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New York Times:
Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump's Foreign Business Deals Since 2017  —  The special counsel scrutinizing the former president's handling of classified documents issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization seeking records related to seven countries.  —  Federal prosecutors overseeing …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump was warned about retaining classified documents, notes reveal  —  Exclusive: Unreported warning contained in notes taken by lawyer Evan Corcoran that prosecutors have viewed in recent months  —  Federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump was put on notice that he could not retain …
CNN:
Trump's attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs  —  Donald Trump asked whether he could push back against Justice Department efforts last year to recover any classified documents still in his possession during conversations with his lawyer …
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll Seeks New Damages From Trump for Comments on CNN  —  The former president's repeated denials that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll “show the depth of his malice” and merit heavy damages, her lawyer wrote.  —  E. Jean Carroll, who this month won $5 million in damages …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. James Comer Implies Biden Family Probe Is Really About Helping Trump In 2024  —  Oops!  —  Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday inadvertently implied that House Republicans' high-profile investigation into President Joe Biden's family members and their finances is actually about helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2024.
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Fox's Latest Hoax  —  “Alright, before we go, a little update on a story we brought you this week about homeless vets being displaced from hotels so that illegals could move in.  Turns out the group behind the claim made it up.  We have no clue as to why anyone would do such a thing, but we'll bring you any updates should they come.”
Discussion: RedState, Jezebel and Bulwark+
Reuters:
Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race  —  Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and his business partner were arrested in 2019, accused by the U.S. government of funneling a Russian oligarch's money into American political campaigns.
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Alex Roarty / Miami Herald:
'We've got a real dilemma': How ‘Never Trump’ Republicans view DeSantis vs Trump  —  Fergus Cullen is wary of Ron DeSantis' conflict with Disney, dislikes how the governor once used his kids in a campaign ad, and doubts he'd support the Florida Republican's presidential candidacy if it were any other election.
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida
New York Times:
Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War's Destruction  —  Drone footage taken by The New York Times captured the scorched buildings, destroyed schools and cratered parks that now define the city in eastern Ukraine.  —  Photographs and Video by Tyler HicksText by Marc Santora
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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral and Briefly Spooked Stocks  —  A falsified photograph of an explosion near the Pentagon spread widely on social media Monday morning, briefly sending US stocks lower in possibly the first instance of an AI-generated image moving the market.
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Fake image of Pentagon explosion goes viral
Discussion: The Hill and Mercury News
Rebecca Cohen / Insider:
An apparently AI-generated hoax of an explosion at the Pentagon went viral online — and markets briefly dipped
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
GOP donor denies influence over Clarence Thomas, despite lavish gifts  —  In an interview with the Atlantic, billionaire Harlan Crow said he didn't see any impropriety in his actions  —  Harlan Crow, a billionaire and influential Republican donor who has for years lavished gifts …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Sen. Tim Scott vows not to overturn the election if he loses  —  In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, Scott — who announced his presidential bid on Monday — called the U.S. role in Ukraine “essential” and contrasted himself with former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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The Daily Beast:
Frantic Hunting Mission Erupts After Raid on Russian Town  —  The Kremlin said it was working to “destroy this sabotage group.”  —  The Kremlin has launched a “counter-terrorist operation” in Russia's Belgorod region after a pro-Ukrainian group claimed to have stormed and “completely liberated” the border town of Kozinka.
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Financial Times:
Pro-Ukraine fighters ‘liberate’ village in Russia's Belgorod region
Bryce Covert / In These Times:
What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs  —  Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray.  Lationna Halbert's is one of the first.  —  Lationna Halbert doesn't like pickles.  But one day, in July 2022, she was hit with an intense craving as she watched her boss eat one.
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can't care for them  —  Cities are building special shelters for the old, and shelters are hiring trained staff to handle a wave of aging baby boomers  —  PHOENIX — Beatrice Herron, 73, clutched a flier offering low-cost cable TV …
The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: Murder, kidnapping, brutality charges: These are the cops Ron DeSantis paid to come to Florida  —  Florida's police recruitment bonus appears to have attracted a certain kind of cop.  —  In July 2021, the son of a high-ranking New York Police Department (NYPD) …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
DeSantis's $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Marianne Williamson loses top 2 campaign officials in a matter of days  —  The campaign director and deputy director for the longshot Democratic presidential candidate quit over the weekend.  —  The top two campaign officials for longshot Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson resigned over the weekend.
Discussion: The Hill
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Bob Woodward roasts Trump's ‘everything is mine’ take in ‘unprecedented’ copyright suit: Interview tapes ‘belong to the People’  —  From George Washington to Joe Biden, U.S. presidents have harnessed the power of the press to reach the populace.  Investigative journalist Bob Woodward argues …
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Bowman says he will ‘stay as far away’ from Greene as possible  —  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he will “stay as far away...as possible” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after a contentious exchange between the two stemming from an encounter outside the Capitol last week.
Deborah Turness / BBC:
Explaining the ‘how’ - the launch of BBC Verify  —  In the early hours of Wednesday 3 May, video footage emerged showing what appeared to be two drones crashing into a dome of the Kremlin complex in Moscow.  But was the video real or fake?  Did this “attack” actually happen?  And how could we tell?
Discussion: The Wrap, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Texas Forced This Woman to Give Birth to a Stillborn Son.  She's Suing  —  “I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child”  —  AFTER MULTIPLE MISCARRIAGES, Kiersten Hogan thought she would never be able to carry a pregnancy to term.
Jonathan Shamir / Haaretz:
No More Arab States Will Normalize Ties With Israel, Netanyahu Gov't ‘Embarrassed’ UAE, Emirati Analyst Warns  —  ‘My government and the other signatories are embarrassed,’ says policy analyst Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi at Israeli confab hours before UAE ambassador to Israel extends invite to international climate conference
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won't seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state  —  Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.  Carper's announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Investigated Clinton Foundation Until Trump's Final Days  —  President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to cast the Clinton Foundation as corrupt.  But the yearslong investigation sputtered to its conclusion without charges.  —  Reporting from Washington
Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Signal:
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Policy Exposes Fox News Stances on Woke Ideology  —  FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender.
Dylan Gwinn / Breitbart:
WATCH: ‘That Is Disgusting’: High School Athlete Gives Thumbs Down at Podium After Losing to Trans Runner  —  A female high school runner let her frustrations be known on Saturday, as she gave a big thumbs down following her loss to a trans athlete.  A loss that resulted in her exclusion from the state championships.
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Why Can't Progressive Writers Defend the Law?  —  Rich points to a column by Ezra Klein in the New York Times, in which Klein objects to President Biden taking the “14th Amendment option.”  Rich notes that Klein has a practical objection to the idea — namely that “if the administration declares …
 
 
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Reporter Asks Tim Scott If He's a Virgin
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Li Cohen / CBS News:
Trevi Fountain water turned black by climate activists protesting fossil fuels
Employ America:
14th Amendment, Debt Ceiling & Perpetual Bonds: The Treasury Department is Hiding Political Failure In Technocratic Excuses
Discussion: Vox
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
One state just became a national leader on child care. Here's how they did it.
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
I Know One Way the Supreme Court Got to How It Is. I Watched It Happen for Years.
New York Times:
Spying in Mexico Strikes a New Victim: the President's Ally
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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