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9:40 PM ET, May 17, 2024

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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
‘Political Malpractice’: The Debate Commission Chief Thinks Trump Blew It  —  Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. lets loose on the potentially mortal wound to the Commission on Presidential Debates, and why Biden got the better of Trump.  —  Despite all the talk that Joe Biden killed the Commission …
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Washington Post:
Biden and Trump cut a deal on debates.  Then the fighting started.  —  Inside the ongoing feud over who came out on top when two candidates decided to upend the nation's presidential debate tradition.  —  Less than two hours after President Biden made his move Wednesday to upend …
NBC News:
‘No more games’: Biden rejects additional debates against Trump  —  Both campaigns agreed to two debates this week.  The Biden campaign said it wasn't interested in two additional face-offs that Trump has accepted.  —  President Joe Biden's campaign rejected two additional debates on Friday …
CNN:
Exclusive: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seen physically assaulting Cassie Ventura in 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN  —  A 2016 surveillance video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Sean “Diddy” Combs grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation …
The Daily Beast:
GOP, Dems Round on MTG After Outburst: ‘Her Brand Is Chaos’  —  ‘ABSOLUTELY A RACIST THING’  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Greene mentioning her eyelashes was an attempt to make her look “ghetto,” while even Rep. Lauren Boebert said she was embarrassed by her GOP colleague.
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NBC News:
Body shaming, IQ insults and cross talk: House committee meeting devolves into chaos amid personal insults  —  The hearing was derailed when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., responded to a question from Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, by saying, “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading.”
Cameron Manley / Business Insider:
House committee hearing disrupted as Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC clash over ‘fake eyelashes’ jibe
Olga R. Rodriguez / Associated Press:
Man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years  —  The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Nancy Pelosi asks for “very long” sentence for David DePape, who attacked husband Paul Pelosi with hammer
Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:
Glamorous GOP Rep. Beth Van Duyne breaks her silence on love affair with married Georgia Republican Rich McCormick  — McCormick was seen stroking Van Duyne's arm during the State of the Union  —  By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, POLITICAL REPORTER ON CAPITOL HILL, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and MORGAN PHILLIPS, CONGRESS REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Slate:
Alito's Explanation for the Upside-Down American Flag Honestly Makes It Worse  —  We have known for some time now that the current Supreme Court is not comprised of “conservatives” and “liberals,” or even “jurists” and “reactionaries.”  It has split into those who care about the future …
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NBC News:
Sen. Dick Durbin says Justice Alito should recuse in Trump cases because of upside-down flag  —  Durbin's statement came after a report said an upside-down American flag flew outside Alito's home days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and before Biden's inauguration.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA Rage at Trump's Trial Just Got Darker and More Dangerous  —  In recent days, a parade of Republicans have shown up at the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump faces criminal charges related to the hush-money scheme he concocted to deceive American voters during the 2016 election.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S., Iran held talks this week on avoiding more attacks … - The talks occurred just over a month after Iran's unprecedented missile assault on Israel on April 13.  — The attack put the Middle East on the cusp of a regional war. … - It was the first-ever direct attack on Israel that had been launched from Iranian soil.
Ryan Hernández / NOTUS:
Senior Mike Johnson Staffer Resigns Over Behavioral Complaints … A senior communications staffer in Speaker Mike Johnson's office abruptly resigned this week after he was presented with complaints about his behavior, sources confirmed to NOTUS.  —  Anang Mittal, who was Johnson's head of digital …
Discussion: Breitbart
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
UAW Loses Unionization Vote at Mercedes Factories in Alabama  —  The election, fiercely opposed by the state's political leaders, was seen as a test of the United Automobile Workers' ability to unionize factories in the South.  —  Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa …
Dana Liebelson / Politico:
'A Governor Who Doesn't Seem to Have Much Interest in Governing Arkansas'  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders' increasing number of critics think she's too worried about her national profile.  —  Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders assumed a podium on a recent spring morning in Arkansas …
Discussion: ArkansasTimes and Raw Story
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Media Matters for America:
Trump's corrupt offer to Big Oil executives almost entirely ignored in top local newspapers and TV markets in battleground states  —  Trump's promise to repeal climate action and solicitation of campaign donations from oil executives is vital information for voters
Discussion: Greensboro
 
 
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France riles allies by inviting Russia to D-Day commemoration
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Financial Times:
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Peter Tonguette / Washington Examiner:
The loony language of the Left: Newspeak intended to conceal rather than clarify or explain
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Wokeness Is Dying. We Might Miss It.
Discussion: Althouse
Reagan Reese / The Daily Caller:
Obama World's Fingerprints Are All Over Campus Chaos
The Daily Beast:
SCOTUS Silently Grinds Democracy Into Powder as Trump Distracts America
Reuters:
Insight: Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan
Discussion: New Republic, HotAir and Raw Story
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Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”
 
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