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Dearie asks Trump lawyers whether they believe FBI lied about seized documents — Order by Mar-a-Lago special master is the first time Donald Trump's attorneys have been asked to confirm or deny his claims in court — The Mar-a-Lago special master on Thursday ordered Donald Trump's lawyers …
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New Marquette Law School national survey finds a third of the public and three-fifths of Republicans don't believe Trump had secret documents at Mar-a-Lago; Biden's approval rating rises to 45% from 36% in July — MILWAUKEE — A new Marquette Law School national survey finds that 33% of adults …
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Washington Post, Political Wire, Daily Kos, Townhall, USA Today, The Hill and Marquette University …
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Trump Claims He Declassified Documents. Why Don't His Lawyers Say So in Court? — Judges this week highlighted the gap between Mr. Trump's public claims that he declassified everything and his lawyers' reluctance to repeat that claim in a courtroom. — WASHINGTON — Former President …
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Reason, Talking Points Memo and Townhall
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Special master in Mar-a-Lago case asks Trump to back up his allegation that FBI ‘planted’ evidence — The special master appointed to review documents federal agents seized at Donald Trump's Florida estate has given the former president until next Friday to back up his allegation that FBI planted evidence in the search on Aug. 8.
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HuffPost, UPI, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
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Trump's legal woes mount without protection of presidency
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RedState
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Mar-a-Lago special master orders Trump team to back up any claims of FBI ‘planting’ evidence
Mar-a-Lago special master orders Trump team to back up any claims of FBI ‘planting’ evidence
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Trump to Hannity: Presidents can declassify documents ‘by thinking about it’
Trump to Hannity: Presidents can declassify documents ‘by thinking about it’
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CBS News, Talking Points Memo, USA Today and Just The News
Steve Vladeck / CNN:
How Trump's terrible day went from bad to worse
How Trump's terrible day went from bad to worse
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The Atlantic, Slate and Lawfare
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'It's a 100% mobilisation': day one of Russia's drive to build its army — Reports ethnic minorities may be disproportionately affected while protesters in Moscow drafted on arrest — ummons delivered to eligible men at midnight. Schoolteachers pressed into handing out draft notices.
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RedState, Slate, Reuters and Washington Post
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Putin ‘passes secret law to send one million Russians to fight in Ukraine’
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Marcus Parekh / Telegraph:
Russia could use nuclear weapons to defend new territories, warns Medvedev
Russia could use nuclear weapons to defend new territories, warns Medvedev
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, UPI, Raw Story and Metro.co.uk
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Russia Is Denounced at U.N. Over Nuclear Threat and Alleged War Crimes
Russia Is Denounced at U.N. Over Nuclear Threat and Alleged War Crimes
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Company hired to arrange DeSantis' migrant flights is tied to high-level state official — When Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration needed a company it could trust to carry out a controversial program to transport migrants to other states, it chose an unusual option.
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Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Florida migrant-moving company gave GOP cash, has ties to DeSantis' immigration ‘czar’ and Rep. Matt Gaetz
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Daily Kos, Digby's Hullabaloo, Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast
Bob Norman / Miami New Times:
Meet Daniel Uhlfelder, Ron DeSantis' “Chief Tormentor”
Meet Daniel Uhlfelder, Ron DeSantis' “Chief Tormentor”
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Talking Points Memo, BizPac Review and Twitchy
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Trump Made N.Y. Attorney General's Fraud Case Virtually Unbeatable — New York Attorney General Tish James raised eyebrows when she refused last-minute settlement overtures from former President Donald Trump. Her 222-page lawsuit filed Wednesday doubles down, asking for wide-ranging penalties …
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CNBC, USA Today, Raw Story, Political Wire and CBS News
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Trump faces growing legal peril as he seeks to raise profile ahead of 2024
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The American Spectator
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
US lawsuit puts Donald Trump's Scottish resorts under scrutiny
US lawsuit puts Donald Trump's Scottish resorts under scrutiny
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The National Interest, Daily Kos and Outside the Beltway
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U.S. has sent private warnings to Russia against using a nuclear weapon — The Biden administration has been sending messages to Moscow about the grave consequences that would follow the use of a nuclear weapon in Ukraine — The United States for several months has been sending private communications …
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Balloon Juice
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Russia's Medvedev: new regions can be defended with strategic nuclear weapons
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The Sun, Global Community Weekly, Al Jazeera and The Guardian
Katie Bo Lillis / CNN:
Russia's military divided as Putin struggles to deal with Ukraine's counteroffensive, US sources say
Russia's military divided as Putin struggles to deal with Ukraine's counteroffensive, US sources say
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House GOP cuts loose candidate who misled about military service — The House GOP campaign arm is slashing a near-$1 million ad buy meant to target Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) — essentially walking away from what could have been an easy pickup for the party.
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Axios, HuffPost, Daily Kos, The Daily Wire and The Guardian
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Top GOP senators reject Trump's declassification comments and call for proper storage of secret records
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HotAir, The Daily Wire, PoliticusUSA and The Guardian
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
House Candidate Says He Served in Afghanistan, but Air Force Has No Record of It
House Candidate Says He Served in Afghanistan, but Air Force Has No Record of It
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Fox News, Bloomberg, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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Pennsylvania poll: Fetterman and Oz in close race for Senate; Shapiro holds big lead over Mastriano — With just over six weeks until the general election, Democratic candidates are holding leads in both the Pennsylvania gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, according to a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll.
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NBC News and The Daily Wire
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EXCLUSIVE: Hunter gone wild! Unhinged videos show the president's son dancing shirtless, slipping down a waterslide naked and entertaining hookers at debauched pool party in $4,140-per-night Malibu rental — WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT — Videos and photos obtained …
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GOP's crime cudgel — Democrats are pouring millions into a last-minute effort to neutralize their vulnerabilities on crime — an issue they admit has driven a flood of effective Republican attacks in key contests. … - Vulnerable Democrats expressed hope that the package would help them deflect GOP attacks on crime.
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Alex Jones Managed to Shill Products and Ask For Crypto Donations While Testifying In Court — Jones mumbled, digressed, yelled, and shilled his way through a heated, shambolic day of testimony. — Anna Merlan — Alex Jones took the stand on Thursday in the second defamation trial against him and Infowars.
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The Moscow Signals Declassified: Irradiating Richard Nixon — For more information, contact: — 202-994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu — Regions — Hide/Unhide Taxonomies … Hide/Unhide Section — The Soviets exposed then Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat …
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The Guardian
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Every Tomboy Is Tagged ‘Transgender’ — The terminological change behind the push to ‘treat’ sex-role nonconformity with surgery or hormones. — The number of young Americans who describe themselves as “transgender” has exploded over the past decade, increasing by a factor of 20 to 40 …
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Two numbers that should worry Republicans about Trump 2024 — It's hard to find anyone these days who is a) paying attention to Republican politics and b) thinks Donald Trump is not going to run for president for a third time in 2024. But even as Republican go hurtling toward what feels …
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New York Times, Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Social media sharing of low quality news sources by political elites — PNAS Nexus, pgac186, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/ pgac186 — Abstract — Increased sharing of untrustworthy information on social media platforms is one of the main challenges of our modern information society.
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Jan. 6 Twitter witness: Failure to curb Trump spurred ‘terrifying’ choice — In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, a former Twitter official explains what motivated her startling Jan. 6 committee testimony — In an explosive hearing in July, an unidentified former Twitter employee testified …
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Youngkin's meeting with Va. delegation gets heated over trans policy — The Virginia congressional delegation's bipartisan monthly meeting Monday started out cordial enough, with Rep. Bob Good (R) asking special guest Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to lead the delegation in a prayer before sitting down to a Chick-fil-A lunch.
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Punchbowl News, Digby's Hullabaloo and Blue Virginia
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Parents, students complain East Baton Rouge schools field trip was more like church service — ‘Day of Hope’ college and career fair at local church drew 2,100 students — More than 2,100 students from Baton Rouge high schools were excused from classes Tuesday morning and hopped on school buses …
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Raw Story
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Sex fiend gets ‘sweet’ deal from Manhattan DA Bragg on teen rape charge — then attacks 5 others: sources — A man accused of raping his teenage relative secured a sweetheart plea deal from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — and then went on to allegedly sexually terrorize five people …
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Unearthed File Reveals Huge Cold War-Era U.S. Bugging Operation Against Soviets — There are a number of unwritten rules in the world of espionage. These practices of the profession — though quietly accepted universally as “fair game” — can engender haughty rhetorical denunciations …
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4-Day Workweek Brings No Loss of Productivity, Companies in Experiment Say — More than 70 companies in Britain are undergoing a six-month experiment in which their employees get a paid day off each week. So far, most companies say it's going well. — Most of the companies participating …
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Arizona Senate Moves From Toss Up To Lean Democrat — While the summer bump Democrats experienced may have waned slightly post-Labor Day, they are still in an unexpectedly strong position to hold the Senate. The environment is a boost for now, but incumbents also continue to perform …
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Washington Examiner