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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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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 …
New York Times:
Ukrainians Express Fear and Defiance as Staged Voting Begins … Referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine evoke fear, anger and defiance. — Russian soldiers, wearing balaclavas and wielding guns, flanked election workers. Ukrainians forced to vote while Russian officials or their proxies stood guard.
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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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Financial Times:
‘Everyone will get snatched off the street’: mobilisation brings Ukraine war home to Russians
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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis's stunt point to a deeper scam — Who paid for the migrants to be transported from Texas to Florida? — That question emerges from new revelations about Gov. Ron DeSantis's vile stunt, in which he transported two planeloads of migrants from Texas …
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Emma Kinery / CNBC:
Biden promises to codify Roe if two more Democrats are elected to the Senate
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Just 1/3 of Americans back Republican migrant flights, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
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The Moderate Voice
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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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
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's strategy in the classified documents case is quickly crumbling
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Raw Story, Florida Politics, HotAir and The Guardian
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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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.
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and National Review
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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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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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Unveils ‘Commitment To America’ Plan With Stock Videos Of Russia, Ukraine — “We celebrate the rich heritage of the American story,” a narrator says, over footage of a drilling rig in Russia's Volgograd region. — House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled their “Commitment to America” …
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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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
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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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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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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Daily Kos, Breitbart, The Political Insider, PoliticusUSA and The Dispatch
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Project Veritas loses jury verdict to Democratic consulting firm — A federal jury has found Project Veritas, a conservative group often accused of using deceptive tactics, liable for violating wiretapping laws and misrepresenting itself in an undercover effort to target Democratic political consultants.
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Jury Rules Against Project Veritas in Lawsuit
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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 …
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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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
DeSantis to face trial for suspension of prosecutor who defied abortion ban law — Andrew Warren, a Democrat, sued Florida governor for suspension after saying he would not enforce new 15-week abortion law — A Florida prosecutor suspended by Ron DeSantis for defying a new 15-week abortion law …
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.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
House GOP Rolls Out Agenda With a Fake Lincoln Quote — The House Republican conference thought their agenda was quoting Abraham Lincoln. It was actually quoting a Lehman Brothers ad from the 1980s. … As he rolled out the first official Republican Party congressional platform in years …
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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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