Sometimes Back Down: Key DeSantis allies viewed anti-Trump tweet as a “massive mistake”  —  The News  —  The leading pro-DeSantis PAC surprised the political world with a single tweet after Donald Trump's CNN town hall last week.  It bluntly called out the former president for his answers on January 6th …

Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages  —  A woman who says she worked as an off-the-books employee for Rudy Giuliani during his stint as Donald Trump's personal lawyer alleges in court papers that the former New York City mayor coerced …

Trump claimed the Durham probe would uncover the ‘crime of the century.’ Here's what it really found  —  An investigation into the origins of the FBI's probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign has finally been concluded, with the prosecutor leading …

Intensifying debt talks threaten rare GOP unity  —  The House's bill is the ceiling for conservative priorities on a debt deal, and Senate Republicans are hoping their lower chamber colleagues will show some flexibility.  —  House Republicans took a hard line going into high-stakes debt negotiations with President Joe Biden.

Cable News Ratings Friday May 12: CNN Prime Time Viewership Drops Below Newsmax  —  CNN prime time dropped on Friday to 335,000 average total viewers from 8 to 11 p.m, coming below right-wing channel Newsmax, which scored 357,000 average prime time viewers.  —  The ratings-beleaguered network landed …

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower claims is ‘clearly retaliatory’  —  WASHINGTON — The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower …

DeSantis's celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism  —  When Ron DeSantis defended Daniel Penny, the former Marine accused of killing a man suffering from mental illness on a New York City subway, the Florida governor didn't just laud Penny as a hero.

GOP rejected White House effort to close tax loopholes in debt ceiling talks  —  Negotiations are stuck and time is running out, but Republicans have signaled that there cannot be any new tax increases as part of a budget deal.  —  The White House recently gave congressional Republican leadership …

Scoop: Inside the Biden split with NY Mayor Eric Adams  —  New York Mayor Eric Adams, the highest profile Black mayor in the country, has gotten so crossways with the White House that he was dropped from Biden's 2024 campaign advisory board before it was announced last week.

Elon Musk subpoenaed in Jeffrey Epstein litigation in U.S. Virgin Islands  —  The U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk for documents in its lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) of helping enable sexual abuses by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Staff Members Attacked With Bat at Congressman's Virginia Office  —  Two people were hospitalized after the attack at the Fairfax office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat, and someone was in custody, the police said.  —  A person armed with a baseball bat attacked two congressional staff members …

Inside Tucker Carlson's Battle to Trade His $20 Million Fox News Salary for a Twitter Show (EXCLUSIVE) … On April 26, Carlson spoke by phone with one of Fox Corp.'s eight board members, who told the host that his recent benching was a condition of Fox News' settlement with Dominion Voting Systems …

12-Year-Old Charged With Murder, Accused of Killing Sonic Employee  —  A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.  —  Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene.

Billionaire investor George Soros' fund dumped its entire Tesla stake in the first quarter - cashing out on the EV's maker's 2023 rebound  — Billionaire investor George Soros' family office dumped its entire stake in Tesla during the first quarter of 2023.

3 People Killed and 6 Injured in New Mexico Shooting  —  The shooter, an 18-year-old, was killed by the police, the authorities said.  Two police officers were among the injured.  —  An 18-year-old gunman fired indiscriminately while roaming a residential street in Farmington, N.M. …

Biden administration may halt plans to move Space Command to Alabama over state's abortion law, officials say  —  Administration officials have signaled to the Pentagon and lawmakers that they want to reverse the decision to move the headquarters from Colorado to Alabama.