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10:30 AM ET, September 7, 2023

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CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden faces negative job ratings and concerns about his age as he gears up for 2024  —  President Joe Biden faces continued headwinds from broadly negative job ratings overall, widespread concerns about his age and decreased confidence among Democratic-aligned voters, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Best Anti-Trump Argument Can't Be Used  —  GOP primary voters don't want to hear it.  —  Donald Trump is winning the Republican nomination race in a walk, and it's been quite the pleasant stroll.  —  That's because his opponents can't make the most compelling argument against Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story, NBC News, USA Today and HuffPost
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden, as VP, was involved with son's business dealings  —  Most Americans say they think President Joe Biden was involved in his son's business dealings with Ukraine and China while he served as vice president under Barack Obama, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
ABC News:
Harris launching college tour to try to mobilize young voters in battleground states  —  The vice president is the face for the administration's work on abortion, more.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be hitting the road for a monthlong college tour, traveling to more than a dozen campuses across eight states.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
America's Authoritarian Exceptionalism  —  Demagogues usually arise in times of chaos and privation.  In America, our demagogues have become powerful during a period of peace and prosperity.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Decadence  —  We're going to keep doing this and I'm sorry.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump escalates false attacks on Biden as some Republicans push toward impeachment  —  In campaign speeches, the former president repeatedly exaggerates and misrepresents claims about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.  —  “Manchurian candidate.”  “Stone-cold thief.”  “Dumb son of a b—
Discussion: The Hill, The Messenger and Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump privately urged to support Biden's Saudi mega-deal  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Axios he has urged former President Trump to support the mega-deal President Biden is negotiating with Saudi Arabia, which could pave the way for a historic peace agreement between the kingdom and Israel.
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: ‘How am I in this war?’:  New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack …
CNN:
Michigan fake elector described planning with Trump campaign attorneys: ‘Mike Pence and Congress [to] make that decision’  —  One of the fake electors put forward by Republicans in Michigan said in December 2020 that the plan to use a slate of fake electors to help Donald Trump win …
The Messenger:
Republicans Narrow in on Bribery Charge for Biden Impeachment Probe (Exclusive)  —  ‘There was money flowing to the son of the vice president turned president,’ Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, tells The Messenger on why he wants to impeach Biden  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link …
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
Abortions Rose in Most States This Year, New Data Shows  —  Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more permissive abortion laws absorbed patients traveling …
Discussion: NPR, UPI and NBC News
Popular Information:
Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda  —  Last Monday, the Pennridge School Board, located outside of Philadelphia, imposed a new social studies curriculum that will require teachers to incorporate lessons from the 1776 Curriculum …
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Jim Garamone / U.S. Department of Defense:
Senate Confirmation Still in Limbo for 301 Military Leaders
Politico:
Pentagon goes on the attack amid Tuberville blockade
Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
Trump Plans $1M ‘Family Style’ Mar-a-Lago Dinner to Raise Money for His Co-Defendants (Exclusive)  —  The exact date of the candlelight event is still being ironed out, but Trump's sons will attend  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook …
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and Gizmodo
Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Behind the scenes: See how private ammo sales from US are fueling the war in Ukraine  —  The bullets came in plywood crates.  —  Any given box was about the size of a small microwave oven.  The printed label stuck to each one demonstrated a militaristic brevity.
Politico:
The Giuliani aide who ‘vanished’  —  Documents reviewed by POLITICO — and also in the hands of federal prosecutors — offer new details about Rudy Giuliani's ill-fated efforts to reverse the 2020 election.  —  In December 2020, an adviser to Rudy Giuliani circulated a draft email addressed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Brad Raffensperger / Wall Street Journal:
I Can't Keep Trump Off the Ballot  —  Voters should decide elections: That's the simple lesson of Georgia in 2018 and 2020.  —  Atlanta  —  Some legal scholars are arguing that secretaries of state should remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Keep Trump Off Ballots Under 14th Amendment
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Consider the Unthinkable: Missing Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell has bedeviled Democrats for decades.  Now, with his future in doubt, the Senate GOP Leader isn't looking like the worst-case scenario for his counterparts. … For decades, Democrats have hated, cursed …
Reuters:
UK PM Sunak faces new vote to fill seat after lawmaker accused of groping resigns  —  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces another difficult vote to fill a vacant seat in parliament after a lawmaker who was given an eight-week suspension for groping two men at a London club last year announced he plans to resign.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Bloomberg.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
John Eastman declines to elaborate on Trump world discussions about Grassley presiding on Jan. 6  —  He asserted attorney-client privilege when asked to discuss evidence that Trump's allies considered the Iowa senator playing a role to keep Trump in power.  —  John Eastman, testifying …
Gary Fields / Associated Press:
13 Presidential Libraries Issue Rare Joint Warning About U.S. Democracy  —  Their statement stopped short of slamming individuals as it called for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles.  —  LOADING  —  Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted …
CBS News:
Newly obtained George Santos “vulnerability report” spotted red flags long before embattled Rep. was elected  —  When an outside firm hired by then-congressional hopeful George Santos in 2021 delivered a secret internal report detailing aspects of the candidate's checkered background, several of his aides found it too much to stomach.
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Inside Nancy Pelosi's Fight For San Francisco  —  At 83, the former House speaker just might buck another trend — the one suggesting octogenarian lawmakers should hang up their spiked heels.  —  Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi's decision whether to seek reelection in 2024 will be influenced …
Heather Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Cancer among adults under 50 surged by 79%: Study  —  A study found that cancer cases in adults under 50 years old have risen sharply.  —  The study was published by BMJ Oncology and analyzed data between 1990 to 2019, finding an increase of 79% in cancer among people under 50 years old in just three decades.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Willis seeks to shield jurors in Trump trial  —  Move comes after online harassment of grand jurors who indicted former president  —  X  —  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the judge in the Donald Trump racketeering trial to shield the identities of prospective jurors …
Reuters:
Biden rejects conditions of plea deal for Sept. 11 attacks defendants  —  U.S. President Joe Biden has rejected several conditions sought by five Guantanamo Bay prisoners as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that would see them plead guilty to conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The Hill:
Prosecutors will seek Hunter Biden indictment by end of September  —  Special counsel David Weiss will seek to indict Hunter Biden before the end of this month, the prosecutor said in a court filing updating a judge on his investigation into the president's son's failure to pay taxes.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Special counsel to indict Hunter Biden in gun case this month, DOJ says
 
 
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
‘A riot is the language of the unheard’
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Associated Press:
Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure
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