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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 …
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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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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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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.
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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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Fox Panel Flames DeSantis: ‘Everything About Florida That You Love - DeSantis Inherited’
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign could be brief
Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign could be brief
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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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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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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Fox's Latest Hoax
Fox's Latest Hoax
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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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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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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Oracle's Larry Ellison gears up to spend millions to back Tim Scott's 2024 run — Billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is getting ready to spend millions to support Sen. Tim Scott's run for president. — A Republican strategist and fundraiser close to Ellison said the tech executive …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Sen. Tim Scott vows not to overturn the election if he loses
Sen. Tim Scott vows not to overturn the election if he loses
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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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.
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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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 …
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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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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