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Zach Everson / Forbes:
Checks & Imbalances: See Who Else Has Visited Trump's Mar-A-Lago Office — Today we report on Steve Bannon's latest indictment, look at crypto legislation and catch up with Lev Parnas. — Donald Trump stored classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, including in his office, according to recent court filings by the Justice Department.
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NBC News:
Texas woman arrested on charges she made death threats to judge in Mar-a-Lago documents case — A Texas woman has been arrested for allegedly making death threats against Aileen Cannon, the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's court fight against the Justice Department …
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CNBC
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Latest Court Filing Attempts Legal Sleight of Hand — Trump's lawyers are arguing in the classified documents saga that he had the power to declassify those documents, but not necessarily that he did. — For weeks, former President Donald Trump has been raving on social media …
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emptywheel and Raw Story
Politico:
Trump fights back against DOJ in dispute over classified records
Trump fights back against DOJ in dispute over classified records
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Above the Law, Talking Points Memo, The Mahablog, National Review, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit and Just The News
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Dispute Classified Status of Seized Mar-a-Lago Documents
Trump Lawyers Dispute Classified Status of Seized Mar-a-Lago Documents
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Insider, Reuters, Voice of America, Roll Call, CBS News and The Federalist
Washington Post:
Trump lawyers suggest seized Mar-a-Lago documents may not be classified
Trump lawyers suggest seized Mar-a-Lago documents may not be classified
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The Guardian, Townhall, Reason, USA Today, Associated Press, ABC News, CNN, CNBC, Insider, PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, WTOP News, CBS News, Rolling Stone and Just The News
New York Times:
Trump Asks Judge to Keep Blocking F.B.I. From Working With Seized Classified Files
Trump Asks Judge to Keep Blocking F.B.I. From Working With Seized Classified Files
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Bloomberg, Washington Post and NewsNation
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump asks judge to block DOJ from viewing classified records seized from Mar-a-Lago
Trump asks judge to block DOJ from viewing classified records seized from Mar-a-Lago
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Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Fox News, Washington Times, Bloomberg and CNN
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Yes, the Polling Warning Signs Are Flashing Again — Democrats are polling well in exactly the places where surveys missed most in 2020. — Ahead of the last presidential election, we created a website tracking the latest polls — internally, we called it a “polling diary.”
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New York Magazine, HotAir, Mediaite, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Townhall, RedState and Althouse
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Exclusive: 'I'm just not going to leave': New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White House — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over …
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New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, New York Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Twitchy, The Wrap, al.com, FOX8 WGHP, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, Insider, PoliticusUSA, HuffPost, The Hill, Boing Boing, Talking Points Memo and Althouse
Jed Graham / Investor's Business Daily:
Biden Approval Rating Gets Big Bounce From Young Americans — President Joe Biden's approval rating bounced higher over the past month, helped by lower gas prices and a series of legislative wins, a new IBD/TIPP Poll finds. Younger Americans, in particular, rallied around Biden following approval …
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Progress Pond and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Ukraine makes more gains, pushes back to border in places — Ukrainian troops reclaimed more territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat from occupied land.
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Raw Story, BBC, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, The Hill, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Western Journal, The Guardian, CNBC, The Moscow Times, UPI, New Statesman, Cyprus Mail, USA Today, NewsNation, Reuters, Just The News, Wide World of News and Vox, more at Techmeme »
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russia's Retreat in Ukraine Pokes Holes in Putin's Projection of Force
Russia's Retreat in Ukraine Pokes Holes in Putin's Projection of Force
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The Bulwark, France 24, Insider, The Western Journal, The Sun, Bloomberg, Just The News, The Guardian, HotAir, CNN, Politico, Wall Street Journal and Al Jazeera
Axios:
Two Americas Index: Democracy deniers … - They're also a reality check against President Biden's speech that portrayed threats to democracy as solely driven by Republican supporters of former President Trump who refuse to accept that he lost the 2020 election.
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The Hill, Commentary Magazine, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Guardian and Election Law Blog
Washington Post:
John Fetterman needs to debate more than once for U.S. Senate — Debates about debates between candidates running for office are tedious, as barbs are traded over the number of matchups, the timing, the ground rules. But the one being played out in Pennsylvania between Lt. Gov. John Fetterman …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News and The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Philippe Naughton / The Daily Beast:
Man Murdered Wife, Shot Daughter After Being Sucked Down ‘Q Rabbit Hole,’ Family Confirms — Igor and Tina Lanis were “loving and happy people” until Trump lost the 2020 election. “My Qdad snapped and killed my family this morning,” his daughter posted on Reddit.
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Kara Berg / Detroit News:
Police fatally shoot Walled Lake man who allegedly killed wife, shot daughter
Police fatally shoot Walled Lake man who allegedly killed wife, shot daughter
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Detroit Metro Times, Rolling Stone and New York Post
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Let's hope this ruling against ‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder has a ripple effect — For those of us who are tired of waiting for prosecutors to hold accountable Republican-elected officials who participated in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a New Mexico judge last week provided …
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Dawn Ennis / Forbes:
Ex-Trans Activist Chloe Cole In Her Own Words: 'I'm Autistic' — Note: A version of this report first appeared in The Los Angeles Blade. Following publication, activist Chloe Cole tweeted that she is autistic, as both an explanation for why she sometimes struggles with her responses …
Washington Post:
Trump backers flood election offices with requests as 2022 vote nears — The requests for records related to the 2020 election have complicated preparations for November, which some officials say may be the point — Supporters of former president Donald Trump have swamped local election offices across …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
CNN:
Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline — Now, he's detailing his main concern with Twitter — Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere …
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's Surprise Visit To Washington D.C Sparks Arrest Speculation — Donald Trump made a surprise and unannounced visit to Washington D.C. on Sunday, prompting speculation and rumors about the reason for his trip. — A video of Trump arriving at Dulles Airport in Virginia …
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Washington Examiner, The Western Journal, Human Events, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
New York Magazine:
The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden's Laptop — The most invasive data breach imaginable is a political scandal Democrats can't just wish away. — Imagine the entirety of your digital existence plotted out before you: your accounts and passwords; your avatars; your contacts …
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Althouse
Haley BeMiller / The Columbus Dispatch:
Tim Ryan, J.D. Vance neck and neck in new Ohio Senate poll — With less than two months to go before Election Day, Ohio's U.S. Senate race is far from settled. — A USA TODAY Network Ohio/Suffolk University poll released Monday showed J.D. Vance and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan virtually tied …
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Fox News, The Hill and Political⚡Charge
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The weirdest campaign in the country is happening in Pennsylvania — For as long as there have been campaigns, they have worked like this: You run to appeal to your party's base to win the primary and then, with that task done, you immediately begin to round off the hard edges of your policies …
Oliver Wright / The Times:
Biden can bring his Beast — but other dignitaries face taking bus … President Biden will have dispensation to take his armoured Beast to Westminster Abbey for the Queen's funeral next week, while lesser world leaders will have to make do with a shared bus.
Steve Neavling / News & Views, Detroit Metro Times:
Prominent Republicans join coalition to support Whitmer for reelection — The formation of the group comes as the Michigan Republican Party struggles to unify ahead of the November election … More than 150 Michigan Republicans banded together to launch a group supporting …
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Detroit Metro Times and Blue Virginia
Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Biden pushes efforts to end cancer on 60th anniversary of JFK's ‘moonshot’ speech — The White House outlined several policy moves surrounding the initiative. — President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at the new Boston Logan Terminal in Boston, Sept. 12, 2022.
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Politico
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Supreme Court Is Vulnerable on Abortion — Thanks to ‘Dobbs,’ a majority of Americans are ready to put limits on its power. — Abortion rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 24, 2022. — Perhaps the biggest obstacle to Supreme Court reform …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balkinization
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Democrats spend tens of millions amplifying far-right candidates in nine states — The practice by some campaigns and outside groups this year has divided Democrats, with some in the party complaining that such tactics are risky and could result in the election of candidates who pose serious threats to democracy.
James Barragán / The Texas Tribune:
Along the Texas-Mexico border, GOP enthusiasm mounts as Democrats defect over immigration concerns — Among voters near the Texas-Mexico border, immigration and border security are a leading cause for flipping from Democrat to Republican — SANDERSON — Dale Lynn Carruthers had always been a Democrat.