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8:30 PM ET, May 16, 2022

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Melissa Chan / NBC News:
New York's red flag law should have helped thwart the Buffalo mass shooting.  What went wrong?  —  Less than a year after a white teenager in upstate New York was investigated for making a threatening statement at school, he legally purchased a firearm, which he is accused of using to gun …
Discussion: New York Times, ABC News and The Root
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Washington Post:
Only 22 saw the Buffalo shooting live.  Millions have seen it since.  —  Tech companies have vowed to remove killers' first-person footage of massacres.  But extremists and the morbidly curious have used the Internet to ensure a video of haunting brutality stays online.
Washington Post:
Store guard confronted Buffalo suspect during March visit, online account says  —  Two months before Payton Gendron allegedly killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, he was confronted by a security guard at the store during a trip on which he compiled detailed plans of the location …
Andrew Pantazi / The Tributary:
Florida judge orders officials to use new congressional redistricting map  —  A Tallahassee judge has ordered Florida elections officials to begin using a new court-ordered congressional redistricting map, lifting an automatic stay that had halted his order when the state appealed last week.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jordan Highsmith / wtsp.com:
Gov. DeSantis signs law making picketing, protesting outside a person's home illegal
Discussion: Associated Press and WFLA-TV
Herb Scribner / Axios:
DeSantis signs law banning protests outside private homes
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?  —  The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months.  —  A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body's defenses …
Discussion: HotAir
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness  —  Nothing gets Republicans like Rep. Elise Stefanik angrier than reciting their own words back to them at a politically inconvenient moment.  So it is that the New York lawmaker is lashing out at critics who have noted …
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Bloomberg:
Musk Says Twitter Deal at Lower Price Is ‘Not Out of the Question’  —  Elon Musk stoked speculation that he could seek to renegotiate his takeover of Twitter Inc., saying a viable deal at a lower price wouldn't be “out of the question.”  —  Twitter shares briefly pared losses in afternoon trading.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Like Throwing Money Down a Hole’: Kara Swisher Breaks Down Elon Musk's Chaotic Bid to Take Over Twitter  —  Kara Swisher thinks — well, knows — that Elon Musk is having second thoughts about buying Twitter for $44 billion.  —  “He has to be.  This price is too high,” she told me on the latest episode of The Interview.
Washington Post:
How Trump's pact with the Club for Growth turned into a grudge match  —  The influential GOP group is challenging Trump's picks in key Senate races amid competing claims to the MAGA mantle  —  David McIntosh, head of the influential conservative group the Club for Growth, used to fly on Air Force One …
Discussion: New York Times
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Kathy Barnette Refuses to Support GOP Nominee for Senate if It Is Not Her
Briar Napier / Oil City News:
Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologizes after ‘two sexes’ comment evokes jeers, boos at UW commencement  —  A University of Wyoming commencement speaker has apologized after a controversial statement she made in reference to sex and gender Saturday evoked jeers by some in attendance.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:   Cynthia Lummis Booed For ‘Two Sexes’ Claim During Commencement Speech
Abbott / PR Newswire:
Abbott Enters into Consent Decree with U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Sturgis, Mich., Plant; Agreement Creates Pathway to Reopen Facility  — After FDA approval, Abbott could restart the site within two weeks; from the time of restart it would take six to eight weeks before product is available on shelves
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Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources  —  President helping determine movement of Russian soldiers, say sources, as head of UK armed forces says Ukraine is winning  —  Vladimir Putin has become so personally involved in the Ukraine war …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Court's Redistricting Plan Erases Democratic House Gains in New York  —  The lines drawn by a court-appointed special master would increase competition for seats in Congress, in a blow to national Democrats.  —  New York's courts unveiled a slate of congressional districts on Monday …
Discussion: New York Post and TheBlaze
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Associated Press:
White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba and lift Donald Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and ABC News
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Federal Election Commission deadlocks, won't punish Trump  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has decided not to take action against former President Donald Trump after commissioners deadlocked over whether his campaign broke the law by masking how it was spending cash during the 2020 campaign.
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Insider:   Trump's campaign committee dodges penalty as federal watchdog deadlocks on complaint it laundered hundreds of millions of dollars
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Ben Bernanke Sees ‘Stagflation’ Ahead  —  The former chairman of the Federal Reserve has a new book out on Tuesday explaining the powers of the Fed and Congress to juice or slow our economy amid a supply-chain crunch and sky-high demand.  —  Standing in his kitchen one morning in Washington …
Carron J. Phillips / Deadspin:
White fans were entertained by Black athletes a day after a racist killed Black people in Buffalo — this is what white supremacy looks like  —  You can be sure that Jayson Tatum and Chris Paul have more than Game 7 wins and losses on their mind after this weekend  —  Sports only serve as an escape from society if you're white.
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Turkey says it will not approve Sweden and Finland joining Nato  —  Turkey's justice ministry said it objected on grounds that the two countries had failed to respond positively to extradition requests  —  Turkey has said it will not approve Sweden and Finland joining it as Nato members …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Doug Mastriano aide who blocked press at campaign event was at Capitol on Jan. 6  —  WASHINGTON — A staffer with Doug Mastriano's Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign who helped block media access to an event over the weekend was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, where he appeared to smile …
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Strikes Down California Law Mandating Women on Boards  —  Decision follows a similar ruling last month on a separate law requiring racial or ethnic diversity on boards  —  A state judge struck down a California law requiring companies in the state put female directors on their boards …
Discussion: KTLA and The Daily Caller
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Brian Melley / Associated Press:
Judge: California's women on boards law is unconstitutional
Discussion: The Root and CBS News
Jackson Richman / Mediaite:
WHCA Threatens Reporter Who Interrupted Psaki Briefing With Possible Expulsion in Scathing Email  —  A reporter who interrupted Friday's White House press briefing has been threatened with suspension or expulsion from the White House Correspondents Association were he to do the same again.
Fox News:
Jury selected in Durham-Sussmann trial: Opening arguments, testimony from Democratic lawyer Marc Elias to come  —  Sussmann is charged with making a false statement to the FBI and has pleaded not guilty  —  Trey Gowdy: Sussmann trial about ‘duped’ FBI protecting its brand
Discussion: HotAir and New York Post
New York Times:
Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Several Hundred Ground Forces Into Somalia  —  The president also signed off on targeting about a dozen Shabab leaders in the war-torn country, from which Donald J. Trump largely withdrew in his final weeks in office.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden has signed …
Orange County Register:
Laguna Woods church shooter was motived by hate of Taiwan, sheriff says  —  The man accused of killing one and injuring four others with gunfire inside a Laguna Woods church on Sunday while a Taiwanese Presbyterian group was meeting was motivated by tensions between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan …
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
As N.Y.C. approaches the high alert level for the virus, the city recommends but doesn't mandate masks.  —  City health officials urged New Yorkers to wear medical masks indoors and to take other precautions.  —  Citing high community transmission and rising hospitalizations from a fifth wave …
Quartz:
Miami's mayor backed MiamiCoin crypto—then its price dropped 95%  —  On Feb. 2, the city of Miami cashed out its cryptocurrency MiamiCoin for the first time, depositing $5.25 million into city coffers.  Miami mayor Francis Suarez hailed it as a “historic moment” and predicted the cryptocurrency …
Washington Free Beacon:
Leaker, Liar, Turncoat, Nut Job  —  No Books.  No Money.  Just the Truth.  That's the title of the meandering Substack post Steve Schmidt threw up last week at the tail end of a two-day Twitter bender.  In that time, he didn't take more than an hour away from the keyboard …
 
 
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Watchdog report scrutinizes GOP lawmaker's claim that he was targeted by Capitol Police
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Lee / Fox News:
Jean-Pierre highlights her background as a ‘black, gay, immigrant’ woman in first briefing as press secretary
CNN:
Sentencing is delayed for Gaetz ally who continues to cooperate with prosecutors
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
Ferdinand Marcos Jr urged to stop pretending he has an Oxford degree
Sarah Posner / Talking Points Memo:
How Christian Nationalism And The Big Lie Fused To Fuel Doug Mastriano's Candidacy
Reuters:
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve drops to lowest level since 1987
Discussion: Twitchy
Stan Dorn / Families Usa:
Unless Congress Acts, Health Care Costs Will Soon Skyrocket for People Who Buy Their Own Insurance
Discussion: Insider and HuffPost
 Earlier Items: 
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
GOP candidates unleash wave of ads targeting transgender rights
National Review:
Madison Cawthorn Doesn't Belong in Congress
Discussion: Insider and Wall Street Journal
Charles R. Kesler / Claremont Review of Books:
The Supreme Court Leak
Discussion: Townhall
JONATHAN TURLEY:
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Washington Post:
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Discussion: Althouse
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court just made it much easier to bribe a member of Congress
Gizmodo:
We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's How Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash.