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7:25 PM ET, August 28, 2023

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Politico:
Mark Meadows takes stand in bid to derail Georgia criminal charges  —  The former top Trump aide testified that he viewed nearly everything as part of his official duties — an argument he hopes will give him immunity.  —  ATLANTA — Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows took …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump vows to appeal after judge set federal election trial for March 4, 2024  — A federal judge set a March 4, 2024, trial date in former President Donald Trump's criminal election interference case.  — Judge Tanya Chutkan delivered that ruling after rejecting two wildly different …
Washington Post:
Meadows testifies in Atlanta; March trial date for Trump in D.C.  —  Trump D.C. trial set to begin in March amid GOP primaries and other trial dates  —  U.S. prosecutor says Trump's social media posts show need for quick trial  —  'Let's take the temperature down,' judge says in D.C. hearing
Associated Press:
Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds. Trump has problems of his own
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Trump's trial calendar vs. the US political calendar
Léonie Chao-Fong / The Guardian:
Trump vows to appeal after judge sets March 2024 trial date - as it happened
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Federal judge sets March trial date in Trump's election interference case
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's federal trial for subverting election is scheduled for March
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Sets Trial Date in March for Trump's Federal Election Case
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Samuel Wurzelbacher, Celebrated as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ Dies at 49  —  For Republicans in 2008, he briefly became a symbol of Middle America when he questioned the presidential candidate Barack Obama in an impromptu televised encounter.  —  Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who briefly became …
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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  —  Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber by trade, became a key part of Republican John McCain's presidential campaign  —  Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who became known as “Joe the Plumber” …
Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Eminem sends Vivek Ramaswamy a cease and desist letter demanding he stop rapping his music on the campaign trail  — Rapper Eminem has objected to Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy using his music on the campaign trail, DailyMail.com can exclusively report
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Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:
Ramaswamy Fires At Nikki Haley On Campaign Website: ‘Keep Lying, Namrata Randhawa’  —  The 2024 hopeful's website referenced the former ambassador's birth name to dispel a ‘myth’ about his support of Israel  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook …
Discussion: Fox News
Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:   Eminem Hits Vivek Ramaswamy With Cease and Desist Following ‘Lose Yourself’ Performance: Report
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  —  A federal hate crime investigation is underway after a White gunman with a swastika-emblazoned assault rifle killed three Black people at a Dollar General store …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
DeSantis booed at vigil for victims of racist shooting in Florida
CBS News:
Peter Navarro says Trump told him to assert privilege during Jan. 6 committee investigation  —  Washington — Former top Trump White House economic adviser Peter Navarro told a federal judge that Donald Trump made it “very clear” that he wanted Navarro to invoke certain privileges and not respond …
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
The Hill:
The administration's love letter to unions  —  A new Treasury Department report found unions help to raise wages and benefits for workers and can lead to positive economic “spillover effects.”  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen described her agency's report Monday as “the administration's latest action …
Hannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press:
Faculty member shot and killed in a campus building, says University of North Carolina official  —  A University of North Carolina faculty member was shot and killed in a campus building, officials said Monday.  A suspect was arrested about an hour and a half after shots were reported …
Emma James / Daily Mail:
Burning Man 2023: Nevada Rangers plow truck through Extinction Rebellion protest after the activists blocked road into festival causing ‘miles-long gridlock’  — Officers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police drove through the blockade  —  Rangers have smashed through a climate protest blocking …
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
MAGA attorney gets three years after voter fraud conviction in Ohio  —  A Trump-supporting tax attorney in Shaker Heights, Ohio has been sentenced to three years for illegally voting twice, reported the Cleveland Scene.  —  This comes a week after the attorney, 53-year-old James Saunders, was convicted.
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
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
How the ‘urban doom loop’ could pose the next economic threat  —  A commercial real estate apocalypse — especially in midsize cities — could spiral into the broader economy  —  In Indianapolis, the technology giant Salesforce is paring back a quarter of its office space in the tallest building in Indiana …
Discussion: HotAir, The Daily Caller and Eschaton
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America  —  They stood on an arena stage in Milwaukee under a massive sign that read “Democracy” — the metaphorical 800-pound gorilla that loomed over this strange political event but was never really discussed.
Discussion: Raw Story
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and top Republicans have begun to strategize about how to move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this fall - the latest sign that the House GOP is seriously laying …
 
 
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