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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe — Investigators see credibility challenges for two of the main witnesses in the probe of the congressman's past dealings with a 17-year-old — Career prosecutors have recommended against charging Rep. Matt Gaetz …
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Financial Times:
‘Everyone will get snatched off the street’: mobilisation brings Ukraine war home to Russians — Reservists who face being sent to fight are desperately seeking a way out over the border — After Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February, Nadezhda urged her son to flee the country …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Russia's Ukrainian referenda: Vote yes, or we'll shoot you — It's Election Day in parts of Ukraine — but only because Russia imposed it. Vladimir Putin ordered referenda on annexation held in the parts of the Donbas that Russia still controls — and some areas it no longer does — in order to justify the seizure of those areas.
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Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
U.N. experts find that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump's secret court fight to stop grand jury from getting information from his inner circle — Former President Donald Trump's attorneys are fighting a secret court battle to block a federal grand jury from gathering information from an expanding circle of close Trump aides …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's special master pick turns into a headache — A push by Donald Trump's lawyers to appoint a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case has quickly lost its main utility, with an appeals court restoring the Justice Department's access to the documents with classified markings.
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New York Times, Raw Story and Forbes
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
National security risk review of material Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago resumes after appeals court ruling — Intelligence officials have resumed their national security risk review of top-secret documents that were seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, according to a spokesperson …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's strategy in the classified documents case is quickly crumbling
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Raw Story, Florida Politics, HotAir, The Guardian and The National Interest
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to unleash millions in the midterms in possible prelude to 2024 — Donald Trump's top lieutenants are launching a new super PAC that is expected to spend heavily to bolster his endorsed candidates in the midterm election — and, some people close to the former president say, could become a campaign apparatus if he runs in 2024.
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Alarm as Koch bankrolls dozens of election denier candidates — Election watchdogs say Koch's about face after pledging change following January 6 is disturbing given the threats to democracy — Fossil fuel giant Koch Industries has poured over $1m into backing - directly and indirectly …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Digby's Hullabaloo and Common Dreams
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Nina Totenberg Had a Beautiful Friendship With RBG. Her Book About It Is an Embarrassment. — Did Nina Totenberg know a secret that could have changed history? — The question hovers over Dinners With Ruth, Totenberg's new memoir of her four-decade friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
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National Review
Axios:
House GOP eyes repeal of Dems' drug pricing law — Some key House Republicans are calling for the repeal of Democrats' newly-passed drug pricing measure if the GOP flips control of one or both chambers of Congress next year. … - Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Ways …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Still Do Not Show A GOP Bounce Back — Ever since we launched our election model in late June, it has moved entirely in one direction: toward Democrats. Pretty much every week, they've either gained ground in our forecast or held steady. — This week has been more in the “held steady” category.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
How the polls might be wrong (again) this year
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HotAir, The Hill and The Liberty Loft
Daniel Hemel / Slate:
No One but Trump Would Be Prosecuted Like This — The civil suit had to be partly political. Trump made it that way. — Donald Trump has long believed that he lives by different legal rules than everyone else. But this week, the law finally caught up with the former president.
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Just 1/3 of Americans back Republican migrant flights, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows — Only a third of Americans - including half of Republicans and one in six Democrats - say it's OK for state officials to fly or bus migrants to other states, a sign the push by Republican Southern governors …
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The Moderate Voice
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis's stunt point to a deeper scam
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Maine Poll: Mills Leads LePage by 12; Majority of Voters Concerned Over Lobsters on Unsustainable Seafood “Red List” — Home Polls Maine Poll: Mills Leads LePage by 12; Majority of Voters Concerned Over Lobsters on Unsustainable Seafood “Red List” — The latest Emerson College Polling survey …
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Political Wire
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
September National Poll: President Biden's Approval At Year High; 56% of Voters Agree the Pandemic is Over
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The Hill
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
U.S. Treasury Issues Iran General License D-2 to Increase Support for Internet Freedom — WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued Iran General License (GL) D-2 to increase support for internet freedom in Iran by bringing U.S. sanctions guidance in line with the changes …
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Breyer warns justices that some opinions could ‘bite you in the back’ in exclusive interview with CNN's Chris Wallace — Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is warning his colleagues against “writing too rigidly” in their opinions, saying that such decisions could “bite you in the back” in a world that is constantly changing.
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Politico:
McConnell seeks a Jan. 6 mop-up on his terms — Mitch McConnell opposed conviction in Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. He may yet help clean up the mess of Jan. 6. — Things are playing out differently in the Senate GOP after only nine House Republicans — all of them retiring from Congress …
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New York Times:
Zeldin Has a Path to Becoming Governor. It Runs Through Brooklyn. — A curious thing happened last weekend when Representative Lee Zeldin brought his Republican campaign for governor of New York into Hasidic Brooklyn. — Mr. Zeldin, a pronounced underdog, was greeted like a rock star.
New York Times:
Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70 — The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. — Hilary Mantel, the British author of “Wolf Hall,” “Bring Up the Bodies” and …
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
How tight is the Mike Lee-Evan McMullin race for Senate? New Utah poll has answers — Engaged in a fierce battle in the U.S. Senate race in Utah, a new poll shows Republican Sen. Mike Lee and independent challenger Evan McMullin neck and neck with a little over six weeks to Election Day.
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Political Wire
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Judge says Jan. 6 committee can get Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward's phone records — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Arizona ruled Thursday that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol can see the phone records of Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband.
Breanne Deppisch / Washington Examiner:
Biden officials weigh ousting Trump-picked World Bank head over climate comments — Biden administration officials are considering ousting Trump-appointed World Bank chief David Malpass after his remarks on climate change sparked uproar earlier this week. — Malpass dodged repeated questions …
Zach Williams / New York Post:
Chris Christie mocks ‘disaster’ Donald Trump at upstate biz conference — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie got lots of laughs at the expense of ex-President Donald Trump while lamenting the current state of national politics at an upstate business convention Thursday night.
Kimberly Ross / Washington Examiner:
Democrats want to be a sane alternative to the GOP. They're not — Nearly every election, many people view the impending vote as some sort of existential moment for the country. That this language has returned in the lead-up to the midterm elections is not surprising.
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New Republic
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Central Banks Accept Pain Now, Fearing Worse Later — Federal Reserve officials and their counterparts around the world are trying to defeat inflation by rapidly raising interest rates. They know it will come at a cost. — A day after the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates sharply …
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