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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators weigh ‘special’ meeting on their leadership after McConnell's freeze — It takes just five Republicans to force such a sitdown, the most direct way to specifically discuss their future amid revived questions about the leader's health. — A handful of GOP senators is weighing whether …
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Playbook: Mitch McConnell's untenable silence — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — JUST POSTED — “Feinstein is a silent character in her sad and messy final chapter,” by Dustin Gardiner: “The feud over the estate left by Sen. DIANNE FEINSTEIN's late husband …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Ingraham Wants Mitch McConnell to Resign Just So She Can Keep Calling Biden ‘Decrepit’
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Washington Post:
McConnell ‘medically clear’ to do job, says attending physician to Congress
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp rejects talk of special session, says punishing Fani Willis carries risks — X — During a remarkable press conference, Gov. Brian Kemp quashed the idea of a special legislative session pushed by former President Donald Trump and his allies to oust Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis …
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Tim Darnell / Atlanta News First:
UPDATES: Trump hearings, trials will be YouTube live streamed
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Graham Kates / CBS News:
Trump enters not guilty plea in Fulton County, won't appear for arraignment
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump asks to sever Georgia election case from co-defendants seeking speedy trial
New York Times:
The Key Players in Trump's Plot to Upend the Election, Mapped
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Insider:
Trump told NY officials he was too busy saving the world ‘from nuclear holocaust’ to commit business fraud — In a sworn deposition, Trump told New York officials he was too busy “saving millions of lives” to commit business fraud. — “I think you would have nuclear holocaust” …
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Insider:
Trump rambled so much in a NY fraud-case deposition, a lawyer griped, 'we're going to be here until midnight' — Trump gave long-winded answers while being deposed in NY AG Letitia James' financial-fraud lawsuit. — He went on and on about his “beautiful” and “tremendous” golf courses, a new transcript shows.
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Nicole Narea / Vox:
Trump could soon be in big legal trouble for inflating his net worth — New York's attorney general wants a speedy ruling in the case over Trump's business dealings. — New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a speedy judgment against former President Donald Trump for allegedly inflating …
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HuffPost:
Proud Boys Joe Biggs, Zachary Rehl Sentenced For Jan. 6 Plot — Biggs, an Army veteran and former Infowars correspondent, was sentenced to 17 years for seditious conspiracy. Rehl was sentenced to 15 years. — LOADING — Two leaders of the Proud Boys street gang were each sentenced Thursday …
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NBC News:
Proud Boy Joe Biggs receives 17 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case — The former Infowars correspondent, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, “served as an instigator and leader” during the Capitol attack, federal prosecutors said. — Proud Boy Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in prison in Jan. 6 case
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Justice Thomas says he used private jet for security reasons after Dobbs leak — In required financial disclosure, Justice Clarence Thomas reports three 2022 trips on private jet of Harlan Crow — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported three 2022 trips on the private jet …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Clarence Thomas officially discloses private trips on GOP donor Harlan Crow's plane
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Why Biden is now routinely taking the short stairs up to Air Force One — It's one of the iconic images of the American presidency: the commander in chief, standing and waving to the cameras from the top of the stairs leading into Air Force One. — But recently, President Biden …
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Jozsef Papp / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton judge says Trump court proceedings will be televised — X — A Fulton County judge on Thursday said that all court proceedings in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants will be live streamed and televised.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Giuliani loses support of billionaires Langone, Cooperman: 'I wouldn't give him a nickel' — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not be getting help with his legal bills from many of the big-money donors who financed his 2008 campaign for president.
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
45 New Victims Allegedly ID'd in Leaked Chats From Andrew Tate's ‘War Room’ — Paying members allegedly discussed chilling techniques to abuse and groom women into sex work. — Members of influencer Andrew Tate's “War Room” group discussed techniques for how to groom women …
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Governor Jim Pillen was sworn …:
Governor Pillen Establishes Women's Bill of Rights by Executive Order — CONTACT: — LINCOLN, NE - Today, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed an Executive Order establishing the Women's Bill of Rights. Gov. Pillen is the second U.S. Governor to sign such an order, declaring the biological definition of male and female.
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
K-12 Education Satisfaction in U.S. Ties Record Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S. has fallen six percentage points in the past year to match the record-low 36% reading on this measure, which Gallup has tracked for 24 years.
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Andy Rose / CNN:
Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions — Alabama's Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions.
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
Definition of “Engaged in the Business” as a Dealer in Firearms — On August 30, 2023, the Attorney General signed ATF's notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 2022R-17, “Definition of ‘Engaged in the Business’ as a Dealer in Firearms,” which proposes to amend ATF's regulations to implement …
Chris Whipple / New York Times:
Mark Meadows Is a Warning About a Second Trump Term — On Monday, Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff, testified in an effort to move the Georgia racketeering case against his former boss Donald Trump and co-defendants to federal court. On the stand, he said that he believed …
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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
FEMA is down to its last $3.4 billion as Maui wildfires, Hurricane Idalia slam U.S. — FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said this week that the U.S. disaster relief fund has a balance of $3.4 billion, which will be exhausted in the first half of September.
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