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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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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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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago prosecutors sought records of Trump Organization deals
Mar-a-Lago prosecutors sought records of Trump Organization deals
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Free Advice for Ron DeSantis: Don't Run for President — The Florida governor is uncomfortable around regular people, hides from the media, and is too skittish to take on Trump. What's the point in running at all? … I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) …
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Semafor and Florida's Voice, more at Mediagazer »
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Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Ronny on the Run — Lessons from a day shadowing a press-any and socially uncomfortable presidential hopeful. — Last week, I made a pre-election year pilgrimage to New Hampshire, where I was able to hit a lobster shack and drive around with Governor Chris Sununu for hours on end.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign could be brief
Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign could be brief
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
DeSantis envisions shaping ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court
DeSantis envisions shaping ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court
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Washington Examiner and Florida Politics
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Fox Panel Flames DeSantis: ‘Everything About Florida That You Love - DeSantis Inherited’
Alex Roarty / Miami Herald:
'We've got a real dilemma': How ‘Never Trump’ Republicans view DeSantis vs Trump
'We've got a real dilemma': How ‘Never Trump’ Republicans view DeSantis vs Trump
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PJ Media, Reuters, The Hill, Fox News, Raw Story, New York Post and Financial Times
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 …
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Axios:
Scoop: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin reconsiders 2024 bid — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is reconsidering a bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, after earlier taking himself out of the race as polls made former President Trump look increasingly formidable, top Republican sources tell Axios.
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Curbed:
How Much Does It Cost to Live Like This? — We asked young New Yorkers about their dream futures. Then we calculated exactly how much each would cost. — You begin shopping for your future the moment you become an adult in New York City. Rich and well-furnished lives are aggressively paraded about.
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National Review and Althouse
Washington Post:
Before-and-after images of the destroyed Ukrainian city of Bakhmut — One year ago, the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, home to some 70,000 people, was known locally for its salt mines and sparkling wine. Today, it is a symbol of Russia's brutal and relentless war.
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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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DC Clothesline, Lawyers, Guns & Money and PBS NewsHour
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Draft Tucker PAC ceases activities after legal threat from Carlson — A recently launched political action committee that sought to push former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to run for president has ceased activities after a legal threat from Carlson's lawyer.
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Mediaite, HuffPost, Washington Times and BizPac Review
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Steve Henson / Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers apologize and invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night — Less than a week after removing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their lineup, the Dodgers on Monday re-invited the organization to Pride Night amid backlash from LGBTQ+ and civil rights groups as well as local politicians and even Dodgers employees.
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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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Politico, Associated Press, HuffPost, Al Jazeera and Mercury News
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
DeSantis's $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida — Governor's incentive scheme recruits officers with history of excessive violence or who have been arrested since signing up — Numerous police officers lured to new jobs in Florida with cash …
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Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Political Wire and The Daily Dot
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.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Texas Is Torturing Women Whose Pregnancies Fail — It's increasingly clear that it's not safe to be pregnant in states with total abortion bans. Since the end of Roe v. Wade, there have been a barrage of gutting stories about women in prohibition states denied care for miscarriages or forced to continue nonviable pregnancies.
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NPR and Center for Reproductive Rights
Amy Beth Hanson / Associated Press:
Montana governor signs law to define ‘sex’ as only male or female — Republican Governor Greg Gianforte has signed a bill defining the word “sex” in state law as only male or female — joining Kansas and Tennessee, which have similar laws that LGBTQ+ advocates argue will deny legal recognition to nonbinary and transgender people.
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HuffPost and Montana Free Press
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
My neighbor lived to be 109. This is what I learned from him. — Early one August morning during a heat wave in Kansas City, Mo., I stepped outside to fetch the Sunday newspaper — and something stopped me in my tracks. — My new neighbor was washing a car.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
In Florida, reproductive care nightmares become tragically common — Ron DeSantis is ready to pitch a “Make America Florida” platform. The public should be clear-eyed about what that would mean on abortion rights. — After the lopsided results in last month's state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin …
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.
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 22, 2023 — Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. — Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Kim Parker / Pew Research Center:
How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward — Journalists, researchers and the public often look at society through the lens of generation, using terms like Millennial or Gen Z to describe groups of similarly aged people. This approach can help readers see themselves …
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Nashville Parents Ask: Must a Mass Shooter's Writings Be Made Public? — The lack of information about what motivated a deadly attack on a Christian school has led to a protracted legal fight over releasing the shooter's handwritten journals. — Barely two months after an armed assailant …
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Reuters:
White House: driver detained after truck crashes into security barriers near residence — US secret service reports no injuries, as the cause of the crash remains under investigation — The driver of a truck has been detained after crashing into security barriers on Lafayette Square …
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CNN, NBC News, New York Times, Metro.co.uk, Reuters, New York Post, CBS News, UPI and The Post Millennial
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Russian Deputy Minister Dies Suddenly After Slamming ‘Fascist Invasion’ of Ukraine — The Russian government offered its “deepest condolences” to his loved ones. — A senior Russian lawmaker who was reportedly critical of the invasion of Ukraine died over the weekend, the Russian government confirmed …
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden investigation: Second IRS whistleblower claims retaliation — A second IRS whistleblower has alleged retaliation for raising concerns that Justice Department leadership was “acting inappropriately” on the investigation into Hunter Biden, the Washington Examiner has learned.
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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 …
Paul Blest / More Perfect Union:
Poll: The Public Overwhelmingly Supports the Writers' Strike — Even 63 percent of Trump voters back the film and television writers on strike. — More than 70 percent of Americans—including a clear majority of Trump supporters—support the Writers Guild of America's ongoing strike for better pay …
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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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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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Bloomberg:
Russian Prime Minister Starts China Visit in Sign of Strong Ties — Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has kicked off a two-day visit to China, as Moscow seeks to deepen trade ties with Beijing amid growing international isolation over its war in Ukraine.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP and TASS
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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Washington Examiner, Breitbart and The Hill
Politico:
Biden-McCarthy meeting ends ‘better’ — but with no clear path to deal — The prospect of a national debt default as soon as June 1 still looms. — Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden ended their one-on-one meeting on Monday still short of a deal to avoid a U.S. debt default that could come as soon as June 1.