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10:45 PM ET, October 10, 2023

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US Department of Justice:
Congressman George Santos Charged With Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, False Statements, Falsification of Records, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Credit Card Fraud  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York  —  Santos Allegedly Filed Fraudulent Fundraising Reports …
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NBC News:
Embattled Rep. George Santos hit with additional charges, including identity theft  —  Prosecutors said Santos claimed he made non-existent loans to his campaign while making unauthorized charges on donors' credit cards.  —  Federal prosecutors hit Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. …
Nicholas Grossman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Overrated Peace Plan Helped Enable the Horrors in Israel and Gaza  —  The Abraham Accords didn't bring “the dawn of a new Middle East,” they completely ignored the Palestinians and let the Netanyahu government do almost anything it wanted. … No American president caused Hamas …
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Associated Press:
Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas
Washington Post:
Israel-Hamas war live updates
Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
IDF says Gaza border finally sealed, bodies of 1,500 terrorists found inside Israel
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Biden decries “evil” Hamas attack, says Americans being held hostage
Politico:
Playbook: Will Dems keep standing with Israel?
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A tantalizing detail in a new Trump legal filing  —  The government signals it plans to prove Donald Trump's much-debated intent for taking and keeping classified documents  —  Donald Trump's many legal problems have led to a veritable fire hose of often-mundane, procedural court filings.
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Washington Post:
After years of exaggerating his business assets, Trump confronts them in court
Discussion: The Messenger and DCReport.org
Associated Press:
Fraud trial: Trump acknowledged penthouse size at 11,000 square feet, not 30,000 he later claimed
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Anti-Israel Left Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself  —  On Saturday morning in southern Israel, Hamas murdered hundreds of people at a music festival and kidnapped others at gunpoint to serve as human shields in Gaza.  On Sunday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan, a speaker at a rally …
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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Former OSU wrestlers say Jim Jordan betrayed them and shouldn't be House speaker  —  “Do you really want a guy in that job who chose not to stand up for his guys?” said one former wrestler who attended OSU when Jordan was assistant coach.  —  Four of the former Ohio State University wrestlers …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Is Expected to Endorse Kari Lake's Senate Run in Arizona  —  Ms. Lake, a Trump ally, embraced the former president's lies about winning the 2020 election in her failed run for Arizona governor last year.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump is expected to endorse Kari Lake for Senate …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back  —  Republicans hope to use education wars to turn purple suburbia red.  In one Pennsylvania district, that backfired  —  “Monster Liberty”: That's how the otherwise excellent closed-captioning service …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
Judge gives Peter Navarro 24 hours to show proof of why he deserves new contempt trial  —  When former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro asked a federal judge for a new trial, he claimed it was necessary because protesters holding signs such as, 'Bro, Should've Pled the 5th' and 'Peter …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bruce Hoffman / The Atlantic:
When Hamas Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them  —  A close read of Hamas's founding documents shows their genocidal intentions … — William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich  —  How many Israelis, or Jews, or anyone else for that matter, have read the 1988 Hamas Covenant …
Discussion: Reason
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
In Search of Kamala Harris  —  After nearly three years, the vice president is still struggling to make the case for herself — and feels she shouldn't have to.  —  All the conditions seemed right for a chance to reset the narrative.  —  At the Munich Security Conference in February …
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Tuberville reports former CIA director Hayden to Capitol Police over tweet  —  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Al.) reported the former CIA Director Michael Hayden to the Capitol Police on Tuesday over the former general's tweet suggesting the lawmaker should be removed from the human race.
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
North Carolina Republicans override governor's veto on key election law  —  Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has cast the bill as a threat to democracy in the state.  Republicans say it takes politics out of the process of administering the vote.  —  North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Tuesday overrode …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley  —  Disclosure: The columnist's wife, Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), disagrees with this column.  —  There is national incredulity, exhaustion, embarrassment …
Discussion: HuffPost, Mediaite, The Hill and NBC News
Melissa / Harvard University President:
War in the Middle East  —  A Statement from President Claudine Gay  —  As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.  Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one's individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Kevin Phillips, 82, Dies; Political Analyst Predicted G.O.P. Resurgence  —  A conservative mastermind of the race-based “Southern strategy,” he later, as a writer, had second thoughts after assessing income inequality under three Republican presidents.  —  Kevin Phillips, a self-taught …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press  —  Amid coverage of his relationships with high-profile conservatives, the Supreme Court justice wants to reconsider a landmark First Amendment cases … Justice Clarence Thomas has some thoughts.  —  The 1964 ruling established limits …
Politico:
McCarthy loyalists vow to draw out painful speakership battle  —  House Republicans' state of emotional limbo is particularly problematic, since they'd otherwise welcome the chance to move quickly on aiding Israel.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Jim Jordan's new shutdown threat highlights an unnerving right-wing trend  —  Republicans spend more time talking about the practical problems posed by the U.S.-Mexico border than any other issue — even as much of what they propose to address them is utter fantasy.
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Warner, Kaine urge DOJ to probe Gov. Youngkin's ‘purge’ of voter rolls  —  RICHMOND — Democratic Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether the Youngkin administration violated the Voting Rights Act when it wiped …
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
A dissenting Fifth Circuit judge published a fake majority opinion in a death penalty case  —  After losing a vote to allow an execution to proceed, Judge Jerry E. Smith published “the Fifth Circuit panel opinion that should have been issued” as an attachment to his dissent.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Special Counsel Interviewed Biden About Classified Documents  —  Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate how sensitive material ended up at the home and office of President Biden, met with the president over the past two days.  —  President Biden met over the past two days …
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Stephen Neukam / The Messenger:
Speaker Candidates Jordan, Scalise Commit to Continuing Impeachment Investigation (Exclusive)
 
 
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