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New York Times:
Trump Search Live Updates: Justice Dept. Releases Redacted Affidavit Used for Warrant  —  The document describes the government's push to recover highly classified materials taken from the White House by the former president.  The affidavit was heavily redacted to protect witnesses …
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Politico:
Trump Mar-a-Lago affidavit reveals ‘handwritten notes,’ highly classified material led to warrant request  —  Federal investigators obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month by pointing to a raft of highly classified material …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Shows Trump Kept Some of America's Top Secrets, Is In Huge Trouble  —  Even with about half of its 38 pages blacked out for security reasons, the Justice Department's affidavit to get a warrant to search Donald Trump's residency at Mal-a-Largo is more damning than many of the former president's critics expected.
Discussion: HotAir, Washington Post and Raw Story
NBC News:
Redacted FBI affidavit used to justify search of Mar-a-Lago is released  —  WASHINGTON — A redacted copy of the FBI affidavit used to justify the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was unsealed Friday, revealing details of the federal government's efforts …
Washington Post:
Affidavit to search Trump's Mar-a-Lago says 184 classified files found in January  —  Some White House documents sent to the National Archives in January appear to contain Trump's handwritten notes, court filing says.  —  BREAKING NEWS: This story will be updated frequently with additional details from the affidavit.
Mariko Paulson / Issues:
The Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: Budgetary Costs and Distributional Impact  —  Print to PDF Summary: President Biden's new student loan forgiveness plan includes three major components.  We estimate that debt cancellation alone will cost up to $519 billion, with about 75% …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August National Poll: Biden Bounces Back On Approval and 2024 Ballot; Voters Split on Student Debt Relief and Student Loan Program Value  —  Home Polls August National Poll: Biden Bounces Back On Approval and 2024 Ballot; Voters Split on Student Debt Relief and Student Loan Program Value
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion  —  Well, no one ever said that math was Joe Biden's strong suit.  A new estimate just out from the non-partisan Penn Wharton Budget Model analysts show that the student-loan forgiveness plan …
Axios:
Student loan forgiveness in hands of “understaffed and overcommitted” agency
Discussion: Washington Examiner, HotAir and NPR
Malcom Kyeyune / Compact Magazine:
Why the Right Lost the Student-Loan Fight
Discussion: Townhall
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
DeSantis suspends four Broward County School Board members, appoints replacements  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday suspended four Broward County School Board members for engaging in what the governor described as “incompetence, neglect of duty, and misuse of authority.”
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Revealed: leaked video shows Amy Coney Barrett's secretive faith group drove women to tears  —  Wife of founder of People of Praise says members ‘were always crying’ during discussions about women's subservience to men  —  The People of Praise, a secretive Christian faith group that counts …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Considers Cutting Back Programming Hours in Prime Time  —  Network has discussed giving 10 p.m. hour to local station partners, a cost-cutting move as interest in broadcast TV wanes  —  NBC is considering reducing the number of hours it programs in prime time, people familiar with the matter said …
Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner's memoir is only inadvertently revealing  —  All memoirs are self-serving — it's just a matter of degree.  But Jared Kushner's memoir, “Breaking History,” is, at its core, an extended news release that exists primarily to exculpate its author after his role …
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Vicky Ward Investigates:
Will The Real Jared Kushner Please Stand Up  —  Jared Kushner in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 1, 2018.  (Photo by Oliver Contreras - Pool/Getty Images)  —  “Vicky Ward Investigates” is reader-funded and entirely ad-free.  If you're enjoying this newsletter and want to support my work …
Virginia Canter / Just Security:
Need for US Ethics Reform Is Far from History: Kushner-MBS Deal Reflects Broken System
Discussion: The Guardian
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP super PAC cancels ad buys in Arizona, Alaska  —  Senate Republicans' primary super PAC is canceling nearly $10 million in Arizona and Alaska ad reservations, raising questions about the party's commitment to Blake Masters, its Senate nominee in the Copper State.
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and HuffPost
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Marco Rubio / Fox Business:
President Biden, your student loan handout plan is the opposite of the Paycheck Protection Program  —  The student loan handout program announced Wednesday will not stimulate our economy, create jobs or rescue our small businesses  —  Biden's student loan handout will 'make college more expensive …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Judge rips fake electors' claims they shouldn't have to testify in Trump probe  —  Somewhat lost during a newsy day at the Fulton County special grand jury was a scathing order from Judge Robert McBurney that could have significant implications into the ongoing investigation …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Document reveals identity of donors who secretly funded Nikki Haley's political nonprofit  —  Many of the GOP's biggest donors are among those who funneled anonymous contributions to former U.N ambassador Nikki Haley's nonprofit as she lays the groundwork for a prospective 2024 presidential bid …
Discussion: Twitchy
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Everything's Coming Up Schumer … Chuck Schumer had the ease of someone already on summer vacation.  “I'd much rather be in New York than Washington any day of the week,” he said during a Zoom conversation from his Manhattan office in mid-August.  The Senate Democrats had just passed …
Christo Grozev / bellingcat:
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy  —  Three minutes before midnight on 14 September 2018, the cell phone of Andrey Averyanov began to ring.  Despite the late hour, phone records show Maj. General Averyanov, the commander …
Politico:
Dr. Oz shifts strategy as campaign ails  —  PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz sees an opening to rescue his floundering Senate campaign: After largely refraining from making his opponent's health an issue, the celebrity doctor has decided to go there.  —  Oz's Democratic opponent, John Fetterman …
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Privately Blew Up Biden Nominee Needed to Enact Regulatory Agenda … Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was the one to scuttle President Joe Biden's choice to head the obscure but all-important Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to sources familiar with the standoff.
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Donald Trump's Truth Social Reportedly Faces Major Money, Trademark Woes  —  A major vendor claims it was stiffed by Trump's social media operation, suggesting finances are in “significant disarray,” reported Fox Business.  —  Donald Trump's social media operation appears …
OCCRP:
Inventing Anna: Ukrainian-Born Scammer Posed with Trump and Wandered Mar-a-Lago  —  by Will Jordan (OCCRP), Michael Sallah (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Kevin G. Hall (OCCRP), Brian Fitzpatrick (OCCRP), Karina Shedrofsky (OCCRP)  —  Inna Yashchyshyn, a self-confessed grifter linked to a fraudulent charity …
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Beinart / New York Times:
Has the Fight Against Antisemitism Lost Its Way?  —  Over the past 18 months, America's most prominent Jewish organizations have done something extraordinary.  They have accused the world's leading human rights organizations of promoting hatred of Jews.  —  Last April, after Human Rights Watch issued …
 
 
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Rachel Van Gilder / WOOD-TV:
Poll: Whitmer leads early in gubernatorial race
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump fan who assaulted Capitol cops with Trump flag, billboard on Jan. 6 gets over 3.5 years in prison
Discussion: UPI and Forbes
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Defendants targeted in DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were told they could vote
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Guardian
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for L.A. mayor
Discussion: Political Wire
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Flip the Script  —  Earlier this cycle, a seasoned Democratic strategist argued …
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Fetterman Opposes School Vouchers for the Poor. He Sends His Kids To One Of PA's Priciest Prep Schools.
Discussion: The Daily Wire and HotAir
Yasmin Rafiei / New Yorker:
When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home
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In fiery midterm speech, Biden says GOP's turned toward ‘semi-fascism’
 

 
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