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Top Headlines
- New York Times, Garland Moves to Unseal Warrant Used in Trump Search
- New York Times, Trump Was Subpoenaed for Documents Months Before F.B.I. Searched His Home
- Washington Post, Historians privately warn Biden that U.S. democracy is teetering
- Washington Post, Arctic is warming faster than expected, study finds
Trump Probes, Reactions, Supporters
- Law & Crime, Federal Magistrate Judge Orders DOJ to Respond to Media and Non-Profit Requests to Unseal Trump Search Warrant
- Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: A very Trumpian national security scandal, Wayne Madsen
Capitol Rioters, Other Trump Allies
- Washington Post, Capitol rioter claimed he was elsewhere on Jan. 6, handing out Bibles
Washington Post, Ex-Va. police officer gets more than 7 years for role in Jan. 6 riot
U.S. Politics, Economy, Governance
- Washington Post, Group with GOP ties targets liberals on Democratic spending bill
U.S. Midterm Elections
- Washington Post, Beto O’Rourke confronts heckler laughing during speech on Uvalde shooting
- Politico, ‘Handed him a lifeline’: 5 takeaways from a post-Mar-a-Lago primary
New York Times, Kari Lake, the former news anchor, is running on 2020 election falsehoods. Will Arizonans trust her to be governor? - New York Times, Hunting for Voter Fraud, Conspiracy Theorists Organize ‘Stakeouts’
More On Ukraine War
New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Lost at Least Eight Warplanes in Crimea, Satellite Images Show- Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Satellite images show damage at Crimea base; U.N. could discuss nuclear plant
- New York Times, Ukraine Updates: Latest Russian Attack in Ukraine’s South Kills 13, Official Says
- Associated Press, Russia struggles to replenish its troops in Ukraine
- New York Times, From the Workshop to the War: Creative Use of Drones Lifts Ukraine
U.S. Law, Immigration, Crime
- Law & Crime, Rod Rosenstein Must Sit for Deposition in Fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok's Suit Over Disclosure of Anti-Trump Texts
- Washington Post, Opinion: Merrick Garland is no cowboy, Ruth Marcus
- Washington Post, Beto O’Rourke confronts heckler laughing during speech on Uvalde shooting
- Washington Post, Two Indiana officers wanted to keep a man from running for office. They arrested him
- Washington Post, Analysis: Why hackers are able to steal billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency
- New York Times, Prosecutors Face Distrust in 2nd Try to Prove Plot to Kidnap Whitmer
- Washington Post, Iranian charged in alleged plot to kill ex-Trump adviser John Bolton
Energy, Climate, Environment, Disasters
- Washington Post, Antarctica’s ‘sleeping giant’ risks melting, threatens spike in sea levels
- Washington Post, Fearing a major climate setback, U.S. urges care of Congo River basin
- Washington Post, As climate deal nears passage, a ‘bittersweet’ moment for some activists
- New York Times, California Fire and Floods Turn a River to ‘Sludge,’ Killing Thousands of Fish, Livia Albeck-Ripka
More World News, Human Rights Analysis
- Washington Post, As Gaza’s factions vie for influence, civilians bear the cost of war
- Washington Post, London children offered polio vaccine booster as virus found in wastewater
- Washington Post, Chinese court rejects appeal in landmark sexual harassment case
- Washington Post, Biden says U.S. knows that Syria is holding Austin Tice, again calls for journalist’s release, Matt Viser
Pandemic, Public Health
New York Times, U.S. Moves to Stretch Out Monkeypox Vaccine Supply
U.S. Forced Birth Laws, Privacy, Freedoms
- Washington Post, Editorial: The Mormon Church must do more to protect children from sexual abuse
- Associated Press, Nebraska woman charged with helping daughter have abortion
U.S. Media, Education, Sports, Culture
- Washington Post, Opinion: The media shouldn’t amplify the GOP’s crazed anti-FBI rhetoric, Jennifer Rubin
- Law & Crime, OnlyFans Model and Instagram Star Arrested on Second-Degree Murder Charge in Stabbing Death of Boyfriend
- Washington Post, Musk sells $6.9 billion in Tesla shares ahead of Twitter trial
- Mediaite, After Uproar, Washington Post Edits Headline Pointing Out Garland ‘Vowed to Depoliticize Justice’ Before Trump Raid
- Vanity Fair, “Call It a Self-Imposed Term Limit”: Why Media Critic Margaret Sullivan Is Exiting The Washington Post, Charlotte Klein
Top Stories
New York Times, Garland Moves to Unseal Warrant Used in Trump Search, Glenn Thrush and Charles Savage, Aug. 12, 2022 (print ed.). Says He Personally Signed Off on Decision to Search Mar-a-Lago. Attorney General Merrick Garland described the F.B.I.’s search for files at former President Trump’s Florida home and said he would unseal the warrant. Mr. Garland’s public appearance is an extraordinary moment, as the Justice Department’s inquiry into Mr. Trump gains momentum. Here’s the latest.Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Thursday moved to unseal the search warrant used in the search of former President Donald J. Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago and said he personally approved of the decision to execute the warrant.
Mr. Garland, who declined to comment on the warrant until he addressed the media at the department’s headquarters, said he decided to go public with his actions because Mr. Trump had already confirmed the action and because doing so would serve the “public interest.”
Mr. Garland’s decision to make a public appearance came at an extraordinary moment in the department’s 152-year history, as the sprawling investigation of a former president who remains a powerful political force gains momentum, with prosecutors from an array of the department’s divisions and regional offices taking new actions, seemingly every day.
Mr. Garland, a laconic former judge, had come under increasing pressure this week to provide more public information about why the Justice Department decided that a search was necessary and who approved it — or at least to offer an explanation of the legal processes undertaken by his subordinates.
Mr. Trump’s aides and allies have questioned why a search was necessary, saying the former president was cooperating with requests to return the materials he had taken with him when he left the White House. Several prominent Republicans, including former Vice President Mike Pence, had called upon Mr. Garland to offer an explanation of his actions.
The Justice Department has provided no information about the precise nature of the material it has been seeking to recover but has signaled that it involved classified information of a sensitive nature.
A White House official said President Biden had not been given any advance notice of Mr. Garland’s remarks.
The search at Mr. Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, added an explosive new dimension to the array of investigations into Mr. Trump, including separate inquiries by the Justice Department into his efforts to remain in office despite his loss at the polls in 2020.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when he was questioned by New York’s attorney general in a civil case about his business practices.
A senior White House official said that neither President Biden, nor any of his top staff, were given advance notice of the attorney general’s remarks and learned about it through the media.
The Justice Department is not asking the judge to unseal the affidavit investigators filed along with their request for the search warrant. That affidavit would explain what they were investigating and what evidence they had assembled to date in support of the idea that they would find more evidence if the search warrant were granted. So even if a judge granted the department's request, the public would not see the most important legal document associated with it.
New York Times, Trump Was Subpoenaed for Documents Months Before F.B.I. Searched His Home, Maggie Haberman, Ben Protess and Glenn Thrush, Aug. 12, 2022 (print ed.). The Justice Department subpoenaed Donald Trump this spring for documents that officials believed he improperly took after leaving office, people familiar with the matter said.Former President Donald J. Trump received a subpoena this spring in search of documents that federal investigators believed he had failed to turn over earlier in the year, when he returned boxes of material he had improperly taken with him upon moving out of the White House, three people familiar with the matter said.
The existence of the subpoena helps to flesh out the sequence of events that led to the search of Mr. Trump’s Florida home on Monday by F.B.I. agents seeking classified material they believed might still be there, even after efforts by the National Archives and the Justice Department to ensure that it had been returned.
The subpoena suggests that the Justice Department tried methods short of a search warrant to account for the material before taking the politically explosive step of sending F.B.I. agents unannounced to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and members-only club.
Washington Post, Arctic is warming faster than expected, study finds, Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan, Aug. 12, 2022 (print ed.). The pace of warming is one of several recent indicators providing evidence the planet isn't waiting around as the U.S. prepares to pass a landmark climate bill.For residents of the Norwegian archipelago of ...
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