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Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers say Crikey is directing 'ridicule and hatred' at him, court case hears

Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers say the company which owns Crikey is “directing ridicule and hatred” towards him as a date is set for his defamation trial.

ABC News

Commentary: We should have held Nixon accountable for Watergate

President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 when it became clear that he would be not only impeached but likely removed from office. I still have a vivid memory of the day that he resigned. There were rumors that it might happen, but I was spending the night at my mother-in-law’s…

Chicago Tribune

Dean: Trump may pull "dictators' ploy"

Nixon's former White House counsel John Dean predicts violence from supporters if Trump is federally prosecuted

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America's secrets: Trump's unprecedented disregard of norms

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records

The Independent UK

Greek ‘Watergate’ phone-tapping scandal puts added pressure on PM

Embattled leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is facing calls to resign after state intelligence monitored opposition party

The Guardian - UK

Best dog-friendly hotels in Cornwall 2022: Where to stay for beach strolls and family fun

Travelling with pets doesn’t need to be stressful when you find a hotel that will treat your four-legged friend like a king

The Independent UK

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

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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

I’m saying goodbye to Chicago. I won’t miss what the city has become.

With the benefits of living in Chicago becoming more difficult to enumerate and skyrocketing property taxes making it unaffordable, the only choice my family has is to leave.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trevor Noah on FBI raid: ‘I’m amazed Trump has time for all this crime’

Late-night hosts discuss the search of Mar-a-Lago as part of an investigation into alleged mishandling of classified documents

The Guardian - US

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

Commentary: Biden should consider pardoning Trump — for the sake of our nation

Among my earliest attempts at fiction was “The Misfit,” a short story about a brilliant, competitive, though anti-social and paranoid college student.

Chicago Tribune

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 Guardian - UK

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The Texas Tribune

FBI search of Trump home was likely vetted carefully, despite Texas Republicans’ claims of a witch hunt

Federal authorities would have needed to meet an extraordinarily high threshold for probable cause to sign off on such a high-profile, politically explosive operation, legal experts say.

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 Guardian - US

Finally, Donald Trump’s misdeeds are catching up with him

The FBI Mar-a-Lago search suggests that the former president is no longer living in a protective bubble, says Guardian US columnist Richard Wolffe

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The Conversation

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…

Los Angeles Times

Mar-a-Lago raided by FBI agents, Trump says

WASHINGTON — Former President Trump said in a statement Monday that the FBI is searching his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, in what he described as a “raid.”

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 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…

Wales Online

Motorist who crashed into lamppost off M61 'turned out to be driving instructor'

It was trying to overtake an ambulance on a bend just off the M61 on Watergate Lane in Bolton

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Break up the Secret Service and send its people to jail for the Jan. 6 cover-up

Sometimes the irony of America in the 2020s is just too much. Consider the case of James Murray, the current head of the U.S. Secret Service and a 27-year veteran of the force best known for protecting presidents and their families. Earlier this month, Murray abruptly announced that he's leaving…

The Guardian - US

Trump as tyrant and Cheney’s cliffhangers: key moments from the January 6 hearings

From Trump’s lack of concern about armed rioters to possible witness tampering, the revelations have been startling

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