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7:05 AM ET, May 23, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Says U.S. Would Intervene Militarily if China Invaded Taiwan  —  'That's the commitment we made,' president says in Tokyo  —  TOKYO—President Biden said the U.S. would get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China tries to take it by force, issuing a stark warning to Beijing …
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New York Times:
Biden Says U.S. Military Would Defend Taiwan if China Invaded  —  TOKYO — President Biden indicated on Monday that he would use military force to defend Taiwan if it were ever attacked by China, dispensing with the “strategic ambiguity” traditionally favored by American presidents and repeating …
Discussion: Fortune and The Guardian
New York Times:
Biden to Begin New Asia-Pacific Economic Bloc With a Dozen Allies
Discussion: Financial Times and Kyodo News+
CNN:
Biden says US willing to respond ‘militarily’ in event of Chinese attack on Taiwan
Russell Moore / Christianity Today:
This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse  —  The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined.  —  They were right.  I was wrong to call sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) a crisis.  Crisis is too small a word.  It is an apocalypse.
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says  —  Among the findings was a previously unknown case of a pastor who was credibly accused of assaulting a woman a month after leaving the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention
Houston Chronicle:
Bombshell 400-page report finds Southern Baptist leaders routinely silenced sexual abuse survivors  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  For 20 years, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention — including a former president now accused of sexual assault …
New York Times:
Kushner's and Mnuchin's Quick Pivots to Business With the Gulf  —  Weeks before the Trump administration ended, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin met with future investors on official trips to the Middle East.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Shortly before the 2020 election …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
New York Times:
Democrats See Headwinds in Georgia, and Everywhere Else  —  Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, viewed as strong candidates by their party, will be running against President Biden's low ratings as well as their G.O.P. rivals.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Man Fatally Shot on Manhattan Subway in Unprovoked Attack  —  Riders scrambled for safety when a gunman fired a shot on a Q train in Lower Manhattan on Sunday, killing Daniel Enriquez, 48.  The gunman fled into the streets.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Pence, Tiptoeing Away From Trump, Lays Groundwork for '24 Run  —  The former vice president is part of a group of Republicans who have visited early nominating states as they weigh a challenge to their party's most dominant force.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Washington Post:
Inside the Republican push to stop Trump's ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia
Washington Post:
A grasp at diplomacy as fighting grinds on in Ukraine  —  The Polish president addresses Ukraine's parliament, calling on Russia to withdraw.  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the path to ending the war with Russia would require diplomacy and an international agreement …
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Uliana Pavlova / CNN:   Russian officer reveals why he risked it all to quit Putin's war
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Weighs Deploying Special Forces to Guard Kyiv Embassy
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Wire
New York Times:
The Ransom: A Look Under the Hood  —  Thousands of pages of original documents, and hundreds of books and articles.  Here are the historians and researchers on which the Haiti project drew.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  This series was the work of four reporters and more than a dozen researchers.
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New York Times:   The Root of Haiti's Misery: Reparations to Enslavers
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump  —  Part personal chronicle and part political journey, the book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news  —  In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick …
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon seizes foreign reporter's phone during official travel  —  The Pentagon seized a foreign reporter's phone and would not allow them to use their electronics while traveling with the Defense Department's No. 2 official on Sunday, according to a person on the trip and an email viewed by POLITICO.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Biden redeployed troops to Somalia.  Could Afghanistan someday be next?  —  President Joe Biden campaigned on ending the “forever wars,” and while he lived up to that promise by withdrawing from Afghanistan last August, he may have done the opposite with the redeployment of troops to Somalia.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Reuters:
Houthi top official says group not against extending truce in Yemen  —  The head of Yemen's Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, on Sunday said the group was not against extending a U.N.-brokered truce, despite describing it as “not encouraging enough”.
Wall Street Journal:
Why Is the FDA Seizing Baby Formula During a Baby Formula Shortage?  —  With trusted sellers shut down, parents are being driven to untested suppliers.  —  1x  —  Hundreds of thousands of parents in the U.S. are scrambling to find formula for their babies, and President Biden has invoked …
Discussion: New York Post
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