Liz Cheney's months-long effort to turn Republicans from Trump threatens her reelection and ambitions.  She says it's only beginning.  —  Rep. Liz Cheney had been arguing for months that Republicans had to face the truth about former president Donald Trump — that he had lied …

Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system  —  The attack on top U.S. operator Colonial Pipeline appears to have been carried out by an Eastern European-based criminal gang  —  A ransomware attack led one of the nation's biggest fuel pipeline operators to shut …

Controversial U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene find refuge at raucous joint rally in The Villages  —  By STEPHEN M. DOWELL / ORLANDO SENTINEL “,sourceId: “QPEEXRFYSZCJTHWTR7BW5I2DJE”, shareUrl: “https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2Fv isuals%2Fos- pictures-gaetz-greene-20210508 …

Philly DA Candidate Forced to Address Paralegal Found Dead in His Mansion  —  It's just the latest twist in an eventful, bitter race for Philadelphia's District Attorney.  —  On first look, the campaign website for Charles Peruto Jr., a bombastic Republican attorney running …

Obama family dog Bo dies  —  Bo and Sunny were highly popular in the Obama White House  —  US Marine veteran heals with help from his dog Fred  —  Former President Barack Obama announced Saturday that the family's dog Bo, who lived with the Obamas while they were in the White House, passed away.

On the Ground … The Wokest Place on Earth  —  Disney mounts an internal campaign against “white privilege” and organizes racially segregated “affinity groups.”  —  The Social Order  —  The Walt Disney Corporation famously bills its amusement parks as “the happiest place on Earth,” …

UK Labour descends into civil war after dismal election results  —  Angela Rayner, who was seen as a bridge between moderates and the left of the party, has been sacked as party chair.  —  LONDON — The U.K.'s opposition Labour party was plunged into civil war after leader Keir Starmer sacked …

Elizabeth Warren's Book Shows She Has No Idea Why Her Campaign Failed  —  The 2020 Democratic primary took place in a disorienting atmosphere.  The 2016 election, in which the supposedly unelectable candidate had defeated the supposedly safe one, seemed to overturn all the conventional assumptions …

A Baby Boom Would Be Bad  —  The 2020 census reported the lowest rate of population growth in the U.S. since the post-Depression decade, inspiring a chorus of economic Cassandras who want to reverse this trend.  To shore up economic growth, they argue, we need to “raise fertility” and …

Alison Collins wants $87 million for damage to her career.  These SFUSD employees say she destroyed theirs  —  When San Francisco school board member Alison Collins sued her colleagues and her own district for $87 million, she described how they “sprinted to judgment” before coming after her …

WATCH NOW: GOP convention delegates make picks for governor, other offices; counting starts Sunday  —  Outside the Meadow Event Park in Doswell Saturday, the line of snaking cars carrying delegates coming to vote in the GOP's state convention easily topped 100 - a flow that held steady for hours.

It's not a ‘labor shortage.’ It's a great reassessment of work in America.  —  Hiring was much weaker than expected in April.  Wall Street thinks it's a blip, but there could be much deeper rethinking of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis.

New York City Government Workers Offered Travel Buddies  —  Municipal employees who feel unsafe taking the subway to their offices can sign up for a commuting partner under a new program  —  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says that crime on the subway is low, but his office is still launching …

‘Conspiracy is hard’: Inside the Trump administration's secret plan to kill Qassem Soleimani  —  Three teams of Delta Force operators peered through their scopes from concealed locations at Baghdad International Airport last January, waiting for their target: Qassem Soleimani, Iran's most powerful military commander.

Vaccination rates lag in communities of color, but it's not only due to hesitancy, experts say  —  Focusing on hesitancy, rather than access, is looking at the problem backward.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  CJ Gunther/EPA via Shutterstock  —  It started with the op-eds.

Murders Are Rising the Most in a Few Isolated Precincts of Major Cities  —  A handful of neighborhoods with histories of violence are the primary source of a recent surge in killings in Chicago, New York and elsewhere  —  A murder wave in U.S. cities that started last year is carrying forward into 2021 …

Auditors won't knock on voters' doors in Arizona election review, Senate president tells DOJ  —  The Arizona Senate is dropping, for now, a controversial plan to go door-to-door to ask local residents about their voting history as part of its audit of Maricopa County's election.

Elon Musk is being brought in to save SNL's sagging ratings.  He could sink the show in other ways.  —  In the entertainment and business worlds, there is an argument in favor of the unorthodox host — as well as plenty of warnings  —  The days before a new episode of “Saturday Night Live” …

Mass murder and the sin of silence  —  A Libyan militia brutalized this town for years.  No one stopped them.  No one held them to account.  —  TARHUNA, Libya — When the militiamen abducted Abdul Ali al-Falus and his four sons last year, their family had every reason to fear the worst.

Miami-Dade police lieutenant and union official charged with rape in Palm Beach County  —  A Miami-Dade police lieutenant and high-ranking union member was booked into a Palm Beach County jail late Friday on rape charges, records show.  —  Lt. John Jenkins , who last week resigned …

Josh Hawley Says He Doesn't Know If He Saluted Any Rioters, So We Checked  —  The junior senator from Missouri has been saying he waved to peaceful demonstrators who had nothing to do with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.  —  On Jan. 6, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) walked outside the U.S. Capitol …