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7:15 PM ET, May 31, 2023

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CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House  —  Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document …
Tom LoBianco / The Messenger:
Former Vice President Mike Pence to Launch Campaign for White House Within 2 Weeks (Exclusive)  —  Pence, who is polling in single digits, believes he has a lane with evangelicals in the GOP primaries. … Former Vice President Mike Pence is set to launch his run for the White House against his old boss …
Discussion: Fox News
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Mike Pence is set to launch his presidential campaign next week
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia GOP convention: Mike Pence out, Kari Lake in
Politico:
Tuberville's top military adviser bows out  —  Morgan Murphy says he resigned after a Washington Post story suggested he took credit for the senator's military nomination blockade.  —  Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) national security adviser told POLITICO that he has resigned …
Discussion: al.com and Raw Story
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
There is no defense for Trump's attack on Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany  —  Kayleigh McEnany came under attack by her former boss on Truth Social last night.  His very thin skin was pierced by the former White House press secretary, now a Fox News host and contributor.
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David Weigel / Semafor:
In Iowa, DeSantis saves his toughest Trump hits for the press
Chris Casteel / The Oklahoman:
Oklahoma Supreme Court strikes down two state abortion bans  —  The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down two state laws that ban most abortions because they require a “medical emergency” before a doctor could terminate a pregnancy to save a mother's life.
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Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:   Oklahoma Abortion Laws Struck Down by State Supreme Court
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
As the debt ceiling deal clears its first major hurdle, its conservative opponents begin to admit defeat  —  The News  —  Hard-right Republicans spent much of Tuesday furiously denouncing Washington's new debt ceiling deal as it began moving through Congress, promising to use any means within their reach to derail it.
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New York Times:
Trump White House Aides Subpoenaed in Firing of Election Security Expert  —  The special counsel is scrutinizing the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, who contradicted baseless claims by the former president that the 2020 election was marred by fraud.  —  The special counsel investigating …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Game, set and almost match to Biden on the debt ceiling  —  Republican drama barely dents US president's agenda  —  Shakespeare foretold the tale of America's latest debt-ceiling crisis — full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  The final deal, which will probably be passed this weekend …
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Politico:   How Biden world gets its Shakshuka
Nadine El-Bawab / ABC News:
Tennessee woman gets emergency hysterectomy after doctors deny early abortion care  —  Tennessee's ban went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned.  —  Mayron Hollis said she had just started taking contraceptives when she found out she was pregnant again a few months after giving birth in February 2022.
William Thornton / al.com:
Tommy Tuberville's musician brother ‘compelled to distance’ himself over ‘racial stereotypes, white nationalism’  —  The brother of U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is speaking out on social media, saying he is “compelled to distance” himself from some of the lawmaker's recent statements.
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Jury finds Danny Masterson guilty on 2 counts in rape retrial  —  The “That '70s Show” actor was accused of raping three women.  —  A Los Angeles jury has found former “That '70s Show” actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of forcible rape in a retrial of a case involving three women.
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children's Privacy Law by Keeping Kids' Alexa Voice Recordings Forever and Undermining Parents' Deletion Requests  —  Proposed order to require Amazon to pay $25 million and delete children's data, geolocation data, and other voice recordings
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Says Ring Employees Illegally Surveilled Customers, Failed to Stop Hackers from Taking Control of Users' Cameras
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump's latest policy pitch: A massive birthday party for the nation  —  The former president is proposing a yearlong bash to commemorate 250 years of independence.  —  Donald Trump's latest idea to enshrine American greatness is to throw the country “the most spectacular” birthday bash — one that will last all year.
Alex Henderson / Raw Story:
GOP being crushed in Wisconsin as state ‘shifts leftward’: report  —  Democratic strategists once regarded Wisconsin as a reliably blue state.  Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis lost California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Maine and Florida to Republican George H.W. Bush …
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for ‘Harmful’ Responses After Firing Human Staff  —  “Every single thing Tessa suggested were things that led to the development of my eating disorder.”  —  Chloe Xiang  —  The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) has taken its chatbot called Tessa offline …
Discussion: NPR and The Overspill
New York Times:
Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable.  It Just Got Worse.  —  The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage.  It's part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.  —  Christopher Flavelle, who has long covered the impacts …
NBC News:
‘Trump Bucks’ retailers' websites taken down, days after being exposed for selling bogus currency  —  “Now if they could be arrested and put behind bars!” one buyer said.  —  The companies who appear to have swindled supporters of former President Donald Trump out of tens of thousands …
Discussion: Political Wire
Natasha Lennard / The Intercept:
Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters  —  Part of a brutal crackdown on dissent against the police training facility, the SWAT raid and charges against the protest bail fund are unprecedented.  —  On Wednesday morning, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided …
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
DOJ Sues Jim Justice's Coal Operation Over $5 Million In Unpaid Fines  —  The judgments were related to health, safety and environmental violations.  —  The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the coal empire of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice over $5 million in unpaid fines related …
Robinson Meyer / Heatmap News:
The Real Climate Defeat in the Debt Ceiling Deal  —  At first glance, the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling seems pretty good for the climate.  —  Most importantly, it preserves the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden's flagship climate law.
New York Times:
James Beard Foundation, Whose Awards Honor Chefs, Is Now Investigating Them  —  The group behind “the Oscars of the food world” created a new process to weed out nominees with problematic pasts.  But that process has troubles of its own.  —  In more than 25 years of covering food …
Discussion: KRDO
NBC News:
Pentagon leaders cancel drag show at a Nevada Air Force base  —  The show at Nellis AFB in celebration of Pride Month was approved by Air Force leaders, but Defense Secretary Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Milley said no.  —  Pentagon leaders have stepped in to stop a drag show scheduled …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Project Veritas Sues James O'Keefe for Bullying Staff, Misusing Funds  —  O'Keefe left the right-wing sting org in February after employees accused him of becoming a “power-drunk tyrant.”  —  Right-wing media group Project Veritas is suing its founder James O'Keefe, accusing him of bullying employees …
The White House:
A Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel Into the United States  —  1. On January 11, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to the President a report on the Secretary's investigation into the effect of imports of steel mill articles (steel articles) …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Nikki Haley's husband to deploy with National Guard to Africa as she seeks 2024 GOP nomination  —  Nikki Haley's husband will soon begin a yearlong deployment with the South Carolina Army National Guard to Africa, a mission that will encompass most of the remainder of his wife's campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Mark Scott / Politico:
EU's Breton wants to ‘stress test’ Silicon Valley giants  —  Internal market chief says he'll use California trip to check how social media giants are preparing to comply with EU content rules  —  LULEÅ, Sweden — The European Union's Thierry Breton wants Big Tech to know that he's “the enforcer.”
Discussion: LewRockwell
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘We want dictator Trump’: America First activist publicly calls for ‘Trumpian Reich’  —  Tyler Russell, a Canadian nationalist leader of the America First movement, has called for Donald Trump to be installed as “dictator” in a “Trumpian Reich.”  —  In a clip obtained by Right Wing Watch …
Derek Saul / Forbes:
Anheuser-Busch Stock Enters Bear Territory Amid Anti-Trans Bud Light Backlash  —  Shares of Bud Light's parent company are now down more than 20% in the two months since the beer sent personalized memorabilia to transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a seemingly innocuous marketing …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Suspected Chinese spies, disguised as tourists, attempted to infiltrate Alaskan military bases  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Chinese citizens posing as tourists but suspected of being spies have made several attempts in recent years to gain access to military facilities in this vast state studded …
 
 
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Office of the Texas Governor:
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Fox News attacks Target's support for GLSEN after its parent Fox Corp. bragged about supporting the pro-LGBTQ group
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Paul Elliott Williams / Center for Public Enterprise:
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Washington Post:
11-year-old charged in robberies as D.C. struggles to quell youth violence
Discussion: HotAir
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
US govt sent $1.3 billion to China, Russia for gender equality, cat experiments and Wuhan lab research
Discussion: Washington Times and New York Post
Fox News:
Virginia Gov. Youngkin sending National Guard troops to southern border to aid Texas with migrant crisis
NBC News:
House Oversight chair prepares to hold FBI director in contempt over document in Biden probe
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Mariya Knight / CNN:
Woman who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 defects to Russia
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