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Politico:
Judge: Trump signed court document that knowingly included false voter fraud stats — Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents describing evidence of election fraud that he knew were false, a federal judge indicated on Wednesday. — U.S. District Court Judge David Carter wrote …
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Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Washington Post, USA Today, Raw Story, Election Law Blog, The Gateway Pundit and PoliticusUSA
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New York Times:
Judge Says Trump Signed Statement With Data His Lawyers Told Him Was False
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Arit John / Los Angeles Times:
Two democracies are forming in the U.S. Zip code determines which one you're in — For a brief time in 2020, it seemed as though the vote-by-mail movement was having a bipartisan moment. — Red and blue states that had offered the option only to a relatively small number of residents …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Upset Alert — Where to look out for surprising results; rating changes in Senate, House, and gubernatorial races — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — As we approach Election Day, the basic fundamentals of this midterm may be reasserting themselves, to the benefit of Republicans.
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Against the Grain, Forbes and The Hill
Reuters:
Pro-Trump conspiracy theorists hound election officials out of office
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Bloomberg:
Pennsylvania Could Determine Control of the Senate, But First They'll Need to Count Votes
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NBC News, PolitiFact, Associated Press, WHYY, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Townhall and RedState
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Zeldin Built His Profile Defending Trump. Will New Yorkers Mind?
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Mid Hudson News and New York Post
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump considers allowing federal investigators to search Mar-a-Lago again — Donald Trump's legal team is weighing whether to allow federal agents to return to the former President's Florida residence, and potentially conduct a supervised search, to satisfy the Justice Department's demands …
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Insider, Forbes, Raw Story, CBS News, The Guardian, Politico and The Daily Beast
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Conservative Stalwart Challenging the Far-Right Legal Theory That Could Subvert American Democracy — J. Michael Luttig is opposing Republican groups in one of the most momentous cases that the Supreme Court is considering this term. — A powerful new litigant has joined …
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CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
Claudia Allen / BBC:
Braverman rebukes Truss in blistering resignation letter — Play video Watch: BBC News live coverage — Summary — Suella Braverman resigns as home secretary in a face-to-face meeting with the prime minister — It's unclear exactly why but the BBC has been told PM Liz Truss …
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Telegraph, The Guardian, Metro.co.uk, UnHerd, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Matt Goodwin's Substack and Politico
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Associated Press:
US busts network providing technology to Russian military — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
In 2021 Video, Trump Asks, ‘Is This a Good Jewish Character Right Here?’ — Donald Trump made bigoted remarks about Jews and Persians at an event in 2021, in a new video provided by a British documentary filmmaker. — Former President Donald J. Trump inquired whether a documentary filmmaker recording …
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Insider, Forbes, Raw Story, Mediaite, Political Wire and middleeastmonitor.com
Washington Post:
Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted — SOMERVILLE, Tenn. — Skill Wilson had amassed more than three decades of knowledge as a paramedic, first in Memphis and then in Fayette County. Two places that felt like night and day.
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Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
‘No, I will not resign’: Kevin de León defends himself in TV interview — Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin De León said in a television interview airing Wednesday night that he “will not resign,” according to a partial transcript of the interview released by Noticiero Univision.
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Associated Press, The Daily Caller, ABC7, MyNorthwest.com and KTLA
New York Times:
‘The World According to Fox’: A C.E.O.'s Vision Gets Tested in Court — Suzanne Scott remade Fox News Media into a lucrative consumer brand. But a $1.6 billion defamation suit against the company is testing her strategy and leadership. — Before the committee investigating …
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Why I'm Joining CNN as an Analyst — I have signed a contract to be a contributor with CNN. — I'm excited about the opportunity to work with many solid reporters and reach a new audience. I've long criticized how major media outlets have reported on firearms.
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. is spending $1.7 million on one public toilet: ‘What are they making it out of — gold?’ — San Francisco politicians will gather at the Noe Valley Town Square Wednesday afternoon to congratulate themselves for securing state money for a long-desired toilet in the northeast corner of the charming plaza.
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HotAir, Liberty Unyielding, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and National Review
United States Capitol Police:
USCP Clear Suspicious Van, Arrest Driver for Bringing Guns to Capitol Grounds — This afternoon the United States Capitol Police (USCP) Hazardous Incident Response Division cleared a suspicious vehicle, which was illegally parked on Capitol Grounds. — USCP Officers arrested the driver …
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New York Times, CNN, Washington Examiner and Fox News
Poppy Noor / The Guardian:
What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks - in pictures — In 13 US states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy. But we rarely see what such tissue really looks like — bortion is now banned or severely restricted in 14 states in the US …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Daily Caller, LifeNews.com and Althouse
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Appeals court finds CFPB funding unconstitutional — An appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism is unconstitutional, in a victory for lenders that have targeted the agency's structure in a years-long bid to tamp down regulation.
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Wall Street Journal, RedState, One America News Network and CBS News
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump appears for deposition in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit — Former President Donald Trump appeared Wednesday for a deposition as part of the defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. — Last week, a federal judge cleared the way for Trump's testimony saying …
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Arizona GOP Candidate Arrested For Allegedly Masturbating In Truck Near Preschool — Maricopa County officials say it's too late to remove Randy Kaufman from the ballot in the race for a college district board. — A GOP candidate running for an Arizona college district's governing board …
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Arizona Republic, The Daily Dot and Rolling Stone
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
They were elected to stop Trump. Now they're fighting for their lives. — As we hurtle into the final stretch of the midterm elections, many of the Democrats who were elected in the exhilarating 2018 wave election are now staring into the abyss of defeat. And at the core of their plight sits an unnerving paradox.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Conservative Brief and Washington Examiner
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Ex-UCLA student linked to extremists gets Jan. 6 prison term — A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and six months in prison for his role in a mob's attack on the building.
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Washington Post and NPR
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Trump Prosecutors See Evidence for Obstruction Charges — A group of Justice Department prosecutors believe there is sufficient evidence to charge Donald Trump with obstruction of justice, but the path to an actual indictment is far from clear. — The team that's part of the classified records probe …
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Washington Post, Occupy Democrats, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story, Mediaite and Washington Examiner
Russell Contreras / Axios:
GOP candidate and immigration hardliner had a grandmother who faced deportation — Nevada's Republican senatorial nominee, Adam Laxalt, has taken a hard-line stance against DREAMers and illegal immigration — despite his late father, Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, once saying Laxalt's grandmother was undocumented.
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National Review
Burgess Everett / Politico:
J.D. Vance wants a border wall battle with Biden — MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — J.D. Vance thinks it's time for Republicans to have another fight over a southern border wall, this time with President Joe Biden. — If the GOP seizes full control of Congress in the midterms, the Ohio Republican …
Jacqui Palumbo / CNN:
Groundbreaking movie star Anna May Wong to be first Asian American featured on US currency — Early movie star Anna May Wong, who broke into Hollywood during the silent film era, will become the first Asian American to appear on US currency, a century after she landed her first leading role.
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Axios, New York Times, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The A.V. Club, Plain Dealer, UPI, IJR, ABC7, Variety, NPR and CBS News
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Pence warns of ‘unprincipled populists,’ ‘Putin apologists’ — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned against the growing populist tide in the Republican Party as he admonished “Putin apologists” unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader over his assault on Ukraine.
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Bloomberg, Big League Politics, The Hill, Washington Times, Raw Story and Mediaite
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Vladimir Putin's Place in the Culture Wars — The columnist Christopher Caldwell discusses conservative admiration for the Russian leader, and whether election denialism is just politics. — “Not merely is his cultural range perhaps without equal,” the Marxist historian Perry Anderson once wrote …
New York Times:
Where Have All the Men in Moscow Gone? — Across the capital, there are noticeably fewer men at restaurants, stores and social gatherings. Many have been called up to fight in Ukraine. Others have fled to avoid being drafted. — MOSCOW — Friday afternoons at the Chop-Chop Barbershop …
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’ — State Dept. awards $20,600 grant for cultural center in Ecuador to host ‘12 drag theater performances’
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RedState, Newsbusters, Twitchy and Instapundit
Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
Classical liberalism vs. The New Right — It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical liberalism is being replaced. In its stead are rising alternatives that don't yet have a common name.
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New York Magazine
Danielle Campoamor / TODAY.com:
Texas schools send parents DNA kits to identify their kids' bodies in emergencies — The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children “in case of an emergency.” — In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed Senate Bill …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The intriguing Evan McMullin scenario — The business of legislating in the United States has always been messy. But rarely has it been as messy as it was in 1881. — The American people had elected an equal number of Democrats and Republicans to the Senate, along with two independents.
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