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1:35 PM ET, September 2, 2022

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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Trump search inventory released, reveals new details on docs  —  FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Empty folders among items found in FBI search of Trump home  —  FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.
Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News and Raw Story
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
FBI materials seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home included 90 empty folders  —  Revelation raises possibility that some of government's most highly sensitive documents may still be unaccounted for  —  Among the items the FBI retrieved from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort this month …
New York Times:
F.B.I. Found 48 Empty Folders That Had Contained Classified Documents at Trump's Home  —  A detailed inventory of items seized in the F.B.I.'s search of Mar-a-Lago raised the question of whether the government had fully recovered the documents or any remained missing.
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Mar-a-Lago search inventory shows documents marked as classified mixed with clothes, gifts, press clippings
Discussion: East Bay Times
Wall Street Journal:
Court Releases Detailed FBI Inventory of Material Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Empty folders with classified banners are among the items seized from Mar-a-Lago
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
MAGA Republicans are seething with rage because Biden hit his target  —  Republicans are in a rage over President Biden's speech in Philadelphia, in which he flatly declared that the American democratic experiment is in serious danger due to Donald Trump and the Republicans who remain allied with his political project.
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The White House:
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE CONTINUED BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION  —  THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, take it.  I speak to you tonight from sacred ground in America: Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
New York Times:
Full Transcript of President Biden's Speech in Philadelphia  —  The president described what he viewed as threats to democracy, which he said stemmed from the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and “MAGA forces.” … My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, take it.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Broadcast Networks Pass On Carrying Joe Biden's Primetime Speech — Update  —  UPDATE, 5 PM PT: Broadcast networks passed on carrying Joe Biden's speech in Philadelphia, as the president cast MAGA Republicans as a threat to democracy.  —  ABC ran Press Your Luck, CBS went with a Young Sheldon rerun and NBC with a Law & Order replay.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hypocrite Biden's speech was about one thing only — trying to bait Trump
Steven Nelson / New York Post:   Heckler chants ‘F-k Joe Biden’ throughout primetime speech
Washington Post:
Biden warns U.S. faces powerful threat from anti-democratic forces
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Farewell to Hot Air  —  Last night I got to thinking about how many posts I've written for Hot Air.  I've looked at the total before but it never sticks in my mind.  Big numbers seldom do.  —  My guess was 15,000.  The reality: 36,590.  That's six per day, every day.  For 16 years.
Victor I. Nava / Washington Examiner:
Putin declines to honor Gorbachev with state funeral  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral and will not designate it a state funeral, the Kremlin announced on Thursday.  —  The Kremlin's top spokesman said that Putin's …
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Paul Kirby / BBC:
Ravil Maganov: Russian Lukoil chief dies in ‘fall from hospital window’
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:   Gorbachev died shocked and bewildered by Ukraine conflict - interpreter
Anna Bower / Lawfare:
A Mar-a-Lago Showdown in Federal Court  —  It is 1:07 p.m. ET at the federal courthouse in Palm Beach, Florida, and it's time for the first big courtroom showdown between former President Trump and federal prosecutors over the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.  —  Judge Aileen Cannon enters the courtroom …
Discussion: VICE, Outside the Beltway and CNBC
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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Scattered Pictures of the Files He Left Behind
Discussion: Law & Crime
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors  —  Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly  —  Nearly 2 in 5 American adults have major regrets.  —  That is, they regret their college major.
Politico:
Biden climate chief Gina McCarthy to leave White House  —  Gina McCarthy, President Joe Biden's top domestic climate adviser, will leave the White House on Sept. 16, according to two people familiar with her plans, just weeks after Congress passed the largest-ever U.S. law to tackle climate change …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Gina McCarthy, Biden's Top Climate Adviser, to Step Down Sept. 16
Discussion: The Hill
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, a bright spot in the economy  —  A stellar 20 consecutive months of sustained job growth more than recovered the millions of jobs lost during the pandemic  —  The U.S. labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, hitting a 20-month streak …
Discussion: CNBC, HotAir and Wall Street Journal
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. adds solid 315,000 jobs in August
BBC:
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Gun jams during bid to kill Argentina vice-president  —  Argentina's vice-president has narrowly avoided assassination after a gunman's weapon jammed as he aimed at her.  —  Footage shows the moment Cristina Fernández de Kirchner found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon.
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Trump Embraces Conspiracy Theories He Only Winked at Before  —  The former president's activity on his social network, Truth Social, openly promotes far-right and conspiratorial ideas that are usually confined to corners of the internet.  —  In a 24-hour period this week …
Gil Barndollar / The Atlantic:
Don't Believe the Generals  —  A T-shirt that was popular with veterans for much of America's nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan showed a helicopter in flight with the caption We Were Winning When I Left.  U.S. generals seem to be the only ones who didn't get the joke.
New York Times:
Trump's Tastes in Intelligence: Power and Leverage  —  President Donald J. Trump's interests during classified briefings have a new resonance amid the Justice Department's criminal investigation into his handling of sensitive documents.  —  WASHINGTON — As president, Donald J. Trump showed …
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and Raw Story
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Biden's Catastrophic Speech  —  Conflating their own interests with the country's, Democrats have talked themselves into the idea that their entire agenda is synonymous with ‘democracy.’  —  R  —  eally, who thought that was a good idea?  —  Leave aside the diabolical staging …
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
There's no bad time to get a new COVID booster if you're eligible, CDC director says  —  Americans will now have access to updated COVID booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines Thursday night.
 
 
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David Brooks / New York Times:
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Daily Mail:
Black family DECLINE invite to go back to Sesame Place after launching $25M lawsuit because ‘racist’ Rosita mascot ignored their kids - who they claim are still ‘traumatized’
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Dan Papscun / Bloomberg Law:
Justice Nabs First No-Poach Criminal Win Against Staffing Firm
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
Top Med Schools Weed Out DEI-Skeptical Applicants, New Report Finds
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Green Surrender  —  I sometimes wonder which policy of President Biden's has been or will be the most destructive of them all.
 Earlier Items: 
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How Trump Taught Everybody to Be Obnoxious and Cruel
New York Times:
Ex-N.Y.P.D. Officer Gets 10 Years for Jan. 6 Attack, Longest Sentence to Date
Phil Rosen / Insider:
US wholesale gas prices drop to lowest point since before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but prices at the pump remain 21% higher than last year
Discussion: The Hill
WPLG-TV:
In abortion remarks, Rubio says unborn child's rights should prevail over mother's
Discussion: Fox News and WSVN-TV
Dr Jack Watling / RUSI:
The Ukrainian Offensive Must Come in Stages
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump-aligned Pa. governor nominee Mastriano sues Jan. 6 committee
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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