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12:00 AM ET, September 17, 2022

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Washington Post:
Trump team claimed boxes at Mar-a-Lago were only news clippings  —  The 2021 assertion to the National Archives vastly misrepresented the scale and variety of documents, including classified records, later recovered from Trump's property.  —  Months before National Archives officials found hundreds …
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Politico:
Justice Dept. asks appeals court to restore access to Trump raid documents  —  The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge's order blocking criminal investigators from accessing about 100 documents with national security classification markings recovered …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Justice Department asks appeals court to block Trump judge's Mar-a-Lago ruling  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to temporarily block a Trump-appointed judge's ruling that prevents it from using thousands of pages of government documents seized …
Harry Litman / Los Angeles Times:
The Mar-a-Lago judge's latest opinion is as atrocious as legal experts say it is  —  Thursday's 10-page opinion by U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon denying the government's motion for a stay in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is being savaged by commentators in terms normally reserved …
Discussion: CBS News, Insider and CNN
Wall Street Journal:   Justice Department Likely to Appeal Parts of Judge's Ruling on Documents Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
NBC News:
DeSantis sending asylum-seekers to Martha's Vineyard divides Venezuelan Americans  —  Migrants caught in border-battle crossfire in Martha's Vineyard  —  After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent two planes of mostly Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts …
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Miami Herald:
This is how much Florida has paid an aviation company to relocate ‘unauthorized aliens’  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration last week paid an aviation company $615,000 as part of a new Florida program to relocate undocumented immigrants out of the state, according to state records.
Discussion: WFLA-TV, Balloon Juice and CNN
JONATHAN TURLEY:
No, Transporting Undocumented Migrants to Martha's Vineyard is Not “Literally Human Trafficking”  —  Hillary Clinton today agreed with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sending 50 undocumented migrants to Martha's Vineyard is “literally human trafficking.”
Discussion: HotAir, RedState, Fox News and New York Post
Mass.gov:
Baker-Polito Administration Announces Coordinated Support for Newly Arriving Families and Individuals to the Commonwealth
Miami Herald:
With shameful Martha's Vineyard stunt, DeSantis dishes out cruelty with a smirk
New York Times:
Trump's Team of Lawyers Marked by Infighting and Possible Legal Troubles of Its Own  —  Several of the former president's lawyers are under scrutiny by federal investigators amid squabbling over competence.  —  To understand the pressures, feuds and questions about competence within former …
Discussion: Raw Story
Drew Gilpin Faust / The Atlantic:
Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive  —  It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations, such as photographs of relevant Civil War manuscripts.  But, he continued, those weren't very helpful to him …
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee was registered to vote in N.J. until 2021  —  Mastriano, Oz both come from New Jersey  —  New Jersey is serving as an incubator for Republican candidates in Pennsylvania, with two statewide candidates being New Jersey natives and longtime residents.
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Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
Yeshiva University Halts All Student Clubs to Block L.G.B.T.Q. Group  —  Earlier in the week, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a ruling to stand for now that required the university to recognize the group.  —  Yeshiva University abruptly announced on Friday that it had placed …
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
Warnings From Authors Who Track Domestic Extremism  —  Luke Mogelson and Andy Campbell have followed groups like the Proud Boys for years.  They are terrified at what they see as a growing threat.  —  It is rare that a chill runs down my spine when I'm interviewing someone.
Warren Rojas / Insider:
Read the weird email Marco Rubio sent after Insider asked him about Lindsey Graham's abortion ban bill he's co-sponsoring  — Marco Rubio's team sent Insider's Warren Rojas a bizarre email after being asked about an abortion bill.  — The email, which looked like an assignment, included a deadline of September 19.
Reuters:
Iran woman's death after morals police arrest sparks protests  —  A young Iranian woman has died after falling into a coma following her detention by morality police enforcing Iran's strict hijab rules, sparking protests by Iranians on social media and on the streets on Friday.
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Iran's Supreme Leader Cancels Public Appearances After Falling Ill
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Axios:
Klain presses progressives on permitting reforms  —  The White House is privately pressuring House progressives to support Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) permitting reform proposal, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. … - Some 80 House progressives, led by Natural Resources Committee …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Some Jan. 6 defendants accused of other crimes since Capitol attack  —  The U.S. Capitol attack was a crime unlike any in American history.  But for some of the defendants accused of crimes related to the riot, it's only been the beginning of their legal troubles.
Discussion: Sputnik News
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Associated Press:
Michigan man gets 5 years in prison for role in Capitol riot
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
Grifting to Loss  —  I don't need to write a ton here.  I just want to direct you to this piece in the Wall Street Journal.  Blake Masters is losing Arizona, and it should be winnable.  —  But the reality is that Peter Thiel and Donald Trump went to bat for Masters in a crowded primary …
Discussion: Mediaite and National Review
Christiaan Triebert / New York Times:
Video Reveals How Russian Mercenaries Recruit Inmates for Ukraine War  —  In a video posted on social media on Tuesday, the de facto leader of a Russian mercenary group explained to Russian convicts how they could earn their freedom by fighting in Ukraine.  —  In a video that emerged on Tuesday …
Discussion: Washington Post
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The curious case of the strange man who was nearly attorney general  —  The threat of losing his law license might be the least of Jeffrey Bossert Clark's problems.  Clark is the environmental lawyer who came just one contentious Oval Office meeting away from being installed as attorney general …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Appeals court upholds Texas law regulating social media moderation  —  The decision likely sets up a Supreme Court showdown over the future of online speech  —  The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a controversial Texas social media law that bars companies from removing posts based …
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people  —  When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut  —  Where would you rather live?  A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor …
Discussion: MarketWatch
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Marjorie Taylor Greene shares a video in which she appears to kick a youth activist  —  Early Thursday evening, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a video on Twitter of her in a heated exchanged about gun control with three young activists outside the Capitol earlier that day.
 
 
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Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
It's Time to Call MAGA a National Security Threat
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
‘Mean Girls, But with Racist, Antisemitic Extremists’: Hitler-Posing Ex-Army Reservist Convicted for Jan. 6 Is Organizing Behind Bars, Feds Say
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
Adams ‘welcomes’ 200 El Paso migrants a day from fellow Dem mayor — but slams Abbott buses
Discussion: All
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
US Weighs Escalation Risk As Ukraine Asks for Longer-range Missiles
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Best to get new booster before Halloween, White House COVID coordinator Dr. Jha says
New York Times:
TikTok's C.E.O. Navigates the Limits of His Power
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U.S. Discloses Decades of Justice Dept. Memos on Presidential War Powers
Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
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Max Thornberry / Fox News:
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
New Hampshire 2022: Senator Hassan Leads Freshly Nominated Bolduc By 11
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A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

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News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Bloomberg:
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