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5:10 PM ET, September 2, 2022

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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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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.
Discussion: NewsNation and Rolling Stone
Washington Post:
Deep inside bustling Mar-a-Lago, a storage room where secrets were stashed  —  FBI agents were directed to windowless storage room when they came looking for classified documents in June  —  The ornate centerpiece of the historic Mar-a-Lago estate that Donald Trump bought for cheap in 1985 is an expansive …
Discussion: Washington Times
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Empty folders among items found in FBI search of Trump home
Discussion: Raw Story and NBC News
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Déjà Vu? DOJ's ‘Classified Documents’ Narrative Feels Like A Get-Trump Trick We've Seen Before
Discussion: CBS News and Insider
Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Empty folders with classified banners are among the items seized from Mar-a-Lago
Wall Street Journal:
Court Releases Detailed FBI Inventory of Material Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
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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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
As Biden warned about democracy's collapse, TV networks aired reruns  —  While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more ‘political’ than newsworthy for live coverage.  —  While President Biden warned the nation about threats …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Figuring out how many ‘MAGA Republicans’ there actually are  —  There are two views of who President Biden was excoriating in his speech on Thursday night.  —  To Biden and his team, the group was clearly delineated: “MAGA Republicans,” a group of Americans who support former president Donald Trump …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Was Biden right? Or was Biden wrong? The national media won't say
Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
'I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country': Now Biden walks BACK his attacks on MAGA Republicans …
The White House:
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE CONTINUED BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION
Washington Post:
Biden warns U.S. faces powerful threat from anti-democratic forces
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Heckler chants ‘F-k Joe Biden’ throughout primetime speech
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Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:   Trump's Mar-a-Lago records were ethically indefensible
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Mar-a-Lago search inventory shows documents marked as classified mixed with clothes, gifts, press clippings
Discussion: East Bay Times
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.
Discussion: National Review
Politico:
Climate chief Gina McCarthy leaving White House as John Podesta returns  —  Gina McCarthy, President Joe Biden's top domestic climate adviser, will leave the White House on Sept. 16, just weeks after Congress passed the largest-ever U.S. law to tackle climate change — legislation that her office helped craft.
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
John Podesta to Oversee $370 Billion in U.S. Climate Spending
Discussion: HuffPost, Bloomberg and The Hill
The White House:
President Biden Announces Senior Clean Energy and Climate Team
Discussion: Forbes and The Daily Caller
Natalie Schachar / New York Times:
Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity's Dark Side, Dies at 81  —  Her book “Nickel and Dimed,” an undercover account of the indignities of being a low-wage worker in the United States, is considered a classic in social justice literature.  —  It was a casual meeting.
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
The Most Alarming Case On The Supreme Court's Docket You Haven't Heard Of  —  There's a sleeper case on the Supreme Court's docket that could blow a gaping hole in the social safety net and give states leeway to neglect or end care for tens of millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
Discussion: Alternet.org
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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.
Discussion: National Review, Raw Story and Mediaite
Zachary Zane / Men's Health:
Sexplain It: I Don't Care About My Partners' Gender.  I Just Want Them to Have a Vagina.  —  “Does that make me pansexual?  My whole life, I've identified as a straight man.” … Dear Sexplain It,  —  MORE FROM MEN'S HEALTH  —  If I'm sexually attracted to people AFAB [assigned female at birth] …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data on Website  —  Tax agency says error led to posting about some taxpayers with IRAs  —  WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Just The News
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. adds solid 315,000 jobs in August  —  America had another month of solid job gains: The economy added 315,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% as more workers entered the labor force, the government said on Friday. … - Job growth eased from July's breakneck pace …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
With Midterms Looming, McConnell's Woes Pile Up  —  The minority leader who takes pride in his status as the “grim reaper” of his rivals' agenda has allowed Democrats to claim policy victories as his party's hopes of reclaiming the Senate dim.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky …
Discussion: HotAir
NBC News:
Anti-trans stalkers at Kiwi Farms are chasing one victim around the world.  Their list of targets is growing.  —  A trans streamer and a Republican congresswoman were targeted at their homes in the last month.  Experts warn this is just the beginning.  —  Kiwi Farms is an internet message board known …
Discussion: Reduxx and CBS News
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.
 
 
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