Elon's Out  —  Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh?  —  Oh Elon  —  I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.  Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and, like many other rich people, he has some unusual and expensive hobbies.

POLITICO Playbook: Leibo book off embargo, Morton's gets grilled  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  OFF EMBARGO — Our copy of MARK LEIBOVICH's “Thank You for Your Servitude” arrived from Penguin Press on Friday, and we've been devouring it ever since.

Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes.  She got a ticket  —  The overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling has one driver questioning HOV lane laws requiring two passengers in a car.  —  In economics, they call it the law of unintended consequences.

Hubris and Mismanagement Led Sri Lanka Into Economic Collapse  —  The request came as protesters entered his residence and office, and thousands more descended on the capital to register their fury over his government's inability to address a crippling economic crisis.

Covid learning loss has been a global disaster  —  Millions of children are still out of school.  The costs are stacking up  —  MANILA, MUMBAI AND TUXTLA  —  King norvic tarroyo lives with his parents and five siblings in a slum near the sea wall in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Over 300 Virginia state employees resign in wake of Gov. Youngkin's telework policy  —  RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia's new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News.

Oath Keeper members brought explosives to DC area around January 6 and had a ‘death list,’ prosecutors say  —  (CNN)The Justice Department released new details Friday evening of the alleged extensive planning by the Oath Keepers to prepare for violence in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021 …

Biden Repeats Totally Unverified Story Of 10-Year-Old Seeking Abortion Making The Media Rounds  —  President Joe Biden and numerous mainstream media outlets have touted the story of an unidentified 10-year old girl who traveled to Indiana to obtain an abortion that was illegal in her home state of Ohio.

Shinzo Abe killing: Security was flawed, Japan police say  —  Japanese police have admitted there were flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead in the southern city of Nara on Friday.  —  “It is undeniable that there were problems in the security,” said Nara police chief Tomoaki Onizuka.

The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings  —  The spate of shooting attacks in communities such as Highland Park, Ill.; Uvalde, Tex.; and Buffalo has riveted attention on America's staggering number of public mass killings.  But the rising number of gun deaths …

The nation that laughed itself stupid  —  Boris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain's addiction to humour  —  To the silk looms and chamber pots of Dennis Severs' House in Spitalfields.  Severs was a Californian whose gripes with the 20th century drove him to turn a London address into a portal to the 18th and 19th.

I stopped reading the news.  Is the problem me — or the product?  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Amanda Ripley is the author of “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped — and How We Get Out” and host of the Slate podcast “How To!”  —  I have a secret.  I kept it hidden for longer than I care to admit.

Appeals court upholds, but further narrows, House subpoena for Trump financial records  —  A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a House committee is entitled to a wide array of records on former President Donald Trump's finances and business practices, but the court further narrowed aspects …

Georgia's Abrams raises $22M in 2 months, far outpacing Kemp  —  Gift Article  —  ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams' fundraising continues to accelerate, swamping Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and pushing close to $50 million raised in the seven months since the Georgia Democrat announced her campaign in December.