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2:55 PM ET, August 28, 2023

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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump federal election trial set for March 4, 2024  — The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's criminal election interference case shut down a bid by the former president to set his trial more than two-and-a-half years away.  — But the judge also said that she would reject …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Sets Trial Date in March for Trump's Federal Election Case  —  Judge Tanya S. Chutkan rejected efforts by the former president's legal team to postpone the trial until 2026.  —  The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump's prosecution on charges of conspiring …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's federal trial for subverting election is scheduled for March  —  “Mr. Trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule,” the judge said as she set the trial for March 4, one day before Super Tuesday.  —  Donald Trump will go to trial in Washington …
Associated Press:
Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds.  Trump has problems of his own  —  Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term.  Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Federal judge sets March trial date in Trump's election interference case  —  The trial will begin in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries.  Special counsel Jack Smith had requested a January trial, while Trump pushed for a 2026 start date.  —  Trump federal election interference trial set for March 4
Wall Street Journal:
The World Is Contemplating a Second Trump Administration
Discussion: Politico
CBS News:
Judge sets March 2024 trial date in Trump's federal case related to 2020 election
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
DeSantis booed at vigil for victims of racist shooting in Florida  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate, was met with boos while speaking late Sunday at a vigil held for the three victims of a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville.
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CNN:
A federal hate crime probe is underway after 3 people were killed in a racist rampage in Jacksonville, officials say. Here's what we know
Associated Press:
Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot 3 Black people at a Florida store
Kaitlin McKinley Becker / NBC Boston:
GOP activist, lawyer stabbed to death in his Durham, NH, home  —  A suspicious death investigation that was underway this weekend in Durham, New Hampshire, has been ruled a homicide after an autopsy was completed on the victim.  —  The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office said in a statement Sunday …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Killing of ‘Staunch’ GOP Activist in New Hampshire Under Investigation  —  A colleague called Alexander Talcott “an exceptionally skilled champion for the rule of law and the importance of fair and honest elections.”  —  A Republican Party activist and lawyer died after he was fatally stabbed …
The Hill:
Trump, co-defendants to be arraigned in Georgia on Sept. 6  —  Former President Trump will be arraigned next Wednesday in Georgia over charges he and 18 co-defendants sought to overturn the state's election results.  —  Trump's arraignment has been set for Sept. 6 at 9:30 a.m. …
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NBC News:
Trump and co-defendants in Georgia election case will be arraigned Sept. 6
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates  —  Home Polls August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates  —  Hunter Biden Legal Issues Offsetting Trump Indictments for Independents  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump support ‘softening,’ possible opening for challengers
Discussion: Kaplan Strategies
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Riley Gaines Wrecks Nebraska Democrat for Tone-Deaf Statement About Women's Sports  —  For a party that claims to be the women looking out for women, the Democrats sure are doing a lot to erase them in favor of some transgender agenda.  —  While you can see a demonstration a day …
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
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Martha Stoddard / Lincoln Journal Star:
Swimmer brings crusade against trans athletes in women's sports to Nebraska
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“We call that kind of love a cult”: Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters  —  New poll reveals that members of the MAGA cult trust Trump most: He “provides the kind of love they crave”  —  As I have previously explored in a series of conversations with cult …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Messenger
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’  —  Feds allege officers collected photos of K-9 attacks and crafted an American flag with spent munitions … But what happens when these same police become agents of wanton violence?  A new federal indictment pulls …
 
 
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
‘Joe The Plumber,’ who rose to fame after confronting Barack Obama on the 2008 campaign trail, dead at 49
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
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Discussion: Althouse
Bloomberg:
Michel Calls for EU to Be Ready for New Members by 2030
Discussion: Politico
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain
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Ruth Igielnik / New York Times:
Americans Still Put Their Trust in Juries. Will Trump's Trials Break That Faith?
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it's terrible?
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
The U.S. is pumping oil faster than ever. Republicans don't care.
Discussion: Fortune and Political Wire
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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