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New York Times:
Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump's Foreign Business Deals Since 2017 — The special counsel scrutinizing the former president's handling of classified documents issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization seeking records related to seven countries. — Federal prosecutors overseeing …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump was warned about retaining classified documents, notes reveal — Exclusive: Unreported warning contained in notes taken by lawyer Evan Corcoran that prosecutors have viewed in recent months — Federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump was put on notice that he could not retain …
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CNN:
Trump's attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs — Donald Trump asked whether he could push back against Justice Department efforts last year to recover any classified documents still in his possession during conversations with his lawyer …
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll Seeks New Damages From Trump for Comments on CNN — The former president's repeated denials that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll “show the depth of his malice” and merit heavy damages, her lawyer wrote. — E. Jean Carroll, who this month won $5 million in damages …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. James Comer Implies Biden Family Probe Is Really About Helping Trump In 2024 — Oops! — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday inadvertently implied that House Republicans' high-profile investigation into President Joe Biden's family members and their finances is actually about helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2024.
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Washington Post:
Concerns about Biden's reelection swamped by fear of Trump in swing voter focus groups
Concerns about Biden's reelection swamped by fear of Trump in swing voter focus groups
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt
Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
House GOP chairman links his investigation to Biden's poll numbers
House GOP chairman links his investigation to Biden's poll numbers
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race — Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and his business partner were arrested in 2019, accused by the U.S. government of funneling a Russian oligarch's money into American political campaigns.
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Alex Roarty / Miami Herald:
'We've got a real dilemma': How ‘Never Trump’ Republicans view DeSantis vs Trump — Fergus Cullen is wary of Ron DeSantis' conflict with Disney, dislikes how the governor once used his kids in a campaign ad, and doubts he'd support the Florida Republican's presidential candidacy if it were any other election.
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida
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Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
Trump PAC Has Now Spent More Attacking DeSantis Than Backing GOP Midterm Candidates
Trump PAC Has Now Spent More Attacking DeSantis Than Backing GOP Midterm Candidates
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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral and Briefly Spooked Stocks — A falsified photograph of an explosion near the Pentagon spread widely on social media Monday morning, briefly sending US stocks lower in possibly the first instance of an AI-generated image moving the market.
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Fake image of Pentagon explosion goes viral
Fake image of Pentagon explosion goes viral
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Rebecca Cohen / Insider:
An apparently AI-generated hoax of an explosion at the Pentagon went viral online — and markets briefly dipped
An apparently AI-generated hoax of an explosion at the Pentagon went viral online — and markets briefly dipped
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New York Times:
Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War's Destruction — Drone footage taken by The New York Times captured the scorched buildings, destroyed schools and cratered parks that now define the city in eastern Ukraine. — Photographs and Video by Tyler HicksText by Marc Santora
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Why Bakhmut? It's a Question as Old as War.
Why Bakhmut? It's a Question as Old as War.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
GOP donor denies influence over Clarence Thomas, despite lavish gifts — In an interview with the Atlantic, billionaire Harlan Crow said he didn't see any impropriety in his actions — Harlan Crow, a billionaire and influential Republican donor who has for years lavished gifts …
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Inside the Garden of Evil
Inside the Garden of Evil
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Sen. Tim Scott vows not to overturn the election if he loses — In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, Scott — who announced his presidential bid on Monday — called the U.S. role in Ukraine “essential” and contrasted himself with former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Oracle's Larry Ellison gears up to spend millions to back Tim Scott's 2024 run
Oracle's Larry Ellison gears up to spend millions to back Tim Scott's 2024 run
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Bryce Covert / In These Times:
What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs — Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert's is one of the first. — Lationna Halbert doesn't like pickles. But one day, in July 2022, she was hit with an intense craving as she watched her boss eat one.
The Daily Beast:
Frantic Hunting Mission Erupts After Raid on Russian Town — The Kremlin said it was working to “destroy this sabotage group.” — The Kremlin has launched a “counter-terrorist operation” in Russia's Belgorod region after a pro-Ukrainian group claimed to have stormed and “completely liberated” the border town of Kozinka.
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The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: Murder, kidnapping, brutality charges: These are the cops Ron DeSantis paid to come to Florida — Florida's police recruitment bonus appears to have attracted a certain kind of cop. — In July 2021, the son of a high-ranking New York Police Department (NYPD) …
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
DeSantis's $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida
DeSantis's $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida
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Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can't care for them — Cities are building special shelters for the old, and shelters are hiring trained staff to handle a wave of aging baby boomers — PHOENIX — Beatrice Herron, 73, clutched a flier offering low-cost cable TV …
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Marianne Williamson loses top 2 campaign officials in a matter of days — The campaign director and deputy director for the longshot Democratic presidential candidate quit over the weekend. — The top two campaign officials for longshot Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson resigned over the weekend.
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Deborah Turness / BBC:
Explaining the ‘how’ - the launch of BBC Verify — In the early hours of Wednesday 3 May, video footage emerged showing what appeared to be two drones crashing into a dome of the Kremlin complex in Moscow. But was the video real or fake? Did this “attack” actually happen? And how could we tell?
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Bowman says he will ‘stay as far away’ from Greene as possible — Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he will “stay as far away...as possible” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after a contentious exchange between the two stemming from an encounter outside the Capitol last week.
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Texas Forced This Woman to Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She's Suing — “I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child” — AFTER MULTIPLE MISCARRIAGES, Kiersten Hogan thought she would never be able to carry a pregnancy to term.
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Jonathan Shamir / Haaretz:
No More Arab States Will Normalize Ties With Israel, Netanyahu Gov't ‘Embarrassed’ UAE, Emirati Analyst Warns — ‘My government and the other signatories are embarrassed,’ says policy analyst Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi at Israeli confab hours before UAE ambassador to Israel extends invite to international climate conference
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Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won't seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state — Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Carper's announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Bob Woodward roasts Trump's ‘everything is mine’ take in ‘unprecedented’ copyright suit: Interview tapes ‘belong to the People’ — From George Washington to Joe Biden, U.S. presidents have harnessed the power of the press to reach the populace. Investigative journalist Bob Woodward argues …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Investigated Clinton Foundation Until Trump's Final Days — President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to cast the Clinton Foundation as corrupt. But the yearslong investigation sputtered to its conclusion without charges. — Reporting from Washington
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Dylan Gwinn / Breitbart:
WATCH: ‘That Is Disgusting’: High School Athlete Gives Thumbs Down at Podium After Losing to Trans Runner — A female high school runner let her frustrations be known on Saturday, as she gave a big thumbs down following her loss to a trans athlete. A loss that resulted in her exclusion from the state championships.
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Alliance Defending Freedom:
Michigan State professor forces students to fund personal political group — ADF attorneys represent two college students in federal lawsuit challenging MSU officials — LANSING, Mich. - Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing two college students filed a federal lawsuit Thursday …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Why Can't Progressive Writers Defend the Law? — Rich points to a column by Ezra Klein in the New York Times, in which Klein objects to President Biden taking the “14th Amendment option.” Rich notes that Klein has a practical objection to the idea — namely that “if the administration declares …
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