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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Texts from Loeffler's phone shed light on activities ahead of Jan. 6 and 2021 runoff  —  Tricia Raffensperger's text message, six days after the 2020 elections, was as blistering as it was direct.  —  Hours after Kelly Loeffler, then Georgia's junior U.S. senator, called for her husband …
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Katherine Faulders / Associated Press:
Jan. 6 committee has yet to find a Trump lawyer who'll accept service of subpoena, sources say  —  The panel voted to subpoena the former president last week.  —  Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., on Oct. 8, 2022.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: It's the gas prices, stupid  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE ELECTION — 19 days left until Election Day. ...  4,496,195 early votes already cast as of 11:01 p.m. Wednesday, per the United States Elections Project. ...
John F. Harris / Politico:
Sorry, Ron DeSantis, You Are No Donald Trump
CBS News:
Cortez Masto and Laxalt neck and neck in Nevada Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Another battleground state, another toss-up contest.  In one of Republicans' best pick-up opportunities, Republican challenger Adam Laxalt and Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto are neck and neck.
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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
April Corbin Girnus / Nevada Current:
Adam Laxalt, Trumpism and the Big Lie: An (updated) chronology
Discussion: Associated Press
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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New York Times:
Judge Says Trump Signed Statement With Data His Lawyers Told Him Was False  —  The determination came in a decision by a federal judge that John Eastman, a lawyer for the former president, had to turn more of his emails over to the House Jan. 6 committee.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump signed …
Politico:
Biden world privately thinks McCarthy could fold on Ukraine aid  —  The GOP's internal rift over how long to keep U.S. aid flowing to war-ravaged Ukraine is spilling into public view weeks before a midterm election that could hand the party full control of Congress.
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Washington Post:
U.S. has viewed wreckage of kamikaze drones Russia used in Ukraine  —  Such information could prove crucial in helping the United States and its Ukrainian allies better identify and ultimately defeat the unmanned craft  —  The U.S. government has examined the wreckage of Iranian-made drones shot …
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United States Department of State:
On Russia's Acquisition of UAVs from Iran
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and UPI
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Sees Opportunity for Ukraine to Capitalize on Russian Weakness
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Reuters
New York Times:
Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino  —  The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.  —  Times Square, New York City's famed Crossroads …
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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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’
Discussion: Big League Politics
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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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
GOP holds big leads on key economic issues ahead of the November elections, CNBC survey shows  —  The third-quarter CNBC All-America Economic Survey finds some modest improvements in economic attitudes and in President Joe Biden's approval ratings across the country, but Americans still harbor …
Discussion: The Hill
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Truss faces clamor to quit amid UK government chaos  —  U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was hanging on to power by a thread on Thursday, after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony.
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Bloomberg:
Truss's Government on Brink as Tories Agitate for Her to Go
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 …
Ian Dunt / The i Paper:
The corpse of the Tory party has woken up again - only to find ingenious new ways to murder itself  —  Liz Truss's government is now piece of performance art on national humiliation  —  All she needed to do was not mess up.  That was all that was required of her.  Liz Truss had secured a brief moment of calm.
John Besche / Eater DC:
Tryst Is Suddenly D.C.'s Newest Cop Cafe, and Some People Are Pissed  —  Despite internet backlash, the Adams Morgan anchor welcomes community-wide conversation about crime starting this week  —  Washingtonians know Tryst as a longtime hub for the artsy, the under-caffeinated, and the first-date unimaginative.
Washington Post:
False claim that CDC would require covid vaccines for kids goes viral  —  ‘This is an all new level of dangerous misinformation,’ says former top health official  —  On Tuesday morning, a Fox News contributor claimed on Twitter that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was set …
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
Kevin McCarthy's betrayal of the United States of America  —  Kevin McCarthy was my friend.  He betrayed the United States of America and his duty and obligations to the Constitutional Oath that he took.  —  His conduct over the Trump era has been abhorrent.
Discussion: MSNBC
Sky News:
Russian jet ‘released missile’ near RAF aircraft during patrol over Black Sea  —  Defence Secretary Ben Wallace describes the incident as a “potentially dangerous engagement” but said it was not deemed a “deliberate escalation”, with Russia saying it was a “technical malfunction”.
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 …
Tom LoBianco / Yahoo News:
Vote for Trump in 2024?  Pence says ‘there might be somebody else I prefer.’  —  48th Vice President of the United States  —  American educator and former Second Lady of the United States  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence indicated Wednesday that he might not be inclined to vote …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Columbia County Man Indicted For Threatening The President, A Congressman And A Federal Judge  —  SCRANTON- The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Maverick Vargo, age 25, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury …
 
 
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The Economist:
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