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4:30 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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis Tries to Prove Liberals Hate Immigrants As Much As He Does, Fails … Sunday night, I sat in the ballroom of a Miami resort and watched Florida governor Ron DeSantis tell the crowd about how Texas governor Greg Abbott had been sending busloads of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. His envy was undisguised.
Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
DeSantis criticizes Democrats after sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard: ‘Their virtue signaling is a fraud’
Brooke Kushwaha / The Vineyard Gazette:
Planeloads of Venezuelan Migrants Arrive at Martha's Vineyard Airport
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.”
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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 …
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 …
Politico:
Trump warns of ‘problems’ like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted
Discussion: Raw Story
David Greenberg / New York Times:
A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and CNN
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.
Discussion: Wide World of News
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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.
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Railroad Unions and Companies Reach a Tentative Deal to Avoid a Strike
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 …
Discussion: Forbes
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 …
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 …
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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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
New Trump Attorney Negotiated $3 Million Advance Payment for Work
Discussion: Political Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate delays same-sex marriage vote until after midterms  —  A bipartisan group of senators trying to pass same-sex marriage protection legislation on Thursday pushed a vote until after the election, a move they say increases their chances of success but avoids forcing the GOP on record before the midterms.
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:   Highest Number in US History: Border Patrol Logs 8,000 Migrants Entering US Each Day
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets jail term  —  A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.  —  Robert Keith Packer, 57 …
Discussion: The Forward
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt to be sentenced
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Punchbowl News:
9/15/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … THESE COMMENTS CAME DURING A DINNER AT TRATTORIA ALBERTO, AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT ON CAPITOL HILL FREQUENTED BY LAWMAKERS FROM BOTH PARTIES.  SENATORS AT THE DINNER INCLUDED CHRIS COONS OF DELAWARE, MARK KELLY OF ARIZONA, CHRIS VAN HOLLEN OF MARYLAND …
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:   At event for Don Bolduc, Mike Flynn says “we're being marched” to Nazi death camps
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
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 …
 
 
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
How True the Vote cultivated relationships with QAnon influencers to target an election software company and serve as a pipeline to law enforcement
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 National Review
Politico:
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Pro-Trump Pundit Accused of Pocketing $200K Meant for Ukraine Body Armor
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
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