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8:40 PM ET, May 19, 2023

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Todd / Mid Hudson News:
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.
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Albany Times Union:
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 …
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Hoax alert: tale of homeless vets booted because of immigrants false  —  A news story blaming White House immigration policies for causing more than 20 homeless veterans to be booted from their temporary shelters is now being denounced as an elaborate hoax, with the New York lawmaker …
Phillip Pantuso / Albany Times Union:
Homeless men say they were recruited to pose as displaced vets  —  The men say they were coached by Sharon Toney-Finch to spin a tale of eviction from the Crossroads Hotel  —  POUGHKEEPSIE — Two men currently staying at a homeless shelter in Poughkeepsie said they were among a group …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Homeless Vets Story Eaten Up By Fox News Turns Out to Be Spectacularly False
Joseph Spector / Politico:
Prosecutors looking into false reports of veterans displaced by migrants
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's 14th Amendment message to progressives: It ain't gonna happen  —  The president's advisers fear such a move would trigger a legal battle, undermine global faith in U.S. creditworthiness and damage the economy.  —  Progressive lawmakers renewed their call for President Joe Biden …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Debt Limit Talks Hit Snag as G.O.P. Declares a ‘Pause’
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Finger-Pointing Won't Save Anyone if Default Leads to Economic Collapse
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
White House, GOP resume debt ceiling talks after brief breakdown
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Debt ceiling talks resume after Republicans trigger brief pause
Sascha Pare / LiveScience:
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.  But why?  —  Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a “critical moment of agony” and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
Discussion: BGR
David Weigel / Semafor:
Megan Hunt doesn't want to be your Democratic hero.  She just wants to protect her trans son.  —  The Subject  —  “I don't like you.”  Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt said that to Republicans in March, as she filibustered legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors like her son, Ash Homan.
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy  —  Republican lawmakers in Nebraska, North Carolina and South Carolina all found ways to revive restrictive abortion bans in their states.  —  In the past week, Republican lawmakers across multiple states took aggressive aim at reproductive rights …
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Nebraska passes 12-week abortion, gender-affirming care for minors ban
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others  —  Crime victims, political donors, and potential sources were targeted in digital searches that the FBI says have now been scaled back  —  The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
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 …
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US Department of Justice:
MPD Lieutenant Charged with Obstruction of Justice and False Statements
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
DC Police Intel Chief Was Supplicant To Proud Boys Leader, Prosecutors Say
Discussion: NBC News and Digby's Hullabaloo
Kwame Anthony Appiah / New York Times:
My Husband Flies First Class and Puts Me in Coach.  Is That Fair?  —  The magazine's Ethicist columnist on who deserves what in a marriage. … — Name Withheld  —  From the Ethicist:  —  The institution of marriage has always taken on characteristics of the society in which it arises.
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Rudy Giuliani's raw reaction to sexual assault suit by employee he ‘dated’ was quietly edited, and the truth may be even stranger  —  Two days after a woman filed a salacious lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani of rape, The Gateway Pundit ran the former mayor's raw and “EXCLUSIVE” reaction to her sexual abuse claims.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Guy Trebay / New York Times:
Do Dress Sneakers Belong in the Oval Office?  —  People felt strongly after spotting the hybrid shoe at a meeting with the president.  —  Think of it as a rare instance of cross-aisle consensus or else a sartorial trend gone badly wrong.  But it did not go unnoticed when …
Discussion: The Spectator World
Washington Post:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Liam Stack / New York Times:
A University Fired 2 Employees for Including Their Pronouns in Emails  —  The firings set off a debate at Houghton University, a small Christian institution in western New York, which said its decision was not based only on the pronoun listings.  —  When Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot decided …
Politico:
Georgetown invited Navalny's kid to commencement.  ‘Chaos’ followed.  —  A chorus of students at Georgetown University's foreign service school are lashing out at the administration over a controversial choice of speaker for Saturday's commencement — the daughter of an imprisoned Russian opposition leader.
New York Times:
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 …
Rolling Stone:
Fox News Just Axed Its Investigative Unit, Sources Say  —  More layoffs could still be on the way as the network tries to cut costs following its settlement with Dominion, insiders tell Rolling Stone … “The rank and file journalists are getting let go meanwhile upper management …
NBC News:
U.S. and allies plan to provide Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, official says  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on the U.S. to provide F-16 jets, but U.S. President Joe Biden had so far refused the requests.  —  HIROSHIMA, Japan …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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 …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
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 …
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
NYC hospital employee seen in viral video appearing to take bike from young Black men has receipts showing she rented it, lawyer says  —  Attorney Justin Marino told NBC New York that Sarah Comrie, who he said is six months pregnant, had just finished a 12-hour shift and rented the bike.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The revenge of Chris Christie?  How he could take it to Trump  —  Christie has little shot at winning.  But his clear motivation for taking down Trump, along with his particular talents, could still matter greatly.  —  Say what you will about Chris Christie; he is a smart man.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Senate Candidate ‘Patriot Whistleblower’ Admits to Fabricating Sex Trafficking Story  —  Ryan Dark White, who ran for Congress as “Jon McGreevey,” took pictures of a child he said was being trafficked.  It was a campaign stunt, he now admits.  —  A failed Republican congressional candidate allied …
Discussion: DeadState and Raw Story
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Justice Department wins lawsuit to undo JetBlue, American Airlines partnership in the Northeast  — A federal judge Friday ordered American Airlines and JetBlue Airways to end their partnership in the Northeast.  — The Department of Justice sued to undo the alliance arguing it was anti-competitive.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020.  Then came the criminal charges  —  John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020.  Now he's been found guilty of voter fraud  —  The fight for democracy is supported by
 
 
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Power Line
Lee Brown / New York Post:
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CNN:
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