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11:05 AM ET, August 10, 2023

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ProPublica:
Clarence Thomas' 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel  —  Co-published with CNN  —  Friends of the Court: SCOTUS Justices' Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' decadeslong friendship …
New York Times:
Racing to Stop Trump, Republicans Descend on a Strange New Iowa  —  As the state fair and its Republican pageantry begin, Donald Trump's rivals face a transformed political environment in Iowa, where he holds a comfortable edge in polls despite rarely visiting.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Wall Street Journal:
How to Avoid Utter Embarrassment at the Iowa State Fair, as a Presidential Candidate  —  Political hopefuls find the annual fair can be an obstacle course.  Don't flip the pork chops too fast, watch out for the corn dogs.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa—Republican presidential hopefuls …
Discussion: Washington Post
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Won't Sign Pledge to Back Nominee Ahead of Republican Debate
John King / CNN:
'I think he's the best guy for the job': See the 2024 campaign through the eyes of Iowa voters
Discussion: Raw Story and Vanity Fair
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Pelosi reemerges as top Trump adversary  —  Rep. Nancy Pelosi is off the bench as former President Trump's top adversary on Capitol Hill.  —  After stepping down as Speaker last year, Pelosi (D-Calif.) has flown largely under the radar in the Democratic caucus, allowing a crop of new leaders …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
‘Anonymous’ Trump critic mulled Election Day suicide  —  A Trump administration insider who waged war against the president under the moniker “Anonymous” said he considered suicide on election night 2020 when it appeared that the former president was going to win.
Rolling Stone:
Trump's Allies Prepare for Indictments in Georgia Probe: 'They're Coming for Everyone'
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump seeks to reestablish secure facility at Mar-a-Lago to review classified evidence
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The truth about Monique Worrell  —  On November 3, 2020, Monique Worrell (D) was elected state's attorney in Florida's 9th Judicial District, which includes Orange and Osceola counties.  Worrell won in resounding fashion, collecting 395,979 votes and defeating her opponent by a two-to-one margin.
Discussion: WFTV, The Guardian, New Republic and CNBC
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis suspends second elected prosecutor as his 2024 campaign struggles
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
GOP Candidate Plagiarized Massive Segments of His College Thesis  —  Controversial GOP congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini appears to have lifted massive segments of his college thesis from Wikipedia and gotten away with it—until now. … Right-wing Florida Republican congressional …
Discussion: Raw Story
Gonzalo Solano / Associated Press:
Anti-corruption presidential candidate slain at campaign event in Ecuador's capital  —  An Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for speaking up against corruption was shot and killed Wednesday at a political rally in the capital, an attack that comes amid a wave of startling violence in the South American country.
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Stephan Kueffner / Bloomberg:
Ecuador Presidential Candidate Assassinated, Suspect Shot Dead
Daniel McGraw / The Bulwark:
Why the Ohio Special Election Backfired for the GOP  —  “AS I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS VOTE more and more, what they were trying to do and the way they were trying to do it was just kind of creepy.”  —  Outside a polling place in Cleveland on Tuesday, a thirtysomething art teacher was explaining to me her …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Abortion setback in Ohio alarms GOP, as Democrats see a ‘roadmap for 2024’
Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
Biden's first climate czar, Gina McCarthy, is getting a big new gig  —  Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202!  As a scheduling reminder, the newsletter is only publishing Tuesday through Thursday during the congressional recess.  We'll be back in your inbox on Tuesday.
Associated Press:
Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant  —  An armed Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president landed in the state Wednesday, authorities said.
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ABC News:
Man killed during FBI raid in connection with threats against Biden, other officials
NBC News:
FBI fatally shoots man in Utah who allegedly threatened Biden, Alvin Bragg and others
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Montgomery Brawl Was, for Some, a Clarifying Moment  —  The Alabama Sweet Tea Party.  —  That was one nickname people gave to a brawl this past Saturday on a Montgomery, Ala., riverfront dock, captured in viral videos, after a group of white people attacked Damien Pickett …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
July CPI report shows inflation gauge rose 3.2%, less than expected  —  WATCH NOW  —  Inflation gauge rose 3.2% annually in July, less than expected  —  The consumer price index rose 3.2% from a year ago in July, a sign that inflation has lost at least some of its grip on the U.S. economy.
NBC News:
Maui fires live updates: 6 dead as thousands flee ‘unprecedented’ disaster … Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle are thinking of all those affected by the wildfires in the state of Hawaii, and shared a way to help with his more than 131 million followers on social media.
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Associated Press:
Wildfire on Maui kills at least 6, damages over 270 structures as it sweeps through historic town
Alexander Nazaryan / New York Times:
Rewild the National Mall  —  Mr. Nazaryan is a writer and gardener.  —  I recently committed an act of sabotage at one of the most revered landmarks in the United States, a transgression against my relatively new home of Washington, D.C. Walking across the National Mall …
Discussion: Washington Post
Edward J Markey / The Guardian:
Private jets are awful for the climate.  It's time to tax the rich who fly in them  —  Private flights pollute up to 14 times more than commercial ones - yet are taxed less.  Let's change that  —  he climate crisis is not in transit, it's arrived at the gate.
 
 
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Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal:
To Battle New Threats, Spy Agencies to Share More Intelligence With Private Sector
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Major gun safety groups endorse Biden reelection bid
Discussion: Associated Press
Charles Hutzler / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. and China Poised to Drift Further Apart After Investment Ban
New York Times:
DeSantis, With a Subtle Maneuver, Hides His Small-Dollar Donations
Discussion: The Federalist and Raw Story
Washington Post:
How a swing-district Democrat is selling ‘Bidenomics’ (without saying it)
Discussion: Breitbart and Gallup
 Earlier Items: 
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives Are Mad That Robert E. Lee's Dead Horse Has Been Canceled
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were suppressed
Discussion: Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
Annie Grayer / CNN:
House Oversight GOP claims they don't need to find direct payments to Joe Biden to prove corruption in Hunter Biden business dealings memo
Madeline Miller / Washington Post:
Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Most Alabama voters want Tuberville to drop military hold: poll
Discussion: al.com and VoteVets
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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