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11:45 PM ET, August 30, 2022

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New York Times:
Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles  —  With digital subscriptions and digital advertising revenue stagnating, the company is on pace to lose money this year.  —  In the years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, business boomed.
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Josh Barro / Very Serious:
Digital Revenue Dies in Drumpfness  —  How the Washington Post tripped over the Trump trap (and the New York Times did not)  —  When Wordle was for sale earlier this year, I figured the buyer would be the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal.  My reasoning was that the Times already …
Marilyn Berger / New York Times:
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91  —  Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
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David Cohen / Politico:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's final leader, dies  —  Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died.  —  He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness, Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital said.
David E. Hoffman / Washington Post:
Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91
Discussion: Reuters, Al Jazeera and Balloon Juice
Jim Heintz / Associated Press:
Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Woke Up and Went on a 60-Post, QAnon-Fueled Social Media Spree  —  You can take the man off of Twitter, but you can't take the urge to post out of the man  —  FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump spent Tuesday morning feverishly sharing content from supporters on his social media platform Truth Social …
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NBC News:
Trump shares barrage of QAnon content and other conspiracy theories on his social media platform
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and MSNBC
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Truth Social Android app not approved on Google Play Store
Discussion: Newsbusters
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Truth Social's Google Play Store holdup
Jack Stebbins / CNBC:
Trump's Truth Social barred from Google Play store over content moderation concerns
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2022: Walker Holds Two-Point Lead Over Warnock in Tight Senate Race; Kemp Leads Abrams by Four  —  Home Polls Georgia 2022: Walker Holds Two-Point Lead Over Warnock in Tight Senate Race; Kemp Leads Abrams by Four  —  The latest Emerson College Polling survey of the Georgia general …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Maria Bartiromo will be deposed in defamation case against Fox News  —  Maria Bartiromo will be the next Fox News star to appear for a deposition in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against the network over its airing of false claims made about the company during 2020 presidential election coverage.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:   Fox News stars questioned by election tech company in defamation case
Chaya Raichik / Human Events:
LIBS OF TIKTOK: Mainstream media isn't mad about gender surgeries on teens, they're mad you found out  —  Two weeks ago you may have seen a lot of news segments surrounding Boston Children's Hospital.  Deleted videos and archived web pages pointed to the fact that they were providing …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:
Gibson's Bakery Wins!  Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal  —  Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson's Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end.  The Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million.  — Telegram  — Gab  — MeWe
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Overview: GOP Control No Longer a Foregone Conclusion  —  Three months ago, it looked like a category five hurricane was heading for President Biden and House Democrats clinging to a flimsy 221-214 seat edge.  Today, not only has it weakened to a tropical depression …
Discussion: New York Post
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Can Thiel and McConnell Strike a Deal?  —  As Republicans unexpectedly labor to retake the Senate, the standoff between Thiel, the consummate contrarian, and McConnell, the consummate pragmatist, has suddenly become one of the most important relationships in the G.O.P. financial universe.
Discussion: Just The News
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Republicans in key races scrap online references to Trump, abortion  —  Attempts by GOP candidates in competitive contests to pivot away from these issues have emboldened Democrats to mount an aggressive offense  —  Yesli Vega, a Republican running for the U.S. House in a competitive Virginia district …
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Associated Press:
Mississippi capital: Water everywhere, not a drop to drink  —  Mississippi's capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.
Discussion: New York Magazine and KTVZ-TV
Howard Fischer / Arizona Daily Star:
Kelli Ward: Arizona GOP at risk if personal phone records released  —  PHOENIX — If a federal judge lets the Jan. 6 Committee access Kelli Ward's phone records it will endanger not only her rights, but those of the entire Arizona Republican Party, her lawyer says.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Homophobic Creep Threatens to Kill Eric Swalwell at His Office  —  PHONED IN  —  A staffer for California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) fielded a threatening call Tuesday when a man claimed he was en route to the lawmaker's office with an assault rifle to kill him.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dr. David Taylor / Roanoke College:
Roanoke College Poll looks at Youngkin, Supreme Court favorability and more  —  Virginians Feel Somewhat Better; Supreme Court Favorability Declines; Abortion, Ukraine and More  —  The Institute for Policy and Opinion Research (IPOR) at Roanoke College interviewed 640 adult residents …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Is Sedition Now A Policy of the GOP?  —  It's not just mean tweets.  —  1. Hard Truths  —  The former president of the United States has made a new pronouncement.  He now demands that the federal government either:  — Declare him the winner of the 2020 election and install him as president.
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Uri Berliner / NPR:
Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today  —  Resistance to nuclear power is starting to ebb around the world with support from a surprising group: environmentalists.  —  This change of heart spans the globe, and is being prompted by climate change …
Chris Farrell / Washington Times:
Why Gen. Mark Milley should be court-martialed  —  The most egregious examples of treasonous subversion by a commissioned officer since Benedict Arnold  —  OPINION:  —  Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be subject to an Article 32 Hearing under the provisions …
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Trust linked to Gavin Newsom's in-laws made contribution to DeSantis PAC  —  A family trust run by Kenneth Siebel made a $5,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC, records show  —  Ron DeSantis: Charlie Crist put his foot in his mouth  —  EXCLUSIVE: Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Army Grounds Entire Fleet of Chinook Helicopters  —  Flights of the workhorse choppers are halted due to engine fires, U.S. officials say  —  The U.S. Army has grounded its entire fleet of CH-47 Chinook helicopters due to a risk of engine fires, U.S. officials said.
Josh Baker / BBC:
Shamima Begum: Spy for Canada smuggled schoolgirl to Syria  —  Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada.  —  Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum's passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to fight for IS.
Discussion: The Sun
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Fetterman won't participate in early-September debate with Oz  —  Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman said Tuesday he won't participate in a debate against his Republican opponent Mehmet Oz during the first week of September, citing his ongoing recovery from a recent stroke.
Andy Greene / Rolling Stone:
The Monkees' Micky Dolenz Would Like a Word With the FBI  —  The group's last surviving member is suing the FBI after they failed to hand over band's J. Edgar Hoover-era FBI file  —  WHEN THE MONKEES launched their inaugural tour in 1967, they played to throngs of screaming teenagers - and at least one FBI informant.
Washington Times:
Does Mitch McConnell even want to win in November?  —  OPINION:  —  Back in his home state earlier this month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, downplayed—make that, gratuitously badmouthed—the prospects of the GOP reclaiming control of the Senate in the November midterms.
Discussion: Just The News
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Lindsey Graham's warnings of ‘riots’ are a threat  —  Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is warning everyone that if Donald Trump ends up being charged for his Mar-a-Lago cache of classified documents, there'll be mayhem in America.  “If they try to prosecute President Trump …
Politico:
Biden dodges the August curse  —  President Joe Biden overcame Covid, the presidential August curse and the legislative blockade built by members of his own party.  —  Now as the stretch run to the midterms begins, the White House is looking to aim big.  The president over the next week …
 
 
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
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CBS News:
Top-level FBI agent under fire for role in Hunter Biden investigation resigns
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Susan Dynarski / New York Times:
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Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Death in Navy SEAL Training Exposes a Culture of Brutality, Cheating and Drugs
Discussion: Insider
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Trump hires former Florida solicitor general in criminal probe of Mar-a-Lago documents
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965
John Hudson / Washington Post:
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