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9:30 AM ET, September 5, 2022

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Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Russia switches off Europe's main gas pipeline until sanctions are lifted  —  Gazprom previously said it was halting flows through Nord Stream 1 because of a technical fault  —  Russia's gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will not resume in full until the “collective west” …
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
Nathan Williams / BBC:
Liz Truss to be new UK prime minister  —  Watch: BBC News coverage as next Tory leader decided  —  Play video Watch: BBC News coverage as next Tory leader decided  —  Summary  — Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest
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Esther Webber / Politico:
Liz Truss to be Britain's next prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak  —  LONDON — Liz Truss will be the next prime minister of the U.K. after comfortably seeing off rival Rishi Sunak in the race to lead the governing Conservative Party.  —  Truss, currently the U.K's foreign secretary …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Seek Path for Constitutional Convention  —  A new book by a former Democratic senator warns of the risks of allowing states to call for a convention.  Some in the G.O.P. see it as the only way to rein in the federal government.  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Jodey Arrington …
Discussion: Reason and Insider
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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate  —  The rejected Constitution would have legalized abortion, adopted universal health care and enshrined more than 100 constitutional rights, a global record.  —  Jack Nicas, a correspondent in South America …
Discussion: UPI and The Daily Wire
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Biden Laid the Trap.  Trump Walked Into It.  —  In 2016, Hillary Clinton warned that Donald Trump was a fool who could be baited with a tweet.  This past Thursday night, in Philadelphia, Joe Biden upped the ante by asking, in effect: What idiot thing might the former president do if baited with a whole speech?
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
In Pa. visit, Trump attacks Biden for ‘vicious, hateful and divisive’ address
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Investigations Face a Dilemma Before the Midterm Elections  —  Justice Department officials are debating how an unwritten rule should affect the criminal investigations into Jan. 6 and the former president's handling of sensitive documents.  —  WASHINGTON — As the midterm elections near …
Discussion: Raw Story
Karen Gilchrist / CNBC:
Trump 2024 could be one of the ‘greatest political comebacks in American history,’ says Sen. Lindsey Graham  — U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Saturday that former President Donald Trump stands a “pretty good chance” of winning the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Douglas Rushkoff / The Guardian:
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse  —  Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon's putting a three-day pause on reviews for The Rings of Power  —  The new policy applies to all of Amazon's shows and movies  —  Amazon is reportedly putting a three-day delay on user reviews for all of its content on Prime Video, including the newly-released The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
British Pound Falls to Lowest Level Since 1985 as U.K. Economic Pain Mounts  —  Investors see increased odds that the pound will tumble below parity with the dollar, something that hasn't happened in their more than 200-year trading history  —  Inflation Looks Different Worldwide.  Who's Getting It Right?
ABC News:
Exclusive: Zelenskyy tells David Muir ‘Russians using Zaporizhzhia as nuclear weapon’  —  The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been the site of intense shelling.  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir in Kyiv accused …
Discussion: The Hill
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, new book says  —  New York Times reporter David Enrich also says White House counsel Donald McGahn once called senior Trump aides ‘morons’  —  Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer he owed $2m with a deed to a horse.
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Trump rally highlighting January 6 case of alleged Nazi sympathizer sparks criticism  —  Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, on Sunday called out former President Donald Trump for featuring a speaker during his Saturday rally …
Discussion: Townhall and Digby's Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
Israel Makes Final Push to Shape Restored Iran Nuclear Deal  —  U.S. ally has stepped up its rhetoric against the agreement amid its election season  —  Israeli officials are scrambling to influence the Biden administration as the U.S. attempts to revive the Iran nuclear deal …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Sputnik News
Associated Press:
U.S. ambassador to Russia leaving post as Ukraine war drags on  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America's top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Raskin wants Gingrich, Ginni Thomas and Pence to testify to Jan. 6 committee  —  Washington — Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, said Sunday that he would like to see former Vice President Mike Pence …
Discussion: The Guardian, Insider, Raw Story and CNN
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Wall Street Journal:
Federal Oil Leases Slow to a Trickle Under Biden
Discussion: Power Line
Jake Rosenfeld / Washington Post:
Why labor unions are more popular than they've been in six decades
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
MAGA is fascism  —  Outrage sells — or at least it does around some conference tables …
Stephen Kalin / Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Is Betting $1 Trillion It Can Become the Next Tourist Hotspot
Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal:
Islamic State Turns to NFTs to Spread Terror Message
Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:
China Threatens Reaction After U.S. Announces Arms Sales to Taiwan
Discussion: RedState
Lisa Prevost / New York Times:
Town After Town, Residents Are Fighting Affordable Housing in Connecticut
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Andrew J. Tobias / Plain Dealer:
J.D. Vance largely avoids pivot to center in Ohio's U.S. Senate race after culture-war heavy Republican primary
Brian MacQuarrie / The Boston Globe:
Free Staters seek to undo New Hampshire government from within
Emmanuel Felton / Washington Post:
Living in a city with no water: ‘This is unbearable’
Discussion: CBS News
Washington Post:
Florida let them vote. Then DeSantis's election police arrested them.
Discussion: Wikidworld
Michael Schulman / New Yorker:
John Legend Bet on Himself
Discussion: TMZ.com
 

 
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Anna Tong / Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13, a day before the start of Google's annual I/O developer conference

Bloomberg:
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games, including Candy Crush Saga, and later opening to other publishers

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component

 
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