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10:40 AM ET, September 30, 2022

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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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Alexei Navalny / Washington Post:
This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like  —  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony.  This essay was conveyed to The Post by his legal team.  —  What does a desirable and realistic end to the criminal war unleashed …
Associated Press:
Ukraine says 25 people are dead in an attack on a civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia. … Putin is set to declare that four regions of Ukraine are part of Russia, despite international condemnation.  —  KYIV, Ukraine — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is set to sign decrees on Friday …
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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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The GOP Cavalry Arrives  —  Not long ago, President Biden and congressional Democrats were riding high.  They benefited from falling gas prices, a rash of legislation, a foolish but popular student debt bailout, several weak GOP candidates, and voter backlash to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP's impeachment zeal  —  House Republicans have introduced more than a dozen impeachment resolutions against President Biden and his officials, far outpacing Democrats' formal impeachment efforts at this point in former President Trump's term. … - Biden has been the target of nine …
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and Washington Post
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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Washington Examiner:
Biden's mental sharpness is increasingly doubtful, and it's a serious issue  —  How do you know President Joe Biden is genuinely losing the mental faculties required to govern?  One way is to look at his White House staff scrambling to cover up every clue that this is the case.
Discussion: Boston Herald, Fox News and RedState
Politico:
The Bill Clinton comeback
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
What Joe Biden's memory lapse about the late Jackie Walorski really told us
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 …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Trevor Noah Announces He Will Leave ‘The Daily Show’
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 …
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
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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’ …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'It's My Curse and My Salvation': Trump's Most Famous Chronicler Opens Up  —  NEW YORK — Late one recent afternoon, Maggie Haberman pulled into a parking spot in the lot at Gargiulo's, the old-time Italian restaurant in Coney Island where Donald Trump's father used to eat lunch.
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
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Nancy Pelosi Resisted Effort to Impeach Trump on Jan. 6: New Book … History often unfolds through the collision of structural forces that operate independently of any specific decision or decision maker.  But once in a while, a real moment of contingency arises in which a single person …
Jeff Shesol / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Is Broken.  Where's Biden?  —  In a recent speech at Independence Hall, President Biden called on Americans to stand against an assault on democracy — the ongoing assault waged by insurrectionists and would-be patriots, by election deniers and other extremists.
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.
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 …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
How the Celebrity-Industrial Complex Hinders Democrats  —  On the menu today: Politico recognizes what some of us have been saying for a long time — Democratic gubernatorial candidates Beto O'Rourke and Stacey Abrams are not only failing to live up to the enormous hype that has been steadily building around …
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
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” …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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
Kiana Burks / WCAX-TV:
Randolph High School investigating gender locker room dispute  —  RANDOLPH, Vt. (WCAX) - Randolph High Schools girl's volleyball team has been banned from its own locker room while school officials investigate a conflict involving a transgender student on the team.
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Youngkin, amid 2024 buzz, sidesteps question about completing term  —  RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who seems to be inching closer to a 2024 presidential bid, sidestepped when asked this week if he would commit to completing all four years of the term he began just eight months ago.
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 …
Jordan Uhl / The Lever:
How Wall Street Profits Off Of The Sick And Elderly  —  As Congress helps out its private equity donors, new research shows what happens when those firms take over nursing homes and medical offices.  —  Weeks after Congress preserved a tax loophole for private equity billionaires …
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
The Pandemic's Legacy Is Already Clear  —  Recently, after a week in which 2,789 Americans died of COVID-19, President Joe Biden proclaimed that “the pandemic is over.”  Anthony Fauci described the controversy around the proclamation as a matter of “semantics,” but the facts we are living with can speak for themselves.
Discussion: I Might Be Wrong
Valentina Romei / Financial Times:
UK remains only G7 economy to languish below pre-pandemic levels  —  GDP stuck 0.2% below final quarter of 2019, but latest growth data now positive  —  Significant revisions to UK data indicate that Britain is the only G7 economy that remains smaller than it was before the pandemic …
Discussion: New Statesman and The Nation
 
 
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman's Lead Shrinks in US Senate Race; Shapiro's Lead Expands For Governor's Seat
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Cory Turner / NPR:
In a reversal, the Education Dept. is excluding many from student loan relief
TYT Network:
Former Trump Official Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charge, Is Sentenced to Prison
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Hurricane Ian's Toll Is Severe. Lack of Insurance Will Make It Worse.
Discussion: Politico, E&E, Florida Politics and WSVN-TV
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
He Has a 7-Point Plan for a Christian Takeover — and Wants Doug Mastriano to Lead the Charge
Discussion: VICE
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Karl Vick / TIME:
Why Iran's Leading Women's Rights Defender Thinks the Protesters Could Topple the Regime
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Conservatives Very Offended by Lizzo Twerking With Slave Owner's Crystal Flute
Keith Gessen / New Yorker:
How the War in Ukraine Might End
New York Times:
Ginni Thomas Repeats False 2020 Election Claim in Jan. 6 Interview
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
Kenneth L. Marcus / Jewish Journal:
Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones
 

 
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