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8:45 AM ET, August 10, 2023

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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Derogatory and false’: Fulton DA denies rumors circulated by Trump  —  Fani Willis expected to seek indictment against Trump in week ahead  —  X  —  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday flatly denied that she had a relationship with a former client and other rumors spread …
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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 …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump seeks to reestablish secure facility at Mar-a-Lago to review classified evidence
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  — Anti-graft campaigner murdered less than two weeks before vote  — Soaring violence has made Ecuador more violent than Colombia  —  Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, a journalist known for his crusade …
ABC News:
Man killed during FBI raid in connection with threats against Biden, other officials  —  The Utah man was shot and killed during an FBI raid early Wednesday morning.  —  A Utah man was shot and killed during an FBI raid early Wednesday morning, the FBI confirmed to ABC News.
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Associated Press:
Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant
NBC News:
FBI fatally shoots man in Utah who allegedly threatened Biden, Alvin Bragg and others
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, CNBC, The Guardian and New Republic
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis suspends second elected prosecutor as his 2024 campaign struggles
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and CNN
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 …
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Won't Sign Pledge to Back Nominee Ahead of Republican Debate  — Former president says he'll announce debate decision next week  — Republican 2024 candidates will meet on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee  —  Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said he would announce next week whether …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Coast Guard rescues people fleeing into ocean to escape Hawaii wildfires
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account  —  Twitter's initial resistance to complying with the warrant resulted in a federal judge holding the company in contempt and levying a $350,000 fine.  —  Special Counsel Jack Smith sought and obtained a search warrant …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Special Counsel Obtained Search Warrant for Trump's Twitter Account
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Abortion setback in Ohio alarms GOP, as Democrats see a ‘roadmap for 2024’  —  Trump's former campaign manager warns abortion could provide “rocket fuel” to Biden's re-election bid.  A Democratic pollster says it will motivate voters “as long as sex is salient.”
Charles Hutzler / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. and China Poised to Drift Further Apart After Investment Ban  —  President Biden's order comes on top of a slowing Chinese economy, Covid lockdowns and rising tensions between the two powers  —  WASHINGTON—After years of blacklisting Chinese companies and scrutinizing their investments in the U.S. …
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New York Times:
Biden Orders Ban on New Investments in China's Sensitive High-Tech Industries
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were suppressed  — An FBI veteran said his superiors suppressed investigations of Trump, Insider can exclusively reveal.  — “Are we going to do public corruption or not?” the whistleblower said to Insider.
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 …
Trisha Ahmed / Associated Press:
GOP donor Anton Lazzaro sentenced to 21 years for sex trafficking minors in Minnesota  —  A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison on sex trafficking charges.
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  —  House Oversight Republicans laid out their intention to accuse President Joe Biden of corruption even without direct evidence that he financially benefited …
 
 
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Alexander Nazaryan / New York Times:
Rewild the National Mall
Discussion: Washington Post
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
ABC exiting Twitter: Australia's national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk's X
Washington Post:
How a swing-district Democrat is selling ‘Bidenomics’ (without saying it)
Discussion: Gallup and Breitbart
John King / CNN:
'I think he's the best guy for the job': See the 2024 campaign through the eyes of Iowa voters
Discussion: New York Times and Vanity Fair
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives Are Mad That Robert E. Lee's Dead Horse Has Been Canceled
 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
‘Big Brother’ contestant Luke Valentine removed from show after using N-word on camera
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, VoteVets and The Messenger
Media Matters for America:
Fox News prime-time ratings continue to crater as Lachlan Murdoch downplays collapse to stakeholders
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
 

 
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon's Twitch is launching The Glitch, a “brand-customizable” game world in Fortnite, on September 20, with two brand partners having their own in-game worlds
 
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