Trump Docs Probe: Court Lifts Hold On Mar-a-Lago Records
A federal appeals court has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
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The Next Shock Wave in Puerto Rico
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.For the forthcoming November issue of The Atlantic, the author Jaquira Díaz wrote about the ongoing impact of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico.
Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here. Several days after President Joe Biden declared that “the pandemic is over,” Anthony Fauci weighed in on the president’s controversial remarks during an interview at The Atlantic Festival, an annual live event in Washington, D.C.
The Constitutional Case Against a Federal Abortion Ban
Welcome to Up for Debate. On Wednesdays, I round up timely conversations and ask readers a thought-provoking question. Later, I publish some of your thoughtful replies. (Were you forwarded this email? Sign up here.)Question of the WeekWhat are your thoughts or views about immigration? Feel free to write about politics, policy, culture, or personal experience.
This Is Neptune?
Did you know that Neptune has rings?It’s true. The planet we’re now told is the farthest from us has a set of narrow bands made of dust. Planetary scientists know this, as do hard-core astronomy fans, probably. But for those of us who have certain textbook images of the solar system in our mind, the knowledge that Neptune is a ringed planet might come as a surprise.
It’s Just Fraud All the Way Down
At times in his prepresidential life, Donald Trump represented himself as a real-estate mogul, a television star, a business visionary, and a salesman par excellence. But according to a complaint filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Trump Organization was actually just a massive fraud with incidental sidelines in property development, merchandising, and entertainment.The basic scheme alleged in the complaint is straightforward.
Galvanized by Dobbs, more doctors are distributing abortion pills by mail
A new president could reverse an FDA rule change that made it possible.
“The American Dream & Other Fairy Tales”: Disney Heiress Tackles Inequality, Family Legacy in New Film
Half of full-time workers in the United States cannot make ends meet. Thousands of them work for the Walt Disney Company. One of them reached out to the dissident heiress Abigail Disney, whose grandfather Roy Disney built what is often called the “happiest place on Earth.” Now she’s made a documentary about how the family business exploits its workers: “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.
Adnan Syed Freed After 23 Years in Prison. Same Flaws in His Murder Case Plague Thousands of Others
Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial,” was released Monday after a Maryland judge vacated his murder conviction due to evidence withheld during the trial that might have helped exonerate him. Syed spent 23 years in prison after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee as a teenager in 1999. He has not been declared legally innocent, and prosecutors could decide to retry the case, but that appears unlikely.
COVID, Climate & Conflict Fueling Global Hunger as World Leaders at U.N. Urged to Take Action
An open letter signed by over 200 humanitarian groups calls on world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to urgently take action on world hunger, citing that one person dies of hunger every four seconds. We speak with Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America, one of the letter’s signatories, who just returned from Somaliland, where a famine may be declared as early as next month.
The Fed is declaring war on inflation. It could lead straight to recession.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation.
Biden declared the pandemic ‘over.’ His Covid team says it’s more complicated.
Biden’s “60 Minutes” remarks surprised his own health advisers, and came as the administration seeks more Covid response funding.
Fauci: “We are not where we need to be if we are going to quote ‘live with the virus’”
Fauci’s comments follow remarks from President Joe Biden, who declared “the pandemic is over” during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday evening.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signs abortion ban into law
The ban has exemptions for medical emergencies and for rape and incest victims until eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for children.
Biden’s monkeypox adviser is trying manage a virus while dodging talk of Satanism
Demetre Daskalakis has become caricatured as a tattooed oddity among buttoned-up bureaucrats. The truth is far different. “I wish I were that interesting,” he says.
U.S. inflation falls for 2nd straight month on lower gas costs
Despite the signs of moderating price increases, inflation remains far higher than many Americans have ever experienced and is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve.
G-7 announces price cap deal on Russian oil in win for Yellen
The plan touted by the U.S. Treasury secretary aims to diminish the Kremlin’s revenue while preserving the global oil supply.
Powell’s ‘dangerous’ words risk resistance from lawmakers
“Jerome Powell’s rhetoric is dangerous, and a Fed-manufactured recession is not inevitable — it’s a policy choice,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.
‘We’re in a housing recession’
The housing market has cooled so much as the Fed withdraws its support for the economy that some analysts say it may be in a slump.
Powell blows away doubts about his war on high inflation
In a closely watched speech, the Fed chair foreshadowed further interest rate increases and warned that rates might need to stay high for some time to kill price spikes.
“Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea”: Kehinde Andrews Says Many Black Britons Don’t Mourn the Queen
As Monday’s state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a national period of mourning in Britain, we speak with the U.K.’s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, about the generational difference in perceptions of the queen within his Jamaican family, which he lays out in his recent essay, “I Don’t Mourn the Queen.
Melania Trump Suddenly Claims To Be A Big Fan Of Christmas
The former first lady is acting like she does give a f**k about Christmas after all, as she hawks a new line of festive ornaments.
Ukraine update: As Russia prepares to force ‘referendums’ in occupied areas, Putin is a no-show
It’s been hard to locate any reasonable military response for Russia at this point in its failed invasion of Ukraine. Because there isn’t one. So Moscow is now scrambling for the means to justify even more attacks on civilian infrastructure—and civilians—and it thinks it has that plan in the form of a series of “referendums” to be carried out in occupied areas of Ukraine over the next week.
Trump demands that DOJ prove documents stamped TOP SECRET were really classified
Until Tuesday, Donald Trump had been making a lot of public claims about having declassified documents, but he had never made that claim in court. In fact, as recently as Monday evening, Trump’s attorney in the “special master” proceeding argued that this wasn’t something that needed to be discussed. That’s no longer true.
Lindsey Graham: Abortion ‘is not a states’ rights issue’
The most common way other Senate Republicans are trying to dodge questions on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s national abortion ban bill is to claim they think abortion is a states’ rights issue. But voters should take those claims as seriously as Graham’s own insistence just last month that he thought abortion was a states’ rights issue.
Trump got the special master he wanted, but he’s finding that Judge Dearie isn’t what he expected
Now that he has the “special master” he requested to deal with the documents he hoarded at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump is already finding reasons to object to the process. Specifically, Trump’s legal team is refusing to talk about whether, or how, Trump actually tried to declassify any of the documents by claiming it would harm their “defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment.
COVID-19 know-it-alls want to revisit the 2020-21 school year? Fine. Let’s
That Republicans want to endlessly relitigate the decisions made in 2020 and 2021 about in-person schooling is not surprising—they think it’s a culture war issue to their advantage. But it’s not just Republicans.
U.S. Task Force Recommends All Adults Under 65 Be Screened For Anxiety
The advisory group said the new guidance can help identify these conditions early so people can be connected to care.
Special Master Chastises Trump’s Legal Team With Now-Viral ‘Cake’ Comment
Judge Raymond Dearie said the ex-president had to show proof the documents found at Mar-a-Lago had been declassified: “You can’t have your cake and eat it.
Migrants Stranded In Martha’s Vineyard Sue Ron DeSantis Over Political Stunt
“These immigrants … experienced cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country,” the lawsuit targeting the Florida governor and other officials states.