memeorandum: Biden's Speech Had It All Backward (Lance Morrow/Wall Street Journal)

3:45 PM ET, September 5, 2022

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Judge grants Trump's request for a special master — A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to oversee all the evidence the FBI seized last month from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. — The request came amid questions over whether …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, The Mahablog, NewsNation and Fox News

Politico:

Judge orders halt to DOJ review of documents seized from Trump — A federal judge on Monday ordered a halt to the Justice Department's review of materials seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, describing a threat to institutions and the risk of media leaks that could cause harm to Trump.

Discussion: Rolling Stone and Common Dreams

Perry Stein / Washington Post:

Judge grants Trump request for special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents — Rulings says prosecutors can't use seized documents in criminal probe until they are examined by outside expert — A federal judge will appoint a special master to sift through nearly 13,000 documents and items …

Discussion: New York Times, Fox News, Associated Press, WELCOME TO PMCARPENTER.COM, Fortune, Little Green Footballs, UPI and Washington Times

Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:

Judge grants Trump's request to appoint special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents — A federal judge on Monday granted former President Trump's request to appoint an independent special master to review materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.

Discussion: Reuters, CNBC, USA Today, NPR, CBS News, ABC News, Insider, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, CNN, Associated Press, Townhall, Raw Story, New York Post and Axios

Fox News:
Federal judge orders appointment of special master to review seized Trump records

Discussion: Twitchy

Max Seddon / Financial Times:

Russia switches off Europe's main gas pipeline until sanctions are lifted — Gazprom previously said it was halting flows through Nord Stream 1 because of a technical fault — Russia's gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will not resume in full until the “collective west” …

Discussion: Reuters, The Guardian, Forbes and Raw Story

Léonie Chao-Fong / The Guardian:
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine says it has pushed Russian forces back near Kramatorsk; last Zaporizhzhia reactor disconnected after Russian shelling - as it happened

Discussion: UPI

ABC News:
Exclusive: Zelenskyy tells David Muir ‘Russians using Zaporizhzhia as nuclear weapon’

Discussion: Common Dreams and The Hill

Associated Press:

Red wave crashing? GOP momentum slips as fall sprint begins — The possibility of a great red wave still looms. But as the 2022 midterm elections enter their final two-month sprint, leading Republicans concede that their party's advantage may be slipping even as Democrats confront …

Discussion: City Journal, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Guardian

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: NRCC chief to GOP: 'Don't be measuring the drapes' — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — Happy Labor Day! It's quiet on the news front, so rest up and get ready for the fall: Election Day is nine weeks from tomorrow.

Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Climate-Bill Win Offers Fresh Chance to Woo Midterm Voters

Discussion: Politico, IJR, The Hill, Associated Press and New York Magazine

Yaniv Kubovich / Haaretz:

Israeli Military Admits ‘Highly Probable’ Soldier Mistakenly Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh — An Israeli soldier under fire likely erroneously targeted Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, misidentifying her as an armed militant, according to an army probe ■ …

Discussion: Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone and Mediaite

Barak Ravid / Axios:
Israeli investigation finds Shireen Abu Akleh likely killed by unintentional IDF fire

Discussion: CNN, Haaretz, UPI, Raw Story, Fox News, Financial Times and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »

Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:

Why I've stopped fearing America is headed for civil war — Thomas E. Ricks's latest book, “Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968,” will be published in October. — Five years ago I began to worry about a new American civil war breaking out.

Esther Webber / Politico:

Liz Truss to be Britain's next prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak — LONDON — Liz Truss will be the next prime minister of the U.K. after comfortably seeing off rival Rishi Sunak in the race to lead the governing Conservative Party. — Truss, currently the U.K's foreign secretary …

Discussion: The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, National Review and The Hollywood Reporter

Nathan Williams / BBC:
Liz Truss to be new UK prime minister

Discussion: Washington Post, The Independent, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Fortune, Sputnik News, The Indian Express, Townhall and Samizdata

David Mchugh / Associated Press:

OPEC+ cuts oil supplies to the world as prices fall — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, cut their supplies to the global economy by 100,000 barrels per day, underlining their unhappiness with crude prices that have sagged because of recession fears.

Discussion: Raw Story

Miranda Devine / New York Post:

FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden — MORE FROM: — Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent alleged to have interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden, was assigned by the Washington Field Office as “point man” …

Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Wire and Carrie's Gazebo

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Trump Investigations Face a Dilemma Before the Midterm Elections — Justice Department officials are debating how an unwritten rule should affect the criminal investigations into Jan. 6 and the former president's handling of sensitive documents. — WASHINGTON — As the midterm elections near …

Discussion: Raw Story

Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:

How Biden could help U.S. reach climate goals on his own — A new report published Monday outlines a slew of executive actions the Biden administration could take to combat climate change. — While the Inflation Reduction Act will help make a significant cut in U.S. emissions …

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:

Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, new book says — New York Times reporter David Enrich also says White House counsel Donald McGahn once called senior Trump aides ‘morons’ — Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer he owed $2m with a deed to a horse.

Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story

Karen Gilchrist / CNBC:

Trump 2024 could be one of the ‘greatest political comebacks in American history,’ says Sen. Lindsey Graham — U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Saturday that former President Donald Trump stands a “pretty good chance” of winning the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Republicans Seek Path for Constitutional Convention — A new book by a former Democratic senator warns of the risks of allowing states to call for a convention. Some in the G.O.P. see it as the only way to rein in the federal government. — WASHINGTON — Representative Jodey Arrington …

Discussion: Reason, HotAir and Insider

Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate

Discussion: Washington Examiner, On the Level, National Review, RedState, The Daily Wire, UPI and Inside Climate News

Zachary Cohen / CNN:

Trump rally highlighting January 6 case of alleged Nazi sympathizer sparks criticism — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, on Sunday called out former President Donald Trump for featuring a speaker during his Saturday rally …

Discussion: HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, Townhall and Digby's Hullabaloo

Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:

British Pound Falls to Lowest Level Since 1985 as U.K. Economic Pain Mounts — Investors see increased odds that the pound will tumble below parity with the dollar, something that hasn't happened in their more than 200-year trading history — Inflation Looks Different Worldwide. Who's Getting It Right?

Discussion: The Daily Caller