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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney says he will not seek a second term in the Senate — In a Post interview, Romney is critical of both Trump and Biden, and says most Republicans are drawn to a ‘populist demagogue message.’ His decision not to seek reelection is likely to be the end of the 2012 GOP presidential nominee's political career.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate — In an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire. — For most of his life, Mitt Romney has nursed a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one day suddenly and violently.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
President Biden should not run again in 2024 — Joe Biden launched his candidacy for president in 2019 with the words “we are in the battle for the soul of this nation.” He was right. And though it wasn't obvious at first to many Democrats, he was the best person to wage that fight.
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New York Times:
Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging G.O.P. Lawmakers to Impeach Biden
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CNN:
Fact-checking McCarthy's claims while launching Biden impeachment inquiry — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made several unproven claims Tuesday while announcing the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. — The Republican-led investigation will focus on …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
White House sends letter to news execs urging outlets to ‘ramp up’ scrutiny of GOP's Biden impeachment inquiry ‘based on lies’ — The White House sent a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched …
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NBC News:
Pence backtracks on impeachment comments after McCarthy's U-turn on House floor vote
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
House Dem: Hunter Biden looks ‘guilty,’ not his dad
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Politico:
Conservative mutiny forces delay in House Pentagon spending bill — “I don't know that this has anything to do with defense,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said of the GOP infighting. — House Republican infighting forced Speaker Kevin McCarthy to pump the brakes on the chamber's annual …
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Politico:
Court blocks Jack Smith's access to many of Rep. Scott Perry's contacts about 2020 election — The appeals panel concluded that prosecutors' effort to access cellphone communications with colleagues officials violated the lawmaker's constitutional immunity.
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Court limits Jack Smith's access to Scott Perry cell phone contents
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump, Meadows offer quid pro quo on speedy trial to sever Georgia election case from co-defendants — Donald Trump offered to “exchange” his right to a speedy trial in his Georgia election-conspiracy case for an Atlanta judge ruling that would have the former president tried separately from 18 other defendants.
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Katherine Stewart / New Republic:
The Right-Wing Conspiracy-Fest Is More Openly Bloodthirsty Than Before — The first thing I noticed at the latest stop on the ReAwaken America Tour in Las Vegas in mid-August was that the T-shirts are getting nastier. “Size Matters” blared one man's shirt over enlarged images of bullets of various calibers.
NBC News:
Judge restricts Trump's access to classified info in docs case and limits what he can say — U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon set specific parameters for how and when the former president can review the evidence in case against him in Florida. — The judge presiding over the federal …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola's husband dies in plane crash — Rep. Mary Peltola's (D-Alaska) husband has died in a plane accident in Alaska, her chief of staff announced Wednesday. — “We are devastated to share that Mary's husband, Eugene Peltola Jr.—'Buzzy' to all of us who knew and loved him …
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Shawna Mizelle / CNN:
Husband of Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola dies in plane crash
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Andrew Gawthorpe / The Guardian:
What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans — The state's so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she's ruled on a single case — f you need a reminder …
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Milley disputes claim he recommended Trump attack Iran — You can watch the full interview with Gen. Mark Milley on “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on Sunday at 10 a.m. ET. — CNN — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview Wednesday …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jury's fresh-air break could upend Navarro conviction — The former Donald Trump adviser was on trial for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. — An unusual outdoor excursion by the jury that convicted Peter Navarro — just 30 minutes before delivering its verdict last week …
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Andrew Kerr / Washington Free Beacon:
Is AOC Married? Her Office Says No. Her Legal Filings in Congress Say Otherwise. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D., N.Y.) office says she isn't married. But she has described her fiancé, Riley Roberts, as her “spouse” in forms filed with the House Ethics Committee in 2023 …
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Stephen Rodrick / Variety:
Sean Penn's Crusade: Why He's Risking It All for Ukraine, Furious at Will Smith and Ready to Call Bulls— on Studios' AI Proposals — Summer light fades to gold in Malibu. Surfers carve tasty waves just down the road. A beautiful woman wanders toward the pool house.
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Andrew Hay / Reuters:
US judge freezes New Mexico governor's gun ban — A federal judge in New Mexico on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order against state Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham's ban on carrying guns in Albuquerque and its surrounding county, on grounds it violated the U.S. constitution.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Lauren Boebert ditches the MAGA thing in Colorado — With her seat in danger, the Coloradan is starting to sound like a completely different person at home. — FRUITA, Colo. — Lauren Boebert is one of Washington's loudest proponents of impeaching Joe Biden.
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Myah Ward / Politico:
She's 25, idealistic, and believes she has the formula to win North Carolina for Joe Biden — The state's Democratic Party chair is organizing youth and rural voters, and people have noticed: “They know she's fighting for them.” — Anderson Clayton, the youngest statewide party leader in the country …
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
US Greenlights $5 Billion Sale of F-35s to South Korea — The US approved the sale of as many as 25 F-35 fighter jets to South Korea, a major weapons offer to a key regional ally after a summit aimed at expressing unity in the face of China's growing assertiveness.
Associated Press:
Escaped Pennsylvania prisoner Danelo Cavalcante was located with help from plane's thermal imaging — A murderer who brazenly escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured Wednesday in the woods by a team of tactical officers, bringing an end to an intensive search that terrified residents …
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