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Washington Post:
Material on foreign nation's nuclear capabilities seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago — Some seized documents were so closely held, only the president, a Cabinet-level or near-Cabinet level official could authorize others to know — A document describing a foreign government's military defenses …
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Andrew Weissmann / The Atlantic:
A Ruling Untethered to the Law — One of the most dispiriting aspects of the decision yesterday by Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon—which granted former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review the evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI …
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Washington Post, Slate, The Mahablog, FIRST DRAFT, The Daily Beast and Talking Points Memo
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Why Trump's FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years — Trump Judge Aileen Cannon's order is egregiously wrong and could be overturned on appeal. But it helps Trump run out the clock. — Judge Aileen Cannon's order suspending one of the Justice Department's criminal investigations …
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New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, WCDC-TV, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, The Hill, Arizona Mirror and Vanity Fair
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Unpacking Judge Cannon's Order for a Special Master in Trump Search
Unpacking Judge Cannon's Order for a Special Master in Trump Search
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Politico, Washington Examiner, The New Neo, Slate, The Federalist, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Little Green Footballs
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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Occupy Democrats, Washington Post, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and Axios
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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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Lawfare, The Mary Sue, UPI, Fox News, HuffPost, Robert Reich, Rolling Stone, The American Independent, BuzzFeed News, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Hill
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
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CREW, Associated Press, The Guardian, PennLive, CBS News, The Root, Bloomberg, The Daily Wire and WTOP News
Ashley Lopez / NPR:
A New Mexico judge cites insurrection in barring a county commissioner from office
A New Mexico judge cites insurrection in barring a county commissioner from office
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Source New Mexico
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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Big League Politics, Washington Post, ABC News, Insider and Talking Points Memo
Caitlin Cruz / Jezebel:
Dr. Oz on Incest: More Than First Cousin? ‘Not a Big Problem.’ — It's incredible that this man really thought he should run for office after publicly weighing in on people “smashing” their cousins, among other things. — Alerts — The problem with being a celebrity before you enter politics …
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Rolling Stone and Political Wire
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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Twitchy, Breitbart, Mediaite, Insider, Louder With Crowder, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, The Hill, IndieWire, The Daily Wire, TheBlaze, Vanity Fair, IJR, KTLA, Page Six, The Hollywood Reporter and UPI
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Stephen Neukam / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz says he will vote against bill to codify same-sex marriage protections — On an episode of his podcast Tuesday, the U.S. senator said the bill would be an attack on religious liberties. — Copy link — WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said he will vote against a bill …
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NBC News, Reuters and Talking Points Memo
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Live results: Massachusetts primaries — Can Republicans keep their hold on the gubernatorial seat in Massachusetts? It seems odd, but it's true — the GOP has had a near stranglehold on the top office of this very blue state for 30 years. Since Michael Dukakis' term ended in 1991 …
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New York Times, USA Today, Townhall, RedState, NBC Boston, UPI and CNN
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Trump Says Geoff Diehl Will Rule Massachusetts With ‘Iron Fist’ If Elected
Trump Says Geoff Diehl Will Rule Massachusetts With ‘Iron Fist’ If Elected
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Associated Press, New York Times, HotAir, Washington Post and USA Today
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.
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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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Washington Examiner, RedState, Mediaite, New York Post, Instapundit, The Hill, NBC News, National Review, CNN, Fox News, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller, WHTM-TV, HotAir, Townhall and IJR
Politico:
‘Turnout is going to be through the roof’ — READY, SET, SPEND — Labor Day marks the traditional beginning of the fall campaign, and the airwaves are about to be inundated with political ads — from today through Election Day, $1.4 billion has been booked on TV for all political races across the country, according to AdImpact.
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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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Former Pentagon Leaders Warn of a Dangerous Era — The challenge to the 2020 election result has helped create “an extremely adverse environment,” former defense secretaries and generals said in an open letter. — WASHINGTON — The challenge to a peaceful transfer of power …
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Raw Story
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Fox News:
White House press secretary grilled on tweet calling 2016 election ‘stolen’ — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Peter Doocy's question was ‘ridiculous’ — Fox News reporter Peter Doocy confronted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre with her own past tweets …
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Washington Post, National Review, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, New York Post, The Daily Wire, RedState and The Hill
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden's Cabinet hasn't changed, a sharp break from Trump
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 …
Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Rape, incest exceptions out of South Carolina abortion bill — Abortion South Carolina — A South Carolina Senate committee voted Tuesday to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban setting up a showdown among Republicans wary of passing such a restrictive bill.
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CNN, Associated Press, Politico and The Daily Caller
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
A Democratic president who does not back down changes everything — After “The Speech,” bothsidesism may be a sign of hope. — On Friday, I explained why I think the president's prime-time address last week, in which he named the public's enemy in the course of becoming the people's partisan, was a BFD among BFDs.
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Townhall
John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
New CNN chief's first major hire is retired cop who recently lied about the NYPD spying on Muslims after 9/11 — John Miller has a long history of obfuscation when it comes to police misconduct. Welcome to Chris Licht's new CNN. — CNN's newest pundit is John Miller …
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Gizmodo, WTOP News, The Mary Sue and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
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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Jezebel, Balloon Juice and Althouse
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
Hurts So Good — Why are so many young women suffering from invisible illnesses? Meet the girls in a world of pain. — In July 2019, Morgan Cooper was in a hospital bed when her gastroenterologist, psychiatrist, internist, a few nurses, and her mother marched into her room.
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Unreported Truths
Politico:
GOP offers strained Trump defenses in Mar-a-Lago probe — for now — Defending the former president has put Republicans in a bind as they push the Justice Department for more clarity on why the search was deemed necessary. — It's just a bookkeeping issue. Presidents have broad declassification authority.
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The National Interest
New York Times:
It Was War. Then, a Rancher's Truce With Some Pesky Beavers Paid Off. — The ‘highly skilled environmental engineers’ can help to store precious water and rejuvenate land ravaged by climate change. Just don't dynamite their homes. — WELLS, Nev. — Horace Smith blew up a lot of beaver dams in his life.
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Balloon Juice
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 …
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Axios, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, ABC News and Althouse
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