Army suspends general after tweet appearing to mock Jill Biden  —  The Army has suspended a three-star general's contract and placed him under investigation after he posted a tweet that appeared to mock first lady Jill Biden, USA Today reports. … - “For nearly 50 years …

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.

Sri Lankan PM agrees to quit amid biggest political turmoil  —  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister agreed to resign on Saturday after party leaders in Parliament demanded both he and the embattled president step down on the day protesters stormed the president's residence …

Security alert issued for Jewish community in San Antonio  —  Temple Beth-El cancels services Saturday due to safety concerns for Jewish synagogues  —  SAN ANTONIO - A security alert has been issued for the Jewish community in San Antonio.  —  The Jewish Federation of San Antonio posted …

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.

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.

Trump considers waiving Bannon's executive privilege claim, reports say  —  Decision from former president would clear way for one-time adviser to testify before committee investigating Capitol attack  —  Donald Trump is considering waiving executive privilege for his longtime political adviser Steve Bannon …

Trump Lawyer Says He Will Be Reinstated as President if GOP Win Midterms  —  Christina Bobb, an attorney who has supported Donald Trump's legal challenge to overturn the 2020 election, has suggested a scenario in which the former president could be reinstated after the midterm elections in November.

Boris Johnson pushed for woman to get City Hall job during ‘abuse of power’ relationship … Boris Johnson lobbied for a job for a young woman who claims he abused his power to have a sexual relationship with her.  —  The then London mayor and MP for Henley advocated for her to get a job …

Shinzo Abe's Death Highlights Fringe Japan Political Party That Criticized Him  —  The assassination of Shinzo Abe has drawn attention to a fringe political party that had criticized him ahead of Sunday's upper house election for alleged connections to religious groups.

Will No One Defend the American Republic?  —  In a previous newsletter, I frankly discussed my view that the United States is careening towards a right-wing dictatorship that is highly likely to be either deranged or unstable or both over the medium term, thus threatening a chaotic collapse …

Political Violence Is The New American Normal  —  Hours after Roe's demise, a truck driver rammed a group of women protesting in Iowa and highlighted an urgent national crisis: Violence is now a feature of American civic life.  —  On June 24, mere hours after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade …

Ukraine Foreign Ministry blasts Rep. Victoria Spartz's ‘cynical’ allegations  —  Ukraine's Foreign Ministry released a blistering statement Saturday accusing the first and only Ukraine-born U.S. lawmaker of playing politics over Russia's war, in a rare public tussle between prominent officials from the two countries.

Liz Cheney's Latest Fans: Democratic Donors  —  Despite policy disagreements, donors like Jeffrey Katzenberg are backing the Wyoming Republican because of her role on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

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.

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.

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.