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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” …
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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 …
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Nathan Williams / BBC:
Liz Truss to be new UK prime minister — Watch: BBC News coverage as next Tory leader decided — Play video Watch: BBC News coverage as next Tory leader decided — Summary — Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest
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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 …
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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate
Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate
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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 …
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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 ■ …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It. — In 2016, Hillary Clinton warned that Donald Trump was a fool who could be baited with a tweet. This past Thursday night, in Philadelphia, Joe Biden upped the ante by asking, in effect: What idiot thing might the former president do if baited with a whole speech?
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Former GOP rep: Trump gave Democrats ‘major gift’ with speech in Pennsylvania
Former GOP rep: Trump gave Democrats ‘major gift’ with speech in Pennsylvania
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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.
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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.
Washington Post:
Suicide bomber hits Russian Embassy in Kabul, killing top diplomat — RIGA, Latvia — A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the consular section of Russia's embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing a top diplomat, a Russian security guard and four Afghans, according to Russian and Afghan officials.
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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 …
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Douglas Rushkoff / The Guardian:
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse — Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
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?
New York Times:
With Voters From Both Parties Energized, Campaigns Begin Fall Sprint — Republicans are focusing on pocketbook issues, and Democrats are emphasizing abortion rights, as Labor Day marks the start of the midterm elections' final stretch. — For two decades, midterm elections have served …
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful — We in America are regressing—now returning to the distant neanderthal past, now embracing the worst of what the 19th and 20th century had to offer. — There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon's putting a three-day pause on reviews for The Rings of Power — The new policy applies to all of Amazon's shows and movies — Amazon is reportedly putting a three-day delay on user reviews for all of its content on Prime Video, including the newly-released The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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Jake Rosenfeld / Washington Post:
Why labor unions are more popular than they've been in six decades — Today's record-low unemployment makes workers more aware of the benefits unions offer — Gallup polls have been surveying Americans' attitudes toward labor unions for nearly 90 years. Last week, the most recent Gallup survey found …
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