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Student loan relief limited for many by US drug war's legacy

Many have cheered the White House proposal to provide student loan debt relief to millions of Americans as a significant step toward addressing the nation’s racial wealth gap and other inequities facing borrowers of color

The Independent UK

Nicholas Goldberg: Remember when we thought George W. Bush was the worst president ever?

Twenty years ago next month, President George W. Bush stood before the United Nations and warned that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a "grave and gathering danger," setting the stage for an invasion six months later based on false premises about super-destructive weapons and purported connections to the 9/11 attacks.

Los Angeles Times

Colorado Republican turns Democrat over ‘existential threat’ from GOP

In letter announcing defection, state senator Kevin Priola cites political and environmental threat from his erstwhile party

The Guardian - US

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Disneyland Monorail resumes nighttime runs for first time since pandemic closure

SANTA ANA, Calif. Disneyland visitors looking to save a few steps at the beginning or end of the day can jump aboard the Monorail before the park opens or when the park closes now that the “highway in the sky” is once again offering early morning and late night service.

The Orange County Register

If We See an Expurgated Version of the Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Affidavit, What Will It Tell Us?

Although U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart is inclined to unseal the document, redactions demanded by the Justice Department could make it hard to understand.

Reason

Trump's law: End presidential privilege

Americans wanted to get over Watergate by letting Richard Nixon slink away quietly. Trump will do no such thing

Salon

Prosecuting a president is divisive and sometimes destabilizing – here's why many countries do it anyway

Criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump and his allies could result from at least one of multiple investigations.

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Trump demands return of seized documents – by order of social media

FBI took records including some top secret national security files after a search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago property

The Guardian - US

The reason why presidents can't keep their White House records dates back to Nixon

Congress changed the law in the 1970s when President Nixon prepared to leave with his documents — and infamous tape recordings.

WEKU

Annie Leibovitz: A photo album of American culture

Discover 40 years of era-defining photography

The Independent UK

Meet the man trying to save this ‘stupid little fish’ and see why he thinks it’s important

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The fragile little fish that swim around in dark tanks in a lab are the last hope for their kind. The lab director who oversees their care, Tien-Chieh Hung, explained that when the Delta smelt captives are young, scientists at the UC Davis Fish Conservation and Culture…

Tribune News Service

As the FBI raids Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump reaches for unconvincing historical parallels

Former US President Donald Trump compared the FBI action to Watergate, but the differences between the raid on Trump’s mansion and Watergate are obvious.

The New Daily

Bobby Ghosh: Democracies can weather prosecutions of former presidents

If Monday’s FBI search at Donald Trump’s Florida home leads to the prosecution of the former president, as supporters fear and detractors hope, then citizens of democracies everywhere might ask Americans, “What kept you?”

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The Mar-a-Lago search could signal the end of another 'long national nightmare'

Why now? What explains the thunderous revelation that the FBI — doubtless with the approval of those at the highest levels of the Department of Justice — executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence? The apparent focus was documents the former president removed from the White…

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The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Could the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago be a gamechanger?

In today’s newsletter: After Donald Trump’s Florida home is ‘raided’, legal experts weigh in on whether the documents retrieved could rule him out of a comeback in the 2024 presidential election

The Conversation

How 'fast' politics has left the NSW government staring into the electoral abyss

The 1973 Watergate Committee hearings ran for 51 days. The televised revelations drew a huge audience. The pressure built with slow, devastating intensity, devouring then US President Richard Nixon’s agenda, eventually leaving him no option but to fall on his sword.

The Conversation

How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for the National Archives and future historians

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Aug. 8, 2022, has sparked a vigorous outcry from Trump and his allies. The details of the search are not clear, but reporting by The New York Times confirms that the search was “at least in part” for…

The Conversation

China-US tensions: how global trade began splitting into two blocs

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has elicited a strong response from China: three days of simulated attack on Taiwan with further drills announced, plus a withdrawal from critical ongoing conversations with the US on climate change and the military.

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As the FBI raids Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump reaches for unconvincing historical parallels

“These are dark times for our nation”, former US President Donald Trump declared when he announced his mansion at Mar-A-Lago had been raided by FBI agents on Monday night Florida time. An assault like this “could only take place in broken, Third World countries […] corrupt at a level not…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: America needs a Declaration of Independents

Whether one watches Fox News or MSNBC, reads The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, it has become difficult to view the United States as anything but a game of political dodgeball, with two opposing teams that loath one another trying to knock the other out by whistling…

WEKU

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

The Hindu

A look at memorable chess-themed movies and TV shows over the years

The game fulfils a range of narrative purposes — from being a stand-in for warfare and statecraft to symbolising ambition, decadence, upward mobility, and so on

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Donald Trump is dangerously close to proving that presidents are above the law

How many times have you heard it? “No one is above the law.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Are missing Homeland Security texts hiding the biggest secret of Jan. 6?

You've probably heard the expression that the cover-up is always worse than the crime — a notion that was cemented by the mother of all U.S. political scandals, Watergate. Think about it — only five burglars were nabbed by D.C. cops inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate…

The Conversation

What is Title IX? 4 essential reads

It has been five decades since President Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Civil Rights Act into law. This 1972 federal law prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexuality and gender identity in schools or any educational programs that receive federal funding.

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