'We can't track down the informant': James Comer says he lost top witness in Biden investigation  —  Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed on Sunday that Republicans had lost track of a top witness in the investigation of President Joe Biden and his family.  —  During an interview on Fox News …

Turkey faces runoff election for president as Erdogan survives first test  —  Turkey appeared headed for a runoff presidential election after neither Tayyip Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the threshold to win outright on Sunday, in a poll seen as a verdict on Erdogan's 20-year rule and increasingly authoritarian path.

A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz  —  One article repeatedly mentions DeSantis' difficulty making eye contact.  —  Former President Trump is a twice-impeached sexual abuser, who possesses a unique ability to make people laugh—unfortunately or fortunately, to use his verbiage.

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes  —  Evidence shows Congressman Paul Gosar's digital director is behind an online persona that Fuentes called one of his “strongest soldiers.”  —  Nick Fuentes was under attack.

Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says  —  Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine's military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy losses

Burning Down The House  —  Because Twitter is so big and open-ended, and because it is a product of the grandiose and impatient and deliriously shallow world of Silicon Valley, the ways in which it has been talked about by the people who talk about it most have mostly been ridiculous.

President Biden: I'm doing everything I can to reduce gun violence, but Congress must do more  —  One year ago today, an individual who had posted a white supremacist manifesto, armed with an AR-15 style firearm, killed 10 Black Americans and injured three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense  —  Mr. McConnell is a professor and the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.  He was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit from 2002 to 2009.

US senator denounced as ‘profoundly ignorant man’ over remarks on Mexico  —  John Kennedy's comments about Mexicans ‘eating cat food’ came as he urged the US military to enter country to ‘stop the cartels’  —  Mexicans “would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback” …

The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners  —  In an era of surging home and stock values, U.S. family wealth has soared.  The trillions of dollars going to heirs will largely reinforce inequality.  —  An intergenerational transfer of wealth is in motion in America …

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations — And Make It Disappear  —  A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages.  But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates …

7 doomsday scenarios if the U.S. crashes through the debt ceiling  —  Economists warn of worst-case outcomes should Congress fail to raise the federal borrowing limit by the “X-date” deadline  —  Federal workers furloughed.  Social Security checks for seniors on hold.  Soaring mortgage rates.

Abbott knocks Dominion over Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) bashed Dominion Voting Systems over the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, following a report that the popular conservative primetime host was fired from the network as part of its settlement with the voting software company.

The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change.  It Could Decide the 2024 Election.  —  The new decennial Religion Census offers cause for hope — and alarm — for both parties.  —  One of the most significant shifts in American politics and religion just took place over the past decade …

Video shows brawl between supporters of two Minneapolis City Council candidates  —  An apparent brawl broke out between supporters of two Minneapolis City Council candidates Saturday over nominations.  —  The brawl, which left two people injured, happened at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor …

Ireland likely to join Nato project to protect undersea cables  —  Ireland has little if any means of protecting undersea cables which carry internet traffic between US and Europe and pass through Irish waters off south and west coasts  —  Ireland is likely to join a new Nato initiative …

Eric Adams Says He's a Progressive.  Democrats Beg to Differ.  —  Left-leaning New Yorkers say the mayor is moving the city in a more conservative direction on issues like policing, rent and providing shelter to those in need.  —  When a homeless man was choked to death on the New York City subway earlier …

How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight  —  A debt-ceiling deadlock could push Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment — setting up a showdown at the high court.  —  If Joe Biden and House Republicans fail to reach a debt deal, the crisis could get tossed to the Supreme Court …

Border agents arrest man on FBI terror watchlist amid migrant influx: CBP sources  —  Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., blames Biden's ‘open invitation’ border policies for terrorists coming to United States  —  Border Patrol agents arrested an Afghan national on the FBI's terror watchlist …

This Neo-Nazi Gets Paid to Groom Children.  Who's Supporting This?  —  A man calling himself “AMERICAS #1 ANTI SEMITE!” is targeting child-users of a video platform called Omegle for indoctrination and verbal abuse — and live-streaming the encounters to his hateful fans for money

Transcript: Nikki Haley on “Face the Nation,” May 14, 2023  —  The following is the transcript of an interview with former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, that aired on “Face the Nation” on May 14, 2023.  —  MARGARET BRENNAN …