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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Politico's new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media — Mathias Döpfner has global ambitions for what he calls a more ‘nonpartisan’ kind of journalism — even as his own politics are hard to pin down — BERLIN — Months after his company bought Politico …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Politico's New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump's Re-Election — GOD ALMIGHTY — The new German owner of Politico sent an email to his closest executives asking if they should meet up to pray for Donald Trump's re-election, according to a report.
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CNN:
Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach — A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices …
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Washington Post:
Election deniers repeatedly visited Ga. county office at center of criminal probe, video shows — Technology consultants who sought evidence that Donald Trump's 2020 defeat was fraudulent made multiple visits to a county elections office in rural Georgia in the weeks after an alleged post-election breach …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Hackwhackers
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge's Intervention in Trump Inquiry — A ruling by a judge appointed by former President Donald J. Trump surprised specialists and could slow the documents investigation. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge's extraordinary decision on Monday to interject …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Unpacking Judge Cannon's Order for a Special Master in Trump Search — I had a column on Monday analyzing Judge Aileen Cannon's order, earlier in the day, granting former president Trump's petition for a special master to review materials the government seized from Mar-a-Lago last month pursuant to a search warrant.
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Federalist and Slate
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Russia Is Buying North Korean Artillery, According to U.S. Intelligence — Moscow's purchase of millions of shells and rockets from North Korea is a sign that global sanctions have hampered the Russian military's supply lines. — WASHINGTON — Russia is buying millions of artillery shells …
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CNN, The Hill, Washington Post, Politico, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, National Review, UPI, Just Security, The Guardian and Мед …
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Politico:
The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke
The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke
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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
US: Russia to buy rockets, artillery shells from North Korea
US: Russia to buy rockets, artillery shells from North Korea
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Washington Free Beacon, Voice of America, Fox News, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Sky News Australia and Al Jazeera
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Beneath campaign nastiness, legitimate concerns about Fetterman's health — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke he suffered in May. His campaign has acknowledged his obvious struggles with “auditory processing” …
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Mediaite, RedState, National Review and The Daily Caller
FiveThirtyEight:
More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall — From the Carolinas to California, Montana to Florida, election denialism has spread across the country. Candidates who support former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit — The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims. — The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air.
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
Natalie Allison / Politico:
'They're getting killed among women': Skeptical female voters stand in way of GOP Senate — Republicans this election cycle thought they had finally achieved a breakthrough with suburban women after years of losing support. — Now, as the primary season has all but ended …
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New York Magazine, Bloomberg, The Hill, Raw Story, The Dispatch and New York Times
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Past Pentagon leaders warn of strains on civilian-military relations — The Pentagon's former defense secretaries and top generals warned Tuesday that political polarization and other societal strains are creating an “exceptionally challenging” environment for maintaining …
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Jason Hancock / Missouri Independent:
Missouri secretary of state throws support behind controversial election theory — Jay Ashcroft filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court advocating the so-called ‘independent state legislature doctrine’ — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has lined up behind …
Politico:
Democrats weigh same-sex marriage vote in pre-election sprint — Susan Collins believes the Senate is on the cusp of enshrining same-sex marriage protections. And she doesn't want to wait until after the election. — “My impression is that the majority leader is eager to put this bill …
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Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Below average, Joe: Photos show small crowd at Biden and Fetterman Labor Day rally — A small group of supporters gathered in Pennsylvania for a rally hosted by President Joe Biden and Senate candidate John Fetterman on Monday as the president sought to seize on recent party wins to gain momentum ahead of the November election.
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CNBC:
Deal partner for Trump's Truth Social fails to get backing for SPAC extension: Reuters, citing sources — The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with Donald Trump's social media company failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal …
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The Guardian, National Memo and Forbes
San Diego Union-Tribune:
‘Fat Leonard,’ set to finally be sentenced in long-running Navy bribery scheme, is on the lam — Leonard Francis, who has been under house arrest in San Diego for years, cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet on Sunday — The military contractor known as “Fat Leonard,” who has been under house arrest …
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Task & Purpose, Associated Press, CNN, CBS News, Times of San Diego, Raw Story and KTLA
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
What's Causing Black Flight? — Where did all the Black people go? If you live in an urban neighborhood and don't spend your free time looking at the U.S. census, you might ask yourself this question, puzzled by the dissonance between the evidence of your eyes and your vague sense that most Black people live in cities, right?
The Daily Beast:
Rich Dems Worried About Trump Are Buying Second Citizenships — Worried about a potential return of Donald Trump, abortion rights, and the general state of the country, wealthy Democrats are looking to buy their way out. Here's how it works. — For years, David Lesperance …
Miru / CREW:
Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection — SANTA FE — A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin's participation …
The Daily Beast:
Why Trump Refused to Make Giuliani His Secretary of State — Andrew Kirtzman, author of “Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor,” gives us a peek into Trump and Rudy's close relationship with anecdotes that don't disappoint. — Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani's close …
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