Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam  —  POUGHKEEPSIE - Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.

The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’  —  Ron DeSantis' wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign.  Some of his supporters wonder if that's an entirely good thing.  —  Casey DeSantis plays an uncommonly pivotal role …

D.C. police lieutenant indicted with tipping off Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio about arrest  —  After Jan. 6, Lt. Shane Lamond said he supported the group and didn't “want to see your group's name or reputation dragged through the mud,” an indictment alleged.  —  WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan …

Georgia Prosecutor Signals August Timetable for Charges in Trump Inquiry  —  The Fulton County district attorney said most of her staff would work remotely at times, and asked judges not to schedule trials, in the first half of August.  —  The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation …

The short life of Baby Milo  —  Nobody expected Baby Milo to live for long.  —  He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours.  —  He lived for 99 minutes.  —  Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3.

Trump Ally Could Face Perjury Charge if He Doesn't Cooperate With D.A.  —  After bringing charges against former President Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan district attorney's office is once again investigating Allen H. Weisselberg, 75.  —  One of Donald J. Trump's longtime lieutenants …

Republican Debt-Ceiling Negotiators Walk Out of Meeting, Say White House ‘Unreasonable’  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's top debt-ceiling negotiators abruptly left a closed-door meeting with White House representatives soon after it began Friday morning.  —  “Look, they're just unreasonable …

FBI Whistleblowers Admit Taking Money From Ex-Trump Official  —  GRILLED  —  Two former FBI employees acting as so-called whistleblowers about the federal government's unfair persecution of conservatives on Thursday admitted that they had received money from a former adviser to Donald Trump.

Greece Says It Doesn't Ditch Migrants at Sea.  It Was Caught in the Act.  —  Video evidence shows asylum seekers, among them young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard.  —  The asylum seekers had already hopscotched countries for years to escape war in the Horn of Africa.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth  —  In the run-up to the expiration of covid-19 restrictions on those seeking asylum, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly predicted that our country would be overrun by migrant hordes from the south.

White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled  —  Some correspondents think it could prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president on future overseas tours  —  Every traveler dreads a sudden flight cancellation.  But few travelers have been stuck …

Top DeSantis adviser has charted a lucrative path in GOP  —  Jeff Roe and his firm, Axiom Strategies, have guided thousands of campaigns and raked in hundreds of millions of dollars  —  Last year, the political consultant now leading a super PAC dedicated to helping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …

Why top Trump allies like Roger Stone are using apocalyptic religious rhetoric  —  “My sense is [Stone] has recognized how important this sector of Christianity is for the ongoing radicalized Trump base,” says Christian scholar.  —  Roger Stone has been in and out of Donald Trump's orbit for more than four decades.

I-Team: Parents concerned about man with assault rifle at school bus stop  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  —  Parents are concerned about a man who is regularly spotted carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at a school bus stop in Severn.  —  Jamie Sparrow, a Severn Elementary School parent …

Disney cancels plans for $1 billion campus, 2,000 jobs in Florida  —  Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in central Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees, according to an e-mail to employees on Thursday, against the backdrop …

Ted Cruz Launches Senate Probe Into Bud Light's Ad With Dylan Mulvaney  —  The Texas Republican demanded the beer industry investigate on its own — or have Anheuser-Busch apologize for the alleged Mulvaney infraction.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week opened a Senate investigation …

Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas  —  Mark L. Wolf has spent his career fighting against corruption and for the rule of law — as a public corruption prosecutor, as a federal judge, as a crusader against international kleptocracy.  For that, at a hearing on judicial ethics …

Why Dianne Feinstein Shouldn't Quit  —  The news of ailing Senator Dianne Feinstein's return to Washington this week crackled through Capitol Hill aides' messaging apps, journalists' note-trading clouds, and donors' inboxes.  The oldest member of the Senate had come back to work …

Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn't Bothered to Prepare  —  After 2020, reformers vowed to erect guardrails against a rogue chief executive.  They ran into a wall of complacency, partisanship and distraction.  —  Two months before the 2020 elections, Jack Goldsmith …

ABC News Hires The Economist's G. Elliott Morris To Lead Data Analytics Team, Oversee FiveThirtyEight After Nate Silver Exit  —  EXCLUSIVE: ABC News is hiring The Economist's G. Elliott Morris to be the editorial director of data analytics for the news division, a post that also oversees FiveThirtyEight.

Fox News's ‘vitriolic lies’ present clear threat to US democracy, says woman suing rightwing network  —  Exclusive: disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who is suing over campaign of falsehoods, says 'if Fox isn't brought to account, it will not stop'  —  The woman suing Rupert Murdoch's Fox News …

Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study  —  Groundbreaking analysis by One Earth is first to quantify economic burden caused by individual companies  —  The world's top fossil fuel companies owe at least $209bn in annual climate reparations to compensate communities …

‘Big step’: U.S. joins major effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s, other jets  —  Officials hope to begin instruction in the coming weeks.  —  The U.S. will support a joint international effort to train Ukrainian pilots on modern fighter aircraft, including F-16s, President Joe Biden informed G-7 leaders on Friday in Japan.

FEC complaint calls for federal probe of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema spending  —  PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — A complaint filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission asks regulators to open a formal investigation into campaign spending by Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

U.S. officials walk back claim drone strike killed senior al-Qaeda leader  —  The acknowledgement comes as terrorism experts and the dead man's family have cast doubt on a Pentagon statement indicating the operation targeted a high-ranking militant in Syria  —  QORQANYA, Syria …

The Return of the Emerging Democratic Majority?  —  After all, last November, Joe Biden was a historically unpopular president presiding over exceptionally high inflation.  Polls showed widespread disapproval of the Democratic administration in general and its economic management in particular.

World watches in disbelief and horror as U.S. nears possible default  —  Most nations don't have a fixed debt ceiling.  But Washington's fight over raising the cap carries global implications.  —  Gathered last weekend at the Toki Messe convention center and Hotel Okura in Niigata, Japan …