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2:25 AM ET, August 29, 2023

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Devan Cole / CNN:
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro's testimony in contempt case is ‘weak sauce,’ judge says  —  The federal judge overseeing Peter Navarro's contempt of Congress criminal case on Monday called his defense arguments “pretty weak sauce,” injecting last-minute uncertainty into how the former Donald Trump adviser …
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
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
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
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump vows to appeal after judge set federal election trial for March 4, 2024
Léonie Chao-Fong / The Guardian:
Trump vows to appeal after judge sets March 2024 trial date - as it happened
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's federal trial for subverting election is scheduled for March
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’
Discussion: Fox News
Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:
Eminem Hits Vivek Ramaswamy With Cease and Desist Following ‘Lose Yourself’ Performance: Report
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
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
Doha Madani / NBC News:
‘Joe The Plumber,’ thrust into spotlight for confronting Obama, dies at 49
Discussion: UPI, New York Daily News and Breitbart
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy's Racist Con Game The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy's Racist Con Game  —  While the emerging GOP star benefits from the right's version of affirmative action, his ugly response to the Jacksonville shootings shows the cost—and constraints—of his strategy.  —  Pocket
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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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Neo-Nazis Repeatedly Targeted Jacksonville Before Mass Shooting
The Daily Beast:
Media #MeToo Men Mount Pathetic Comebacks  —  This week, Confider checked on some of the media stars felled during #MeToo and learned that some of them have been trying to mount comebacks—with varying degrees of success. … Summer 2023 has been a busy time for alleged serial sexual harassers hoping …
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
April Rubin / Axios:
“Fake news”: DeSantis campaign denies Trump claim he might drop out of 2024 race  —  GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign on Monday dismissed former President Trump's suggestion that he had plans to drop out of the 2024 race. … - “Clearly, Donald Trump and his army of consultants …
NBC News:
‘Doing the right thing’ was worth $40 million to this ex-Marine mother of three  —  When Sarah Feinberg left the Corps, she took a job at a prestigious D.C. contractor.  But when she suspected it was overcharging taxpayers $500 million, she became a whistleblower.
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 …
Associated Press:
Biden is ‘old,’ Trump is ‘corrupt’: AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Old.  Confused.  Corrupt.  Dishonest.  —  Those are among the top terms Americans use when they're asked to describe President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Apologizes After False Story About Gold Star Family
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Mackenzie Mays / Los Angeles Times:
California sues Chino school district, aiming to end policy notifying parents of student gender changes
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Emma Farge / Reuters:
UN seeks to help children battling climate change in court
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’
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“We call that kind of love a cult”: Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain
 

 
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