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4:45 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 …
Léonie Chao-Fong / The Guardian:
Trump vows to appeal after judge sets March 2024 trial date - live  —  Experts say trial dates typically not subject to appeal as Mark Meadows attempts to move his case to federal court  —  Key events  —  Trump says he'll appeal 4 March trial start  —  DeSantis speaks to Biden …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Federal judge sets March trial date in Trump's election interference case
Washington Post:
Meadows heads to federal court for first skirmish in Trump Georgia 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” …
Doha Madani / NBC News:
‘Joe The Plumber,’ thrust into spotlight for confronting Obama, dies at 49  —  Joe Wurzelbacher became a political celebrity after posing a question in 2008 to then-candidate Barack Obama regarding his tax policies and small business.  —  Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, whose question to Barack Obama …
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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis booed at vigil for Jacksonville shooting victims
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
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:
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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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.
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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
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
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 …
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: Mediaite and The Hill
Department of Transportation:
DOT Fines American Airlines $4.1 Million for Unlawfully Keeping Thousands of Passengers on the Tarmac for Hours  —  Largest Fine Against a Carrier for Violating the Tarmac Delay Rule After DOT Investigation Uncovers Dozens of Violations  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation …
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Emma Farge / Reuters:
UN seeks to help children battling climate change in court
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“We call that kind of love a cult”: Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters
Discussion: Raw Story and The Messenger
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Not Over Yet: Late-Summer Covid Wave Brings Warning of More to Come
Discussion: Althouse
 Earlier Items: 
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain
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:
The Real Story Behind Ron DeSantis' Newest Fired Prosecutor
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The World Is Contemplating a Second Trump Administration
Discussion: Politico
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it's terrible?
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
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