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••• The New York Times • Jeff Asher • 7 hours ago • nytimes.com
Murder Rose by Almost 30% in 2020. It’s Rising at a Slower Rate in 2021.
The increase in U.S. murders this summer does not appear to be as large as the record spike last summer.
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•• The Wall Street Journal • Eliza Collins, Sadie Gurman • 6 hours ago • wsj.com
Bipartisan Police-Overhaul Talks End With No Deal
Lawmakers had sought to address abuses by law-enforcement in wake of protests over killings of Black Americans.
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•• The Washington Post • Jeff Stein • 10 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Former GOP treasury secretaries tried defusing debt ceiling bomb in private talks with McConnell, Yellen
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••••• The New York Times • Alan Feuer • 1 day ago • nytimes.com
Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows
Days before lawyers allied with Donald Trump gave a news conference promoting election conspiracy theories, his campaign had determined that many of those claims were false, court filings reveal.
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• NBC News • Jacob Soboroff, Ken Dilanian • 3 hours ago • nbcnews.com
Biden administration seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo
Guantanamo has long included a DHS immigration holding facility, which has previously used to hold Haitian migrants.
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• Press Herald • Carol Semple • 5 hours ago • pressherald.com
Sen. Collins to endorse LePage as he launches campaign for governor
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will announce via video she's backing Paul LePage's attempt to return to the Maine governor's office for a third term in 2022.
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• The New York Times • Katie Robertson • 6 hours ago • nytimes.com
News Media Can’t Shake ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome,’ Critics Say
Major outlets have highlighted the case of Gabrielle Petito while often ignoring stories about women of color who go missing.
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••• The Daily Beast • Maxwell Tani • 22 hours ago • thedailybeast.com
Donald Trump Sues New York Times and His Niece Over Tax Story
The ex-president claims there was an “insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records.”
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• The Wall Street Journal • Michael C. Bender, Kristina Peterson • 14 hours ago • wsj.com
Liz Cheney’s Re-Election Bid Pits Trump Against Bush
The race for Wyoming’s single U.S. House district has pitted two of the biggest names in Republican politics against one another: both of the party’s living former presidents.
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• Media Matters for America • 3 hours ago • mediamatters.org
Broadcast news shows ignore Trump coup memo
Only late-night shows covered the Eastman document
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••• The New York Times • Ryan Mac, Sheera Frenkel • 1 day ago • nytimes.com
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.
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• The Bulwark • Mona Charen • 14 hours ago • thebulwark.com
Why I’m a Single-Issue Voter - The Bulwark
I’ll vote against the party threatening the republic—simple as that.
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• The Verge • Zoe Schiffer • 9 hours ago • theverge.com
Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo
The company has historically gone to great lengths to track down workers
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•• POLITICO • Charles Sykes • 1 day ago • politico.com
Opinion | Why Sane Republicans Are Purging Themselves
It looks like they’re giving up, but for politicians like Anthony Gonzalez, a party run by Trump is not worth fighting for.
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• Associated Press • Sylvie Corbet • 10 hours ago • apnews.com
France's Macron expects Biden's "clarifications" on sub spat
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron expects “clarifications and clear commitments” from President Joe Biden in a call to be held later on Wednesday to address the submarines' dispute, Macron's office said.
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Gallup • by Megan Brenan • 23 hours ago • news.gallup.com
Biden's Approval Rating Hits New Low of 43%; Harris' Is 49%
President Joe Biden's job approval rating has reached another low point in his presidency. The overall drop in approval is driven largely by political independents.
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• The New York Times • Ivan Nechepurenko, Michael Schwirtz • 14 hours ago • nytimes.com
Top Adviser to Ukrainian President Is Targeted in an Assassination Attempt
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would return to Ukraine from New York immediately. The adviser, Serhiy Shefir, was unharmed, but his driver was shot and wounded in the attack.
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•• The Washington Post • Jeff Stein • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
U.S. default this fall would cost 6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in wealth, study says
Congressional Republicans are ruling out helping Democrats avoid the potential financial catastrophe.
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• Intelligencer • Eric Levitz • 12 hours ago • nymag.com
$3.5 Trillion Is Not a Lot of Money
Joe Biden’s spending bill isn’t extreme, no matter what moderate Democrats say.
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• Reuters • 1 day ago • reuters.com
Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.
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The Washington Post • Greg Sargent • 8 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | New details about Trump’s Dominion scam help explain our authoritarian slide
How a new memo exposes a darker truth about the Trumpist right and the GOP.
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• Beacon • 1 day ago • mainebeacon.com
Few health workers actually quitting over vaccine mandate despite ongoing protests
Employment data shows that very few Maine health care workers have quit their jobs over the recent statewide COVID vaccine mandate, despite a number of lawsuits and ongoing protests organized by anti-vaccine activists, suggesting that opponents of the mandate represent a vocal minority in Maine.
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POLITICO • Burgess Everett, Marianne LeVine • 2 hours ago • politico.com
Dems seek to ‘avoid a shutdown, at all costs’ as GOP picks debt fight
Several said in interviews that they’ll do whatever it takes to keep the government open — which would almost certainly involve starting negotiations with resistant Republicans.
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ABC News • Katherine Faulders, Benjamin Siegel • 3 hours ago • abcnews.go.com
House committee probing Jan. 6 attack could subpoena Trump aides: Sources
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack could subpoena several former high-level Trump aides for records and information, sources tell ABC News.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Greg Bluestein • 4 hours ago • ajc.com
Biden to name Calvin Smyre as ambassador to Dominican Republic
President Joe Biden will nominate state Rep. Calvin Smyre to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, rewarding the longest-serving legislator in Georgia — and one of the president’s earliest allies in the South — with a diplomatic post.
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• Associated Press • Elliot Spagat, Maria Verza • 19 hours ago • apnews.com
Officials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S.
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Intelligencer • Jonathan Chait • 1 day ago • nymag.com
The Horrifying Legal Blueprint for Trump’s War on Democracy
The Eastman memo is a new high-water mark in Republican authoritarianism.
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Literary Hub • 1 day ago • lithub.com
Why Jonathan Franzen didn’t sign the Harper’s letter.
The air is crisp, the sky is blue, and the press cycle is fresh. That’s right! At long last, we’ve entered my favorite season of all: Franzen season. This morning, WSJ Magazine publishe…
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The New York Times • Jim Tankersley • 8 hours ago • nytimes.com
Podesta warns Democrats: Scale back the $3.5 trillion social policy bill or lose Congress.
His message included a blunt call to progressives to accept a scaled-back price tag, in a bow to the party’s centrists.
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POLITICO • Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney • 9 hours ago • politico.com
Prosecutors to seek testimony of former Nevada AG in trial of Giuliani associate
Adam Laxalt is also the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in a crucial 2022 Senate race.
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The Washington Post • Greg Sargent • 2 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Kill the debt limit now, Democrats. If you don’t, here’s what will happen.
There is only one answer to this sort of bad faith: A procedural punch in the teeth.
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NPR • Deirdre Walsh • 23 hours ago • npr.org
Outside Ethics Group Says 7 House Lawmakers Didn't Disclose Stock Trades
The complaints from the Campaign Legal Center against four Democrats and three Republicans show a trend — lawmakers failing to disclose transactions required by an insider trading law.
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The Atlantic • Elizabeth Bruenig • 13 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The State of Texas v. Jesus Christ
Texas’s refusal to allow a pastor to pray while holding a dying man’s hand is an offense to basic Christian values.
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CNN • Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN • 3 hours ago • cnn.com
Democrats quietly limit House GOP effort to press for probes into Biden administration
House Democrats have quietly moved to restrict the GOP's ability to use its limited power in the minority to press for investigations, an effort that has Republicans crying foul as they seek to pressure their foes over the Biden administration's handling of Afghanistan.
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The Washington Post • Devlin Barrett • 5 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
FBI director says Afghanistan withdrawal raises concern of terror groups rebuilding
The Biden administration has said it can conduct surveillance and strikes in Afghanistan from “over the horizon” — a euphemism for military or covert bases in other countries outside the immediate region. But officials concede that without a presence there, the ability to address threats is limited.
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POLITICO • Sarah Owermohle • 4 hours ago • politico.com
Pfizer CEO rallies staff to fight Democrats' drug price negotiation
He added that the company would share methods to raise awareness on the issue in the next few days.
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The New York Times • Benjamin Weiser • 12 hours ago • nytimes.com
Trump Sues His Niece and The New York Times Over Leaked Tax Documents
Former President Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Mary Trump and three Times reporters of conspiring to publish information about his tax records.
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The Survey Center on American Life • 17 hours ago • americansurveycenter.org
Controversy and Consensus: Perspectives on Race, Religion, and COVID-19 in Public Schools - The Survey Center on American Life
The August 2021 American Perspectives Survey reveals surprising consensus and controversy on American attitudes towards COVID-19, race, and religion in public schools.
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Puck • Dylan Byers • 6 hours ago • puck.news
MSNBC Stares Down the Maddow-pocalypse
Maddow's $30 million-a-year deal is a triumph for her (and Ari). But who will replace her at 9 pm? A potential successor has emerged.
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The Washington Post • Michelle Lee • 16 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Kim Jong Un shift from nuclear push to economy intensified internal debates in country, report says
The analysis by 38 North offered rare look into splits within Kim’s regime.
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Bulwark+ • Jonathan V. Last • 6 hours ago • thetriad.thebulwark.com
Chaos Theory Is the Future of American Politics
A website changes its algorithm and a game show host becomes president.
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The Washington Post • Rana Ayyub • 8 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | India keeps going after journalists like me. As Modi visits the U.S., it’s time to hold him accountable.
Recent accusations against me are meant to discredit me and my work.
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OpenSecrets • Anna Massoglia • 8 hours ago • opensecrets.org
GOP operatives funneling Russian money to Trump is the latest foreign “straw” donor scheme
GOP operatives allegedly funneling Russian money to Donald Trump’s joint fundraising committee is the latest foreign straw donor scheme.
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The Atlantic • Casey Michel • 13 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The Emerging Artistry of Hunter Biden
His upcoming solo show is a headache for the White House—and a window into the murky finances of the international art market.
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al • Leada Gore | lgore@al.com • 1 day ago • al.com
Secretary of State disputes MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s claims Alabama had 100,000 ‘flipped’ votes
The comments come after claims 100,000 votes were "flipped" in Alabama.
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•• The Billings Gazette • Nick Ehli, Kaiser Health News • 1 day ago • billingsgazette.com
Postcard from an overrun ICU: ‘The problem is we are running out of hallways’
In the past week, 14 people have died of covid here, the state’s largest hospital.
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The New Yorker • Susan B. Glasser • 5 days ago • newyorker.com
The Most Important Statistic of the Biden Presidency
One in five hundred Americans has died in the pandemic, and Republicans are actively rooting for the country to fail.
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Forbes • Zach Everson • 1 day ago • forbes.com
Eric Trump’s Lawyer In New York State Attorney General’s Suit Quits
A lawyer representing Eric Trump in the New York Attorney General’s civil suit alleging the Trump Organization committed fraud has quit, according to a court filing he submitted last week.
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The New York Times • Reed Abelson • 16 hours ago • nytimes.com
‘I Just Cry All the Time’: Non-Covid Patients Despair Over Delayed Care
In areas inundated with coronavirus patients, hospitals have postponed treatments and surgeries for people with other serious conditions.
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• The Washington Post • Greg Sargent • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Biden’s agenda is in trouble. It’s absolutely clear who is to blame.
The true "realists" in this debate have been the progressives, not the centrists.
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