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2:40 PM ET, September 15, 2022

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Eve Zuckoff / NPR:
Florida flies dozens of migrants to Martha's Vineyard  —  MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. — About 50 migrants arrived by plane in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Wednesday on a flight paid for by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and that originated in San Antonio, Texas.  —  The migrants touched down at about 3:15 p.m. local time.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ron DeSantis Has Learned Trump's Most Important Insight  —  For Christian nationalists, the cruelty is the point.  —  Tonight on the TNB livestream I'm going to spend the entire show talking about Ukraine and Russia with Cathy Young and Eric Edelman.  —  Not going to lie: This isn't going to be the sexiest conversation ever.
New York Times:
Florida Flies 2 Planeloads of Migrants to Martha's Vineyard  —  The moneyed summer resort became an unlikely arena in the fight over illegal immigration.  Republican states have bused thousands of migrants to New York and Washington.  —  About 50 migrants unexpectedly arrived by plane …
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Ron DeSantis sends two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
DeSantis' office takes credit for sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard
CNN:
Exclusive: Mark Meadows complied with DOJ subpoena in January 6 probe  —  Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has complied with a subpoena from the Justice Department's investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN …
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Politico:
Trump warns of ‘problems’ like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted  —  Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the nation would face “problems ... the likes of which perhaps we've never seen” if he is indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office …
Discussion: Raw Story
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Trump warns of ‘big problems’ if indicted, says he'd still run for office  —  Former president Donald Trump warned that if he were indicted for mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we've never seen before.”
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Biden says a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike  —  President Biden said early Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Railroad Unions and Companies Reach a Tentative Deal to Avoid a Strike
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump chief of staff used book on president's mental health as guide  —  John Kelly secretly consulted The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, according to new book by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser  —  Donald Trump's White House chief of staff secretly bought a book in which 27 mental health professionals warned …
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David Greenberg / New York Times:
A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House
Discussion: Mediaite and CNN
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Cosmetics Billionaire Convinced Trump That the U.S. Should Buy Greenland
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Blake Masters Wants to Fire All Generals and Replace Them With Conservatives  —  Masters explicitly called for a wholesale firing of the generals at least seven times between August 2021 and March 2022.  —  Cameron Joseph  —  WASHINGTON, US  —  Blake Masters, the Republican nominee …
Fox News:
2 migrant buses arrive outside Vice President Kamala Harris' Naval Observatory residence in DC  —  Between 75 and 100 migrants who were picked up in Eagle Pass, Texas, were sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott  —  Migrants arriving outside Vice President Kamala Harris' residence say border open
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:   Highest Number in US History: Border Patrol Logs 8,000 Migrants Entering US Each Day
Sydney Kalich / NewsNation:
Migrant buses arrive outside VP Harris' home
Discussion: Fox News and The Dispatch
Washington Post:
Georgia 2020 election inquiry may lead to prison sentences, prosecutor says  —  Fulton County district attorney says her team has received allegations that serious crimes were committed  —  ATLANTA — The prosecutor investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to challenge …
Associated Press:
Biden approval rises sharply ahead of midterms: AP-NORC poll  —  President Joe Biden's popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
At event for Don Bolduc, Mike Flynn says “we're being marched” to Nazi death camps  —  Flynn claims that unlike Holocaust victims who stood there and allowed “these people to do that to them,” he “would have rather attacked that machine gun nest”  —  During an event for Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc …
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New York Times:
NY Attorney General May Sue Trump After Rejecting Settlement Offer  —  The attorney general, Letitia James, is also considering suing at least one of the former president's adult children as part of her Trump Organization inquiry.  —  The New York attorney general's office has rebuffed …
Michael Colborne / The Guardian:
Putin is banking on his friends in the Balkans to help sustain his bloody war in Ukraine  —  United in a sense of victimhood, Russia has an ally in far-right Serbian groups.  The west underestimates them at its peril  —  work at the investigative journalism website Bellingcat …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Putin's Headed Toward Defeat in Ukraine. The Only Question Is How Bad a Loser He'll Be.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump's Save America paid $3 million to cover top lawyer's legal work  —  Donald Trump's outside spending arm has paid $3 million to cover attorney Chris Kise's legal work representing the former president, according to three people familiar with the arrangement.
Politico:
‘Every day feels like something else is piling on’: Trump world bears down  —  When former President Donald Trump stepped off his private jet in the Washington, D.C., area on Sunday night, he set off a wave of social media hysteria.  —  Among the theories: He was turning himself …
CNN:
Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins to Anchor New CNN Morning Show  —  Network To Debut Reimagined Morning News Program Later This Year  —  CNN Worldwide Chairman and CEO Chris Licht announced today co-anchors for the network's reimagined morning show, his first major programming move since taking …
Jesse Singal / Common Sense:
How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham  —  A Brigham Young University paper scooped the New York Times.  All the students did was practice basic journalism.  —  Writes Singal-Minded  · Subscribe  —  Last month, Rachel Richardson—the only black starter on the women's volleyball team …
Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
Why Can't the Left Take the W?  —  I have suggested — here and elsewhere — that leftists are gifted losers.  Reared on a diet of defeat, we easily metabolize each loss into renewed expressions of resolve.  When we are vanquished, we rise again.  We are talented in the art of self-soothing.
The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Pundit Accused of Pocketing $200K Meant for Ukraine Body Armor  —  In a lawsuit filed in Florida, conservative pundit John Cardillo is accused of making off with nearly $200,000 meant to purchase body armor for Ukrainian police officers.  —  Pro-Trump pundit John Cardillo is known …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia … A former high-level FBI agent who was involved in the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 election …
Discussion: HotAir and New York Post
 
 
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Calif. governor rents billboards in red states to tout abortion access
Discussion: CBS News and LifeNews.com
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Overturning Roe remains as unpopular as ever — despite GOP hopes
Discussion: Fox News
Audrey McCabe / Media Matters for America:
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough spins Lindsey Graham's federal abortion ban as a “compromise”
Discussion: Politico, Newsweek and ABC News
Washington Post:
DHS watchdog criticized in Jan. 6 investigation hopes for long tenure
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Shifts Battery Strategy as It Seeks U.S. Tax Credits
Discussion: The Verge
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate delays same-sex marriage vote until after midterms
Discussion: CNN and Just The News
Politico:
How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Hispanic Texans may now be the state's largest demographic group, new census data shows
The Dispatch:
Partisanship Over Policy at the Heritage Foundation
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple, Amazon Passed on LIV Golf Media Rights
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Chuck Schumer says Nancy Pelosi is ‘in trouble,’ declares Democrats will lose House: report
Sarah Newey / Telegraph:
Major Covid report suggests virus could have leaked from a US lab
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt to be sentenced
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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