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10:30 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, Forbes, The Guardian 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: HotAir, 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: RedState, UPI and The Daily Wire
Yaniv Kubovich / Haaretz:
Israeli Military Admits ‘Highly Probable’ Soldier Mistakenly Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh  —  An Israeli soldier under fire likely erroneously targeted Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, misidentifying her as an armed militant, according to an army probe ■ …
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
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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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:   Trump baselessly accuses John Fetterman of using heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl
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
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.
New York Times:
With Voters From Both Parties Energized, Campaigns Begin Fall Sprint  —  Republicans are focusing on pocketbook issues, and Democrats are emphasizing abortion rights, as Labor Day marks the start of the midterm elections' final stretch.  —  For two decades, midterm elections have served …
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.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful  —  We in America are regressing—now returning to the distant neanderthal past, now embracing the worst of what the 19th and 20th century had to offer.  —  There is no end of history.  Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked …
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
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
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?
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: Sputnik News and WTOP News
Jake Rosenfeld / Washington Post:
Why labor unions are more popular than they've been in six decades  —  Today's record-low unemployment makes workers more aware of the benefits unions offer  —  Gallup polls have been surveying Americans' attitudes toward labor unions for nearly 90 years.  Last week, the most recent Gallup survey found …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
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Associated Press:
U.S. ambassador to Russia leaving post as Ukraine war drags on
 
 
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Anthony Salvanto / CBS News:
Americans increasingly concerned about political violence — CBS News poll
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Carrie's Gazebo
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Oil Leases Slow to a Trickle Under Biden
Discussion: Power Line
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
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Lisa Prevost / New York Times:
Town After Town, Residents Are Fighting Affordable Housing in Connecticut
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