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7:45 PM ET, May 29, 2023

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New York Times:
New Details in Debt Limit Deal: Where $136 Billion in Cuts Will Come From  —  Two years of spending caps, additional work requirements for food stamps and cuts to I.R.S. funding are among the components in the deal.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  The full legislative text …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
What's in the debt limit bill?  Key provisions in the Biden-McCarthy deal to avert default  —  Republicans and Democrats each won some concessions in the legislation.  —  WASHINGTON — The bipartisan deal struck by Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy extends …
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
How Shalanda Young Helped Broker Biden's Toughest Deal Yet
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Why Spending Cuts Likely Won't Shake the Economy
Discussion: Mother Jones, Semafor and New York Post
Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive |  China Rebuffs Pentagon Chief, Blunting Push for Rapprochement  —  China has rebuffed a U.S. request for a meeting of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu at a security forum in Singapore this coming weekend, the Pentagon said …
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs meeting in Singapore  —  Pentagon had requested the encounter between Lloyd Austin and Li Shangfu, who is under sanctions, at forum in June  —  Beijing has declined the Pentagon's request for a meeting between US defence secretary Lloyd Austin …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Andrea Cavallier / Associated Press:
Graduates boo and turn their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivers commencement address at liberal Colorado College - despite her blasting Trump's election-denying attorney  — The former U.S. Rep. gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Colorado College, a liberal arts school she graduated from in 1988
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New York Times:
The bidding for Lot 17 started at $23 million.  —  In the packed room at Sotheby's in Manhattan, the price quickly climbed: $32 million, $42 million, $48 million.  Then a new prospective buyer, calling from China, made it a contest between just two people.  —  On the block that evening …
Katie S. Phang / MSNBC:
Trump's legal team is an epic disaster  —  This kind of havoc does not bode well for Trump's legal future.  —  The attorney-client relationship is historically one of the most sacred, cloaked with the (usually) impenetrable privilege of complete confidentiality and one that is imbued with explicit and implicit trust.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Data analyst explains why Ron DeSantis is in trouble with voters already  —  CNN's data analyst dived into some polling for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to closely examine why the GOP presidential candidate isn't connecting well with voters.  —  DeSantis spent over a month traveling …
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Enactment of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act  —  The enactment of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act is a tragic violation of universal human rights—one that is not worthy of the Ugandan people, and one that jeopardizes the prospects of critical economic growth for the entire country.
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Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times:
New Anti-Gay Law in Uganda Includes Life in Prison as Penalty
CBS News:
Russia issues arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  Moscow — Russia's Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine.  —  In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …
Yuliya Talmazan / NBC News:
‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’ who joins Belarus and Russia, Putin ally promises  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's comment comes amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from Vladimir Putin, whose army is floundering in Ukraine.  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge postpones showdown over 14th Amendment debt powers  —  Citing the debt limit deal, the Justice Department said a union's lawsuit no longer required urgent action.  —  A federal judge in Boston has postponed a hearing scheduled for this week in a lawsuit that a government workers' union filed …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Kevin D. Williamson / The Dispatch:
The Burial of the Dead … KYIV—This doesn't feel like a city at war, or a city under martial law.  Not at first, anyway.  —  Kyiv is a city with packed restaurants—reservations are hard to come by—packed bars, packed cafes, busy streets.  Our hotel is bustling, the traffic is substantial …
Politico:
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030  —  It also plans to expand its orbiting space station.  —  BEIJING — China's burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country's orbiting space station, officials said Monday.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Historic gains: Low-income workers scored in the Covid economy  —  A POLITICO analysis shows that pandemic-era policies reversed the trend toward a widening income gap.  The move away from them threatens those gains.  Which way will Biden turn?  —  For the past three years …
 
 
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 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
A half-century later, a congressman visits the site of his father's fatal helicopter crash in Vietnam
Fox News:
Gov. Ron DeSantis rips debt ceiling deal: We are ‘careening toward bankruptcy’
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Biden's student debt plan hangs in balance as major Supreme Court rulings loom
Discussion: Slate and Insider
Insider:
Sitcom heroes, sports analogies, and rap parodies: How sassy floor charts have spiced up Congress
Washington Post:
The American military veterans who've fallen in Ukraine
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
In one suburb, a backlash against homeowners renting out private pools
Discussion: ABC7