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3:55 PM ET, September 27, 2022

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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Newest addition to Trump's legal team sidelined in Mar-a-Lago search case  —  The newest addition to former President Donald Trump's legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter …
Discussion: Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says  —  In an affidavit, a process server said that the state's top attorney tried evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund's lawsuit against the state.  —  Copy link
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Ex-Staffer Says DeSantis TORCHES Trump in Private: ‘Moron Who Has No Business Running For President’  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis routinely torches former President Donald Trump in private, calling him a “moron who has no business running for president” according to a former DeSantis staffer.
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis faces the true test of any Florida governor
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Florida Contracts Go to Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Secret Service took the cellphones of 24 agents involved in Jan. 6 response and gave them to investigators  —  Senior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency's response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and handed them over to the Department …
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Annie Grayer / CNN:
Key questions remain unanswered as Jan 6 committee enters its final stage
Reuters:
Gas leaks from Russian pipelines to Europe raise sabotage fears  —  Europe was investigating leaks in two Russian gas pipelines that churned up the Baltic Sea on Tuesday and raised concerns from Copenhagen to Moscow about sabotage on infrastructure at the heart of an energy standoff.
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Lawsuit aims to stop Biden's student loan forgiveness plan  —  A public interest lawyer in Indiana is suing to block President Biden's plan to cancel some student debt, arguing that the policy will force him to pay state taxes on the forgiven amount.  —  The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court …
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Pacific Legal Foundation:
Lawsuit filed to stop Biden administration's unlawful student loan cancellation
KFTC-TV:
InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll shows Fetterman leading Oz, Shapiro in double-digit lead over Mastriano  —  A new InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll shows a tight contest in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race with the percent of undecided voters remains relatively high.  Meanwhile, the race for Governor of Pennsylvania tells a different story.
Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart, WITF and Fox News
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Paula Aceves / New York Magazine:   ‘It Was All a Hoax’  —  This 27-year-old Venezuelan man was one of 50 migrants taken …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive issues’  —  Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert were eager to believe ‘wild, dramatic fantasies’, claims Denver Riggleman in new book  —  The Republican congressmen Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar adopted such extreme …
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Cady Lang / TIME:
Hailey Bieber's ‘Brownie Glazed Lips’ Look Is Yet Another Example of Cultural Appropriation in Beauty  —  Hailey Bieber faced criticism over the weekend after a TikTok video she made about “brownie glazed lips” was called out for appropriating a makeup technique favored by Latinas and Black and brown women since the '90s.
Discussion: Newsbusters, IJR, Twitchy and The Root
Joselyn King / newsandsentinel.com/:
Justice considering U.S. Senate run  —  WHEELING — Gov. Jim Justice said he may not be done with public office when his second term as governor concludes in 2024, and that a seat in the U.S. Senate just might pique his interest.  —  The next time one of West Virginia's two Senate seats is up is 2024 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Rick Maese / Washington Post:
Brett Favre is the face of a scandal, but Mississippi's issues go deeper  —  In 2017, a Mississippi nonprofit called Operation Shoestring received a federal grant worth more than $200,000.  But when the organization sought to renew the funding a year later, the money was no longer available.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
McConnell endorses bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has endorsed a bipartisan electoral count reform bill in the Senate, giving the legislation a key boost over a similar bill the House passed last week.
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Dictator and the Diva  —  Meet Alla Pugacheva, the Russian pop mega-star who is challenging Putin.  —  Of all the different reasons given for Vladimir Putin's decision last week to order “partial mobilization” of Russian reservists, the most unusual one has been offered …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump fan who assaulted Officer Fanone on Jan. 6 sentenced to more than 7 years in prison  —  WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fan who brought his teenage son along as he assaulted then-D.C. police officer Mike Fanone and another officer at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than seven years …
Discussion: CNN
Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
Chris Wallace's CNN celebrity talk show debut tanks in ratings  —  Chris Wallace's debut as the host of his own celebrity interview talk show on struggling cable news outfit CNN proved to be a dud in the ratings.  —  Sunday night's premiere of “Who's Talking to Chris Wallace” …
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Evita Duffy / The Federalist:
FBI Seized $86 Million In Raid On Innocent Americans' Safe Boxes After Duping Judge For Warrant  —  'The government's theory is that having cash makes you a presumptive criminal, and I think every American should be worried about that.'  —  There is no denying anymore that our federal agencies …
Meta:
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China and Russia  —  Today, we're sharing our findings into two covert influence operations — from China and Russia — that we took down for violating our policy against Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB).  We shared information with our peers …
Damon Young / Washington Post:
Woke is now a dog whistle for Black.  What's next?  —  There's “urban” of course.  And urban's cousin “inner-city.”  —  And then there's “at-risk,” “underserved” and “fatherless” if talking about our children.  “Marginalized,” “low-income” and “welfare-dependent” if talking about the parents of those children.
Discussion: Twitchy
Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Alabama GOP chair's family believed voter ID was mark of the beast, brother said in deposition  —  This is an opinion column.  —  When Alabama's voter ID was before the state Legislature, if I had come up with a hypothetical like the Wahl family, the proponents of that bill would have rolled …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
 
 
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NIH News Release:
Study confirms link between COVID-19 vaccination and temporary increase in menstrual cycle length
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Darrell Owens / The Discourse Lounge:
Santa Cruz is A Housing Nightmare
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Marty Schladen / Cincinnati.com:
Affidavits: 2 more pregnant minors who were raped were denied Ohio abortions
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Consumer confidence rises this month, despite recession fears
Discussion: CNN, Bloomberg, ABC News and CBS News
Liberty Street Economics:
Revisiting Federal Student Loan Forgiveness: An Update Based on the White House Plan
Antoinette Grajeda / Arkansas Advocate:
Limited-English voters face barriers to casting ballots in Arkansas
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Dave Price / who13.com:
Insiders: Axne was in France during vote, Hinson opposes GOP governors flying migrants
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal appeals court punts on writer's suit against Trump over rape denial
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
John Fetterman Told His Constituents To ‘Eat More Vegetables.’ He Was Flabbergasted When Dr. Oz Told Him the Same.
Discussion: Twitchy and derekhuntershow.site
Jamie Raskin / New York Times:
The Second Amendment Gives No Comfort to Insurrectionists
Discussion: Raw Story and Lawfare
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Newsweek of think tanks  —  The impressive intellectual devolution of the Heritage Foundation.
 

 
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian streaming service JioCinema launches an ad-free subscription plan with the lowest tier costing $0.35/month for a single device, undercutting rivals

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