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Trump team turns over item marked classified to DOJ, sources say — The item was discovered in mid-January, sources tell ABC News. — In this Aug. 31, 2022, file photo, former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club is shown in Palm Beach, Fla. — Former President — Donald Trump's
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CNN:
Trump team turns over additional classified records and laptop to federal prosecutors — Former President Donald Trump's legal team turned over a multi-page document with classified markings and a laptop belonging to an aide to federal prosecutors in recent months, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Found One Classified Document After Searching Pence's Home — Aides to former Vice President Mike Pence agreed to the search after discussions with the Justice Department. — The F.B.I. found one classified document after searching the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump legal team hands over additional classified folder to Justice Dept. — Former president Donald Trump's legal team recently gave the Justice Department an additional folder with classified markings that the team said was found at Mar-a-Lago, according to two people familiar with the matter …
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
AP source: Trump team turns over items marked as classified
AP source: Trump team turns over items marked as classified
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
How Two Biden Aides Played a Role in What Led to the Documents Case
How Two Biden Aides Played a Role in What Led to the Documents Case
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Bloomberg:
Trump Lawyer in Mar-a-Lago Search Appeared Before Grand Jury
Trump Lawyer in Mar-a-Lago Search Appeared Before Grand Jury
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New York Times:
Pentagon Downed Object Over Alaska, Official Says — The incident comes less than a week after U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic. — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon downed an unidentified object over Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, according to U.S. officials.
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
What we can infer from the Alaska aerial object — The White House says that the U.S. military shot down an as yet unidentified flying object over northern Alaska on Thursday evening. — National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the object was “the size of a small car” …
Jaina Grey / Wired:
Review: There Is No Magic in Hogwarts Legacy — The game is mid at best, and its real-world harms are impossible to ignore. … Rating: … Yikes, y'all. I don't even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. We're here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy …
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CNN:
Fetterman discharged from Washington, DC, hospital — Sen. John Fetterman has been released from a Washington, DC, hospital, after being admitted due to “feeling lightheaded” and undergoing tests earlier this week, according to a statement from his office. — The Pennsylvania Democrat intends to return to the Senate on Monday.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Fetterman, Recovering After Stroke, Labors to Adjust to Life in the Senate
Fetterman, Recovering After Stroke, Labors to Adjust to Life in the Senate
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Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Serious Mental Health Challenges’: Fetterman Suffered Permanent Damage From Charging Ahead With Campaign After Near-Fatal Stroke
‘Serious Mental Health Challenges’: Fetterman Suffered Permanent Damage From Charging Ahead With Campaign After Near-Fatal Stroke
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NBC News:
Trump frustrated with a powerful conservative group after its outreach to Ron DeSantis — Few Republican groups have had as meteoric a rise as Turning Point USA. — Started in 2012 to energize young conservatives, the group has quickly grown to become a sort of quasi-party apparatus …
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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
DeSantis Preps 2024 Bid Behind Scenes While Waiting to Declare
DeSantis Preps 2024 Bid Behind Scenes While Waiting to Declare
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump plays catch-up with GOP rivals on fights over race and gender in schools
Trump plays catch-up with GOP rivals on fights over race and gender in schools
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Vincent Lloyd / Compact Magazine:
Compact A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell — On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process …
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Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
House Republicans launched their big investigations this week. Guess how that went — The House's new GOP majority is ignoring a key principle I learned during my five years working for Republicans on the House Oversight Committee: Manage expectations. Its “make accusations first …
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
DeSantis wanted to ban guns at event, but not to be blamed, emails show — As Gov. Ron DeSantis prepared for an election night party in downtown Tampa last year, city officials received a surprising — and politically sensitive — request. — The Republican governor's campaign wanted weapons banned …
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
A Michigan politician announced her baptism in Messianic Judaism. The rabbi of her synagogue says there's no such thing. — Controversy over the Jewish identity of a candidate running to head Michigan's Republican Party intensified Friday after the rabbi at her Reform synagogue took …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Obama veteran Ben LaBolt to become White House communications director — Kate Bedingfield, a senior Biden adviser for four years, will leave the post for a strategic role in President Biden's expected reelection campaign — Ben LaBolt, a former adviser to Barack Obama who has worked …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump calls Pence a ‘very honorable man’ after Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoena — Pence was subpoenaed by Special Counsel Jack Smith after months of negotiations — Special Counsel Hur has begun his job as the FBI plans a search of Mike Pence's home and office
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Breaking: Twenty-two Republican AGs support lawsuit to end access to mifepristone abortion drug — [Update: Hours later, 22 Democratic AGs opposed the lawsuit in their own filing.] The filings come in a closely watched case brought in Texas by a conservative group.
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Ben Cost / New York Post:
Black man in blackface makeup booted from Sarah Silverman show for protesting old skit — MORE ON: — An elderly man said he was manhandled by security and booted from a Sarah Silverman show in New Jersey after protesting her infamous blackface skit while wearing blackface.
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C. Isaiah Smalls II / Miami Herald:
Miami preschool teacher paints kids in blackface for lesson. ‘You should know better’
Miami preschool teacher paints kids in blackface for lesson. ‘You should know better’
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
CBP Releases January 2023 Monthly Operational Update — WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection released operational statistics today for January 2023, which can be viewed online here. — “The January monthly operational update clearly illustrates that new border
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Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
New Jersey council member is fatally shot one week after slaying of another lawmaker — Authorities have not made any connections between the slayings of Russell Heller and Eunice Dwumfour. Heller was found dead outside his job Wednesday, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said.
Kriston Capps / Bloomberg:
The Rise of the Millionaire Renters — Of the millionaires living in Jersey City back in 2015, none of them were renters. And why would they be? — The average price for a single-family house in a Jersey City neighborhood like Bergen-Lafayette, where 19th-century Victorians intermingle …
Toronto Star:
Mayor John Tory steps down from office after admitting he had relationship with former staffer — Tory apologizes to people in city of Toronto and his family after ‘a serious error of judgment’ — Mayor John Tory is stepping down from office, less than four months after winning re-election to a third term.
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Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Tennessee GOP introduces bills that would shake up Nashville — For years, Nashville leaders have watched Tennessee's GOP-dominated Legislature repeatedly kneecap the liberal-leaning city's ability to set its own minimum wage, regulate plastic bag use and place higher scrutiny on police officers.
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New York Times:
How Sports Betting Upended the Economies of Native American Tribes — Hard-fought deals for casinos gave many tribes a critical economic lifeline. When the doors opened to widespread sports betting, others wanted in on the gambling business. — For decades, gambling has been the most important source …
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Washington Post:
Amish country farmers say George Santos took puppies, left bad checks — One breeder recounted how the future member of Congress made off with four golden retrievers, leading to a criminal charge in 2017 — YORK COUNTY, Pa. — It was after dark when George A. Santos approached the farmer …
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