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10:15 AM ET, August 31, 2022

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New York Times:
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests  —  The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sought …
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Politico:
Trump team likely sought to conceal classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells judge  —  Prosecutors obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after receiving evidence that there was “likely” an effort to conceal classified documents there in defiance …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. says Trump team may have hidden, moved classified papers  —  Prosecutors' filing suggests Trump advisers misled officials trying to recover sensitive papers; photo shows papers marked “Top Secret” spread out on the floor.  —  Former president Donald Trump and his advisers repeatedly failed …
CNN:
Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely ‘concealed and removed’ to block investigation  —  US government documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago as part of an effort to “obstruct” the FBI's investigation …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Garland's perilous path to prosecuting Trump  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland has a mantra when it comes to politically charged investigations: “We will follow the facts and the law, wherever they lead.”  —  But Garland's mantra won't get him the answers he wants in the gargantuan decision …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Steve Doocy Flatly Asks Why Classified Documents Were in Trump's Desk: ‘These Are the Biggest Secrets in the World!’  —  Steve Doocy asked the question that most reasonable people have following a midnight DOJ filing that revealed stunning details surrounding the search and seizure at Mar-a-Lago …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
DOJ says special master in Trump case would harm national security interests  —  DOJ responds to Trump's special master request  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday night that it had evidence classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate were …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump likely obstructed classified records probe, DOJ says
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Records May Have Been Moved to Obstruct Probe, DOJ Says
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera
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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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Gorbachev's reputation rests on the world's amnesia
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
David Cohen / Politico:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's final leader, dies
The White House:
Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate Rating Changes: Arizona, Pennsylvania to Leans Democratic  —  Dear Readers: This is our only planned issue of the Crystal Ball this week.  We'll be back following Labor Day.  But before the holiday weekend, we have 2 notable rating changes to make in the Senate.
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback  —  The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.  —  The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021 …
Discussion: CBS News and NPR
Romy Ellenbogen / Tampa Bay Times:
Charlie Crist resigns from Congress as campaign for governor heats up  —  Democratic U.S. Rep. Crist has been representing Pinellas County in Congress since 2016.  —  U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, is resigning early from Congress …
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
West Point Has a K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall  —  A special congressional commission that recommends the removal of Confederate symbols at U.S. military sites flagged the bronze plaque in a new report.  —  For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy …
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
Madison Fernandez / Politico:
Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid  —  Alaska's experiment with ranked choice elections will determine whether Sarah Palin becomes a member of Congress on Wednesday — and advocates of the system are already plotting where to expand it next.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Alaska to tabulate ranked-choice ballots as Palin attempts political comeback
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
A device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun in moments is wreaking havoc on American streets  —  The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals …
Discussion: Breitbart
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Democrats emphasize Herschel Walker's threats against ex-wife in new Georgia ad  —  Democrats are escalating their attacks on Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker with a new television ad that calls attention to the violent episodes in Walker's past.
ProPublica:
Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram …
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 …
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New York Times:
Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Ex-Federal Prosecutor: Trump's Attorneys Need To Lawyer Up After New DOJ Filing  —  Andrew Weissmann said if he were advising Trump's attorneys, he'd tell them to “stop talking” and “get the best defense counsel you can possibly get.”  —  A former federal prosecutor suggested …
Libby Nelson / Vox:
The “fairness” debate over student loan forgiveness, explained  —  Why economists are fighting over whether canceling debt is a good idea.  —  For many of the 43 million Americans with federal student loan debt, President Joe Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in debt is unequivocally good news.
Nate Hochman / National Review:
MLB's Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions  —  At least 20 teams have promoted or funded groups that advocate or are directly involved in child gender transitions, an NR analysis finds.  —  Like most of the nation's major sports leagues, Major League Baseball (MLB) has embraced a number of left-wing causes in recent years.
Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
Why the Biden administration stopped talking about a ‘longer and stronger’ nuclear deal with Iran  —  A combination of political calculus and an understanding of the reality of the scope of the negotiations took hold last year  —  Not long after Joe Biden clinched the Democratic nomination in 2020 …
Laina G. Stebbins / Michigan Advance:
MIGOP restricting access to Capitol lawn for rally raises 1st Amendment issues, experts say  —  Capitol Commission vice chair would vote to deny permits if attempted again  —  The Michigan Republican Party held a rally on the Capitol lawn Saturday — but not everyone was welcome at the festivities on public land.
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: Washington Post and Political Wire
 
 
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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Howard Fischer / Arizona Daily Star:
Kelli Ward: Arizona GOP at risk if personal phone records released
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Overview: GOP Control No Longer a Foregone Conclusion
Discussion: New York Post