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Funny thing: Former President Donald Trump was hoarding classified documents so dear that only cabinet members could read them. We apparently know this because … Department of Justice employees leaked that information to the Washington Post. It’s impossible to take seriously the lecturing on how incredibly dangerous and unprecedented the Mar-a-Lago stash is when its details are given out anonymously to select members of the press. Not that we shouldn’t know what Trump had — to the contrary. Attorney General Merrick Garland should make it clear that he won’t tolerate media leaks, and anyone at Justice or elsewhere in government...

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Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom” that the fact that the FBI found former President Donald Trump’s passports with classified documents during the raid at Mar-a-Lago is evidence that “ties Trump to those documents.”Barr said, “You don’t go into someone’s house and look document by document. You take what you think will be responsive, and then you sort it out through a taint team. No one disputes that goes back, OK? The classified stuff are government documents, and they go to the government. There is no scenario legally under which the president gets to keep...

If you're voting in November's midterm elections, chances are you'll have a candidate on the ballot who denies the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. An analysis by FiveThirtyEight found that 60% of Americans will have a candidate to choose from this fall who supports former President Donald Trump's lies that the election was stolen. These candidates will appear on ballots in nearly every state, FiveThirtyEight found. The political website drew the candidates' positions from news reports, debate footage, campaign materials and social media and reached out to all Republican nominees for the House, Senate, governor, secretary of state and...

TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 6:20–26 Friends, our Gospel for today is Luke’s version of the Beatitudes, less well-known than Matthew’s but actually punchier, more to the point. It all hinges on detachment, that decisively important spiritual attitude—apatheia in the Greek fathers, indifferencia in Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual detachment means that I am unattached to worldly values that become a substitute for the ultimate good of God. How bluntly Luke’s account puts things! Look at Luke’s first beatitude, a model for the rest: "Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours." What if we...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it’s unlikely she could ever be elected president of the United States — because so many people in America “hate women” and “would never let that happen.” The socialist firebrand New York Democrat speculated about the possibilities of her launching a future White House bid in a wide-ranging cover interview with GQ magazine published Wednesday. Ocasio-Cortez said that while she tries to hold onto the belief that anything is possible, her experience in Congress has “given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate...

The California Independent System Operator on Wednesday afternoon (at 12:12 PM PDT) issued an Energy Emergency Alert 1, in effect from 4 to 9 pm. The alert by the manager of the state's power grid is a warning to utilities that all electricity resources are expected to be fully committed and some shortages are possible. Residents are already being urged to cut their power use during those hours due to a previously declared Flex Alert, but Cal ISO is again calling on people to step up their conservation efforts further to avoid rolling blackouts. With electricity demand reaching record levels...

Unfortunately, election officials across the country are not keeping the most basic data to monitor election outcomes. Even when they say they do, the numbers do not come close to matching up. It was a simple goal: match the number of voters with the number of ballots cast. After the last general election there were concerns that ballots were counted multiple times (so that there could be more ballots cast than voters who voted) and that ballots were destroyed (so that there could be more voters who voted than ballots cast). But, through our examination, we learned that it cannot...

The White House's claim President Joe Biden was not briefed about the investigation into former President Donald Trump appears to have been contradicted by a letter from the head of the National Archives and Records Administration. Biden officials have repeatedly said the White House did not know about the raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort ahead of time. However, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre seemed to go much further on Aug. 31. Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing Biden had not been briefed on any part of the criminal investigation, which has been active for months. That claim appears to...

Republican allies of former President Donald Trump have hammered the Justice Department for leaks after it was reported another country's top secret nuclear information was found in the raid of Mar-a-Lago. The alleged discovery of highly sensitive information was reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday. The report claimed “a document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched” Mar-a-Lago last month, citing “people familiar with the matter.” The former president's defenders immediately took aim at the department in the wake of the information making its way into the media. Trump...

The home of a Las Vegas county administrative official was raided by cops Wednesday in connection with the fatal stabbing of local investigative reporter Jeff German — whom he had previously accused of targeting him in a “smear” campaign. Police carried out the search warrant at the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who had been the subject of a string of recent stories by the slain reporter, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Las Vegas Metro Police didn’t specify the exact address they were searching or offer any further details of the investigation into Friday’s deadly stabbing.

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A prominent figure in New Mexico politics surrounding the events of the 2020 presidential election, Otero County Commission Couy Griffin has been removed from office based on a decision from a New Mexico district court judge. The decision also bars Griffin from holding public office again. “I was disappointed and shocked,” said Griffin. The plaintiff’s attorneys are calling the decision historic. “Both because it’s the first time in over 150 years that a judge has disqualified a public official for engaging in an insurrection. And, it’s also the first time a judge has ruled that...

A constant concern in my academic sub-field of comparative politics is how to create concepts and measurements that stand up to scrutiny when applied to several cases. When we hear someone claim that politics in Country X are “corrupt,” our first questions are “What do you mean by corruption?” and “Compared to where?” This concern with measuring things consistently and properly motivated me, in my advocacy role with the National Association of Scholars (NAS), to develop a way to measure the spread of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology in colleges and universities. The oft-heard complaint that a given institution...

Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have reached an agreement to restrict Russian access to the EU through their borders because of the war in Ukraine. (Video article at link)

Authorities served search warrants Wednesday morning in connection with the slaying of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, Las Vegas police said. Around 7 a.m., reporters observed uniformed officers and police vehicles outside the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who had been the focus of recent reporting by German. Authorities also had taped off a section around Telles’ home. *** German spent months reporting on the turmoil surrounding Robert Telles’ oversight of the office. The 45-year-old Democrat lost his re-election bid in June’s primary after German’s findings were published. German also had recently filed public records...

In celebration of New York’s new gun control law taking effect on September 1, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed: “This whole concept that a good guy with a gun will stop the bad guys with a gun, it doesn’t hold up. And the data bears this out, so that theory is over.” . At the same press conference, New York City Mayor Eric Adams warned that more concealed carry permits might lead to an increase in violence at Times Square, even though Times Square remains a gun-free zone for permit holders. . This is a typical response from Democrats. After...

Explanation: Near the center of a nearby star-forming region lies a massive cluster containing some of the largest and hottest stars known. Collectively known as star cluster NGC 2070, these stars are part of the vast Tarantula Nebula and were captured in two kinds of infrared light by the new Webb Space Telescope. The main image shows the group of stars at NGC 2070's center -- known as R136 -- in near-infrared, light just a bit too red for humans to see. In contrast, the rollover image captures the cluster center in mid-infrared light, light closer to radio waves. Since...

"John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood." "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and...

The Pentagon has temporarily halted delivery of F-35 fighter jets to the military branches and international customers after Lockheed Martin discovered a metal component used in the jet’s engine had come from China, according to the Pentagon. The Defense Contract Management Agency notified the F-35 Joint Program Office at the Pentagon on Aug. 19 that an alloy used in magnets contained in the F-35's turbomachine pumps came from China. Lockheed Martin builds the overall aircraft, but the turbomachine is produced by Honeywell. The discovery does not affect flight operations of F-35s already in service, the Joint Program Office said. “We...

A new conservative ad attacking Democrat John Fetterman for pulling a gun on an unarmed Black jogger almost a decade ago aims to sway Black voters in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race. The reported $500,000 ad created by a political committee backing Republican Mehmet Oz, says Fetterman "chased down an innocent unarmed Black man" in his pickup truck, eventually pulling a 20-gauge shotgun on the individual. It is a reference to a December 2013 incident provoked by what Fetterman believed was heard gunshots while he was playing with his son. Fetterman was at the time mayor of Braddock, a Pittsburgh...