Joe Biden campaigned on a promise of no more drilling. But America is pumping more oil than it ever has. Why? Maxine Joselow washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

🐄🐄🐄Is it even a state fair without the COWS? Great story about the impact of bird flu --- by my friend and the legend, LenaSun washingtonpost.com/health/2024/08…

🎤🎤Trump heard his aides were talking to reporters and decided he wanted to talk. How Trump hurt his own campaign on Aug 8 with a rambling news conference and numerous false claims- from Michael Scherer & Josh Dawsey washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEW: Secret Service finds protecting Trump extraordinarily challenging with unprecedented demands. Inside the agency’s failures & concerns & why the relationship has often been tense between the agency and Trump’s detail & team. W/⁦Carol Leonnig⁩: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEW >>> Trump is an extraordinary challenge for ⁦U.S. Secret Service⁩ to protect. His rhetoric, his constant club mingling, his golfing --all of which makes it easier for a killer to get the former president in their sights. ⁦⁦Josh Dawsey⁩ and me washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The Secret Service finds protecting Trump is a huge challenge, reports Josh Dawsey and Carol Leonnig While his team asked for more resources before the PA shooting, agency officials say he receives heavier security than any other former president. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

OK, it's time to talk about Egypt. The thwarted DoJ investigation into an alleged $10 million Egyptian bribe to Trump in 2016-17 has gotten attention on here But I haven’t seen any discussion of the wider *context* of U.S. foreign policy toward Egypt, and why it matters 🧵(1/n)

Quite an interesting thread re Egypt

Dan Silverman (@dmsilverman.bsk*.social) Carol Leonnig Lead byline: Aaron C. Davis

Congrats Shane! The lucky The Atlantic !

NEW >> Grand jury indicts Donald Trump again in superseding indictment that Special Counsel Jack Smith indicated he is bringing as a way to follow Supreme Court's broad Immunity ruling

"Perhaps the most significant change ...was that (the Special Counsel's office) removed all the allegations concerning Mr. Trump’s attempts to strong-arm the Justice Department into supporting his false claims that the election had been rigged against him."

Tens of thousands of disabled workers in the US are legally paid less than the minimum wage, sometimes less than $1 per hour. A Washington Post investigation into an obscure provision of the FLSA, by Amanda ‘science fan girl’ Morris (she/her) 🤟🏻🌵, Caitlin Gilbert & Jacqueline Alemany: washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

New: House Dems ask Trump if he illegally accepted $10M from Egypt, acting on our WashPost article that detailed a now-closed Justice Dept. investigation spurred by intel in 2016 that the Egyptian president sought to give Trump money. w/ Carol Leonnig washingtonpost.com/investigations…

NEW >> House Democrats to Trump: Did you take $10 million bribe from Egypt? “Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether- a current candidate for president -took an illegal campaign contribution" me & ⁦⁦Aaron C. Davis⁩ washingtonpost.com/investigations…