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New York Times:
Former Trump Lawyer Describes Conflict Inside Legal Team  —  Timothy Parlatore, who withdrew this past week from representing the former president in the special counsel investigations, said he stepped aside over differences with a Trump adviser, Boris Epshteyn.
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Kaanita Iyer / CNN:
Former key Trump attorney says he left because of legal team infighting  —  Former Donald Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore, who departed the former president's legal team earlier this week, said Saturday he left because of infighting among the group.  —  “It had nothing to do with the case itself …
Discussion: ABC News
David Cohen / Politico:
Former Trump attorney says he left legal team because of infighting
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
GOP rejects White House compromise to limit spending as talks stall  —  Talks broke down on Friday but resumed later that night.  A deadline to raise the borrowing cap is fast approaching.  —  Republican negotiators rejected a White House offer to limit spending next year on both the military …
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Debt ceiling talks break down and attacks escalate as deadline approaches  —  The GOP wants to raise spending for the military, veterans care and border security; the White House wants to spread the impact of cuts across the board.  —  Debt ceiling negotiations deteriorated …
Jason Linkins / New Republic:
The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation  —  Having watched Capitol Hill fall into chaotic convulsions over the debt ceiling a million times before, I've come to the conclusion that the only way to properly negotiate your way through a debt ceiling crisis is to not negotiate at all.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
McCarthy signals debt limit negotiations can't move forward until Biden returns  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) signaled on Saturday that he doesn't think debt limit negotiations can move forward until President Biden returns to Washington.  —  “Unfortunately, the White House moved backwards …
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Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73  —  In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it.  He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father's son.
Nicole Carr / ProPublica:
He Became Convinced the School Board Was Pushing “Transgender Bullshit.”  He Ended Up Arrested — and Emboldened.  —  An image of a shooting target — with two bullet holes to the head and five scattered around the chest — serves as a warning to visitors who climb the brick steps and pass …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
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Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Nebraska passes abortion and transgender treatment bill into law
Gillian McGoldrick / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Doug Mastriano says he'll announce next week if he'll run for U.S. Senate, teasing ‘crazy good news’  —  State Sen. Doug Mastriano plans to make an announcement next week about the decision he has made on whether he will run for U.S. Senate, in what he teased as “crazy good news.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Tensions Flare Inside The Messenger, a Fledgling News Site  —  The company's high-volume approach to digital publishing has led to duplicated stories and alienated some of its journalists.  At least one editor has already resigned.  —  Executives at The Messenger, a news start-up …
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Mike Lofgren / Salon:
The GOP's heart of darkness: Why Ron DeSantis can never beat Donald Trump  —  No Republican can beat Trump, because no one else can command his coalition of damaged, discarded, marginal people  —  In the last few weeks the mainstream media have not only buried the presidential ambitions …
Politico:
Prosecutor connected to Jan. 6 probe takes on lawyer for tech companies in mystery appeals court fight  —  Lawyers for prominent firm WilmerHale were spotted leaving the courthouse Friday after sealed oral arguments in the special counsel-connected matter.  —  A Justice Department attorney …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
David Sims / The Atlantic:
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon Is a Triumph  —  The highly anticipated adaptation of David Grann's book is extraordinary filmmaking—and a big win for Apple TV+.  —  David Grann's nonfiction book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI …
Washington Post:
Man with AR-15-style rifle by bus stop says he wasn't out to terrify kids  —  The man stood in a red Make America Great Again baseball cap pointing his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle toward the sidewalk.  —  An elementary school student ran home crying.  Parents were terrified.  Neighbors called the police.
Susie Blann / Associated Press:
Russia says Wagner private army, with help from Russian troops, seized Bakhmut  —  Russia's defense ministry said early Sunday that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, seized the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.  The ministry statement on the Telegram channel came …
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Institute for the Study of War:   Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 19, 2023
Jason Burke / The Guardian:
Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds  —  Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civilians  —  First came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes around the river outside the village …
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Trump Is Up In The Middle Of The Night Obsessing Over Jack Smith  —  Trump was posting in the middle of the night on Friday/early Saturday about Special Counsel Jack Smith.  —  Trump wrote on Truth Social: … The poll that Trump referred to didn't show him way up on Biden.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Colorado GOP fears it's ceding ground to Democrats  —  Republican worries are growing that Colorado is slipping further into the hands of Democrats after recent defeats and close calls in the most conservative parts of the state.  —  The latest blow to the GOP in the Centennial State came …
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Political Wire
Associated Press:
A look inside the playbook on transgender health bills  —  Aaron and Lacey Jennen's roots in Arkansas run deep.  They've spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family.  So they're heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move …
NAACP:
NAACP Issues Travel Advisory in Florida  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Chyna Fields cfields@naacpnet.org  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida.  The travel advisory comes in direct response …
Discussion: Florida Politics
Ian Ward / Politico:
The Supreme Court Is Hiding Important Decisions From You  —  A new book argues the court is undermining its credibility by rendering so many unsigned and unexplained decisions on its so-called ‘shadow docket.’  —  As the Supreme Court begins to release its written opinions from its most recent term …
Discussion: PBS NewsHour and Raw Story
 
 
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David Axelrod / CNN:
After Barack Obama, America will never be the same
Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells law students ‘Survivor’ offers helpful lessons
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden cried poverty but still flew to his child-support hearing on a private jet for at least $55K
Discussion: Twitchy and The Post Millennial
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema hit with complaint of lavish campaign spending
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Strange alliances emerge in Tennessee as the GOP governor pushes for gun reform
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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