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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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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Claims He Owns White House Pardon and Immigration Policy Records
Reuters:
U.S. appeals court temporarily blocks Biden's student loan forgiveness plan  —  A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions of dollars in college student debt, one day after a judge dismissed a Republican-led lawsuit by six states challenging the loan-forgiveness program.
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Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Appeals court temporarily halts Biden's student debt relief program  —  A federal appeals court on Friday evening blocked the imminent cancellation of federal student loans under President Biden's debt relief program, days after millions of borrowers began applying.
New York Times:
Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Biden's Student Debt Cancellation  —  A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted President Biden's student debt relief plan, preventing the government from moving forward with the debt cancellation it had said could start as early as next week.
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Biden Rips Lawmakers Who Pushed Billions In PPP Grants For Bashing Student Debt Aid
Axios:
Exclusive: Emails reveal warning to Trump team about fraud claims  —  A senior White House lawyer expressed concerns to President Trump's advisers and attorneys about the president signing a sworn court statement verifying inaccurate evidence of voter fraud, according to emails from December 2020 obtained by Axios.
Dennis Aftergut / Slate:
Why the Bannon Prison Sentence and Trump Jan. 6 Subpoena Matter  —  On Friday, one year to the day after Congress voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for defying the Jan. 6 committee's subpoena, Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail.  He was allowed to stay out of custody pending his appeal.
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Associated Press:
Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to Trump, demanding he testify
New York Times:
Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Contempt of Congress
Politico:
Biden's ‘worst performing message’  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  It's an article of faith among Democrats that their party is deeply hampered by its inability or unwillingness to tout its own accomplishments.
Discussion: NBC News
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Before resigning, Charlie Crist's campaign manager was arrested in domestic violence case  —  The manager for Charlie Crist's Florida gubernatorial campaign was arrested in a domestic violence case a day before he resigned his political position, NBC News has learned.
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Selim Algar / New York Post:
Florida Democrat gov candidate Charlie Crist's campaign chief Austin Durrer arrested for domestic violence
Discussion: Fox News
CNN:
Sen. Lindsey Graham asks the Supreme Court to block a subpoena from an Atlanta grand jury investigating 2020 election interference  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block a subpoena from the Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
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NBC News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham asks Supreme Court to block subpoena in criminal probe of 2020 election
Brian Riedl / New York Post:
Unmitigated gall of Joe Biden claiming that he ‘lowered’ debt  —  How should a president respond to running a $1.4 trillion budget deficit — 40% higher than before the pandemic — and adding trillions more to 10-year deficits?  —  If you are President Biden, you take a victory lap touting your “historic deficit reduction.”
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Washington Post:
Video shows GOP gov. nominee Dan Cox accepting gift from Md. Proud Boys  —  Footage posted online from Cox's July victory party shows the exchange, but it was removed after The Post contacted the Cox campaign.  He said in a statement he has no affiliation with people who stormed the capitol on Jan. 6.
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
How Liz Cheney can kill the MAGA threat  —  Killing the MAGA movement is beyond the capacity and imagination of the national Democratic Party's sclerotic and inept leadership.  It has failed utterly.  Even more atrociously, Chuck Schumer has failed to adequately support and fund …
Adam B. Coleman / Speaking Wrong At The Right Time:
The Mainstream Media Lied to Me About Conservatives  —  How political media propaganda prevented me from understanding conservatives  —  Looking back, when I was a Democrat, I never personally knew any Republicans or conservatives yet my entire perception of what they stood for was based on left-leaning media filtering.
Miami Herald:
DeSantis cracked down on migrant labor.  Then one helped coordinate his migrant flights  —  A Venezuelan migrant unable to legally work in the United States was paid to help coordinate Gov. Ron DeSantis' migrant flight program, putting the Republican governor's high-profile political gambit …
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Nevada, election deniers prepare to sabotage the midterms  —  PAHRUMP, Nev. — If the midterm elections degenerate into chaos in a couple of weeks — a very real possibility — then Nevada is poised to lead the way.  Indeed, the chaos here has already begun.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioter who brought two guns to Capitol sentenced to five years in prison  —  WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and dropped one of them on Capitol grounds, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Friday.
Miles Cohen / ABC News:
Florida voter has election fraud charges touted by DeSantis dismissed  —  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 …
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NBC News:
Voters in battleground states prefer Republican House candidates over Democrats by 6%, survey says  —  Republicans and Democrats around the nation are statistically tied when it comes to which party voters prefer to control the House of Representatives — but Republicans have a 6-point lead …
Discussion: HotAir
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Tim Ryan may help save Senate Dems' majority.  Even if he loses.  —  TOLEDO, Ohio — Tim Ryan is arguably running the country's most valuable Senate campaign.  Even if he doesn't win.  —  The self-described Democratic “underdog” is neck-and-neck with J.D. Vance in the race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).
New York Post:
Lee Zeldin inches past Kathy Hochul in dead-heat governor's race, stunning new poll reveals  —  Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin has edged past Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul by decimal points and the race for governor is now a dead heat, a stunning new poll released Friday reveals.
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F.'s Toiletgate: Newsom calls $1.7 million bathroom a waste, halts state money until costs come down  —  Noe Valley's simple wish to get a public bathroom installed in its treasured Town Square appears to be circling the drain — with even Gov. Gavin Newsom wading into the spat over its projected $1.7 million cost.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Carmen Sesin / NBC News:
DeSantis' popularity among Latinos is boosting his chances of being the first Republican in 20 years to win Miami-Dade  —  MIAMI — Florida Democrats are fretting over Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' popularity among Latinos, saying they are boosting his chances of becoming the first Republican governor …
Discussion: WESH-TV
Giulia Heyward / NPR:
Trudeau orders an immediate freeze on the sale of handguns in Canada  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is placing a nationwide freeze on the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns, effective immediately.  —  The handgun freeze is the latest in an ongoing battle among Canadian lawmakers over gun control measures.
 
 
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Oliver Willis / The American Independent:
President Biden visits Pittsburgh bridge being repaired thanks to infrastructure funding
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Reuters:
Russia poised to largely skirt new G7 oil price cap
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Laurel Brubaker Calkins / Bloomberg:
Sandy Hook Families Ask Judge to Max Out Alex Jones Penalty
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Jake Tapper fuels GOP bashing in primetime despite CNN's newfound mission toward nonpartisanship
Discussion: OutKick
John Loftus / The Daily Caller:
Republicans Tear Into One Of Their Leaders For Requesting ‘Social Justice’ Highway Money From Buttigieg
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Biden Is Now Licking Ice Cream on a Times Square Billboard
American Prospect:
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Emily Flitter / New York Times:
Where $30 Billion to Fix Systemic Racism Actually Goes
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: After Ukraine, Biden administration turns to Musk's satellite internet for Iran
 

 
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Financial Times:
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