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3:45 PM ET, May 19, 2023

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Todd / Mid Hudson News:
Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam  —  POUGHKEEPSIE - Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.
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Albany Times Union:
Story of homeless veterans displaced by migrants was false  —  A claim that veterans were ousted from Hudson Valley lodging as a result of NYC's migrant surge was a tall tale  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  NEWBURGH — Over the past week, a sensational story …
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Homeless Vets Story Eaten Up By Fox News Turns Out to Be Spectacularly False
Discussion: Alternet.org and Mid Hudson News
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Debt Limit Talks Hit Snag as G.O.P. Declares a ‘Pause’  —  Republicans left negotiations on Friday, saying the White House was refusing to move its way on spending cuts.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  Negotiations between top White House and Republican congressional officials over a deal …
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Republicans walk out of debt ceiling talks, say White House isn't being ‘reasonable’  — High-stakes talks on the debt ceiling came to a halt Friday.  — It is unclear if the negotiations will resume this weekend.  — Financial markets dipped in response to the news.  —  WATCH NOW
Politico:
GOP hits ‘pause’ on debt talks as clock ticks
Emine Yücel / Talking Points Memo:
Growing List Of Dems Urge Biden To Cite 14th Amendment To Sidestep McCarthy's Debt-Ceiling Hostage Crisis
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Maggie Miller / Politico:   FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters
US Department of Justice:
MPD Lieutenant Charged with Obstruction of Justice and False Statements  —  Def Allegedly Leaked Law Enforcement Information to Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio  —  WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Lieutenant was arrested today on an indictment charging …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. police lieutenant indicted with tipping off Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio about arrest  —  After Jan. 6, Lt. Shane Lamond said he supported the group and didn't “want to see your group's name or reputation dragged through the mud,” an indictment alleged.  —  WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan …
Discussion: Washington Post and Joe.My.God.
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
DC Police Intel Chief Was Supplicant To Proud Boys Leader, Prosecutors Say
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
DC police lieutenant charged with obstruction in Proud Boys probe
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’  —  Ron DeSantis' wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign.  Some of his supporters wonder if that's an entirely good thing.  —  Casey DeSantis plays an uncommonly pivotal role …
Discussion: The Nation, Twitchy and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
The short life of Baby Milo  —  Nobody expected Baby Milo to live for long.  —  He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours.  —  He lived for 99 minutes.  —  Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3.
Discussion: Raw Story
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Jim Jordan is inadvertently discrediting his own case against the FBI  —  Jim Jordan keeps taking aim at the FBI.  He keeps missing.  The more the Republican fails, the more he inadvertently makes the bureau look better, not worse.  —  It was roughly nine months ago when Rep. Jim Jordan began …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
FBI Whistleblowers Admit Taking Money From Ex-Trump Official
New York Times:
Trump Ally Could Face Perjury Charge if He Doesn't Cooperate With D.A.  —  After bringing charges against former President Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan district attorney's office is once again investigating Allen H. Weisselberg, 75.  —  One of Donald J. Trump's longtime lieutenants …
New York Times:
Georgia Prosecutor Signals August Timetable for Charges in Trump Inquiry  —  The Fulton County district attorney said most of her staff would work remotely at times, and asked judges not to schedule trials, in the first half of August.  —  The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation …
NBC News:
U.S. and allies plan to provide Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, official says  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on the U.S. to provide F-16 jets, but U.S. President Joe Biden had so far refused the requests.  —  HIROSHIMA, Japan …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled  —  Some correspondents think it could prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president on future overseas tours  —  Every traveler dreads a sudden flight cancellation.  But few travelers have been stuck …
David Weigel / Semafor:
Megan Hunt doesn't want to be your Democratic hero.  She just wants to protect her trans son.  —  The Subject  —  “I don't like you.”  Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt said that to Republicans in March, as she filibustered legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors like her son, Ash Homan.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth  —  In the run-up to the expiration of covid-19 restrictions on those seeking asylum, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly predicted that our country would be overrun by migrant hordes from the south.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas  —  Mark L. Wolf has spent his career fighting against corruption and for the rule of law — as a public corruption prosecutor, as a federal judge, as a crusader against international kleptocracy.  For that, at a hearing on judicial ethics …
Discussion: Informed Comment
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn't Bothered to Prepare  —  After 2020, reformers vowed to erect guardrails against a rogue chief executive.  They ran into a wall of complacency, partisanship and distraction.  —  Two months before the 2020 elections, Jack Goldsmith …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Russia bans Obama, Maddow, Colbert over sanctions  —  Russia has banned hundreds of U.S. citizens, including former President Obama, political commentator Rachel Maddow and late-night host Stephen Colbert, from entering its territory in response to the U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine war.
Tolly Taylor / WBAL:
I-Team: Parents concerned about man with assault rifle at school bus stop  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  —  Parents are concerned about a man who is regularly spotted carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at a school bus stop in Severn.  —  Jamie Sparrow, a Severn Elementary School parent …
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Bathrooms Are Where We Feel Most Vulnerable.  No Wonder Republicans Are Obsessed.  —  A few years ago, I attended an advertising conference in the South of France.  I was staying at a glitzy hotel on a glittering boulevard along the Côte d'Azur.  I was in business attire, a navy pantsuit.
Discussion: HotAir and National Review
New York Times:
Greece Says It Doesn't Ditch Migrants at Sea.  It Was Caught in the Act.  —  Video evidence shows asylum seekers, among them young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard.  —  The asylum seekers had already hopscotched countries for years to escape war in the Horn of Africa.
Discussion: The Guardian and Political Wire
Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Why top Trump allies like Roger Stone are using apocalyptic religious rhetoric  —  “My sense is [Stone] has recognized how important this sector of Christianity is for the ongoing radicalized Trump base,” says Christian scholar.  —  Roger Stone has been in and out of Donald Trump's orbit for more than four decades.
David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
Chris Sununu Leans Into the White House Race … Chris Sununu is accelerating plans to run for president, with close allies telling The Dispatch the New Hampshire governor wants to seek the Republican nomination and is exploring avenues for mounting a viable 2024 campaign.
Washington Post:
Top DeSantis adviser has charted a lucrative path in GOP  —  Jeff Roe and his firm, Axiom Strategies, have guided thousands of campaigns and raked in hundreds of millions of dollars  —  Last year, the political consultant now leading a super PAC dedicated to helping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
Discussion: The Spectator World and HotAir
 
 
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Reuters:
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Derek Staahl / KASW-TV:
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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