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11:10 AM ET, August 22, 2022

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New York Times:
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …
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Rich Lowry / New York Times:
A Defense of G.O.P. Paranoia  —  The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans.  Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police, voices on the right are calling …
Discussion: The Federalist
Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’  —  Former President Donald Trump's allies will eventually turn on him to avoid prison, his former attorney Michael Cohen said on Sunday.  —  Cohen's comment came nearly two weeks after FBI agents executed a search warrant …
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Sophia Ankel / Insider:
GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir
Discussion: Raw Story, CBS News and Just The News
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
There's a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can't stand it  —  The Reproductive Freedom for All Act reveals deeper debates about post-Roe America.  —  Amid threats over the last year that the Supreme Court might abolish the right to an abortion …
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Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:   ‘The world flipped upside down’: will end of Roe galvanize Democrats' base in midterms?
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
Discussion: NaturalNews.com
Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants  —  Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there's also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
New York Times:
Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends  —  New York's mayor vowed to boost nightlife establishments in every corner of the city.  But again and again, he returns to the same spot, run by friends with troubled pasts.  —  Before he took office, Eric Adams vowed to boost …
Discussion: Wide World of News
Associated Press:
Kansas recount confirms results in favor of abortion rights  —  A decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights in traditionally conservative Kansas was confirmed with a partial hand recount, with fewer than 100 votes changing after the last county reported results Sunday.
Discussion: Insider
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Kansas City Star:
Kansas recount confirms landslide win for abortion rights, but highlights risk to democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The left's mask slips on brazen Trump bias  —  Sam Harris deserves our gratitude.  With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming …
Discussion: NBC News
Chris Giles / Financial Times:
UK inflation to hit 18.6% next year according to Citi  —  Investment bank raises forecast as wholesale gas prices surge  —  UK inflation is on course to hit 18.6 per cent in January — the highest peak in almost half a century — because of soaring wholesale gas prices …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Senate Candidates Say Better Call Mitch (McConnell)  —  Struggling nominees in swing states turn to the Republican Leader to save their campaigns.  —  WSJ Opinion: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Heads Into Overtime  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.
Discussion: CNN, HuffPost and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Wall Street Journal:
Liz Cheney Says New Political Group Will Target Trump Allies
John Fetterman Guest / Times Leader:
Their View: To support working Pennsylvanians, we need to hold Washington accountable  —  Tired of ads?  Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.  —  All across Pennsylvania, we're seeing soaring prices, hollowed out communities, and families getting ripped off by corporate greed.
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
A Russian soldier's journal: ‘I will not participate in this madness’  —  RIGA, Latvia — Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise.
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Axios:
Polls reveal Trump's FBI search bump … Several polls show him rising against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been surging in key states. … - A source close to Trump says the fundraising effect has been “yuge,” reengaging donors in the biggest way since he left office.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Is a Fetus a Person?  An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes.  —  Fetal personhood, which confers legal rights from conception, is an effort to push beyond abortion bans and classify the procedure as murder.  In Georgia, it also means a $3,000 tax credit.  —  Even as roughly half the states …
Discussion: Althouse
Gallup:
In U.S., Poor Life Ratings Reach Record High  — The “suffering” rate has climbed for both Democrats and Republicans  — The percentage of adults classified as “thriving” has dropped again, to 51.2%  — Daily stress and worry remain steady and near pre-pandemic levels
 
 
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's risky quest for votes in deep-red Texas
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Isaac Scher / The Guardian:
CIA unable to corroborate Israel's ‘terror’ label for Palestinian rights groups
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Ivan Penn / New York Times:
Expansion of Clean Energy Loans Is ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Climate Bill
Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Biden officials see a second chance to promote last year's infrastructure law with projects underway
Discussion: AOL
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate prepares to pick up the judicial-pick pace as November looms
Discussion: NPR, The Hill and The Federalist
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Jill Biden rejoins president after negative COVID-19 tests
Discussion: Associated Press
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The barely hidden fascism of Ron DeSantis makes a Pa. pit stop on a race to '24
Discussion: Daily Kos
Justin Phillips / San Francisco Chronicle:
A coalition of AAPI groups says the far right is targeting its communities with disinformation
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
What CNN's Dana Bash learned after being assigned a project on the rise in antisemitism
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
In the Lanternfly War, Some Take the Bug's Side
Discussion: Althouse
Trafalgar Group:
PA US Sen General - Aug 2022
Discussion: Breitbart
Bethany Dawson / Insider:
Trump treated my family like disposable pawns and tore us apart, says daughter of convicted Jan. 6 rioter
Discussion: Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Dennis Rodman says he's going to Russia to seek release of Brittney Griner
 

 
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