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Washington Post:
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
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reuters, Alternet.org, The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine, Raw Story and Political Wire
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
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.
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Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
The big problem with trying to cut spending in a debt ceiling bill — President Biden and congressional leaders have a major hurdle to overcome as negotiators meet privately to consider a way forward and prevent a self-inflicted economic calamity. — WASHINGTON — House Republicans …
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The Hill and New Republic
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight
How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight
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Washington Post, The Hill, National Review, Bloomberg, CNN, Washington Examiner and NBC News
Michael W. McConnell / New York Times:
The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense
The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense
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Balkinization
Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida teacher investigated by state agency for showing Disney movie in class — A Florida teacher is under investigation by the state Department of Education after what she believes is a targeted attack by a school board member who took issue with a Disney movie shown in her classroom.
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Joe.My.God., The Guardian, New York Post, The Mind Shield and Washington Press
Al-Monitor:
Turkey heads to runoff elections between Erdogan, Kilicdaroglu — Incumbent President Erdogan and his top rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu prepare will face each other in the runoff on May 28 after a knife-edge race on Sunday. — ANKARA — Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will face …
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New York Times:
Nail-Biter Turkish Election Heads for Round 2 as Majority Eludes Erdogan — After two decades in power, a struggling Recep Tayyip Erdogan has two more weeks to persuade Turkish voters that he should continue as president. — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's presidential election appeared on Sunday …
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Reuters:
Turkey faces runoff election for president as Erdogan survives first test
Turkey faces runoff election for president as Erdogan survives first test
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CBS News, Al Jazeera, Semafor, Bloomberg, Voice of America, USA Today, Al-Monitor, Forbes, National Review, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, PBS NewsHour, UPI, TASS, Washington Times, Washington Post and New York Times
Marita Moloney / BBC:
Zelensky arrives in UK for surprise meeting with Sunak — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting the UK to meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. — In a tweet, he said he would meet his “friend” Mr Sunak to hold “substantive negotiations”. — The UK announced on Thursday …
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New York Times:
In Blow to Junta, Thai Voters Overwhelmingly Back Opposition Parties — Thais on Sunday cast votes against their military leaders, backing instead a populist political mainstay and a progressive upstart bent on shaking up the status quo. — Reporting from Bangkok
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Bloomberg, UPI, Reuters, Voice of America, Associated Press, The Hill, NPR and Al Jazeera
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Washington Post:
Thai opposition leads vote count, spelling possible end to military rule — BANGKOK, Thailand — Opposition parties in Thailand took a commanding lead in the country's parliamentary election on Sunday, according to an official vote tally, potentially signaling the end of the military's nearly decade-long rule here.
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Bloomberg, CNN, The Guardian, Reuters, Associated Press, Raw Story, Financial Times, Sputnik News, UPI, BBC and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Campaign Cash for Her Marathon Habit — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema loves to run marathons—and to use campaign cash to pay for her stays at swanky hotels during those marathons. … When Kyrsten Sinema ran the Boston Marathon last year, it was a proud moment the Arizona senator …
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Outside the Beltway and Alternet.org
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: How Trump's team egged him on during CNN town hall — President Trump got more aggressive — and more dismissive of moderator Kaitlan Collins — as last week's CNN town hall continued. Now we know one reason why: — Backstage during the first commercial break, Axios has learned …
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Trump puts DeSantis in a bind on 2020: Can he bring himself to say Trump lost? — The Florida governor is making the case that he's more electable than Trump. Just don't ask him if Trump lost. — Donald Trump falsely insisting that the 2020 election was “rigged” last week was nothing …
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Alternet.org, Insider and Los Angeles Times
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Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones:
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz
Washington Post:
Biden team aims to compete in North Carolina, test ground in Florida — The strategy could provide alternate paths to victory if the president falters in other battleground states — Top advisers to President Biden are planning a 2024 battleground strategy that fully invests in North Carolina …
CNN:
Rick Perry teases possible presidential bid, declines to support Trump campaign — Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Sunday teased a possible 2024 presidential run while declining to support Donald Trump's campaign, becoming the latest onetime Trump appointee to distance himself from the former president's third White House bid.
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Washington Examiner, Morning Shots, Just The News, Joe.My.God., Twitchy, Raw Story and Political Wire
Jonathan Lai / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Philadelphia Inquirer's operations continue to be disrupted by a cyber incident — The Philadelphia Inquirer and outside cybersecurity experts continued Sunday to scramble to restore systems after an apparent cyberattack disrupted operations over the weekend.The Inquirer had been unable …
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Associated Press, New York Post, The Guardian, Daily Press and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14, 2023 — May 14, 2023, 3pm ET — Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. — Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Euractiv
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Inside the Tennessee legislature, where a GOP supermajority reigns — In the Republican-dominated state House, ‘culture war’ battles rage while demands for new gun restrictions are ignored following a deadly school shooting — NASHVILLE — Two dozen people sat silently …
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Trump says he'll bring back Michael Flynn if he wins in 2024: 'He's some man' — Former President Trump has said he'll bring back his former national security adviser Michael Flynn if he wins another four years in the White House in 2024. — “I will say, General Flynn, he's some general.
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Rolling Stone, Occupy Democrats, Political Wire and Washington Press
Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg:
Russia Hosts Belarus Official With Lukashenko Out of Public View — The foreign minister of Belarus begins a three-day visit to Moscow on Monday amid speculation about the whereabouts of the country's long-serving President Alexander Lukashenko. — The Belarusian leader hasn't been seen …
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Politico and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Renuka Rayasam / NPR:
Hospitals create police forces to stem growing violence against staff — ATLANTA — When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations.