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An informant got the FBI to raid Trump; The Arctic is warming much faster than scientists thought.

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What led up to the Mar-a-Lago raid?

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• The DOJ requested that a court publicly release the search warrant and property receipt in the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday. [NPR / Deepa Shivaram]
• An informant’s tip reportedly led to the search; that informant allegedly told the FBI that there were classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. [Newsweek / William M. Arkin]
• Federal law requires administrations to submit presidential records to the National Archives. [Bloomberg / Evan Peng and Gregory Korte]
• The Archives recovered 15 boxes with classified documents from Trump’s home earlier this year, kicking off a Justice Department investigation. The DOJ was skeptical Trump had returned all the materials. [Guardian / Victoria Bekiempis]
• In June, Trump received a subpoena to turn over the missing documents. After two months of investigation, officials returned Monday with a search warrant. [New York Times / Maggie Haberman, Ben Protess, and Glenn Thrush]

The Arctic is warming faster than we thought

• The Arctic has warmed four times as fast as the rest of the planet since 1979, according to new research from a team of scientists in Norway and Finland. [New York Times / Henry Fountain]

• Previous studies suggested the Arctic is warming at twice the global average. However, the researchers found that some parts, like the Barents Sea north of Norway, are warming seven times as fast as average. [Axios / Jacob Knutson]

• That’s mainly because climate change is melting the Arctic ice cover. White, reflective objects, like ice, reflect the sun’s energy; darker, less reflective objects, like ocean water, absorb it — and its heat. [CNN / Rachel Ramirez]

• Congress recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which should reduce US greenhouse gas emissions. But scientists say more legislation is needed to avoid the worst climate impacts. [Washington Post / Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, and Sarah Kaplan]

For the first time in months, gas prices fell below $4 per gallon, mainly because of a decline in oil prices. [CNBC / Pippa Stevens]

• The US passed 10,000 confirmed monkeypox cases on Thursday — the highest number recorded in the world. [People / Jen Juneau]
• An armed man attempted to breach a Cincinnati FBI office on Thursday and was shot and killed during a standoff with police. [NYT]
• Thursday, a Ukraine nuclear plant was shelled for the second time. The UN warns it “could lead to disaster.” [BBC]

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“They wanted to punctuate the fact that this was a routine law enforcement action, stripped of any political overtones, and yet [they] got exactly the opposite.”

[A senior DOJ official granted anonymity to discuss the raid / Newsweek]

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