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12:15 PM ET, May 23, 2023

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Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Driver arrested and Nazi flag seized after truck crashes into security barriers near the White House  —  The driver of the U-Haul truck faces multiple charges after the Monday night incident, which the Secret Service said may have been intentional.  —  A driver was arrested and a Nazi flag …
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Nathan Howard / Reuters:
Driver detained as truck crashes near White House; Nazi flag found  —  The U.S. Secret Service said it had detained the driver of a rented box truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night, perhaps intentionally, but that there were no injuries or ongoing danger.
CNN:
U-Haul driver faces multiple charges after crashing into a security barrier near White House in Lafayette Square, police say  —  The driver of a U-Haul who crashed into a security barrier in Lafayette Square near the White House Monday night was arrested on multiple charges …
Troy Pope / wusa9.com:
U-Haul truck smashes into security barrier near White House, driver arrested
Washington Post:
GOP extortion has backed Biden into a corner.  He still has a way out.  —  As America hurtles toward default on its debts and the subsequent economic cataclysm, it's looking as if President Biden is running out of options.  He still has a way out — remaining prepared to invoke the 14th Amendment …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight
Joe Duhownik / Courthouse News Service:
Kari Lake loses election challenge  —  A county judge says Lake provided no evidence that mail-in ballot signature verification wasn't conducted during the 2020 Arizona General Election.  —  MESA, Ariz. (CN) — Katie Hobbs is rightfully Arizona's 24th governor, a county judge ruled for the second time Monday.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Reality is an endlessly useful political opponent
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
As funds run short, Treasury asks agencies if payments can be made later  —  Senior Biden aides are rummaging through the nation's books, looking for new ways to conserve cash while Washington battles over the debt ceiling  —  The Treasury Department has asked federal agencies whether …
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
DeSantis envisions shaping ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court  —  The Florida governor suggested that Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, John G. Roberts Jr. and Sonia Sotomayor could all retire over the next two presidential terms  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis previewed …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Here's How Bad CNN's Post-Trump Town Hall Ratings Have Been  —  This reporting is featured in this week's edition of Confider, The Daily Beast's media newsletter.  Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.  —  More than a week after CNN's disastrous town hall …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Florida school bans poem read at Biden inauguration after objection of just one parent  —  The poem that was read by poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration has been banned from elementary schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida after the objections of just one parent.
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Sommer Brugal / Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade K-8 bars elementary students from 4 library titles following parent complaint
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The looming existential crisis for cable news  —  The number of cable subscribers, dropping for years, just took a record-breaking plunge.  Sooner or later, it will hurt news channels' bottom line.  —  After a week of promotion and controversy, CNN staged a live town hall telecast …
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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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.
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Sex Abuse in Catholic Church: Over 1,900 Minors Abused in Illinois, State Says  —  A new report by the attorney general of Illinois covering decades names more than 450 credibly accused sexual abusers, including priests and lay religious brothers.  —  The Latest
Discussion: MyStateline.com
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
7 news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways  —  Political journalism is in crisis.  Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets that specialize in political news have substantially cut staffing and coverage.
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Extends Evan Gershkovich's Pretrial Detention by Three Months  —  WSJ reporter was detained on March 29 while on a reporting trip in the Urals  —  A Russian court extended until at least Aug. 30 the pretrial detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …
Discussion: Semafor and TASS
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
House GOP auctions off McCarthy's used chapstick as debt talks intensify  —  The fundraiser, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) won with a $100,000 bid, is set to benefit Republicans' campaign arm.  —  House Republicans are bidding for steep spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Charlie Kirk's ‘Turning Point’ Pivots to Christian Nationalism  —  The organization founded to promote the free market sure is spending a lot of time promoting attacks on the separation of church and state … Its mission, as recorded with the IRS since 2012, is to enlighten students about …
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 …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
How Vivek Ramaswamy helped make Martin Shkreli the ‘pharma bro’  —  Ramaswamy's hedge fund firm invested with the since-infamous Shkreli.  Later, he would say he was “pathologically incapable of telling the truth.”  —  Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate who made a fortune in biotech …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump Organization finishes last in brand reputation survey for second straight year  —  The Trump Organization, the company led by former President Trump and his family, finished last in an Axios Harris survey of brand reputations for the second year in a row.
Discussion: 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
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.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Family of Man Shot Dead by Cops After Calling 911 Gets Record $19M Settlement  —  Christian Glass, 22, died in the front seat of his car last year after calling cops in the midst of a mental health crisis.  —  The family of a man shot dead in the midst of a mental health crisis by a sheriff's deputy …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Mika Westwolf matters  —  In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation in Montana.  Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene.
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Busing of Migrants Has Worked  —  The ire of Democratic mayors and governors would be best directed at the author of this mess, President Biden.  —  B  —  uild the wall" hasn't been a sentiment often heard in South Side Chicago.  —  But someone held a sign calling for the barrier …
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.
Axios:
U.S. lawmakers OK'd more pro-gun bills than safety measures since Uvalde  —  State legislators around the country have passed more laws expanding gun access than they have measures on gun control in the year since the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers day …
Discussion: Deadline and Associated Press
Zach C. Cohen / Bloomberg Government:
Carper Exit Could Pave Way for First Transgender Congress Member  — Lisa Blunt Rochester likely to leave House seat for Senate bid  — First transgender state senator Sarah McBride eyes House run … Sen. Tom Carper's decision not to seek a fifth term has set off a domino effect …
Washington Post:
Hispanic women to introduce bipartisan immigration bill in House  —  The two lawmakers from border areas hope they can reignite a good-faith conversation between the parties on an issue one called ‘the most toxic topic in Congress’  —  A bipartisan duo of Hispanic women are introducing …
American Economic Liberties Project:
The Wall Street Grumble … The American Economic Liberties Project has been tracking the number of editorials, op-eds, and letters to the editor published in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that raise concerns about the antitrust enforcement record of FTC Chair Lina Khan.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
Why Don't Americans Recognize that Inflation is Down and Incomes Are Up?
Discussion: New York Times
Drew Hawkins / The Guardian:
Republican John Kennedy: southern plain-talk or Foghorn Leghorn shtick?
Rachel Aviv / New Yorker:
The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape
Robert Reich:
How DeSantis and other GOP lawmakers are killing LGBTQ young people
Audrey Decker / Defense One:
Air Force Working Closely with New-Jet Designers, Secretary Says
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Democrats sue W.Va. Gov. Justice over refusal to disclose work schedule
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Former Rep. Suozzi looks to reclaim old House seat, now held by George Santos
Lori Weisberg / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Restaurants near San Diego coast must restore parking displaced by streetside dining
 Earlier Items: 
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
A far bigger problem than book bans? Declining literacy.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Eric Garcia / MSNBC:
There's no hypocrisy in treating Dianne Feinstein and John Fetterman differently
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
The NAACP Says Florida Isn't Safe for Black People. Data Tell a Different Story.
Julie Rovner / NPR:
Abortion bans drive off doctors and close clinics, putting other health care at risk
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Ronny on the Run  —  Lessons from a day shadowing a press-any and socially uncomfortable presidential hopeful.
Discussion: Twitchy
 

 
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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