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12:01 PM ET, August 15, 2022

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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump ‘will do whatever’ he can to ‘help the country’ after FBI raid: ‘Temperature has to be brought down’  —  Trump said his representatives reached out to DOJ to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 15
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New York Times:
Trump's Shifting Explanations Follow a Familiar Playbook  —  The former president and his allies have given often conflicting defenses of his retention of classified documents, without addressing why he had kept them.  —  WASHINGTON — First he said that he was “working and cooperating with” …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump's dumbest, scariest stunt yet  —  A defeated former president who was at the center of a failed coup allegedly walks out the door with nuclear secrets, refuses to give them back and then leaves a creepy, semi-threatening message for the attorney general — that's apparently where we are.
Discussion: The Atlantic, Bloomberg and IJR
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
KJP: We don't get briefed on legal probes into Trump  —  One of the hallmarks of Karine Jean-Pierre's brief tenure as White House Press Secretary thus far has been the expansive range of things that nobody tells her about.  (I still can't read her name without the mental image of saying it with a loud …
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Some Republicans Make a More Restrained Case for Defending Trump
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds  —  GOP nominees who dispute the 2020 results could be positioned to play a critical role in the next presidential election  —  First came Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor from Detroit who claimed without evidence …
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Arizona Republican Party's Anti-Democracy Experiment  —  First, it turned against the establishment.  Now it has set its sights on democracy — the principles, the process and even the word itself.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Linda Rawles / Arizona Republic:
There's only 1 way to fix the Arizona GOP: Make it lose in November  —  Opinion: The Arizona GOP is broken to this lifelong Republican, and the only way to fix it is to ensure our most deranged candidates lose in November.  —  What on earth has happened to the Arizona Republican Party?
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Graham must testify in Ga. probe of effort to overturn 2020 election, judge rules  —  A federal judge on Monday denied Sen. Lindsey O. Graham's (R-S.C.) request to quash his subpoena in Georgia prosecutors' investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election …
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Federal judge rejects Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to quash grand jury subpoena in Georgia case  —  A federal judge in Georgia denied Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to avoid testifying before a Atlanta-area grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election, rejecting the Trump ally's claim …
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:   People are outraged now, but by 2024 most will have forgotten about the FBI raid on Trump
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Liz Cheney's political life is likely ending — and just beginning  —  JACKSON, Wyo. — The 2-minute video, meant ostensibly as the closing appeal to voters here, likely served much more as the launching point of a campaign that will last for years to come.  —  “No matter how long we must fight …
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Politico:
Cheney's next mission: Keeping her anti-Trump megaphone
Discussion: The Federalist
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Washington's Top Labor Prosecutor Battles Whole Foods Over Black Lives Matter Masks  —  In June 2020, the week after a police officer murdered George Floyd, Jeff Bezos endorsed Black Lives Matter.  “I support this movement,” Bezos replied via email to a customer who'd complained about seeing a BLM banner on Amazon.com.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Rules Out Releasing Billions in Afghan Funds After Strike  —  Presence of al Qaeda's leader in Kabul raised concerns in West about resurgence of global terrorism from Taliban-ruled country  —  The Biden administration has decided it won't release any of the roughly $7 billion …
Discussion: Insider, Vox, Politico and Washington Post
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:
Iran denies involvement in Rushdie attack, says he brought it on himself  —  Iran denied any involvement Monday in last week's attack that left author Salman Rushdie with severe injuries after he was stabbed in the neck and abdomen onstage at an event in western New York.
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Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect 'Had Contact With Iran's Revolutionary Guard'
Discussion: Reuters
NBC News:
The U.S. could see a new ‘extreme heat belt’ by 2053  —  Climate change effects are forcing more Americans to move  —  An “extreme heat belt” reaching as far north as Chicago is taking shape, a corridor that cuts through the middle of the country and would affect more than 107 million people …
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and Axios
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Too little, too late: Disband the CDC now  —  Dissolve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  —  Last week, the CDC released updated COVID-19 guidance.  The agency now believes we should be taking an individual approach to mitigating our COVID risk.  In layman's terms, we are all Florida 2020 now.
Discussion: bad cattitude
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Morning News-UT poll: After massive media bounce, Beto now at ... 39%
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Paul Rosenzweig / The Bulwark:
Trump's Investigation Miscalculation
Discussion: b'Raw Story
John Harwood / CNN:
The same Joe Biden suddenly looks different
Axios:
GOP's New Mexico bet
Discussion: Albuquerque Journal
Ollie Gratzinger / New York Times:
Denzel Washington Honors August Wilson's Legacy at House Opening
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Wall Street Journal:
Russia's Goal in Attack on Nuclear Plant: Take the Electricity, Ukraine Says
Sean Wilentz / Washington Post:
Rubio's fake populism is no match for real history
Zoe Samios / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lachlan Murdoch sends legal threat to Crikey over January 6 article
Jonathan Turley / USA Today:
Attorney General Garland's stature shrinks as he doggedly pursues Trump
Discussion: Axios
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Manchin, Sinema and 2024  —  By helping Democrats pass a landmark $750 billion climate …
 

 
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