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6:45 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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Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
Trump claims FBI agents seized THREE of his passports during ‘sneak attack’ raid at Mar-a-Lago - as he warns DOJ ‘terrible things are going to happen’ if it doesn't cool things down  — Donald Trump claimed his passports were ‘stolen’ in the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago  — If true, he cannot leave the country
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Did Trump Take Classified Documents in the First Place?  —  We now know that the reason the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Donald Trump's Palm Beach residence last week is because the 45th president is under investigation for pocketing classified documents related to nuclear weapons …
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump claims FBI ‘stole’ his passports during Mar-a-Lago raid  —  Former President Donald Trump said Monday that FBI agents “stole” his passports last week when they raided his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.  —  “Wow!  In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports …
CNN:
DOJ opposes making public details in Mar-a-Lago search warrant's probable cause affidavit
New York Times:
Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, who was charged with participating in a tax scheme, will not cooperate with the district attorney's investigation into Donald J. Trump.  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime top executive …
New York Times:
Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, as former President Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer, spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power.  —  ATLANTA — Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target …
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CNN:
Federal judge rules that Graham must testify in Georgia 2020 investigation
Washington Post:
Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal  —  A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Senate G.O.P. Campaign Arm Slashes TV Ad Buys in Three States  —  In a sign that fund-raising trouble is taking a serious toll, a key political committee cancels ad plans in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Discussion: Mediaite and Rolling Stone
Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Mercer County man charged with threats to kill FBI agents after Mar-a-Lago search  —  A Mercer County man threatened to murder FBI agents last week after the bureau's search of Donald Trump's Florida estate, saying “come and get me you piece of [expletive] feds” and “I am going to [expletive] …
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Wall Street Journal:
Merrick Garland Weighed Search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago for Weeks
Discussion: Reuters, Breitbart and Townhall
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
Race-Based Layoff Scheme at Minneapolis Schools  —  The Minneapolis Public Schools have adopted a race-based layoff provision that violates the Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.  “A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before …
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Evan Stambaugh / Alpha News:
Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first
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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Washington Post:   For never-Trump conservatives, it's never-ending misery
Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz:
Investing in Flow  —  Our nation has a housing crisis.  —  The demographic trends driving America's housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we're building houses.  Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher …
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Justice Department subpoenas former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann  —  A federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack has subpoenaed Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann for documents and testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter.
New York Times:
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score  —  Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked.  What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability.  What is lost?  —  Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig and Rumsey Taylor
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: New York Times and b'Raw Story
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Bolts:   Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections
Jack Queen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Inside the Alex Jones jury room: tensions, pizza and ‘lizard people’  —  As the jury in the Alex Jones defamation trial gathered in a conference room in a Texas courthouse on Aug. 5 to decide how much the U.S. conspiracy theorist owed to two parents of a murdered Sandy Hook first-grader …
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Longtime GOP insider Cheri Jacobus: America is “not going to recover from Donald Trump”  —  Former Republican strategist says her party can't be salvaged — and if Trump isn't punished, America is “done for”  —  The numerous catastrophes of the Age of Trump could all have been averted, or greatly mitigated.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine:
The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars  —  Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital.  They knew what they were doing — right?  —  The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini.
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Kamala Harris was meeting with child actors while the Taliban surrounded Kabul one year ago today  —  Biden admin faced intense criticism for its handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal
Discussion: ABC News
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