With this debt limit deal, Congress has beclowned itself  —  With apologies to Peggy Lee: Is that all there is?  —  Late Saturday night, the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced broad outlines of a deal to resolve the debt limit standoff.

‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’ who joins Belarus and Russia, Putin ally promises  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's comment comes amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from Vladimir Putin, whose army is floundering in Ukraine.  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko …

Turkey's lira sinks to fresh record low after Erdogan re-election  — The Turkish lira sank to a record low as incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured his victory in the 2023 presidential election, extending his rule into its third decade in power.  — Erdogan endorses the unconventional view …

New Anti-Gay Law in Uganda Includes Life in Prison as Penalty  —  President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed widespread criticism and signed the legislation, one of the world's most restrictive anti-gay measures.  —  Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya  —  The president of Uganda signed …

Russia issues arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  Moscow — Russia's Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine.  —  In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …

Data analyst explains why Ron DeSantis is in trouble with voters already  —  CNN's data analyst dived into some polling for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to closely examine why the GOP presidential candidate isn't connecting well with voters.  —  DeSantis spent over a month traveling …

Judge postpones showdown over 14th Amendment debt powers  —  Citing the debt limit deal, the Justice Department said a union's lawsuit no longer required urgent action.  —  A federal judge in Boston has postponed a hearing scheduled for this week in a lawsuit that a government workers' union filed …

A half-century later, a congressman visits the site of his father's fatal helicopter crash in Vietnam  —  Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota learned when he was 10 that his biological father had died in the Vietnam War.  His death made Phillips realize “the impact of what we do” in Congress.

Amid Omani visit, Iran's messaging points to transactionalism with west  —  (Photo via Iran's supreme leader's website)  —  The story: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has praised Iran's conservative-dominated parliament for having passed a bill in 2020 that obliges the expansion of the country's nuclear program.

Gov. Ron DeSantis rips debt ceiling deal: We are ‘careening toward bankruptcy’  —  2024 presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the tentative deal on the debt ceiling, his fight for the Oval Office, and his message on Memorial Day.

Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains returned to Georgia: “He's home”  —  Savannah, Ga. — Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment made a desperate retreat as North Korean troops closed in around them.  A wounded 18-year-old Army Pfc. Luther Herschel Story feared his injuries …

What ESPN's Sam Ponder calls ‘fairness’ is plain old bigotry  —  Don't be fooled by the people who screech about “fairness” to cloak their bigotry toward transgender girls and women, the transgender girls and women who have the audacity to want to play sports, in particular.