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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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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.
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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The Guardian, The Mind Shield, New York Post and Washington Press
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 …
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Turkey faces runoff election for president as Erdogan survives first test
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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 …
Washington Post:
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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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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Associated Press, Reuters, Voice of America, The Hill, Financial Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Al Jazeera and UPI
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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Financial Times, ABC News, Associated Press, Politico, UPI, Metro.co.uk, Political Wire, Bloomberg.com, The Hill, The Guardian and Washington Post
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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Washington Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Euractiv
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 …
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
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 …
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Kentucky 2023: Daniel Cameron Extends Lead in GOP Gubernatorial Primary over Kelly Craft — Home Polls Kentucky 2023: Daniel Cameron Extends Lead in GOP Gubernatorial Primary over Kelly Craft — The final Emerson College Polling/Fox 56 Lexington survey of Kentucky Republican primary voters …
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, The Hill and Political Wire
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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Raw Story, Twitchy, Washington Examiner and Political Wire
Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones:
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz — One article repeatedly mentions DeSantis' difficulty making eye contact. — Former President Trump is a twice-impeached sexual abuser, who possesses a unique ability to make people laugh—unfortunately or fortunately, to use his verbiage.
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
He Told Followers to Starve to Meet Jesus. Why Did So Many Do It? — Hundreds were drawn to a remote wilderness in southeastern Kenya by the End Times preaching of pastor Paul Mackenzie. Relatives and ex-members tried to intervene, but some did not want to be rescued.
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Michael W. McConnell / New York Times:
The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense — Mr. McConnell is a professor and the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit from 2002 to 2009.
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Balkinization
David Roth / Defector:
Burning Down The House — Because Twitter is so big and open-ended, and because it is a product of the grandiose and impatient and deliriously shallow world of Silicon Valley, the ways in which it has been talked about by the people who talk about it most have mostly been ridiculous.
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight — A debt-ceiling deadlock could push Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment — setting up a showdown at the high court. — If Joe Biden and House Republicans fail to reach a debt deal, the crisis could get tossed to the Supreme Court …
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