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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.
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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
John Solomon / Just The News:
Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos  —  Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump's estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Archives warned of national security damage from Trump's classified Mar-a-Lago docs, 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 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Dems' hopes for N.Y. come crashing down  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  COUNTDOWN — 11 weeks until Election Day.  —  PRIMARY DAY — Some of the year's most consequential (and highly anticipated) primary battles will be decided tonight …
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
CNBC:
Trump sues to block DOJ from reviewing materials FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago until watchdog appointed
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs
Washington Post:
Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers  —  Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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 …
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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
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer.  Here's How.  —  In a first, the measure legally defines greenhouse gases as pollution.  That'll make new regulations much tougher to challenge in court.  —  When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Department issues new subpoena to National Archives for more January 6 documents  —  Why new Trump lawsuit shows disagreement behind the scenes 03:35  —  The Justice Department has issued a new grand jury subpoena to the National Archives for more documents as part …
Discussion: Insider
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 …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Olivia Olander / Politico:
State Department advises U.S. citizens to leave Ukraine now, says Russia is ‘stepping up efforts’ against civilians  —  Russia is “stepping up efforts” to strike civilian infrastructure “in the coming days,” the State Department said in an alert late Monday, marking the first time the U.S …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Fraudster Gets Five Years for $25 Million Scheme  —  ALFORD PLEA  —  A federal judge on Monday sentenced Florida man Stephen M. Alford to 63 months in prison, followed by three years supervised release for his role in a scheme to defraud the family of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
Discussion: Raw Story
Saja Hindi / Denver Post:
Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism  —  Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican, announced Monday morning that he is changing his party affiliation to Democrat.  —  Priola, considered …
Mallory Moench / San Francisco Chronicle:
Despite Newsom's veto, S.F. might push ahead with supervised drug consumption sites anyway  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed pilot programs where people could use drugs under the supervision of trained staff in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles …
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
California congressman becomes latest Republican to invoke Nazis to defend Trump, bash Biden  —  Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican who faces one of the most competitive House races in the country, likened the Biden administration to the Nazi regime during an interview on a conservative podcast last week.
Discussion: CNN
Geneva Sands / CNN:
ICE officials under Trump told to wipe phones when leaving agency  —  The phones of several top Trump-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were deactivated when they left their positions and the data contained on them likely wiped, a court filing released late last week shows.
Discussion: Political Wire
ProPublica:
How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts  —  In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump's Supreme Court picks …
Phil Davison / Washington Post:
David Kay, weapons inspector who helped disprove Iraqi WMDs, dies at 82  —  He concluded that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq and that intelligence agencies had badly misjudged the available evidence  —  David A. Kay, the weapons proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation …
Nolan Hicks / New York Post:
NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels  —  The Big Apple could be on the hook for more than $300 million per year to provide shelter space in hotels for newly arrived migrants, a Post analysis shows.  —  City officials have either rented or announced plans …
Los Angeles Times:
These celebrities are accused of drought restriction violations  —  They're among the biggest names in entertainment and sports: Sylvester Stallone, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Hart, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian.  —  And as Southern California struggles with a third year of punishing drought …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Breitbart
Emily Crane / New York Post:
64-year-old NYC man savagely beaten with rock in subway attack  —  A 64-year-old man was beaten with a rock in a brutal attack on a Brooklyn subway platform this weekend, cops said.  —  Intazar Dar was on his way home from work when he was randomly attacked at the Avenue H station in Midwood …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and PIX11
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Fauci plans to step down in December after half a century in government  —  Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks as the face of the coronavirus pandemic response under two presidents …
 
 
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Did opposition to Liz Cheney boost far-right candidates in Wyoming?
Discussion: Townhall, RedState, Reuters and HotAir
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Alex Jones Pleads for Forgiveness From Trump After Backing DeSantis
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Bryan Anderson / WRAL-TV:
In memoir, NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson mulls 2024 run, calls for taking science, history out of elementary schools
Discussion: Raw Story
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails Show Omaha Police Planned Deal With Far Right-linked Gun Shop
Alex Bollinger / LGBTQ Nation:
GOP candidate said it's “totally just” to stone gay people to death
Discussion: Raw Story and Comic Sands
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
On Car Seats as Contraception
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Biden bottoms out, pops back to 47% approval
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