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 …

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) …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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?

E.U. slaps Meta with record $1.3 billion fine for data privacy violations  —  Industry representatives argue the ruling creates legal uncertainty for many companies who commonly transfer data across international waters  —  The European Union fined Meta a record $1.3 billion on Monday …