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Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Who is Natalie Harp?  Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight  —  The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.  —  Natalie Harp, a relatively little-known White House aide, has been thrust into the public eye this month …
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Paul Waldman / The Cross Section:
Yes, We Absolutely Should Talk About Natalie Harp  —  The Cross Section is a reader-supported publication.  To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.  —  Until now, Natalie Harp was known only to Washington insiders and people weird enough to read insidery books about the administration.
CNN:
Meet Natalie Harp, the aide so close to Trump she once rode in an SUV trunk to accompany him  —  Natalie Harp wouldn't take no for an answer.  —  It was October 2023, and Donald Trump was due at a New York City courthouse to fight his latest set of legal troubles.
New York Times:
Natalie Harp, Trump's Most Devoted Aide, Is Always by His Side.  What Exactly Does She Do?  —  President Trump's White House aide Natalie Harp is always by his side.  What, exactly, does she do?  —  She never takes a day off, not even on Sunday.  She works out of the Oval Office and she's got a regular seat on Marine One.
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Trump Honors a Teenage Lifeguard and Takes Aim at a CNN Reporter  —  President Trump told a journalist to “be quiet” at a White House event for a California lifeguard and a boy he saved.  —  President Trump hosted a teenage lifeguard and a boy he had saved at the White House on Monday …
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Democratic State Representative Scores Upset Win in Florida Senate Primary  —  The underdog faces another uphill battle this November against a Republican incumbent heavily favored to win.  —  State Representative Angie Nixon of Jacksonville, a progressive firebrand who ran a long-shot underdog campaign …
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New York Times:
Election Live Updates: Democratic Socialist Scores Florida Upset as Contests Are Held in 4 States
David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Byron Donalds set for November faceoff with Democrat David Jolly for Florida governor
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
GOP Rep. Cory Mills loses his Florida primary amid investigations  —  Mills lost to Republican Ryan Elijah, NBC News projects, while facing House Ethics Committee and Department of Justice investigations.  Mills has denied wrongdoing.  —  Republican Rep. Cory Mills has lost his primary in Florida …
Discussion: New York Times and NewsMax.com
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Sophia Vento / The Hill:
Trump-endorsed Mills loses primary in Florida amid House Ethics probe
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Embattled incumbent Cory Mills ousted in Florida primary
Politico:
Former Fauci aide pleads guilty to dodging federal public records laws  —  David Morens, a longtime aide to former top government infectious disease official Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to evade federal public record laws in connection with communications about coronavirus research grants.
Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News and The Hill
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Kevin Nash / US Department of Justice:
Former Senior NIAID Official Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland  —  Greenbelt, Maryland - A former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) …
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
DeSantis Appointee Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Charges  —  Mike Caruso, appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the Palm Beach County clerk of courts, was arrested Tuesday morning for child sexual abuse charges.  —  The alleged victim was one of his grandchildren, a boy under 12 years old.
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Miami Herald:
DeSantis suspends Palm Beach clerk accused of sexually molesting young child
Discussion: The Independent
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs / Forbes:
DeSantis Ally In Florida Arrested On Child Sex-Abuse Charges
Discussion: TMZ.com and Daily Kos
Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
ABC sues FCC over challenge to its broadcast licenses, saying actions present ‘existential threat’  —  Further escalating its battle with the Trump administration, ABC on Tuesday took the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds …
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NBC News:
Disney and ABC sue FCC, seeking to stop early license renewal process  —  In April, the FCC ordered Disney's eight owned-and-operated television stations to file their broadcast license renewals ahead of schedule.  —  The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday sued the Federal Communications Commission …
Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
Politics drove antisemitism probes against Ivy League schools, DOJ whistleblower says  —  A former Justice Department attorney casts doubt on claims of systemic antisemitism at Brown, Harvard and Columbia.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism …
Associated Press:
Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial  —  Minnesota's attorney general sued the governor of Texas on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then lying …
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Minnesota Sues Texas Governor Over His Refusal to Extradite ICE Agent
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
U.S. quietly deporting Mexican migrants to Guatemala and Honduras, angering Mexico  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  The Trump administration has been quietly deporting migrants from Mexico to different countries in Central America despite the Mexican government's willingness to accept the return …
Discussion: NewsMax.com, RedState and Blaze Media
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US Department of Justice:
17 Iranians Charged with Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Other Iranian Entities  —  For Immediate Release  —  Mabna Institute Hackers Attacked Systems Belonging to Hundreds of Universities, Companies, and Other Victims to Steal Research …
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A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
DOJ unseals new charges against 17 hackers in Iran-backed campaign
Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
South Korea's Lee Pushes for Nuclear Sub Deal After Trump Rebuke  —  South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for swift progress in consultations with the US on the country's plan to acquire its first nuclear-powered submarine after President Donald Trump ordered curbs on joint military drills …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pushes for Kim Jong Un Meeting This Year
Discussion: The Korea Herald
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Cruelty Was Fine Until It Became Personal  —  Another Trump supporter is outraged after getting what he voted for. … Join  —  1. Shameful.  Joyous.  —  What is it we say about bad things happening to bad people?  —  Meet Brent Jindra, a California tech salesman who voted …
New York Times:
Trump's Ballroom Is Rising at Breakneck Speed: 20 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week  —  Although the fate of the ballroom is tied up in court, the Trump administration argues that the project is too far along to be stopped now.  —  With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is racing against the clock.
Reuters:
US sanctions International Criminal Court president, Treasury Department website shows  —  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Tomoko Akane, a Japanese judge who is president of the International Criminal Court, according to the U.S. Treasury Department website.
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Svetlana Shkolnikova / Stars & Stripes:
Stars and Stripes publisher announces retirement  —  Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement Tuesday, ending a three-decade career at the organization amid Pentagon efforts to expand oversight over its operations and content.
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Olivia Patel / NBC News:
Darline Graham defends her resume in South Carolina debate after saying ‘national security is not my thing’  —  The appointed senator and her GOP primary opponent, Rep. Ralph Norman, traded criticism a week ahead of the Aug. 25 primary runoff following Lindsey Graham's death.
Reuters:
Eight Israeli airstrikes hit Syria's Abu al-Duhur airbase, no casualties, state TV reports  —  Israel bombed an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, carrying out what appeared to be its first strike on Syrian government assets since March and drawing condemnation from Turkey …
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
A Texas University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content  —  The politician behind Texas' conservative overhaul of higher education is now running a university system.  Some say his effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests  —  The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.  —  The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan …
Washington Post:
Trump revives unverified claims of noncitizen voting in 2020  —  The president pointed to data that he said shows 24,000 illegal votes cast in 2020, a tiny fraction of the total vote that year.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday re-upped his long-standing false claims …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The worst primary in America just ended  —  Rep. Randy Fine, the Republican running for reelection in Florida's Sixth Congressional District, has unfavorably compared Muslims to dogs and suggested Israel should starve Gazans.  “We need more Islamophobia, not less,” he wrote in one tweet.
NBC News:
DOJ issues grand jury subpoenas in dueling Dan Sullivans' Republican Senate saga  —  Federal investigators in Alaska are probing whether Dan J. Sullivan, a former teacher, entered the race to confuse voters and steal votes away from the incumbent, Dan S. Sullivan.
Ben Finley / Associated Press:
Senator presses Hegseth, Caine for commitment to keep US military out of the midterm elections  —  Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday to confirm he won't send U.S. troops to polling places during November's midterm elections, as Democrats have raised concerns …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
NBC News:
Trump appears to repeatedly contradict his own top advisers on the Iran war  —  Trump has made several comments in the last few days that differ from those made by Vice President JD Vance and others. … President Donald Trump has appeared to publicly contradict some of his top advisers …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and CBS News
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Rancher Beats Trump-Backed Candidate in Primary for Governor of Wyoming  —  Eric Barlow's defeat of Megan Degenfelder, the state superintendent of education, again showed the limits of the president's favor.  —  Eric Barlow, a rancher and state senator in Wyoming, won the Republican primary …
Politico:
‘There is no breaking point’: The problem with Trump's plan to economically strangle Iran  —  President Donald Trump is waiting for Iran to cave to his economic pressure.  Tehran may be willing to wait even longer. … “It's an attrition campaign, and I am sure Treasury tweaks …
 
 
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Discussion: Politico
Chris Marquette / Politico:
Comer threatens contempt as Black faces more Epstein probe heat
Discussion: Bloomberg
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Julie K. Brown / The Epstein Files:
Virginia Giuffre's case files finally to be unsealed
Discussion: New Republic and NewsMax.com
The Guardian:
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Discussion: MS NOW
 

 
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Apple:
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