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Politico:
Special master to Trump's lawyers: 'You can't have your cake and eat it' — NEW YORK — The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president's attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing in his courtroom.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
How Judge Cannon broke with conservatives in Trump documents case — When Donald Trump flooded the federal bench with judicial appointments, a leading critique was that they were Federalist Society clones who favored muscular executive power and rejected what some perceive as meddling by the courts in executive branch affairs.
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New Republic and Hackwhackers
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
'As Far as I'm Concerned, That's the End of It': Skeptical Special Master Presses Trump's Lawyers on Declassification Evasions at Hearing — After the FBI found highly classified documents inside his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump sought review of the materials by a special master.
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New York Daily News, Washington Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Special Master Has a Simple Test That May Be Disaster for Trump — Special Master Raymond Dearie indicated Tuesday that this case could be very simple, and that Trump may be in trouble. — Former President Donald Trump's battle with the FBI over its search of Mar-a-Lago has moved …
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Fox News, CBS News, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Common Dreams, Reuters and Los Angeles Times
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump has more legal problems of his own making — Donald Trump and Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon might end up regretting their selection of former judge Raymond Dearie as the special master to undertake the review of classified papers retrieved from the former president's Mar-a-Lago club.
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Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Associated Press and Raw Story
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump team tells 11th Circuit Mar-a-Lago probe is a ‘document storage dispute’ that ‘spiraled out of control’ — Trump's legal team filed a response to the DOJ's motion for a partial stay in the 11th Circuit — Trump attorney on why the DOJ does not want a special master
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Insider, CBS News, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, CNN, USA Today, CNBC and Axios
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll gives Republicans the edge in most races — The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll paints a bleak picture for Georgia Democrats in November, with every statewide candidate aside from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock facing a sizable deficit less than two months before the election.
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Barbara Rodriguez / The 19th:
Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump's stolen election rhetoric
Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump's stolen election rhetoric
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Washington Examiner, Townhall, RedState, The Hill and The Bulwark
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Wisconsin 2022: Voters Splitting Tickets in US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections
Wisconsin 2022: Voters Splitting Tickets in US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections
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The Hill
Washington Post:
Video appears to undercut Trump elector's account of alleged voting-data breach in Georgia — On Jan. 7, 2021, a group of forensics experts working for lawyers allied with President Donald Trump spent eight hours at a county elections office in southern Georgia, copying sensitive software and data from its voting machines.
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Wall Street Journal, PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos, Associated Press, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: McConnell-aligned super PAC pulls out of Arizona — The Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is canceling $9.6 million in television ads for the Arizona Senate race, confident that other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference for Republican nominee Blake Masters.
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The Hill, Ace of Spades HQ, The Daily Caller, PoliticusUSA, CNBC, Raw Story and Washington Post
David A. Fahrenthold / New York Times:
Indictments Accuse 44 in Minnesota of Brazen Pandemic Aid Fraud — The Justice Department said the defendants had stolen $240 million intended to feed children, in what appears to be the largest theft so far from a pandemic-era program. — MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department said on Tuesday …
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Washington Post, New York Daily News and HotAir
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U.S. Department of Justice:
U.S. Attorney Announces Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
U.S. Attorney Announces Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
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The Atlantic, Washington Examiner, The National Interest, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Alpha News, NPR, CBS News, Raw Story, Rolling Stone and Power Line
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Russian-occupied Donbas region to hold referenda on annexation — Russian-occupied territories in eastern Ukraine announced referenda on whether to join the Russian Federation. — Russian separatists have fought in the Donbas region, which consists of the self-identified Luhansk People's Republic …
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Reuters, TASS, National Review and The National Interest
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eeas.europa.eu:
Ukraine: Statement by High Representative Josep Borrell on the illegal “referenda” in Luhansk, Kherson and Donetsk
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Kremlin Pushes for Staging Annexation Votes; U.S. Calls Them a ‘Sham’
Kremlin Pushes for Staging Annexation Votes; U.S. Calls Them a ‘Sham’
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Forbes, CNSNews, National Review, Insider, Associated Press, The Sun, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Voice of America, NBC News and The Daily Beast
Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Cheney: On Jan. 6, fellow House member objecting to election called Trump ‘the orange Jesus’ — WASHINGTON - Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday that a fellow House member called former President Donald Trump “the orange Jesus” on Jan. 6, 2021, as Republicans gathered objections to 2020 election results.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
The Cheney 2024 conundrum — Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance …
The Cheney 2024 conundrum — Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance …
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National Review
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
‘One of the worst presidential campaigns’: Navarro reflects on why Trump lost
‘One of the worst presidential campaigns’: Navarro reflects on why Trump lost
Discussion:
Mediaite and The Guardian
Paul Blest / VICE:
Texas Sheriff Getting Threats After Saying He'd Investigate DeSantis for Migrant Plane Stunt — After the Florida governor sent dozens of people seeking asylum from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, a local sheriff says he believes laws were broken. — PB — A Texas sheriff announced Monday …
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HuffPost, Insider, HotAir, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, The Hill, The Post Millennial and Bloomberg
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Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America's Elections. These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way — Nobody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office. The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard …
Renee Nygren / KVLY:
Man admits to killing teen after political dispute in Foster Co., court docs allege — MCHENRY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A community is mourning the loss of an 18-year-old man from Grace City, North Dakota, as investigators look into what led up to a deadly crash.
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Breitbart
Moshe Krakowski / Commentary Magazine:
The Jews of the Jews … On September 11, the New York Times published a 6,900-word exposé of New York State's Hasidic yeshivas under the title “In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush with Public Money.” According to the Times, the state's 100-plus Hasidic boys' schools fail …
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
‘Crime Is a Construct’: My Morning With the Park Slope Panthers — In the last couple of months in Park Slope—the baby bjorn-wearing capital of bourgeois-bohemian New York—a thief absconded with $200,000 worth of jewelry in a smash and grab, three boys stole a bunch of iPhones off of subway riders …
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HotAir and National Review
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
Bret Baier wanted to rescind Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Biden in 2020 and wrote in an email, ‘The Trump campaign was really pissed,’ book says — Fox News anchor Bret Baier “was ready to give into” pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says.
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The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite and Crooks and Liars, more at Mediagazer »
United States Space Force:
Space Force reveals official song: “Semper Supra” — ARLINGTON, Va — ARLINGTON, Va. - Every branch of the armed forces has an official song, from “The Army Goes Rolling Along” to “The Marines' Hymn.” Each song is part of the services' foundation and represents its values, traditions and culture.
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DVIDS, CNN, Military.com, TMZ.com, The Daily Wire, The Hill, Task & Purpose, Air & Space Forces Magazine, Defense One, Politico and WHTM-TV
Wall Street Journal:
Legal Challenges to Student Debt Forgiveness Loom Before Midterms — GOP lawmakers and conservative groups are laying the groundwork for court battles to block Biden's executive action — Midterms 2022: Where Republicans and Democrats Stand on the Issues — Created with sketchtool.
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NBC4 Washington, The Daily Caller, The Nation and Insider
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Doctors say Graham abortion ban would force women to have transvaginal ultrasounds — WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham's national 15-week abortion ban would likely force many women to undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasounds before terminating pregnancies, according to doctors.
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Insider, Daily Kos, Boston.com, The Hill, American Greatness and FiveThirtyEight
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal Host Sunny Hostin (Real Name Asunción) Smears Nikki Haley (Real Name Nikki) as Racial ‘Chameleon’ — Haley fires back at ‘racist’ comments, slams 'the left's hypocrisy towards conservative minorities' — Asunción “Sunny” Hostin on Tuesday smeared former governor Nikki Haley …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, National Review, Instapundit and Townhall
Ron Elving / NPR:
New Trump tome ‘The Divider’ offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date — The Divider is the latest in what has become a procession of books about the Trump presidency, but there are reasons to think it arrives right on time. — Even after several Cabinet-level advisers …
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Politico
Mailchimp:
New York Mag's Hunter Biden laptop cover story puts proper focus on story that matters — I don't want to assume the political affiliations of New York Magazine readers, but I'd have to guess most who received their copy of the print issue this week voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
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Newsbusters