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8:50 AM ET, September 30, 2022

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Variety:
Trevor Noah to Exit ‘Daily Show’ After Seven Years  —  Trevor Noah is nearing his last laugh on “The Daily Show.”  —  The comedian, who came out of near anonymity to take over the program from Jon Stewart in 2015, plans to exit the flagship Comedy Central series after a seven-year tenure …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
DeSantis, Once a ‘No’ on Storm Aid, Petitions a President He's Bashed  —  The Florida governor, who as a congressman opposed aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, is seeking relief from the Biden administration as Hurricane Ian ravages his own state.  —  As a freshman congressman in 2013 …
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Politico:
The Bill Clinton comeback
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
What Joe Biden's memory lapse about the late Jackie Walorski really told us
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
What if We're Already Fighting the Third World War with Russia?  —  Putin's latest provocations once again put Washington in an awful bind.  —  Nuclear blackmail, illegal annexation of territory, hundreds of thousands of Russian men rounded up and sent to the front lines in Ukraine …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The West should hunker down against Putin's latest aggression
Discussion: Townhall and HotAir
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Judge rules Trump lawyers don't have to clarify Mar-a-Lago document claims  —  Special master Raymond Dearie had told Donald Trump's attorneys to address whether documents were, as Trump has claimed, planted or declassified  —  Judge Aileen M. Cannon told Donald Trump's lawyers Thursday …
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New York Times:
Judge Overrules Special Master's Demands to Trump in Document Review  —  The dueling moves by Judge Aileen M. Cannon and a special master she appointed reflected a larger struggle over who should control the rules of the review — and whom those rules would favor.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Major in the United States Army and a Maryland Doctor Facing Federal Indictment for Allegedly Providing Confidential Health Information to a Purported Russian Representative to Assist Russia Related to the Conflict In Ukraine  —  Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned …
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Ronny Reyes / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Johns Hopkin doctor told her trans Army officer wife to stop being a ‘coward’ and to ‘work through’ her ‘ethical issues’ to hand over medical information on senior military officers to Russians, indictment shows  — Major Jamie Lee Henry, the Army's first trans officer …
Paul Gessler / CBS News:
Hopkins anesthesiologist, Army Major spouse conspired to offer medical records to Russia: federal indictment
David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
A Prominent Federal Judge Declares He Will No Longer Hire Clerks From Yale Law School  —  And he's trying to get his fellow judges to join his boycott of YLS clerks—will it work? … Actions have consequences.  And the problematic actions of Yale Law School when it comes to free speech …
Guillermo Contreras / San Antonio Express-News:
Warden of Texas immigrant jail fired after arrest for shooting 2 migrants  —  The warden of a West Texas federal jail for immigrants has been fired after he and a brother allegedly shot at migrants drinking water along a roadside in Hudspeth County on Tuesday, killing one and wounding another.
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Two Migrants Shot Along Roadway in Rural Texas  —  A local jail warden in Hudspeth County is one of two men arrested in connection with the attack south of El Paso, a law enforcement official said.  —  HOUSTON — Two unauthorized migrants were shot, one of them fatally …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:   Texas Jail Warden Charged With Killing Migrant Was Previously Accused of Serious Abuses
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Gerrymandering Isn't Giving Republicans the Advantage You Might Expect  —  Yes, the G.O.P. has a structural edge in the House, but it isn't anything near insurmountable for Democrats.  —  There is no shortage of reasons Republicans are expected to retake the House this year …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, E&E and Newsday
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP's impeachment zeal
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and Washington Post
Kenneth L. Marcus / Jewish Journal:
Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones  —  https://jewishjournal.com/wp-content/ uploads/speaker/post-351854.mp3?cb= 1664388288.mp3  —  If it wasn't so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame.
Discussion: Melanie Phillips
NBC News:
At least 12 confirmed dead as the scope of Hurricane Ian's devastation comes into focus  —  Hurricane Ian leaves Florida's southwest coast unrecognizable  —  At least 12 people have died after Hurricane Ian tore across Florida with such ferocity that President Joe Biden said it could be the deadliest in state history.
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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
The Tories have become unmoored from the British people  —  The government may have adopted the most extreme economic position of any major party in the developed world  —  In a single week, Britain has gone from being one among many nations facing fierce economic headwinds to being a financial basket case …
Zachary T. Sampson / Tampa Bay Times:
Section of Sanibel Causeway wiped out by Hurricane Ian  —  On the ground in southwest Florida, a Tampa Bay Times reporter and photographer bring eyewitness accounts.  —  Photojournalist Douglas R. Clifford and I left our hotel room in Fort Myers late Wednesday night and have been searching …
Rodlyn-Mae Banting / Jezebel:
Conservatives Very Offended by Lizzo Twerking With Slave Owner's Crystal Flute  —  Conservative men online are mad about a lot of things right now: Black people getting cast as mermaids.  Black people getting cast as mythical elves.  And now, a Black woman playing a crystal flute owned …
Keith Gessen / New Yorker:
How the War in Ukraine Might End  —  In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory.  They see reason to fear the possible outcomes in Ukraine.  —  Hein Goemans grew up in Amsterdam in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, surrounded by stories and memories of the Second World War.
Cory Turner / NPR:
In a reversal, the Education Dept. is excluding many from student loan relief  —  In a remarkable reversal that will affect the fortunes of many student loan borrowers, the U.S. Department of Education has quietly changed its guidance around who qualifies for President Biden's sweeping student debt relief plan.
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden administration scales back student debt relief for millions amid legal concerns
Politico:
Georgia and Nevada on their minds: Senate watchers sweat two swing states  —  The Democratic and Republican campaign chiefs agree on one thing about the battle for the Senate majority: Nevada and Georgia are at the center.  —  “If you look at the polls, Nevada and Georgia are the two logical ones” …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
He Has a 7-Point Plan for a Christian Takeover — and Wants Doug Mastriano to Lead the Charge  —  “Jesus was promised nations for His inheritance,” says Lance Wallnau, a self-described Christian Nationalist prophet, “Not just churches!”  —  LANCE WALLNAU, A self-styled “prophet” …
Discussion: VICE
Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
Hints of Republican Concern About Unlimited Campaign Cash  —  Campaign-finance reform is still very much a Democratic project, but there are signs that the winds are starting to shift on the right.  —  A funny thing happened after Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that tossed …
Discussion: Raw Story and CounterPunch
New York Times:
Ginni Thomas Repeats False 2020 Election Claim in Jan. 6 Interview  —  In a closed-door interview with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, Ms. Thomas reiterated her false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald J. Trump.
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Hurricane Ian's Toll Is Severe.  Lack of Insurance Will Make It Worse.  —  Most of the Florida homes in the path of Hurricane Ian lack flood insurance, posing a major challenge to rebuilding efforts, new data show.  —  In the counties whose residents were told to evacuate …
Discussion: E&E, Florida Politics and WSVN-TV
Politico:
Jay Powell takes on the world  —  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is waging a relentless battle against inflation that threatens to leave a path of destruction on the global economy in its wake.  —  The Fed — carrying out its steepest interest rate hikes in three decades …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
GOP Candidate's Staffer Has a Murder-for-Hire Past  —  Kari Lake, the GOP nominee for Arizona governor, has hired a staffer who “attempted to kill” an FBI informant.  —  Arizona Republican governor candidate Kari Lake has made her support for law enforcement a centerpiece of her campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story
Karl Vick / TIME:
Why Iran's Leading Women's Rights Defender Thinks the Protesters Could Topple the Regime  —  The protests in Iran are leaderless.  They broke out spontaneously across the country after images appeared on social media of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini, unconsous in the hospital bed …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
 
 
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
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Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
FBI insiders say agents who took a knee during BLM protests were rewarded
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
TYT Network:
Former Trump Official Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charge, Is Sentenced to Prison
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The US Probably Won't Contain Them.
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Calder McHugh / Politico:
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Pentagon Plans to Set Up a New Command to Arm Ukraine, Officials Say
Discussion: World Socialist Web Site and CNN
Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Michigan election worker charged with tampering with voting equipment
Warren Rojas / Insider:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein chides staffers as they race to prep her for stopgap government funding vote: 'I don't even know what that is'
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Politico:
Justices shield spouses' work from potential conflict of interest disclosures