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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago classified papers held U.S. secrets about Iran and China — Iran's missile program, U.S. intelligence work aimed at China were among the most sensitive material seized by the FBI, people familiar with the matter say — Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI …
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Exclusive: Trump adviser Kash Patel has appeared before grand jury in Mar-a-Lago document probe
Exclusive: Trump adviser Kash Patel has appeared before grand jury in Mar-a-Lago document probe
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Claims He Owns White House Pardon and Immigration Policy Records
Trump Claims He Owns White House Pardon and Immigration Policy Records
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Miles Cohen / ABC News:
Voter fraud charge dismissed in Florida after arrest — The accused was facing up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines and fees. — A Florida man had his election fraud charges dismissed on Friday, making him the first of 20 people who Gov. Ron DeSantis announced had been charged with voter fraud in August, to beat his case.
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Miami judge dismisses voter fraud case trumpeted by DeSantis — Case is one of the 19 voter fraud prosecutions, and involves man who says he registered to vote in 2020 without knowing he was ineligible — A Miami judge on Friday dismissed one of the 19 voter fraud prosecutions loudly trumpeted …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Steve Bannon sentencing live updates: Former Trump aide's contempt of Congress case … 29m ago / 1:42 PM UTC — DOJ argues for $200,000 fine: Bannon is ‘not above the law’ — Steve Bannon should pay a fine of $200,000 because of his “contempt for the criminal justice system …
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New York Times:
Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Contempt of Congress — Stephen Bannon was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress this summer for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday sentenced Stephen K. Bannon …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Steve Bannon sentencing live updates: Former Trump aide's contempt of Congress case … 11m ago / 1:15 PM UTC — Judge Nichols has laid out how he will proceed this morning: — Daniel Barnes — The court is currently hearing objections from Bannon to the pre-sentence report.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress
Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Steve Bannon sentencing live updates: Former Trump aide sentenced to 4 months in prison
Steve Bannon sentencing live updates: Former Trump aide sentenced to 4 months in prison
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why I'm Telling My Friends That The Senate Is A Toss-Up — The Senate started out as a toss-up when we launched our forecast in June — and after a summer in which political developments mostly played to Democrats' favor, there is now clear movement back toward Republicans.
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Here's How the Election Deniers Are Performing in the Polls—and Why
Here's How the Election Deniers Are Performing in the Polls—and Why
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Joshua Blank / The Texas Politics Project:
With Texans focused on the border and the economy, Abbott leads O'Rourke 54%-43% among likely voters in new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll
With Texans focused on the border and the economy, Abbott leads O'Rourke 54%-43% among likely voters in new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: Biden Approval Drops As Republicans Congressional Control Chances Improve
National Poll: Biden Approval Drops As Republicans Congressional Control Chances Improve
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Democratic Secretary of State Candidates Struggle Against Election Deniers
Democratic Secretary of State Candidates Struggle Against Election Deniers
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The Guardian
Washington Post:
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter's workforce — Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter's motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk's plans to transform it — Twitter's workforce is likely to be hit with massive cuts in the coming months, no matter who owns the company …
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Bloomberg:
Twitter Tumbles After US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals — Biden administration officials are discussing whether the US should subject some of Elon Musk's ventures to national security reviews, including the deal for Twitter Inc. and SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jerusalem Post:
10 Iranians killed in Ukrainian strikes - report — The report comes as American and Ukrainian officials warn that Iranians are training Russians to use Iranian drones in Crimea. — 10 Iranians who were training Russian soldiers were killed in Ukrainian strikes in the Russia-Ukraine war in the past week …
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Washington Post:
Sorry you went viral — TikTok's explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity. But nothing goes viral like rage. — When Junna Faylee started making money on TikTok, the 21-year-old anime and gaming fan in London made it the centerpiece of her life. She devoted every night and weekend to making videos.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Daniel Smith, one of the last children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90 — He grew up hearing stories from his father, who was born into bondage during the Civil War. Decades later, he marched in Washington and Selma with fellow civil rights activists. — Growing up in the 1930s …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Newsmax Bans Lara Logan After She Goes Full QAnon, Spews Blood Libel on Network — “Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan,” the network said in a statement. “We have no plans to interview her again.” — Nearly a year after she was kicked …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Sotomayor lauds Supreme Court neighbor Clarence Thomas: He ‘cares about people’ — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sang praises about the longest-serving justice on the high court, Clarence Thomas , on Thursday, saying he “cares about people” while contending they clash on jurisprudence.
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Kaitlin Washburn / Chicago Sun-Times:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks the importance of civic engagement, her career on the bench
Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks the importance of civic engagement, her career on the bench
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The Hill
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Please don't play it again, Boris — I fear the Conservative party has forgotten that Johnson was the least popular postwar prime minister until Liz Truss — This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Monday and Friday
NBC News:
The decider: Jill Biden's unparalleled influence and impact on the president — WASHINGTON — Whenever his aides are pressed about President Joe Biden's political future, they'll often point to one person as the true decider: his wife of 45 years, Jill Biden. — She is, after all, her husband's foremost defender.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
James Corden Would Rather Not Talk About That Omelet — In an interview to promote his coming series, “Mammals,” the actor and late-night host dismissed a flap stemming from an Instagram post accusing him of boorish restaurant behavior. “I think it's so silly,” he said.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Liz Truss's fall is a warning to populists everywhere — “I am a fighter and not a quitter!” British Prime Minister Liz Truss thundered Wednesday in the House of Commons. “I am resigning,” she said Thursday, in a less bombastic tone of voice. Let's hope conservatives here and around …
Joelle Diderich / WWD:
EXCLUSIVE: Balenciaga Severs Ties With Ye — The French fashion house, which collaborated with the rapper on a line sold at Gap, is walking away from the relationship after he repeatedly used hate speech. … “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Joe Biden's Walk-and-Chew-Gum Campaign — The President says the midterms are “the most consequential” elections in recent history, but he's not acting like he means it. … For most of President Joe Biden's tenure, Fox News's Peter Doocy has played the role of pressroom scourge.
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Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Adults who choose to bully LGBTQ+ children are weird — and profoundly broken — The Michigan Pride rally at the state Capitol in Lansing on June 26, 2022. Photo by Andrew Roth — Twelve years ago, the LGBTQ+ community started a powerful campaign to help young people with three simple words: “It gets better.”
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Paul Berger / Wall Street Journal:
Southern California's Notorious Container Ship Backup Ends — Slump in imports, cargo diversions to other ports help shrink queue of dozens of vessels — The backup of container ships off Southern California's coast that was at the heart of U.S. supply chain congestion during the Covid-19 pandemic has effectively disappeared.