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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 …
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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 …
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
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 …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump vows to appeal after judge set federal election trial for March 4, 2024
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Trump's trial calendar vs. the US political calendar
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Federal judge sets March trial date in Trump's election interference case
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” …
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 …
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
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:
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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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Apologizes After False Story About Gold Star Family  —  BACKTRACK  —  Fox News conceded on Saturday it published a false story last month that claimed a Gold Star family had to pay tens of thousands of dollars to ship their relative home from Afghanistan without help from the U.S. government.
 
 
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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
How the ‘urban doom loop’ could pose the next economic threat
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Mackenzie Mays / Los Angeles Times:
California sues Chino school district, aiming to end policy notifying parents of student gender changes
Department of Transportation:
DOT Fines American Airlines $4.1 Million for Unlawfully Keeping Thousands of Passengers on the Tarmac for Hours
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“We call that kind of love a cult”: Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Not Over Yet: Late-Summer Covid Wave Brings Warning of More to Come
Discussion: Althouse
The Hill:
Trump, co-defendants to be arraigned in Georgia on Sept. 6
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The Federalist Society's mugshots
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
The U.S. is pumping oil faster than ever. Republicans don't care.
Discussion: Political Wire