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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe  —  Investigators see credibility challenges for two of the main witnesses in the probe of the congressman's past dealings with a 17-year-old  —  Career prosecutors have recommended against charging Rep. Matt Gaetz …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump's secret court fight to stop grand jury from getting information from his inner circle  —  Former President Donald Trump's attorneys are fighting a secret court battle to block a federal grand jury from gathering information from an expanding circle of close Trump aides …
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Ukrainians Express Fear and Defiance as Staged Voting Begins … Referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine evoke fear, anger and defiance.  —  Russian soldiers, wearing balaclavas and wielding guns, flanked election workers.  Ukrainians forced to vote while Russian officials or their proxies stood guard.
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Sarah Rainsford / BBC:   Ukraine war: 'What's happening in Russia now is total fear'
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Unveils ‘Commitment To America’ Plan With Stock Videos Of Russia, Ukraine  —  “We celebrate the rich heritage of the American story,” a narrator says, over footage of a drilling rig in Russia's Volgograd region.  —  House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled their “Commitment to America” …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and IJR
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis's stunt point to a deeper scam  —  Who paid for the migrants to be transported from Texas to Florida?  —  That question emerges from new revelations about Gov. Ron DeSantis's vile stunt, in which he transported two planeloads of migrants from Texas …
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Just 1/3 of Americans back Republican migrant flights, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
National security risk review of material Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago resumes after appeals court ruling  —  Intelligence officials have resumed their national security risk review of top-secret documents that were seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, according to a spokesperson …
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Alarm as Koch bankrolls dozens of election denier candidates  —  Election watchdogs say Koch's about face after pledging change following January 6 is disturbing given the threats to democracy  —  Fossil fuel giant Koch Industries has poured over $1m into backing - directly and indirectly …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to unleash millions in the midterms in possible prelude to 2024
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Nina Totenberg Had a Beautiful Friendship With RBG.  Her Book About It Is an Embarrassment.  —  Did Nina Totenberg know a secret that could have changed history?  —  The question hovers over Dinners With Ruth, Totenberg's new memoir of her four-decade friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Still Do Not Show A GOP Bounce Back  —  Ever since we launched our election model in late June, it has moved entirely in one direction: toward Democrats.  Pretty much every week, they've either gained ground in our forecast or held steady.  —  This week has been more in the “held steady” category.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
How the polls might be wrong (again) this year
Discussion: HotAir, The Liberty Loft and The Hill
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
House GOP Rolls Out Agenda With a Fake Lincoln Quote  —  The House Republican conference thought their agenda was quoting Abraham Lincoln.  It was actually quoting a Lehman Brothers ad from the 1980s. … As he rolled out the first official Republican Party congressional platform in years …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Project Veritas loses jury verdict to Democratic consulting firm  —  A federal jury has found Project Veritas, a conservative group often accused of using deceptive tactics, liable for violating wiretapping laws and misrepresenting itself in an undercover effort to target Democratic political consultants.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Maine Poll: Mills Leads LePage by 12; Majority of Voters Concerned Over Lobsters on Unsustainable Seafood “Red List”  —  Home Polls Maine Poll: Mills Leads LePage by 12; Majority of Voters Concerned Over Lobsters on Unsustainable Seafood “Red List”  —  The latest Emerson College Polling survey …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
September National Poll: President Biden's Approval At Year High; 56% of Voters Agree the Pandemic is Over
Discussion: The Hill
Emma Kinery / CNBC:
Biden promises to codify Roe if two more Democrats are elected to the Senate  — With 46 days to go until November's Election Day, Biden urged supporters at a Democratic National Committee event to consider “what's on the ballot,” listing issues including abortion.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Washington Post:
Biden says Catholic Church wouldn't agree with Graham's abortion ban
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in cash  —  The wholesale privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.  —  They rummaged through personal belongings …
Discussion: Reason
Daniel Hemel / Slate:
No One but Trump Would Be Prosecuted Like This  —  The civil suit had to be partly political.  Trump made it that way.  —  Donald Trump has long believed that he lives by different legal rules than everyone else.  But this week, the law finally caught up with the former president.
Axios:
House GOP eyes repeal of Dems' drug pricing law  —  Some key House Republicans are calling for the repeal of Democrats' newly-passed drug pricing measure if the GOP flips control of one or both chambers of Congress next year. … - Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Ways …
Devan Cole / CNN:
Breyer warns justices that some opinions could ‘bite you in the back’ in exclusive interview with CNN's Chris Wallace  —  Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is warning his colleagues against “writing too rigidly” in their opinions, saying that such decisions could “bite you in the back” in a world that is constantly changing.
New York Times:
Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70  —  The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell.  —  Hilary Mantel, the British author of “Wolf Hall,” “Bring Up the Bodies” and …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Iranian security forces step up arrests of journalists as anti-state protests spread  —  Editor's note: This report was updated on September 23 to include news of additional arrests  —  Washington, D.C., September 23, 2022—Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release …
Politico:
McConnell seeks a Jan. 6 mop-up on his terms  —  Mitch McConnell opposed conviction in Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.  He may yet help clean up the mess of Jan. 6.  —  Things are playing out differently in the Senate GOP after only nine House Republicans — all of them retiring from Congress …
New York Times:
Zeldin Has a Path to Becoming Governor.  It Runs Through Brooklyn.  —  A curious thing happened last weekend when Representative Lee Zeldin brought his Republican campaign for governor of New York into Hasidic Brooklyn.  —  Mr. Zeldin, a pronounced underdog, was greeted like a rock star.
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
DeSantis to face trial for suspension of prosecutor who defied abortion ban law  —  Andrew Warren, a Democrat, sued Florida governor for suspension after saying he would not enforce new 15-week abortion law  —  A Florida prosecutor suspended by Ron DeSantis for defying a new 15-week abortion law …
Andrew Kenney / Colorado Public Radio:
Coloradans are worried about housing.  Here's what Jared Polis and Heidi Ganahl say they'd do … Richard Montoya, 37, says he makes pretty good money as a sales manager.  But he feels stalled out, lately, with his wife and three kids in their Thornton rental.
 
 
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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
Trump Continues to Escalate His Dangerous Incitement
Discussion: CNBC
Associated Press:
In-person voting starts in Minnesota, 3 other early states
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
How GOP Governor Candidates Are ‘Blowing It’ in the Midwest
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and The Hill
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats ‘Charity’ Voter-Registration Scheme
Discussion: New York Post
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Central Banks Accept Pain Now, Fearing Worse Later
Discussion: Financial Times and The Daily Wire
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Nick Schwellenbach / Project On Government Oversight:
DHS Watchdog Staff Call on Biden to Fire Inspector General Cuffari
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Kimberly Ross / Washington Examiner:
Democrats want to be a sane alternative to the GOP. They're not
Discussion: New Republic
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
How tight is the Mike Lee-Evan McMullin race for Senate? New Utah poll has answers
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