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Callie Morris / KTUL-TV:
4 dead after active-shooter situation at Saint Francis medical building  —  UPDATE:Police tell us four people are dead, including the shooter, following an active-shooter situation at a Saint Francis medical building.  UPDATE: Police say the shooter has died.
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
Several Shot and Some Are Killed in Attack at Tulsa Medical Building, Police Say  —  The assailant was dead, but it was unclear if the police had shot him or he had shot himself, officials said.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Multiple people were shot and some were killed …
Discussion: CNN, KFOR-TV, KLAS, WOOD-TV and Political Wire
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
‘Men Always Win’: Survivors ‘Sickened’ by the Amber Heard Verdict  —  It didn't matter what the verdict was — as one domestic violence survivor puts it, “this case is my worst fear playing out on a public stage”  —  Over the past few weeks, Meghan has been watching the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial with a sinking feeling.
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Candace McDuffie / The Root:
Amber Heard Verdict Sends A Message To Black Women Everywhere  —  If the mistreatment of a wealthy blonde haired, blue-eyed white actress is ridiculed by the world, what does that mean for Black women?  —  Alerts  —  On Wednesday, a jury in Virginia decided that actor Johnny Depp …
New York Times:
Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Live Updates: Jury Finds Depp Was Defamed
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Thoughts on the Michael Sussmann Verdict  —  In the years since Donald Trump's election, the former president's supporters and opponents have often seemed to occupy entirely separate factual universes regarding both his conduct and the investigations of it.  —  In the factual universe occupied …
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Humiliation of John Durham  —  Hired by Bill Barr to investigate the Trump investigators, the prosecutor had little to show for his work even before his defeat in court yesterday.  —  John Durham, the special counsel appointed days before the 2020 election by Donald Trump's attorney general William Barr …
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
'It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections  —  Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion Hapless Trumpist Mo Brooks gives away the GOP ‘vote fraud’ scam  —  You might have noticed that many of the same Republicans who insisted that “voter fraud” cast doubt on Donald Trump's 2020 loss mysteriously don't see fraud at play in elections that they win.  This is routinely described as “hypocrisy.”
Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Times
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by the Fed and Ukraine war  — There are two main factors that has Dimon worried: So-called quantitative tightening, or QT, is scheduled to begin this month and will ramp up to $95 billion a month in reduced bond holdings.
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Bloomberg:
Jamie Dimon Says JPMorgan Is Bracing Itself for Economic ‘Hurricane’
Discussion: TheBlaze, New York Post and Twitchy
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
What are Uvalde police hiding?  —  It's not their incompetence and cowardice.  —  Texas law enforcement authorities said last week that Salvador Ramos got into Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, by way of a door propped open by a teacher.  From there, they said, Ramos found a classroom with two teachers and 19 fourth-graders.
Mike Stone / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans to sell armed drones to Ukraine in coming days -sources  —  The Biden administration plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles for battlefield use against Russia, three people familiar with the situation said.
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Anatomy of a fake  —  What a viral fake news story about “race-based grading” tells us about our media ecosystem  —  This is the tale of a fake news story, widely shared by a lot of smart people who so badly wanted for it to be true that they didn't care that it wasn't.
Alexander Martin / Sky News:
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command  —  In an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Paul Nakasone confirmed for the first time that the US had “conducted a series of operations” in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
New York Times:
The Middlemen Helping Russian Oligarchs Get Superyachts and Villas  —  They oversee the flow of billions of dollars from Putin-connected Russians to companies involved in superyachts and villas.  They've drawn the attention of a U.S. task force.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Washington Post and Metro.co.uk
Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Documents Reveal Hundreds of Russian Troops Broke Ranks Over Ukraine Orders  —  Desertions and refusal to engage in the invasion have put Moscow in a bind over how to punish service members without drawing attention to the problem  —  Hundreds of Russian soldiers have escaped the fighting …
Discussion: HotAir, New York Times and CBS News
Washington Post:
House Republicans to unveil conservative roadmap on climate, energy  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to call for boosting domestic fossil fuel production and streamlining the permitting process for large infrastructure projects  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Politico
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
Man Who Shot Reagan Granted Full Freedom  —  John Hinckley, the would-be assassin who shot President Ronald Reagan two months after his inauguration in 1981, was deemed by a federal judge on Wednesday to no longer be a “danger to himself or others.”  As a result, he will be free of all remaining restrictions by June 15.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Two White House press office staffers leaving for other administration jobs  —  The White House press office is undergoing a minor staffing shuffle as two aides are departing for other agencies within the Biden administration.  —  Vedant Patel, who had served as an assistant press secretary …
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Biden administration cancels all remaining student loan debt for 560,000 borrowers  —  The Biden administration is offering a new round of student loan debt relief for more than half a million borrowers who were students of Corinthian Colleges.  —  The action will see $5.8 billion …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden celebrates ‘pioneer’ Coast Guard commandant  —  President Joe Biden on Wednesday applauded Adm. Linda Fagan's ascension to commandant of the Coast Guard, making her the first woman to lead a military service branch.  —  Biden, speaking at a change of command ceremony that saw outgoing commandant …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
50 years after the Watergate break-in, John Dean relives the scandal that changed his life  —  After John Dean gave his historic 1973 testimony on the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down the Nixon White House, he wanted to move on with his life.  —  An obstruction of justice …
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Watchdog opens probe into huge Social Security fines to poor, disabled  —  An independent watchdog this week opened a broad investigation into Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office following a Washington Post report that revealed how an anti-fraud program …
Associated Press:
Jury indicts Buffalo shooting suspect on terrorism charge  —  BUFFALO, N.Y. — A grand jury on Wednesday charged the white 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket with domestic terrorism motivated by hate and 10 counts of first-degree murder.
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
A girl fled her war-torn homeland, but found more trauma in San Francisco  —  The morning began like most in the Saleh family's tiny studio six floors above Turk and Hyde streets in the Tenderloin.  The four children rose from their mats on the floor as their parents emerged from the closet where they shared a small mattress.
Daniel Gligich / The San Joaquin Valley Sun:
Salas comes clean on 11-year age gap on dating apps: ‘I made a mistake’  —  A Central Valley lawmaker and Congressional candidate admitted to misrepresenting his age on dating apps after screenshots of his profile went public.  —  Tuesday morning, The Sun exclusively revealed screenshots taken …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Joe Biden Is Too Old to Be President  —  On the menu today: As President Biden continues to misstate his own policies, it is a painful sign that the next president must be someone who has enough youth and energy to handle the pressures of the job.  —  The Wrong Man for a Tough Job
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
What the AR-15 Does to a Child's Body  —  Plus: Durham face-plants  —  What if we saw the pictures?  —  At the moment, the question is academic, since no one can really bear the thought of seeing them.  But what if we saw the pictures of children blown apart by America's most popular gun?
The UnPopulist:
The Right-Wing Outrage Machine Is Doing Campus Conservatives No Favors  —  Its over-the-top tactics are a far bigger problem than the lack of intellectual openness … For the bargain price of $5,000-$10,000, Matt Walsh, a columnist for The Daily Wire, a self-described conservative site …
Justice News:
Former Employee Of NFT Marketplace Charged In First Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme  —  Defendant Allegedly Traded on Inside Information About NFTs That Were Scheduled to be Featured on The Homepage of The Largest NFT Marketplace  —  Damian Williams, the United States Attorney …
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise  —  People on the prowl for a new podcast to consume often go for a stimulating option like a political debate or a true crime mystery to quicken the pulse.  But when the din of the world becomes too much …
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
PolitiFact Drops Another Doozy ‘Fact Check’  —  As Townhall reported last week, PolitiFact was up to its usual tricks trying to provide cover for Democrats, specifically Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams.  The self-proclaimed “independent” arbiters of truth decided to go after Republican officials …
Discussion: RedState
Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg:
One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck, Survey Finds  —  More than a third of Americans earning at least $250,000 annually say they are living paycheck to paycheck, underscoring how inflation is taking a bigger bite out of Americans' budgets at all ends of the pay spectrum.
Discussion: Breitbart and Twitchy
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Opinion The GOP midterm wave is set — and Democrats can't do anything about it  —  Respected political analyst David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report created a stir last week when he projected Republicans would gain between 20 to 35 House seats in the midterms.
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Townhall
LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans use ‘God’ to turn tragedies into talking points  —  A number of so-called religious conservatives like to explain away national tragedies — be they natural or man-made — through the lens of God's wrath, or at least indirect punishment for “sins.”
Discussion: TheBlaze and Townhall
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
FBI director says bureau foiled cyberattack against Boston Children's Hospital  —  The FBI claims to have foiled a cyberattack intended to penetrate the network system of the Boston Children's Hospital last summer.  —  Iranian-backed hackers are believed to have been behind the attempted attack …
Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat:
'It's all about the kids': Florida high school raffles off rifles, handguns  —  A Florida high school raffled off guns and other weaponry through a month-long fundraising campaign that ended Wednesday.  —  James Madison Preparatory High School in Madison, a charter school …
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
The RNC's Ground Game of Inches  —  Inside the secretive, dubious, and extremely offline attempt to convert minorities into Republicans … In some sense, it was predictable that my search for any information about one of the Republican National Committee's two dozen community centers would lead me back to Facebook.
Discussion: Common Dreams
 
 
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Janie Har / Associated Press:
Slave reparations advocates hail historic California report
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Austin Goss / KSFY/KDLT:
Sources: Ravnsborg will not pursue re-election in 2022
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Simplest Response to School Shootings
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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Big-spending billionaires are upending politics. The Los Angeles mayor's race is the latest test.
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Politics as the leisure of the theory class
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Laura Italiano / Insider:
Still intent on ending NY AG Letitia James' probe of his business, Trump files federal notice of appeal
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
U.K. seeks U.S. approval to send rocket systems to Ukraine
NBC News:
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CNN:
Uvalde school district police chief declines to answer CNN questions in first public comments in a week
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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