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Washington Post:
Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says — Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine's military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy losses
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reuters, Alternet.org, The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine, Raw Story and Political Wire
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes — Evidence shows Congressman Paul Gosar's digital director is behind an online persona that Fuentes called one of his “strongest soldiers.” — Nick Fuentes was under attack.
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Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida teacher investigated by state agency for showing Disney movie in class — A Florida teacher is under investigation by the state Department of Education after what she believes is a targeted attack by a school board member who took issue with a Disney movie shown in her classroom.
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Joe.My.God., The Guardian, The Mind Shield, New York Post and Washington Press
NBC News:
As debt default looms, America yawns — Whether it's crisis fatigue or a belief that things will work out at the last minute, Americans have not been pressuring their leaders to solve the debt ceiling. — WASHINGTON — A mass shooting in Allen, Texas, and another in Cleveland, Texas.
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The Western Journal
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight
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Michael W. McConnell / New York Times:
The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense
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Balkinization
Al-Monitor:
Turkey heads to runoff elections between Erdogan, Kilicdaroglu — Incumbent President Erdogan and his top rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu prepare will face each other in the runoff on May 28 after a knife-edge race on Sunday. — ANKARA — Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will face …
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New York Times:
Nail-Biter Turkish Election Heads for Round 2 as Majority Eludes Erdogan — After two decades in power, a struggling Recep Tayyip Erdogan has two more weeks to persuade Turkish voters that he should continue as president. — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's presidential election appeared on Sunday …
New York Times:
In Blow to Junta, Thai Voters Overwhelmingly Back Opposition Parties — Thais on Sunday cast votes against their military leaders, backing instead a populist political mainstay and a progressive upstart bent on shaking up the status quo. — Reporting from Bangkok
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Thai opposition leads vote count, spelling possible end to military rule — BANGKOK, Thailand — Opposition parties in Thailand took a commanding lead in the country's parliamentary election on Sunday, according to an official vote tally, potentially signaling the end of the military's nearly decade-long rule here.
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Marita Moloney / BBC:
Zelensky arrives in UK for surprise meeting with Sunak — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting the UK to meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. — In a tweet, he said he would meet his “friend” Mr Sunak to hold “substantive negotiations”. — The UK announced on Thursday …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Campaign Cash for Her Marathon Habit — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema loves to run marathons—and to use campaign cash to pay for her stays at swanky hotels during those marathons. … When Kyrsten Sinema ran the Boston Marathon last year, it was a proud moment the Arizona senator …
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Outside the Beltway and Alternet.org
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: How Trump's team egged him on during CNN town hall — President Trump got more aggressive — and more dismissive of moderator Kaitlan Collins — as last week's CNN town hall continued. Now we know one reason why: — Backstage during the first commercial break, Axios has learned …
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Trump puts DeSantis in a bind on 2020: Can he bring himself to say Trump lost? — The Florida governor is making the case that he's more electable than Trump. Just don't ask him if Trump lost. — Donald Trump falsely insisting that the 2020 election was “rigged” last week was nothing …
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Alternet.org, Insider and Los Angeles Times
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Washington Post:
Biden team aims to compete in North Carolina, test ground in Florida — The strategy could provide alternate paths to victory if the president falters in other battleground states — Top advisers to President Biden are planning a 2024 battleground strategy that fully invests in North Carolina …
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14, 2023 — May 14, 2023, 3pm ET — Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. — Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Euractiv
Jonathan Lai / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Philadelphia Inquirer's operations continue to be disrupted by a cyber incident — The Philadelphia Inquirer and outside cybersecurity experts continued Sunday to scramble to restore systems after an apparent cyberattack disrupted operations over the weekend.The Inquirer had been unable …
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CNN:
Rick Perry teases possible presidential bid, declines to support Trump campaign — Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Sunday teased a possible 2024 presidential run while declining to support Donald Trump's campaign, becoming the latest onetime Trump appointee to distance himself from the former president's third White House bid.
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Morning Shots, Joe.My.God., Twitchy, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Political Wire
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Trump says he'll bring back Michael Flynn if he wins in 2024: 'He's some man' — Former President Trump has said he'll bring back his former national security adviser Michael Flynn if he wins another four years in the White House in 2024. — “I will say, General Flynn, he's some general.
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Rolling Stone, Occupy Democrats, Political Wire and Washington Press
Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg:
Russia Hosts Belarus Official With Lukashenko Out of Public View — The foreign minister of Belarus begins a three-day visit to Moscow on Monday amid speculation about the whereabouts of the country's long-serving President Alexander Lukashenko. — The Belarusian leader hasn't been seen …
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Politico and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Waiting, or, some recurring end-of-Supreme-Court-term questions — When is [fill-in-the-blank] going to be decided? We don't know. — I have been engaged with the U.S. Supreme Court's work, really, since 1996's decision in Romer v. Evans — my first summer in DC.
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