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7:15 AM ET, August 14, 2023

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CNN:
Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach  —  Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump's legal team …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump's ‘Co-Conspirators’ Are Already Starting to Turn on Each Other  —  “It is the 'please don't put me in jail, put that other guy in jail' strategy,” says one attorney working in Trump's legal orbit … A number of the ex-president's chief lieutenants and alleged co-conspirators in the plot …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Louis DeJoy: From Trump villain to Biden's clean energy buddy  —  The postmaster general has struck up an unexpected partnership with the president's green guru, John Podesta.  —  During the summer of 2020, there were few bigger Democratic super villains than Louis DeJoy.
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Brady Leonard / Washington Examiner:
What is the plan, Trump?  —  Former President Donald Trump is notoriously a man of many words, as are his multitudes of surrogates and supporters.  The 45th president and his team have had quite a bit to say recently about the mental state of special counsel Jack Smith, “disloyal” Ron …
Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Is Ground Zero for Trump Exhaustion as Another Indictment Looms  —  Case is a reminder of the 2020 election saga that has torn state GOP apart; 'It's just getting ridiculous'  —  PEACHTREE CITY, Ga.—Georgia has become ground zero for exhaustion over the legal drama surrounding Donald Trump …
NBC News:
RFK Jr. says he'd sign a federal ban on abortions after three months of pregnancy  —  The stance puts Kennedy — who's mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.  —  DES MOINES, IOWA …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court is taking a wrecking ball to the wall between church and state  —  The Court's Republican majority has ground the Constitution's establishment clause down to a nub.  —  Last June, a previously obscure Oklahoma state board voted to allow two Roman Catholic dioceses to operate a charter school in that state.
Discussion: The Guardian
David Cohen / Politico:
Christie says no one has given him a loyalty pledge to sign  —  The RNC's loyalty pledge is a hot issue in advance of the first GOP debate.  —  Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Sunday he has yet to sign the party's loyalty pledge because no one has given it to him.
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Trump creates spectacle with debate guessing game
Discussion: NBC News
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops  —  Very few stories these days take my breath away, but this one did the trick: Cops in Kansas raided the office of local newspaper the Marion County Record Friday morning because of a complaint by a local restaurant owner named Kari Newell.
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Clay Wirestone / Kansas Reflector:
In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans' First Amendment rights
Kenneth Niemeyer / Insider:
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year.  Now every public school student is going to get free lunch.  — Massachusetts passed a 4% tax on people who make more than $1 million per year.  — Revenue from the new income tax is being used to give kids in the state free lunch and breakfast at school.
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newsom vs. DeSantis debate stalling over Fox News audience  —  The California Democrat and Florida Republican agreed to the debate, but hit a stalemate over the network hosting a live studio audience.  —  Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis have reached an impasse in their Fox News debate planned for November …
Discussion: The Hill and ABC7
New York Times:
The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think  —  The United States is pivoting away from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar and other renewable energy, even in areas dominated by the oil and gas industries.  —  This is the first article in a three-part series examining the speed …
CNN:
Hunter Biden's lawyer says trial ‘not inevitable’ as scrutiny mounts  —  Hunter Biden's lawyer on Sunday said a trial is “not inevitable,” days after the Trump-appointed US attorney investigating the president's son was granted special counsel status following a breakdown in plea talks to resolve tax and gun charges.
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
2 eject from vintage Soviet jet before crash at Michigan air show  —  No injuries were reported when the MiG-23, flying at Thunder Over Michigan, plummeted and hit vehicles in a parking lot in Belleville, authorities said.  —  Two people in a vintage fighter jet ejected dramatically …
Washington Post:
Trump swoops into Iowa fair, defying customs and clashing with DeSantis  —  Pork chops, protesters of the Florida governor and a swift visit by the former president were at the center of a high-drama day  —  DES MOINES — The crowd that had craned to watch Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) …
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
DeSantis Gets Heckled and Trolled on His Big Day With Trump in Iowa
 
 
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