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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Racist Comments About Native Americans  —  The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived.  —  CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after racist …
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Dismissive Comments About Native Americans  —  Mr. Santorum, a former Republican presidential candidate, said at a conservative political event last month that “we birthed a nation from nothing — I mean, there was nothing here.”
Discussion: Bloomberg
New York Times:
The Misery at the Heart of the Conflict  —  An eviction in East Jerusalem lies at the center of a conflict that led to war between Israel and Hamas.  But for millions of Palestinians, the routine indignities of occupation are part of daily life.  —  JERUSALEM — Muhammad Sandouka built …
Discussion: CNN and Al-Monitor
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
11 days, 8 calls and a ceasefire: Inside Biden's response to the Gaza crisis  —  Before 11 days of fighting in the Gaza Strip ended in a ceasefire, President Biden held six phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and one with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Discussion: RedState
Rula Jebreal / Washington Post:
The cease-fire may hold. But Israel's treatment of Palestinians won't change.
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and The Guardian
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
U.S. seizes $90,000 from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot  —  U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE In tactical shift, Iran grows new, loyal elite from among Iraqi militias
Reuters:
Pentagon chief unable to talk to Chinese military leaders despite repeated attempts
Discussion: Townhall
Reuters:
Blinken to visit Israel, West Bank on May 26-27, source says
Discussion: National Review, Fox News and Bloomberg
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Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Mayorkas Designates Haiti for Temporary Protected Status for 18 Months  —  New Designation Allows Eligible Haitians to Apply for TPS and Employment Authorization  —  WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Ted Cruz roundly criticized after sharing Russian propaganda  —  GOP Sen. Ted Cruz received a lot of criticism after sharing a Russian propaganda video on Twitter in an apparent attempt to criticize the idea of a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. military.  MSNBC's Brian Williams has the details.  —  Read More
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Hamas founder's son says Israel should kill terror group's leaders after ceasefire  —  The son of Hamas founder Hassan Yousef urged Israel to target the terror group's leaders for assassination, even after the ceasefire reached Friday.  —  “Assassinating Hamas leadership will not destroy Hamas …
New York Times:
How the Coming Population Bust Will Transform the World  —  Fewer babies' cries.  More abandoned homes.  Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom.  —  All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation …
David Nather / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Black Americans' police experiences are getting worse  —  Nearly seven out of 10 Black Americans say police treatment has gotten worse in the past year, and about the same percentage believe police shootings of Black and brown youths have become worse in that time, according to an Axios-Ipsos poll.
Politico:
A Biden-friendly economist is creating a big headache for president's spending plans  —  The White House and congressional Democrats have argued for weeks that the lack of child care services poses a major obstacle to the economic recovery, pressing for a massive and immediate investment to get parents back to work.
Jack Healy / New York Times:
‘You Can Feel the Tension’: A Windfall for Minority Farmers Divides Rural America  —  A $4 billion federal fund meant to confront how racial injustice has shaped American farming has angered white farmers who say they are being unfairly excluded.  —  LaGRANGE, Mo. — Shade Lewis had just come …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump Flack Jason Miller Ordered To Pay $42,000 in Legal Fees For Failed Suit  —  BITTER PILL  —  A U.S. District Court judge in Florida has ordered Jason Miller, a spokesperson for former President Trump, to pay G/O Media 42,000 in legal expenses.  This comes after a federal appeals court rejected …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx'd  —  Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,  —  New policies will artificially deflate “breakthrough infections” in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated.
Jordan Lancaster / The Daily Caller:
Ted Cruz Has Some Savage Words For The ‘Woke Cancer’ In US Military Turning Soldiers Into ‘Pansies’  —  Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the “woke cancer” in the U.S. military Friday on Fox News.  —  Fox News host Harris Faulkner asked Cruz about his reaction to an advertisement for the military.
Discussion: New York Post
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz turns up the trolling to fill the Trump Twitter void
Ashley Fetters / Washington Post:
Masks are off — which means men will start telling women to ‘Smile!’ again  —  The photographer at CVS told Quintana Carter to make a “neutral face.”  Not smiling, not frowning, just expressionless.  This was, after all, a photo for a new passport, just in case she decides to leave Boston on her first post-pandemic vacation.
Discussion: Twitchy
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
For Colleges, Vaccine Mandates Often Depend on Which Party Is in Power  —  Hoping for a return to normal, more than 400 colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated for Covid-19.  Almost all are in states that voted for President Biden.
Shi Jiangtao / South China Morning Post:
China positions itself as peace broker in Israel-Gaza crisis  —  Beijing's offer to host talks between Israelis and Palestinians is also a chance to seize moral high ground from the US, observers say But the Middle East is not likely to become another arena for US-China rivalries Beijing's offer …
Anthony Gockowski / Alpha News:
Facebook threatens to ban Alpha News for anti-Hamas cartoon  —  The cartoon in question was critical of Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for their commentary on the Israeli-Palestine conflict.  —  Facebook has threatened to ban Alpha News from its platform for publishing an anti-Hamas cartoon.
Discussion: Power Line
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Explaining HIPAA: No, it doesn't ban questions about your vaccination status  —  As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to relax safety measures for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and the country begins to reopen, many employers, businesses …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lawrence Richard / Washington Examiner:
Forty-two percent say confidence in Fauci dropped over past year: Poll  —  A new survey shows that confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci has significantly decreased over the past year.  —  Out of all participants, 42.2% said their confidence in the White House COVID-19 Response Team member's ability …
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Coronavirus infections drop below 30,000 daily in continuing sign of recovery  —  For the first time in 11 months, the daily average of new coronavirus infections in the United States has fallen below 30,000 amid continuing signs that most communities across the nation are emerging from the worst of the pandemic.
Discussion: Forbes and Joe.My.God.
Politico:
Patrick Leahy signals he'll run for ninth Senate term  —  The Senate's longest-serving Democrat, long assumed to be on the cusp of retirement, is leaning toward giving it another go.  —  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who has served since 1975 and is in the line of presidential succession …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Atlantic
 
 
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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
In College, She Was A Pro-Palestinian Activist. The AP Just Fired Her After A Conservative “Witch Hunt.”
Rochelle Olson / Star Tribune:
Federal judge investigates leak of grand jury proceedings into George Floyd's death
Discussion: Power Line
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Eric Adams Wants to CompStat New York City
David Jackson / USA Today:
If Donald Trump faces criminal charges, few think it will hurt him with his base in 2024
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Harry Enten / CNN:
How the GOP lies about the US Capitol insurrection and 2020 election are related
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
We Don't Need a Commission to Investigate the Capitol Riot
Discussion: HotAir
Associated Press:
US Rep. Debbie Dingell undergoes emergency surgery for perforated ulcer
Discussion: USA Today
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
The Jewish man who was the victim of a gang assault in New York says the level of hatred was troubling
Discussion: KEYT-TV
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known
Michael Collins / USA Today:
The ‘gaffe machine’ gets a tuneup: Joe Biden stays surprisingly on message as president
Discussion: Zenger News
New York Times:
Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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