Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a ‘Hurricane Gun’  —  The then-leader of the free world also inquired whether the U.S. could bomb China in retaliation for the alleged hurricane attack  —  Near the beginning of Donald Trump's time in office, the then-president had a pressing question …

Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter ban on Donald Trump  —  Musk spoke virtually at a Future of the Car event hosted by the Financial Times.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk said he would reverse Twitter's ban on former president Donald Trump.  —  Musk, the Tesla CEO who is soon to own Twitter …

Fox News Poll: Three-way race in Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary election  —  The race remains wide open as 18% of voters are undecided on who they will back in the May 17 primary.  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for May 10  —  Mehmet Oz and Kathy Barnette gain significant ground as support …

The J. D. Vance I Knew  —  Last week, Politico reported on a strange leak from the J. D. Vance campaign.  A super PAC supporting the Ohio Republican—who won the party's nomination for Senate on May 3—had commissioned opposition research to help Vance defend against his vulnerabilities.

Poll: Confidence in Supreme Court has collapsed since conservatives took control  —  A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Americans' confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court has collapsed over the last 20 months — a period that began with former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans installing …

Delaware State University ‘incensed’ after lacrosse team's bus stopped, searched in Georgia  —  A college women's lacrosse team feels traumatized after its charter bus was stopped by police while traveling through Georgia, an incident that has left the school's president “incensed.”

‘Succession’ star glues hand to Starbucks counter in protest  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist James Cromwell has gone from “Succession's” Uncle Ewan to real-life supergluin' — pasting his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain's extra charge for plant-based milk.

Rick Scott says Biden is ‘unwell’ and should resign, as president hammers ‘ultra-MAGA’ agenda  —  Scott calls Biden ‘incoherent, incapacitated and confused’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for May 10  —  Sen. Rick Scott Tuesday called on President Biden to resign, alleging that Biden …

Inside the Republican campaign to take down Madison Cawthorn  —  The freshman congressman picked a fight with top GOP leaders in his state.  They gave it to him.  —  Last November, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) texted his state's junior senator, Thom Tillis, about a tweet from the senator's wife.

Trump Managed to Body-Shame an Aircraft Carrier  —  Donald Trump has an awe-inspiring gift for being weird in utterly original ways.  Former presidents were afraid of flying, hospitals, and the number 13.  Trump has a fruit phobia.  His White House predecessors didn't care for broccoli or smoking.

Hawley Introduces Bill to Strip Disney of Special Copyright Protections  —  Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Copyright Clause Restoration Act, a new bill to strip woke corporations like Disney of special copyright protections.  Senator Hawley's bill would limit …

How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church  —  The movement spent 40 years at war with secular America.  Now it's at war with itself.  —  “Before i turn to the Word,” the preacher announces, “I'm gonna do another diatribe.”  —  “Go on!” one man yells.  “Amen!” shouts a woman several pews in front of me.

The ACLU Has Lost Its Way  —  The lurid spectacle that is Johnny Depp's $50 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard hasn't just tarnished his star and hers with allegations that he beat her and violated her with a bottle or that she severed part of his finger and emptied her bowels in the marital bed.

Garcetti likely knew of top aide's alleged misconduct, Grassley's office concludes  —  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti likely knew about a top aide's alleged sexual misconduct, according to a new report from Sen. Chuck Grassley's office that could undermine Garcetti's quest to be ambassador to India.

District requires Lyman High School to cover 'Don't Say Gay' protest photos in yearbook  —  District says some of publication did not meet school board policy  —  SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Lyman High School yearbooks are on hold after Seminole County Public Schools reviewed the publication …

Multiple fake electors cooperating in Georgia criminal probe of Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election  —  (CNN)Prosecutors in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election have interviewed several individuals who served as fake GOP electors from the state …

Opinion Once again, GOP hostage-taking is on the verge of working  —  Here's what “bipartisanship” looks like these days: Republicans hold important legislation protecting all Americans hostage, and Democrats give in to GOP demands and hand the hostage-takers a policy victory.

The QAnon Queen Told Followers They Didn't Need to Pay Bills.  It Didn't End Well.  —  The QAnon Queen of Canada told her followers to stop paying their electricity and water bills because she declared them free.  But now the utility companies are calling.  —  Mack Lamoureux  —  TORONTO, CA

Negativity bias, personality and political ideology  —  Nature Human Behaviour (2022) Cite this article  —  Abstract  —  Research suggests that right-wing ideology is associated with negativity bias: a tendency to pay more attention and give more weight to negative versus positive stimuli.

For Financial Help and Counsel, Hunter Biden Turns to Hollywood Lawyer  —  Kevin Morris, known for brokering big entertainment deals, has helped President Biden's son navigate his legal troubles and scrutiny from the right.  Some of the White House's allies are concerned.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

About a Boy: The Roots of Putin's Evil  —  Putin's childhood taught him many lessons that shape his thinking and actions to this day: that might makes right, that existing hierarchies can only be changed through violence, that force is the only language that matters, that power is always a zero-sum game.

Gun deaths surged during the pandemic's first year, the C.D.C. reports.  —  Soaring rates were driven largely by gun-related homicides, which rose 35 percent from 2019 to 2020.  —  Gun deaths reached the highest level ever recorded in the United States in 2020, the first year of the pandemic …

Florida Is Making Students Sit Through 45 Minutes on the Horrors of Communism  —  Florida teachers can't say gay, but they are required to teach about the “victims of communism.”  —  PB  —  Acknowledging that queer people exist and have human relationships?  Bad.

The Trailer: Nebraska, West Virginia primaries another test of Trump's influence  —  In this edition: Primary Day for former president Donald Trump, yet another House special election and the candidate running on tear gas.  —  We always appreciate it when members of Congress resign before deadline, and this is The Trailer.

Racist ‘Replacement Theory’ Is Bleeding Into GOP Senate Campaigns  —  Multiple Republican Senate candidates have pushed claims that sound awfully like the white supremacist Great Replacement theory.  —  When Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was recently asked on Fox News about immigration reform …

Still in Contempt, Trump Now Owes New York $150,000  —  The ex-president's fines are growing by $10,000 each day.  He's fighting to have the decision reversed. … Former President Donald Trump now owes at least $150,000 in fines for contempt of court stemming from his failure to cooperate …

Woman finds box of mail-in ballots on East Hollywood sidewalk; LA County Registrar investigating  —  Woman finds box of mail-in ballots on East Hollywood sidewalk  —  LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Registrar's Office and the United States Postal Service are investigating after 104 ballots …

The Indignity of Automobile Dependence  —  VISION?  ZERO!  DEP'T.  —  Indignity editor Tom Scocca, Click to my Clack, reached out recently to ask if I'd like to engage in some Car Talk.  —  TOM SCOCCA, INDIGNITY: Hello!  The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, came to New York this week, on a trip to promote tourism.