Story of homeless veterans displaced by migrants was false  —  A claim that veterans were ousted from Hudson Valley lodging as a result of NYC's migrant surge was a tall tale  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  NEWBURGH — Over the past week, a sensational story …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

‘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.

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 …

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.

DC police lieutenant charged with obstruction in Proud Boys probe  —  Prosecutors say he leaked information to then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.  —  A D.C. police lieutenant was arrested and charged Friday with obstruction of justice and making false statements over allegations …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Feinstein's return leaves her party on edge  —  As relieved as Democrats are to have her back, they're loath to openly discuss her condition beyond generic well wishes as her party holds its collective breath.  —  Dianne Feinstein has taken on a noticeably lighter schedule since she came back from California.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 Post-Liberal Authoritarians Want You To Forget That Private Companies Have Rights  —  On Wednesday night, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) took the stage at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and declared—to the astonishment of many who subsequently read the quote online—that …

Chris Sununu Leans Into the White House Race … Chris Sununu is accelerating plans to run for president, with close allies telling The Dispatch the New Hampshire governor wants to seek the Republican nomination and is exploring avenues for mounting a viable 2024 campaign.

The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans  —  On Tuesday, Republicans in North Carolina overrode Gov. Roy Cooper's veto to pass a strict limit on bodily autonomy in the form of a 12-week abortion ban.  —  In addition to this new limit on abortion, the law extends the waiting period …

5/19/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  THE TOP … We have a bunch of news to catch you up on. … Republican negotiators will seek major policy concessions and/or spending cuts in return for a debt hike that runs through the presidential election.

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.

Ted Cruz figures out a way to guzzle new Bud Light headlines  —  One of Sen. Ted Cruz's unusual skills as a politician is his ability to form-fit culture-war fights into the vernacular and processes of government.  Perhaps it's a function of the Texas Republican's college-era debate experience …

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.