memeorandum: Colombia Court Rejects Petro's Plan to Delay Royalty Tax Refund (Oscar Medina/Bloomberg)

8:45 AM ET, May 28, 2024

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Dems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden — One adviser to major Democratic donors keeps a running list of reasons Biden could lose. — A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden's reelection prospects …

Discussion: RedState, Fox News and Wall Street Journal

Politico:

Trump trial ends, Biden alarm accelerates — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — FULL-BLOWN ‘FREAKOUT’ — Chris Cadelago, Sally Goldenberg and Elena Schneider take the pulse of top Democratic strategists and elected officials and report that …

Discussion: New York Times and Sun-Sentinel

New York Times:

Eyeing Trump, but on the Fence: How Tuned-Out Voters Could Decide 2024 — Politically disengaged Americans are increasingly Trump-curious, but President Biden has a shot at winning some of them back. Reaching them in a changed media environment will be his challenge.

Discussion: Business Insider

Jonathan Allen / NBC News:

The first Biden-Trump debate of 2024 features new fights between old rivals — Biden has had a consistent playbook and team for preparing for debates, while Trump has taken a far less traditional approach. — WASHINGTON — Four years ago, Joe Biden rehearsed for debates at a lectern in the basement of his Delaware home.

Discussion: Washington Examiner

The Daily Beast:

Trump Just Sold His $10M Jet to One of His Megadonors — JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS — The sale, executed earlier this month, was reportedly worth about $10 million. — After nearly half a billion dollars in legal judgments against him this year, Donald Trump's company opted to offload …

Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story

Nidal Al-Mughrabi / Reuters:

Israeli tanks advance into Rafah's centre despite global outcry — Israeli tanks advanced to the centre of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday, witnesses said, three weeks into a ground offensive in the southern Gaza city that has stirred global condemnation for its continued civilian toll.

Discussion: The National, Semafor, New York Post, Associated Press, Haaretz, The Guardian and Middle East Monitor

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

EXCLUSIVE: Florida educators trained to teach students Christian nationalism — Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities.

Alan Wong / Bloomberg:

Hong Kong Makes First Arrests Under New Local Security Law — Suspects accused of inciting hatred of Beijing on social media — Ex-organizer of Tiananmen crackdown vigil among those arrested — Hong Kong's national security police arrested six people using a new security law for the first time …

Discussion: Fox News and Reuters

Washington Post:

Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators — Trump has waffled on whether the Israel-Gaza war should end. But speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel's right to continue “its war on terror.”

Discussion: The Guardian, Drezner's World, Crooks and Liars, JONATHAN TURLEY, Al Jazeera, Metro.co.uk, Rolling Stone, New York Post, Mediaite, Raw Story, Organized T.Rex and Washington Examiner

Oscar Medina / Bloomberg:

Colombia Court Rejects Petro's Plan to Delay Royalty Tax Refund — Government will repay taxes on royalties to mining companies — Investors are concerned about the nation's fiscal accounts — A top Colombian court rejected the government's request to postpone paying …

Discussion: Reuters

Politico:

North Korean rocket carrying its 2nd spy satellite explodes in mid-air — Monday's failed launch came hours after leaders of South Korea, China and Japan met in Seoul in their first trilateral meeting in more than four years. — A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy …

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New York Times:

Trump Leans Into an Outlaw Image as His Criminal Trial Concludes — Preparing for a potential verdict in Manhattan, the former president has increasingly aligned himself with fellow defendants and people convicted of crimes. — Over the past week, Donald J. Trump rallied alongside …

Discussion: Punchbowl News

Barak Ravid / Axios:

White House assessing if Israel violated “red line” with Rafah strike — The Biden administration is still assessing whether an Israeli strike that killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians at a tent camp in Rafah on Sunday is a violation of President Biden's “red line,” two U.S. officials told Axios.

Discussion: Bloomberg, USA Today, BBC, The Times of Israel, One America News Network, Politico, Fox News, Washington Examiner, RedState and RTÉ

Brittany Gibson / Politico:

Republicans irked that Herschel Walker is sitting on millions in unspent campaign funds — They say his money could go a long way to help the GOP. — Few are clamoring for Herschel Walker's return to politics since he flamed out in his Georgia Senate bid nearly two years ago.