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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
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 …
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NBC News:
4 New Hampshire Republicans who endorsed Trump 19 days ago are now backing Ron DeSantis  —  The Florida governor rolled out a list of more than 50 endorsements from New Hampshire GOP state legislators ahead of his expected presidential bid.  —  In late April, Juliet Harvey-Bolia …
Matthew Cunningham-Cook / The Lever:
DeSantis Allows Anti-"Woke" Giveaway To Big Wall Street Donors  —  Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been crusading against “woke” investments for allegedly threatening his state employees' retirement funds.  But the most imminent threat …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Steve Clemons / Semafor:   Principals  —  The pro-Ron DeSantis PAC Never Back Down criticized Donald Trump …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
The Worst Part Of The Durham Report Is What's Not In It  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  —  Bill Barr's Trusty Stooge  —  Special Counsel John Durham got spun so many different ways by Bill Barr that by the time he released …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
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 …
Shan Wu / The Daily Beast:
John Durham Owes the American People an Apology for Wasting Their Money
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Trump reacts to Durham report: “The American Public was scammed”
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Faulted for Its Probe of Russian Meddling in 2016 Campaign
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
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 …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Giuliani accused of offering to sell Trump pardons for $2 million each in new lawsuit
Politico:
Centrist Dems are plotting a save-McCarthy strategy for the debt fight  —  If the speaker cuts a deal that alienates conservatives, some Democrats are willing to help save his gavel.  —  Kevin McCarthy faces a clear challenge as he tries to strike a debt limit deal: Any compromise he makes …
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Washington Post:
Liberals grow fearful Biden may reward GOP for weaponizing debt ceiling
Discussion: Roll Call and Politico
Washington Post:
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.
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John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed
Discussion: Raw Story
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Free Daniel Penny
Alex Thompson / Axios:
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and NBC New York
Katy Blakey / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
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.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Kamala Harris Is the Reason Biden Is Running  —  On the menu today: Baseball statisticians throw around the concept of the “replacement level” player — the level of production you could get from a player that would cost you nothing but the league-minimum salary to acquire.
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Reuters:
Biden maintains edge over Trump in 2024 US election -Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: The National, NBC News and HuffPost
Mediaite:
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 …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
13-Year-Olds Charged With Taxi Driver's Murder  —  TRAGIC  —  Three teenage boys have been charged with robbing and killing a taxi driver in New Jersey, authorities said Tuesday.  The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said the three juveniles—aged 13, 13, and 14—were arrested Friday …
Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post:
Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing  —  Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents, sometimes for minor rule violations, a Washington Post investigation found
Elizabeth Wolfe / CNN:
Florida teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie with gay character says she didn't know LGBTQ restriction applied to her class  —  A Florida teacher under a state investigation for showing a Disney movie featuring a gay character said she wasn't aware the state's controversial …
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Bipartisan group calls for investigation into Comer's remarks about missing whistleblower  —  A bipartisan organization is calling for an investigation into Rep. James Comer's (R-Ky.) comments about a missing whistleblower connected to the House GOP's ongoing investigation of President Biden and his family.
Tim Miller / Bulwark+:
Here Comes the “Biden Kill List”  —  JAMES COMER, THE REPUBLICAN WHO CHAIRS the House Oversight Committee, has been widely mocked for claiming during a Sunday interview with not-yet-fired Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo that the “informant” in his committee's investigation of the Biden family's …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
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 …
Samya Kullab / Associated Press:
Russia launches ‘exceptional’ air attack on Kyiv as Europe, China look to exert influence  —  Ukrainian air defenses thwarted an intense Russian air attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, shooting down all 18 missiles aimed at the capital, officials said.  Loud explosions boomed over Kyiv …
Pew Research Center:
Americans' Largely Positive Views of Childhood Vaccines Hold Steady  —  Fewer than half in U.S. rate COVID-19 vaccines as having high health benefits, low risk of side effects  —  Fewer than half in U.S. rate COVID-19 vaccines as having high health benefits, low risk of side effects  —  How we did this
Discussion: Religion News Service and Forbes
Nina Burleigh / New Republic:
Who Is Leonard Leo's Mysterious Dark Money King?  —  A few months before the midterms, with pollsters spewing red wave predictions and post-Roe conservatives planning to force raped children to give birth, a bit of political news added to progressives' gloom.
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
OpenAI CEO wows lawmakers at closed dinner: ‘Fantastic...forthcoming’  — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to an engaged crowd of around 60 lawmakers at a dinner Monday about the advanced artificial technology his company produces and the challenges of regulating it.
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Abortion laws triggered dozens of health complications, new report says  —  The research is an effort to capture an expansive picture of how health care has been affected by abortion bans  —  A new report has identified dozens of examples in which medical providers say pregnant patients received care …
Discussion: The Hill and The Nation
Shefali Luthra / The 19th:
Three GOP-led states are set to vote on new abortion bans today  —  If passed, the new bans — 12-week prohibitions in North Carolina and Nebraska, and a six-week ban in South Carolina — could further erode access to care. … Three states, all with Republican supermajorities …
 
 
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Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
A high-schooler filmed her teacher using the n-word, then got suspended
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Nick Grube / Honolulu Civil Beat:
Former Hawaii Executives Plead Guilty To Sending Illegal Donations To US Sen. Susan Collins
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Bad deal — how did CNN get rolled by Trump?
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care
Nicholas Biase / US Department of Justice:
Chinese National Charged For Conspiring To Provide Materials For The Production Of Ballistic Missiles To Iran In Violation Of U.S. Sanctions
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Michael Warren / The Dispatch:
Pence Allies Launch Super PAC Ahead of White House Bid
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Mayorkas impeachment pressure builds inside the House GOP
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
It Cost Steve Bannon $601,000 to Ignore the Jan. 6 Committee
Sarah Lynch Baldwin / CBS News:
Barack Obama on his relationship with Michelle: “It sure helps to be out of the White House”
Discussion: Insider and The Hill
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
After breaking itself, Congress tries to break the rest of government, too
Tom Hals / Reuters:
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