US House candidate Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18  —  U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard had a relationship with and impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, he told the Star-Tribune late Thursday, hours after he disclosed the relationship in a Facebook Live video to his supporters.

Nearly everyone missed Chuck Schumer implying this week that the filibuster's death is coming  —  The conventional wisdom is coming around to the Democrats' side.  —  1 hr ago  —  The Editorial Board, as I hope you have noticed, is not in the business of making arguments for the sake of argumentation.

New York Police Investigate Beating of Jewish Man During Pro-Palestinian March  —  NYPD officials have opened a hate-crime probe of the assault  —  The New York Police Department has opened a hate-crime investigation into the beating of a Jewish man during a pro-Palestinian demonstration …

Crime App Citizen is Driving a Security Car Around L.A. and Won't Say Why  —  The vehicle is linked to a private security company which describes itself as a “subscription law enforcement service.”  —  Joseph Cox  —  Citizen, a widely popular app that sends alerts to local residents …

An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel  —  Emily Wilder, a journalist and 2020 graduate of Stanford University, started a new job as an Associated Press news associate based in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 3.

U.S. Attorney General Garland weighs release of Trump-era obstruction memo  —  U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faces a Monday deadline to decide whether to appeal a court order criticizing his predecessor William Barr, an early test of his willingness to defend the Justice Department's acts during Donald Trump's presidency.

The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics.  We should all be afraid.  —  American politics is being conducted under the threat of violence.  —  Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has a talent for constructive bluntness, describes a political atmosphere within the GOP heavy with fear.

Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can't quit the feud  —  It all ended badly last October when Glenn Greenwald, the pugnacious, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, quit the investigative news site he had co-founded six years earlier.  Greenwald left the Intercept with a parting shot …

What We Believe About U.F.O.s  —  We still don't know what they are — but we may be close to finding out.  —  Mr. Reid is a former senator.  —  This personal reflection is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: What do we believe?

‘Vulture’ Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers  —  The New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital - known for slashing its newspapers' budgets to extract escalated profits - won shareholder approval Friday for its $633 million bid to acquire the Tribune Publishing newspaper chain.

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't think white people can be terrorists  —  In the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack, former President George W. Bush famously declared in a joint address to Congress: “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.”  Apparently to today's Republicans …

Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants  —  The lofty prices of cryptocurrencies have investors sinking money into electricity generation, risking a backlash  —  Across America, older fossil-fuel power plants are shutting down in favor of renewable energy.

ILLINOIS GOES IT ALONE (FOR NOW) — A LIGHTFOOT INTERVIEW — PAUL RYAN HEADLINES FOR KINZINGER  —  TGIF, Illinois.  Thanks for hanging in there this week.  It's been a doozy.  —  TOP TALKER  —  With less than 10 days before the legislative session wraps up, Gov. J.B. Pritzker …

Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad.  Angry veterans fired back.  —  The first half of the TikTok video shows a muscular Russian man with a shaved head doing push-ups, jumping out of a plane, and staring down the scope of a rifle.  The second half shows …

Since leaving office, Trump has charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 to use space at Mar-a-Lago  —  Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump's own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records.

Kindergartners' questions helped get them off hijacked school bus, driver says: ‘Enough already’  —  The hijacker forced his way onto the school bus with a rifle and commands to “Get out of town, now!”  It was “one of the scariest” scenarios possible, law enforcement said later …

White House budget plan set to leave out some health care proposals from campaign  —  A public option for health care will not be included in the budget that will be proposed next week.  —  White House officials have left key Biden campaign promises on health care out of their coming budget proposal …

The Texas Mask Mystery  —  In early March, Texas became the first state to abolish its mask mandate and lift capacity constraints for all businesses.  Conservatives hailed Governor Greg Abbott's decision, while liberals predicted doom and death and President Joe Biden disparaged it as “Neanderthal thinking.”

Florida investigating Sidney Powell's Defending The Republic fundraising campaign  —  Nobody knows how many millions the former Trump lawyer has raised or where the money has gone.  —  1 hr ago  —  Investigators for the state of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services …

Few plea bargains in U.S. Capitol riot cases as prosecutors stand firm  —  Nearly four months after the U.S. Capitol attack, just one of more than 440 people charged has pleaded guilty, a sign of tough conditions set by prosecutors for plea deals and resistance by defense lawyers to their demands.

The mess in Maricopa  —  Votes are still being counted in Arizona.  It won't change the winner.  But it might change America.  —  PHOENIX — Something spooky has been happening here in Maricopa County.  Weird spooky, crazy spooky, this-has-never-happened-before-in- America spooky.

Covid on the Run  —  The pandemic may now be in permanent retreat in the U.S.  —  I want to end this week by showing you two Covid-19 charts.  They contain the same message: The pandemic is in retreat.  —  In the United States, there is now an excellent chance that the retreat is permanent.

David Brooks Interviews Joe Biden  —  What happened to Joe Biden?  Many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he's promoting whopping big legislative packages that make many on the progressive left extremely happy.  —  I asked him that when I spoke on the phone with him this week.

The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people  —  The country's declining covid-19 case rates present an unrealistically optimistic perspective for half of the nation — the half that is still not vaccinated.  —  As more people receive vaccines, covid-19 cases are occurring mostly …

Chief of staff for GOP lawmaker spoke to law enforcement after overhearing talk of storming FBI building on January 6  —  (CNN)A top aide to Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida says he spoke with both the Capitol Police and the FBI on the morning of January 6 after overhearing a man …

FBI Employee Indicted for Illegally Removing National Security Documents, Taking Material to Her Home  —  Note: A full copy of the indictment can be viewed here.  —  WASHINGTON - An employee of the FBI's Kansas City Division has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally removing …

Boko Haram Leader, Responsible for Chibok Schoolgirl Kidnappings, Dies  —  Death of Abubakar Shekau removes one the world's most brutal and effective terrorists  —  Abubakar Shekau, the fundamentalist warlord who turned Boko Haram from an obscure radical sect into a jihadist army whose war …