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Ben Whedon / Just The News:
Full text of National Archives letter to Trump on classified documents  —  Just the News has obtained the full text of the letter that the National Archives sent to former President Donald Trump requesting classified documents.  —  Evan Corcoran Silverman Thompson 400 East Pratt Street Suite 900
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New York Times:
Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago  —  The National Archives found more than 150 sensitive documents when it got a first batch of material from the former president in January, helping to explain the Justice Department's urgent response.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government's most classified, letter shows  —  The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in government …
John Solomon / Just The News:
Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos
Washington Post:
Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’  —  In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges the company misled regulators about lax security and spam
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CNN:
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies  —  Video by John General, Zach Wasser and Logan Whiteside, CNN Business,  —  Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
CNBC poll: 59% think Biden's next big pander will make inflation worse  —  Alternate headline: Six in ten Americans sense a pattern to Joe Biden's incompetence.  —  During the campaign, Biden played footsie with progressives on student-loan debt but hasn't delivered anything more than a couple …
Discussion: NBC News, Momentive and Just The News
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CNN:
White House leaning toward canceling $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000
Washington Post:
Biden nears decision on canceling $10,000 in student loans as allies feud
Politico:
The biggest special election since Dobbs: What to watch on Tuesday's primary day  —  Some of the biggest elections of the summer are happening Tuesday, including a closely watched New York special election that's also an opportunity to gauge the nation's political environment ahead of November.
Discussion: Insider, The Daily Caller, Fox News and UPI
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
CBS, The Hill: Can Florida Democrats take down DeSantis?
Discussion: Townhall
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden's ‘bodyman’ and close confidante to depart the White House  —  Inside President Joe Biden's tight-knit inner circle, few — if any — White House aides have spent more time by his side in the last three years than Stephen Goepfert.  That will change at the end of this week.
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
Ina Fried / Axios:
Exclusive: Yelp to flag listings for crisis pregnancy centers  —  Yelp is adding a prominent consumer notice to crisis pregnancy center listings to more clearly distinguish them from clinics that provide abortion services, in a policy change shared first with Axios.
Discussion: RedState
Bethania Palma / Snopes.com:
Is This a List of ‘Banned Books in Florida Schools and Libraries’? … Amid a push by U.S. Republican legislators to limit children's access to books in schools and libraries about sensitive topics, some social media users in August 2022 posted a list that allegedly contained titles of …
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Hannah Dellinger / Houston Chronicle:
Katy ISD police ‘investigated’ a library book after complaint alleged it was ‘harmful to minors’  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A Katy ISD police officer temporarily removed a copy of a book from a high school library last month as part of an investigation after a woman filed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
2 men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer  —  A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a swift victory for prosecutors in a foiled plot that was described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Legacy Is Convincing Idiots That They Should Run for Office  —  I get the appeal of having “outsiders” come in and “shake up the system.”  But MAGA candidates are proving the folly of the know-nothing candidate. … Donald Trump has left his mark on the American body politic in myriad ways.
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Pete Buttigieg's Feeble Policy on Flight Cancellations  —  The transportation secretary could be doing far more with his existing authority.  The new DOT rule could make matters worse for consumers.  —  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies before the House Transportation …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Is Warner-Discovery “Fixing” CNN?  —  1. You Can't Appease Bad-Faith Critics  —  Brian Stelter was canned by CNN pour encourager les autres.  CNN's parent company, the Warner-Discovery, is in a load of trouble and “fixing” CNN has become a corporate priority.
Discussion: Mediaite
Mary Katharine Ham / Reason:
A Belated Vindication for School Reopeners  —  The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, by Anya Kamenetz, PublicAffairs, 352 pages, $17.99  —  Twelve years after he was acquitted of murder, O.J. Simpson and a ghostwriter penned a book called If I Did It.
Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Problem With Right-Wing ‘Regime’ Talk  —  What the new paranoid buzzword reveals about the New Right.  —  In the right-wing commentariat's reaction to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, a new buzzword dropped.  —  “The regime's decision to take out Trump Banana Republic-style was woefully miscalculated.”
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
The Koch network and other Trump allies are quietly backing his biggest GOP critic: Rep. Liz Cheney  — Two PACs backing Liz Cheney hired i360, a data and technology company financed by billionaire Charles Koch, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Super PAC Charges $100,000 For Candlelight Dinner With Former President At His Club  —  Donald Trump's super PAC is hosting a candlelight dinner with the former president at one of his New Jersey golf courses next month, according to an invitation obtained by Forbes.
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
America's Fire Sale: Get Some Free Speech While You Can  —  Freedom of expression isn't the tool of the powerful; it's the tool of the powerless.  —  About the author: Caitlin Flanagan is a staff writer at The Atlantic.  She is the author of Girl Land and To Hell With All That.
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis  —  A former president's rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.  —  WSJ Opinion: After Mar-a-Lago, Let Voters Decide Trump's Future  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: Why CNN's efforts to appease democracy's enemies will backfire  —  Since 2016, MAGA propagandists like Kayleigh McEnany, Jason Miller, Jeffrey Lord, Rick Santorum, Ben Ferguson, Steve Cortes, Corey Lewandowski have at one time or another been on the CNN payroll.
Washington Post:
Car-bomb killing sows unease among cheerleaders of Putin's war  —  A top Russia propagandist who cheerleads for the war against Ukraine was walking in a Moscow park this weekend when one of her personal security guards sprinted ahead, alarmed by a child's ball on a nearby bench.  It could have been a bomb.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
People of color at ‘New York Times’ get lower ratings in job reviews, union says  —  An analysis of comprehensive data for roughly 1,000 The New York Times employees conducted by members of the union that represents its newsroom found that Black and Latino staffers are far less likely …
 
 
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CNN:
‘All of it is a lie’: Russian paratrooper condemns his country's war in Ukraine
Yunping Tong / Pew Research Center:
India's Sex Ratio at Birth Begins To Normalize
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Idea That Letting Trump Walk Will Heal America Is Ridiculous
Discussion: Washington Post
MSNBC:
Right-wing dark money gets $1.6 billion donation from one donor
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philly FOP picked problematic doctors for police ‘injured on duty’ benefit
Bryan Bender / Politico:
White House launches new war on secrecy
Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
‘The Future We Deserve’: This Florida Gen Z Candidate Thinks He Can Chart a New Path For the Youth
Darel E. Paul / Compact Magazine:
The Republic of Work Isn't Working
 Earlier Items: 
U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine
New York Post:
Good riddance to dangerous Dr. Fauci
Mark Kelly:
Momentum grows as more Republican leaders back Mark Kelly's campaign
Jeff Coltin / City & State New York:
Hakeem Jeffries again challenges the left, on the eve of the primary
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here's How.
Discussion: Washington Post and Rolling Stone
Washington Post:
Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say the TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump's 2020 ban attempt

 
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