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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 …
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New York Times:
Judge Unseats Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6 — The ruling made Couy Griffin, a county commissioner in New Mexico, the first official in more than 100 years to be removed under the Constitution's bar on insurrectionists holding office. — WASHINGTON — A judge in New Mexico …
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CNN:
New Mexico county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder removed from elected office for role in US Capitol riot
New Mexico county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder removed from elected office for role in US Capitol riot
Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
Cowboys for Trump co-founder barred from public office over Jan. 6
Cowboys for Trump co-founder barred from public office over Jan. 6
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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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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Hackwhackers
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
Politico's New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump's Re-Election
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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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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Oz escalates attacks on Fetterman's health in hostile Pennsylvania Senate race
Oz escalates attacks on Fetterman's health in hostile Pennsylvania Senate race
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Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Below average, Joe: Photos show small crowd at Biden and Fetterman Labor Day rally
Below average, Joe: Photos show small crowd at Biden and Fetterman Labor Day rally
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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 …
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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Abby Aguirre / Vogue:
Jennifer Lawrence Talks Motherhood, Causeway, and the End of Roe v. Wade — Lawrence has no patience for the politically unengaged. “You have to be political. It's too dire. Politics are killing people.” Dior top, skirt, and belt. Photographed by Tina Barney, Vogue, October 2022.
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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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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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Bloomberg:
Big Tech's $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat — A high-profile push by Congress to rein in the nation's biggest internet companies is at risk of failing with time running out to pass major legislation ahead of midterm elections.
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Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit — Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis. “I can't just get rid of my phone,” one problem gambler says. — MS
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Winning Over the “Meh” Voter — A big reason we pay so much attention to a president's job approval rating, even in a midterm election when the president isn't on the ballot, is the significant correlation between voter opinions of a president and their vote choice in an election.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can't be saved — With the midterm elections hurtling into their final stretch, a group of Never Trumpers is pumping millions of dollars into ads aimed at defeating Republican candidates aligned with Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.
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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Anna Merlan / VICE:
Peter Thiel's Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused ‘Femtech’ Company — Evie Magazine is COVID-skeptical, transphobic, and obsessed with traditional womanhood. Now, with Thiel Capital's help, they're launching a “wellness” company based on menstrual cycles. — Anna Merlan
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Kevin Truong / The San Francisco Standard:
San Francisco Braces for Epic Commercial Real Estate Crash — Imagine a slow-moving train coming towards you. The lights are shining, the horn is blaring, but it's just far enough in the distance that the risk doesn't seem real just yet. — That's a fitting-enough analogy for the state …
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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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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Fox News, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation — A hard-nosed federal prosecutor was determined to figure out who killed the 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer. But someone with access to the case file had a different agenda
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Maria Bartiromo / Fox Business:
Pelosi seeks ambassadorship to Italy if GOP wins House majority in midterms — Biden has not yet nominated an ambassador to Italy since entering White House — Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning her next move after an expected Republican victory in November.
David Enrich / New York Times:
How Abbott Kept Sick Babies From Becoming a Scandal — Abbott's lawyers at Jones Day negotiated secret settlements and used scorched earth tactics with families whose infants fell ill after consuming powdered formula. — Early on a Saturday morning in 2013, Mark Bennett, a federal judge …