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Gaetz sought pardon related to Justice Department sex trafficking probe — Testimony by a former White House aide is the first indication the congressman sought protection from the inquiry — Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told a former White House aide that he was seeking a preemptive pardon …
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Rachel Tucker / WFLA-TV:
Migrants' attorneys demand criminal investigation into flights from Florida — BOSTON, Mass. (WFLA) — The law firm representing 30 of the 48 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard at the direction of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked Massachusetts and federal officials to open a criminal investigation into the incident on Saturday.
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Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
Normalizing Cruelty: The Mainstreaming of Authoritarianism and What It Reveals — What Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott did was bad enough. But watching the media legitimize their exploitation and cruelty was even worse. … WATCH BOURBON TALK SUNDAY AT 8PM EST — It's almost impossible to put yourself into the mindset.
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Joe Biden Plans Campaign Rally in Florida During Political Fight with Ron DeSantis
Joe Biden Plans Campaign Rally in Florida During Political Fight with Ron DeSantis
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times:
The story of the praying Bremerton coach keeps getting more surreal — When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Bremerton assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy had the right to pray on the field, it wasn't widely understood then that the court had also ordered the school district to give him his job back.
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Fifth Circuit upholds Texas social media censorship law — Since the federal government under Joe Biden's leadership is obviously never going to do anything about social media platforms censoring primarily conservative opinions and banning users, Texas took matters into its own hands.
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Maggie Mertens / The Atlantic:
Separating Sports by Sex Doesn't Make Sense — Shira Mandelzis fell in love with flag football while playing on her middle-school team. An avid snowboarder and all-around athletic kid, she loved the energy she felt while on the field, and the camaraderie engendered by the intensely physical game.
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Manhattan immigrant has been voting illegally for 13 years: BOE — A non-citizen green card-holder in Manhattan may have been illegally voting in city elections for the past 13 years — possibly one of “thousands” of similarly bogus voters, a city Board of Elections whistleblower told The Post.
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Tucker Carlson: Martha's Vineyard GoFundMe for illegal migrants won't actually go to them — It's all fun and games for a sanctuary city, or island until illegal migrants actually show up. The hypocrisy of limousine liberals was brutally exposed by FNC's Tucker Carlson during his opening monologue on Friday night.
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Mark Krikorian / New York Post:
Biden's open borders will cost taxpayers $100 billion — and counting
Biden's open borders will cost taxpayers $100 billion — and counting
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Gabriel Pogrund / The Sunday Times:
No 10 chief of staff in FBI inquiry over ‘election bribe’ in Puerto Rico … Liz Truss's most senior adviser has been interviewed by FBI agents about an alleged criminal plot to bribe an American politician and influence a US election. Mark Fullbrook is the Downing Street chief of staff …
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Financial Times and The Sun
Ali Hamedani / BBC:
Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral — Protests have broken out at the funeral of a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police. — Mahsa Amini, 22, died on Friday, days after eyewitnesses said she was beaten in a police van in Tehran - allegations denied by police.
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump's Former Accounting Firm Begins Turning Over Documents to Congress — Mazars USA delivered an initial set of documents related to the former president's finances to the House Oversight Committee as part of a settlement. — WASHINGTON — Mazars USA, the longtime accounting firm …
Wall Street Journal:
Russia's Use of Iranian Kamikaze Drones Creates New Dangers for Ukrainian Troops — Shahed-136 drones supplied to Russia carried out several devastating strikes in Ukraine's Kharkiv region over past week, Ukrainian commanders say — Russia has inflicted serious damage on Ukrainian forces …
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Kyiv Post
iaea.org:
IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine — Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is once again receiving electricity directly from the national grid after engineers repaired one of the four main external power lines that have all been damaged during the conflict …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
As Trump Inquiry Heats Up, Garland Says Divisions Imperil the Rule of Law — Addressing new citizens on Ellis Island, the attorney general emphasized that all Americans are equal under the law. — An emotional Attorney General Merrick B. Garland addressed new citizens on Saturday at Ellis Island …
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