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9:35 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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone, UPI and New York Post
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump likely obstructed classified records probe, DOJ says  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE ‘O’ WORD — Just minutes before a midnight deadline, the Justice Department filed a stunning response to former President DONALD TRUMP's request …
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 …
Tom Porter / Insider:
Some of the documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago were so secret that FBI agents needed a special clearance to look at them, DOJ says
CNN:
Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely ‘concealed and removed’ to block investigation
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Records May Have Been Moved to Obstruct Probe, DOJ Says
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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The White House:
Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev
David Cohen / Politico:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's final leader, dies
George F. Will / Washington Post:   Gorbachev's reputation rests on the world's amnesia
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.
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Mediaite
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2022: Walker Holds Two-Point Lead Over Warnock in Tight Senate Race; Kemp Leads Abrams by Four
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
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  —  Alaska elections officials will tabulate the state's ranked-choice ballots for the first time on Wednesday, determining whether former Gov. Sarah Palin will make a political comeback by winning a special election for the state's lone House seat.
Discussion: Washington Post
David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Is Dr. Oz done?  Republicans still see a path to a comeback against Fetterman  —  Mehmet Oz remains behind John Fetterman in the race for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat 10 weeks until Election Day.  —  But Republicans now see seeds for a potential rebound against the Democratic front-runner …
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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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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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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.
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Homophobic Creep Threatens to Kill Eric Swalwell at His Office
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Maria Bartiromo will be deposed in defamation case against Fox News
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Chaya Raichik / Human Events:
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