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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 …
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 …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago prosecutors sought records of Trump Organization deals
Discussion: Raw Story
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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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.
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.
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:   Fox Panel Flames DeSantis: ‘Everything About Florida That You Love - DeSantis Inherited’
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida
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.
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.
Discussion: National Review and Althouse
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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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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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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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?
Discussion: The Wrap, Twitchy and The Daily Caller
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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
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.
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.
Discussion: HuffPost and Montana Free Press
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Inside the Garden of Evil  —  Harlan Crow wants to stop talking about Clarence Thomas.  —  When you collect statues of lenin, Harlan Crow told me, “you get to be a bit of a snob.”  The first Lenin I had seen that morning was a brass likeness in the entryway to Crow's Dallas mansion …
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 …
Discussion: New York Post
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.
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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Michael Gartland / New York Daily News:
NYC Council member Vickie Paladino failed to disclose debt on two conflicts-of-interest filings, records show
Andres Picon / Politico:
Chinese citizens sue Florida over law barring them from owning houses
David Smith / The Guardian:
Republican witness faces questions over whether he lied under oath to key panel
Discussion: Alternet.org
Politico:
Biden-McCarthy meeting ends ‘better’ — but with no clear path to deal
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Hostage-Takers Not to Blame for Killing Hostage, Reports New York Times
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Florida Pride events canceled in wake of new laws, ‘unsafe’ climate
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Washington Post:
E.U. slaps Meta with record $1.3 billion fine for data privacy violations
Jonathan Shamir / Haaretz:
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Fox's Latest Hoax
Discussion: The Bulwark, Bulwark+, RedState and Jezebel
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Bob Woodward roasts Trump's ‘everything is mine’ take in ‘unprecedented’ copyright suit: Interview tapes ‘belong to the People’
Discussion: Raw Story
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won't seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state