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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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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
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 …
Politico:
Playbook: A surprisingly positive debt-limit vibe check — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — DEMOCRACY ABROAD — Latest in Turkey, via AP: “Turkish President RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, who has ruled his country with an increasingly firm grip for 20 years …
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Punchbowl News
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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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LGBTQ Nation, 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
Nail-Biter Turkish Election Heads for Round 2 as Majority Eludes Erdogan
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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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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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Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones:
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz
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
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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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 …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates ‘radioactive’
Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates ‘radioactive’
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Newsbusters
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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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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Politico:
Dems' great hope to hold the Senate: GOP primary implosions — Despite Republicans' new strategy, Democrats are looking for “extreme candidates” to come out of Senate GOP primaries and give them a leg up in an otherwise bleak electoral map. — Most Democrats stay quiet about GOP primaries …
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Raw Story
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 …
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Texas sends more migrants to vice president's house — Texas on Sunday sent more migrants to Vice President Harris's D.C. residence, just days after Title 42 — a pandemic-era rule that allowed officials to quickly expel asylum seekers at the border — ended last week.
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National Review, WJLA-TV, New York Post, Just The News and Fox News
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 …
Associated Press:
Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether South Carolina's congressional districts need to be redrawn because they discriminate against Black voters. The justices said Monday they would review …
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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Talking Points Memo, The Western Journal, Rolling Stone, Occupy Democrats, Political Wire and Washington Press
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