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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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New York Times, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story, Insider and The National Interest
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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 …
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ABC News, Washington Post, Townhall, Political Wire and NBC News
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 …
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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 …
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Insider, CNN and Associated Press
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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RedState, HotAir, The Daily Caller, Louder With Crowder, WPRI-TV and Twitchy
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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.
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WFLA-TV, Balloon Juice and CNN
Bianca Padró Ocasio / Miami Herald:
‘Sadistic lie.’ Venezuelans flown to Martha's Vineyard search for a way off the island — Standing on a cobblestone sidewalk in a touristy downtown neighborhood of this island thousands of miles from his native Venezuela, a young man used a cellphone Thursday night to record a message to Florida's governor.
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The Atlantic, WFLA-TV, John's Newsletter, Florida Phoenix, Townhall, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Eschaton and Tampa Bay Times
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.”
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HotAir, RedState, Fox News and New York Post
Jennie Taer / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Migrants Flown To Martha's Vineyard Were Informed Of Destination, Documents Confirm
EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Migrants Flown To Martha's Vineyard Were Informed Of Destination, Documents Confirm
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TCPalm.com, Politico and Reason
Mass.gov:
Baker-Polito Administration Announces Coordinated Support for Newly Arriving Families and Individuals to the Commonwealth
Baker-Polito Administration Announces Coordinated Support for Newly Arriving Families and Individuals to the Commonwealth
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Let's Call DeSantis's Migrant Stunt What It Is—Kidnapping
Let's Call DeSantis's Migrant Stunt What It Is—Kidnapping
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Morning Shots, The American Independent and HuffPost
Washington Post:
‘Reverse Freedom Rides’: An echo of Martha's Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago
‘Reverse Freedom Rides’: An echo of Martha's Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago
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New York Times, The Wrap, USA Today and PolitiFact
Tal Kopan / The Boston Globe:
Why were migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard? The political tactics behind the strategy.
Why were migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard? The political tactics behind the strategy.
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New York Times, CNN, Politico, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Newsbusters and The Daily Signal
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 …
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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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Jonathan Levin / The Commentator:
Yeshiva University Temporarily Freezes All Undergraduate Club Activities
Yeshiva University Temporarily Freezes All Undergraduate Club Activities
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Rolling Stone, The Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
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.
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Iran's Supreme Leader Cancels Public Appearances After Falling Ill — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is currently on bed rest under observation by a team of doctors, according to four people familiar with his health situation. — Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …
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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 …
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The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Biden to meet with families of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan at the White House
Biden to meet with families of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan at the White House
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post
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.
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 …
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Raw Story
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Lindsey Graham called Trump ‘a lying motherf***er’ during Ukraine impeachment, book reveals — Authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser report that Mr Graham used the vulgar phrase to describe Mr Trump in the midst of the inquiry that led to his first impeachment trial
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HuffPost, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
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 — A white supremacist former Army reservist who dressed up as Adolf Hitler before joining in the siege of the U.S. Capitol should spend six …
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Raw Story
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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