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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates ‘radioactive’ — During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Republican party campaign strategist Rick Wilson said Democrats have their work cut out for them in the 2024 election cycle …
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Newsbusters
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Madison Fernandez / Politico:
Five numbers to know ahead of Tuesday's big elections
Five numbers to know ahead of Tuesday's big elections
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Digby's Hullabaloo and The Hill
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 …
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Insider, The Hill, Joe.My.God., Mediaite and Raw Story
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, Fox News, 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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New Republic, 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, National Review, The Hill, Bloomberg, CNN, Washington Examiner and NBC News
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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LGBTQ Nation, The Guardian, Joe.My.God., 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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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 Raw Story
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Alternet.org, Insider and Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal:
Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs — After the Cash App founder died in a stabbing, some were quick to blame San Francisco's street violence. The truth was more shocking. — SAN FRANCISCO—In certain wealthy tech circles it is known as …
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One America News Network, The Post Millennial, The Gateway Pundit, KRON4 and New York Post
Matthew Foldi / The Spectator World:
Scoop: sitting congressman running for Senate threatened to ‘execute’ delivery worker — Newly-minted Maryland Senate candidate David Trone threatened to “execute” a delivery worker at one of his business locations in Tempe, Arizona, according to a police report exclusively obtained by The Spectator.
Fola Akinnibi / Bloomberg:
Eric Adams Is Starving New York City's Universal Pre-K Program — One of America's most ambitious child-care experiments is playing out, in part, at a public-housing complex at the far end of Manhattan's East Village. Tucked behind one of the 13 brick towers that make up the Jacob Riis Houses …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Alabama's bid to use lethal injection against inmate's wishes — Alabama officials sought to execute death row inmate Kenneth Smith by lethal injection despite his preference for lethal gas. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Alabama's bid to execute …
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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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Public Notice:
Why Smartmatic's case against Fox News is even stronger than Dominion's — There are reasons Smartmatic is seeking a tidy $2.7 billion. — ∙ Paid … Last month, Fox News agreed to pay an eye-popping $787.5 million sum to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems.
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Joe.My.God.
Silvia Foster-Frau / Washington Post:
In Black-led Compton, a Latino majority fights for political power — The city known for its Black culture has flipped majority Latino, but its leadership remains all Black. A group of Latino vaqueros want to change that. — COMPTON, Calif. — The riders on horseback clopped past corner stores …
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Open To Stricter Work Requirements For Federal Aid — Biden ruled out cutting Medicaid benefits, but not changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. — President Joe Biden on Sunday suggested he'd be willing to accept stricter limits on federal food benefits for unemployed Americans.
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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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 …
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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Bradley Devlin / The American Conservative:
The Ratcatcher — In an exclusive interview with The American Conservative, Florida's Ron DeSantis explains his war with Disney for the soul and sovereignty of America. — “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that is all.” — For the past fourteen months …
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Washington Post, Politico and The Guardian
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Cancer Surgeon and Patient Is Biden's Pick to Lead N.I.H. — President Biden said on Monday that he had selected Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, who has led the National Cancer Institute since October, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
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The White House, Bloomberg, Politico and STAT
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.