBI Inventory of Material Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Court Releases Detailed FBI Inventory of Material Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
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USA Today, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Empty folders with classified banners are among the items seized from Mar-a-Lago
Empty folders with classified banners are among the items seized from Mar-a-Lago
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Washington Examiner and Just The News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
MAGA Republicans are seething with rage because Biden hit his target — Republicans are in a rage over President Biden's speech in Philadelphia, in which he flatly declared that the American democratic experiment is in serious danger due to Donald Trump and the Republicans who remain allied with his political project.
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The White House:
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE CONTINUED BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION — THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, take it. I speak to you tonight from sacred ground in America: Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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New York Times:
Full Transcript of President Biden's Speech in Philadelphia — The president described what he viewed as threats to democracy, which he said stemmed from the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and “MAGA forces.” … My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, take it.
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CNBC, The Atlantic, The Federalist, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Eschaton, Central Oregon Daily, USA Today, Just The News and CBS News
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Broadcast Networks Pass On Carrying Joe Biden's Primetime Speech — Update — UPDATE, 5 PM PT: Broadcast networks passed on carrying Joe Biden's speech in Philadelphia, as the president cast MAGA Republicans as a threat to democracy. — ABC ran Press Your Luck, CBS went with a Young Sheldon rerun and NBC with a Law & Order replay.
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Politico, jihadwatch.org, Shouting Into the Wind, The Daily Caller, Progress Report, NBC News and NewsNation
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hypocrite Biden's speech was about one thing only — trying to bait Trump
Hypocrite Biden's speech was about one thing only — trying to bait Trump
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Heckler chants ‘F-k Joe Biden’ throughout primetime speech
MSNBC:
Eugene Robinson: Biden speech was an urgent, wartime address
Eugene Robinson: Biden speech was an urgent, wartime address
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Ace of Spades HQ, Townhall and Twitchy
Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Top three takeaways from Biden's speech warning about threats to democracy
Top three takeaways from Biden's speech warning about threats to democracy
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Washington Post, Breitbart, ABC News, Townhall, Los Angeles Times and CNN
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Trump Show Is Good for Trump — and Biden
The Trump Show Is Good for Trump — and Biden
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The Hill, TIMCAST, Los Angeles Times, Metro.co.uk, Erick Erickson's Confessions …, Washington Times, CNN and National Review
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Farewell to Hot Air — Last night I got to thinking about how many posts I've written for Hot Air. I've looked at the total before but it never sticks in my mind. Big numbers seldom do. — My guess was 15,000. The reality: 36,590. That's six per day, every day. For 16 years.
Victor I. Nava / Washington Examiner:
Putin declines to honor Gorbachev with state funeral — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral and will not designate it a state funeral, the Kremlin announced on Thursday. — The Kremlin's top spokesman said that Putin's …
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Reuters, Washington Post, WTOP News, The Indian Express, Cyprus Mail, The Federalist, Al Jazeera, The Daily Caller, East Bay Times, The Daily Wire and The Guardian
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Paul Kirby / BBC:
Ravil Maganov: Russian Lukoil chief dies in ‘fall from hospital window’
Ravil Maganov: Russian Lukoil chief dies in ‘fall from hospital window’
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Anna Bower / Lawfare:
A Mar-a-Lago Showdown in Federal Court — It is 1:07 p.m. ET at the federal courthouse in Palm Beach, Florida, and it's time for the first big courtroom showdown between former President Trump and federal prosecutors over the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago. — Judge Aileen Cannon enters the courtroom …
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VICE, Outside the Beltway and CNBC
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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Scattered Pictures of the Files He Left Behind
Scattered Pictures of the Files He Left Behind
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Law & Crime
Gil Barndollar / The Atlantic:
Don't Believe the Generals — A T-shirt that was popular with veterans for much of America's nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan showed a helicopter in flight with the caption We Were Winning When I Left. U.S. generals seem to be the only ones who didn't get the joke.
Politico:
Biden climate chief Gina McCarthy to leave White House — Gina McCarthy, President Joe Biden's top domestic climate adviser, will leave the White House on Sept. 16, according to two people familiar with her plans, just weeks after Congress passed the largest-ever U.S. law to tackle climate change …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Gina McCarthy, Biden's Top Climate Adviser, to Step Down Sept. 16
Gina McCarthy, Biden's Top Climate Adviser, to Step Down Sept. 16
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The Hill
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors — Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly — Nearly 2 in 5 American adults have major regrets. — That is, they regret their college major.
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, a bright spot in the economy — A stellar 20 consecutive months of sustained job growth more than recovered the millions of jobs lost during the pandemic — The U.S. labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, hitting a 20-month streak …
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CNBC, HotAir and Wall Street Journal
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. adds solid 315,000 jobs in August
U.S. adds solid 315,000 jobs in August
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New York Times and Associated Press
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Trump Embraces Conspiracy Theories He Only Winked at Before — The former president's activity on his social network, Truth Social, openly promotes far-right and conspiratorial ideas that are usually confined to corners of the internet. — In a 24-hour period this week …
David Siders / Politico:
Why Sarah Palin's loss is a warning for the GOP — Everyone who could read a poll or a room in Alaska knew Sarah Palin was unpopular in her home state. What was jarring to Republicans about her defeat in a U.S. House race there was that so many conservatives were unwilling to vote for her, anyway.
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National Review, Raw Story and Mediaite
New York Times:
Trump's Tastes in Intelligence: Power and Leverage — President Donald J. Trump's interests during classified briefings have a new resonance amid the Justice Department's criminal investigation into his handling of sensitive documents. — WASHINGTON — As president, Donald J. Trump showed …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Biden's Catastrophic Speech — Conflating their own interests with the country's, Democrats have talked themselves into the idea that their entire agenda is synonymous with ‘democracy.’ — R — eally, who thought that was a good idea? — Leave aside the diabolical staging …
Bloomberg:
Gazprom Won't Reopen Gas Pipeline in 11th Hour Blow to Europe — Russia's Gazprom PJSC said its key gas pipeline to Europe won't reopen as planned, moving the region a step closer to blackouts, rationing and a severe recession. — The pipeline was due to reopen on Saturday after maintenance.
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Reuters and The Daily Caller
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Veterans Affairs to Provide Abortion Services for Health Dangers, Rape and Incest — The VA for the first time in its history will provide abortions at federal facilities, even in states that have outlawed the procedure — The Department of Veterans Affairs, for the first time in its history …
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NBC News, Politico, Military Times, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
There's no bad time to get a new COVID booster if you're eligible, CDC director says — Americans will now have access to updated COVID booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines Thursday night.
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CBS News, Centers for Disease Control …, Metro.co.uk, UPI, Roll Call, STAT and Washington Examiner