‘What the hell was he thinking?’  Pennsylvania conservatives react to Trump's support of OZ  —  RICHLAND, Pa. — Chairwoman Jackie Kulback has a very detailed list of criteria that her county party she chairs — the Cambria County Republican Committee — requires to endorse candidates in next month's U.S. Senate primary contest.

Ukraine War: Russia warns Sweden and Finland against Nato membership  —  Russia has warned Finland and Sweden against joining Nato, arguing the move would not bring stability to Europe.  —  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation”.

Has US Rep. Kai Kahele Given Up On Washington?  —  WASHINGTON — When Kai Kahele announced he was running for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District in 2019, he vowed one thing to his future constituents — that he'd show up and do the job.  —  It was a stark contrast to the person who was sitting in the seat at the time.

Why American Teens Are So Sad  —  Sign up for Derek's newsletter here.  —  The United States is experiencing an extreme teenage mental-health crisis.  From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” …

What I wish I'd known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery  —  Corinna Cohn, a software developer in Indianapolis, is an officer in the Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network.  —  When I was 19, I had surgery for sex reassignment, or what is now called gender affirmation surgery.

White House says it expects inflation to be ‘extraordinarily elevated’ in new report  — The Biden administration is bracing for the Labor Department's consumer price index report to show that inflation is “extraordinarily elevated.”  — The consumer price index, or CPI, is one of Wall Street's favorite ways to measure inflation.

Twitter Grapples With an Elon Musk Problem  —  Mr. Musk, Twitter's biggest shareholder, is free to buy more stock in the company and could use the platform against itself.  Some employees are dismayed.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Bright and early on Monday …

Abby Finkenauer can't appear on Democratic primary ballot, Iowa judge rules … U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer cannot appear on Iowa's June 7 Democratic primary ballot, a judge ruled Sunday.  —  The late night ruling, which reverses a state panel's decision, is a major setback for Finkenauer …

Karen Bass and Rick Caruso in dead heat, L.A. mayoral poll finds  —  Voters upset over crime and a seemingly limitless geyser of cash have propelled Rick Caruso to the front of the race for mayor, reshaping the contest and offering Los Angeles a stark contrast between the billionaire developer and his chief rival, Rep. Karen Bass.

The city of Philadelphia will reinstate an indoor mask mandate, the first major U.S. city to do so this spring.  —  With new coronavirus cases low but rising sharply in recent days, the city of Philadelphia announced on Monday that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate a little more than a month …

What happens when a group of Fox News viewers watch CNN for a month?  —  A study that paid viewers of the rightwing cable network to switch shed light on the media's influence on people's views  —  atching Fox News can be like entering an alternative universe.

Biden finalizes restrictions on ‘ghost guns,’ names new ATF nominee  —  The president said he would nominate former U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach to serve as head of the agency, which has been without a Senate-confirmed director since 2015  —  Biden announces new rules for ghost guns to ‘help save lives’

Florida Legislature won't draft new redistricting map, deferring to DeSantis  —  The Florida House and Senate released a joint memorandum saying they are waiting for the governor's office to provide a congressional map that DeSantis will support.  —  Updated Just now

Trump and Ukraine: Former Advisers Revisit What Happened  —  Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisers are connecting President Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine to Jan. 6.  And they're ready to talk.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

Former Trump lawyer, amid clash with Jan. 6 committee, pushing to decertify 2020 election  —  Trump has been watching the decertification push closely  —  Just as he was emerging as a top target of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, former Trump lawyer John Eastman took a trip to Wisconsin.

Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee  —  Sign up for David's newsletter, The Third Rail, here.  —  The American right has lost the plot on free speech.  The passage of Florida's House Bill 1557, which bans “classroom instruction” on “sexual orientation and gender identity” …

Russia Airs Its Ultimate ‘Revenge Plan’ for America  —  Battered and infuriated by sanctions over the war in Ukraine, Putin's henchmen are plotting their master plan for revenge on live television.  —  As Russia's war of aggression continues to ravage its neighbor, the Kremlin's propaganda apparatus …

I Commanded U.S. Army Europe.  Here's What I Saw in the Russian and Ukrainian Armies.  —  The two armies at war today couldn't be more different.  —  In March 2011, I began a new posting as the Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, in command of all U.S. Army forces stationed in various countries throughout Europe.

As Remote Work Becomes Permanent, Can Manhattan Adapt?  —  With more companies adopting hybrid work, New York City's economy, which relies on commuters and full office buildings, faces an uncertain future.  —  PwC, a global consulting firm with its American headquarters in New York City …

Bucha's Month of Terror  —  ‘They shot my son.  I was next to him.  It would be better if it had been me.’  —  As the Russian advance on Kyiv stalled, a campaign of terror and revenge against civilians nearby in Bucha began, survivors and investigators say.  —  Russian soldiers set up in this school.

The Lerner family will explore selling the Washington Nationals  —  The family of real estate magnate Ted Lerner, which 16 years ago purchased the Washington Nationals from Major League Baseball and oversaw a rebuilding process that eventually resulted in a World Series championship …

Distraught over orders to investigate trans kids' families, Texas child welfare workers are resigning  —  Other investigators don't want to follow an order they believe harms families but worry about the impact of a mass employee exodus on the state's most vulnerable children.  —  Copy link

Former cop who stormed Capitol guilty on all six counts in second Jan. 6 jury trial  —  WASHINGTON — A former police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was found guilty on all six charges at trial in a verdict reached Monday.  —  Thomas Robertson, who was an officer in Rocky Mount …

China's Echoes of Russia's Alternate Reality Intensify Around the World  —  China's officials and state media are increasingly parroting Russian propaganda organs on the war in Ukraine, undercutting U.S. and European diplomatic efforts, even after the killings in Bucha.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Anti-Semitic incidents are surging in post-pandemic NYC  —  After a pandemic lull, anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City are at historic highs.  —  The NYPD says there were 86 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city in the first three months of this year.  At this rate, annual totals …

Black Lives' Matters needs to get its (real expensive) house in order  —  Ever since Black Lives Matter became a rallying cry in 2014, Black people knew that the movement could not afford to slip up.  Eight years and more than $90 million in donations later, BLM's national leadership has made a $6 million stumble.

The January 6 Committee Prepares to Go Public  —  Representative Elaine Luria was sipping sweet peach tea in her office last week while C-SPAN on mute aired the House debate over holding two of Donald Trump's former aides in contempt of Congress.  Days earlier, the Virginia Democrat had voted …

‘They took our clothes’: Ukrainians returning to looted homes  —  Reports of rampant theft by Russian soldiers supported by release of video and audio recordings  —  Shaun Walker in Novyi Bykiv and Andrew Roth  —  hen Russian soldiers left the village of Novyi Bykiv after a month of occupation …

Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster  —  Business as usual will produce a huge GOP majority … Traditionally, the President's party averages roughly 47.5% of the two-party vote 1 in midterms.  Right now, in FiveThirtyEight's average of public polls, Democrats are polling at 48.7%.