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4:00 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  —  The New York Post dropped a bombshell report last week: amid a nationwide influx of migrants, nearly two-dozen homeless veterans were kicked out of hotels where they were being temporarily housed in order to make room for migrants in upstate New York.
Discussion: Mid Hudson News
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Hoax alert: tale of homeless vets booted because of immigrants false
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
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 …
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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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
‘No Labels’ Eyes a Third-Party Run in 2024.  Democrats Are Alarmed  —  The centrist group is gaining steam — and raising money — in its effort to get a candidate on the 2024 ballot, with Joe Manchin at the top of their list.  —  The bipartisan political group No Labels is stepping …
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
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
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Return of the Emerging Democratic Majority?  —  After all, last November, Joe Biden was a historically unpopular president presiding over exceptionally high inflation.  Polls showed widespread disapproval of the Democratic administration in general and its economic management in particular.
 
 
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Wilfred Reilly / National Review:
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Discussion: New York Magazine
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Reuters:
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Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
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Discussion: HotAir and National Review
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money