Variety reports: The biggest names in fashion are gathering in New York City tonight at the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual celebration for the opening of its new Costume Institute exhibit. This year’s theme is “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” in honor of the late fashion designer’s life and work. Throughout his career, Lagerfeld designed for …

Axios reports: President Biden has called the four House and Senate leaders proposing a May 9 meeting on the debt ceiling. The Department of the Treasury and Congressional Budget Office said Monday the U.S. may stop being able to pay off its debts as soon as early June – a startlingly short timeline to reach a resolution. Senate Majority Leader …

Reuters reports: The United States will end its COVID-19 vaccination requirements for international travelers and federal workers on May 11, when the coronavirus public health emergency ends, the White House said on Monday. In February, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to lift the requirement that most foreign air travelers be vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the few remaining pandemic …

Gothamist reports: Anna Kaplan, a former Democratic state senator from Long Island, has filed paperwork to challenge embattled Republican Congressman George Santos in 2024. Kaplan, 57, submitted a “statement of candidacy” on Monday morning with the Federal Election Commission, a move that acknowledges that she is raising money for a campaign to represent the district that includes parts of northeastern …

The Associated Press reports: Republicans moved to sideline Zephyr further by canceling some meetings of the two committees on which she serves and moving the bills they were to hear to other committees, Democrats said. She spent the first day of her exile last week battling to use a bench in a statehouse hallway. Her key card to access Capitol …

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott expressed regret Monday after facing intense criticism for labeling all the victims of the Cleveland, Texas, shooting rampage as “illegal immigrants,” even though it appears at least one of them was not. “We’ve since learned that at least one of the victims may have been in the United States legally,” Abbott spokesperson Renae …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I don’t want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don’t think that people watch anyway. We’re gonna — because, you know, I’m like a representative of the American media now, speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists. UNKNOWN: It would help …

Politico reports: Democratic Rep. Colin Allred is planning to announce a run against Sen. Ted Cruz as soon as this week, according to two people familiar with his plans. A former NFL player-turned-civil rights attorney, Allred has been quietly prepping for a run against Cruz for months. During his two successful reelection bids since ousting an entrenched incumbent in 2018, …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump will participate in a CNN presidential town hall next week in New Hampshire, the network announced Monday. The event, hosted by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins and airing at 9 p.m. ET on May 10, will feature the former president taking questions from New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who plan to vote …

Courthouse News reports: Massachusetts, famed for its Puritans, witch trials and scarlet letters, braced for the world’s largest-ever gathering of Satanists this weekend, but the feared pagan hordes turned out to be campy misfits seeking fun and community — far more “Rocky Horror” than “The Exorcist.” Sponsored by the Satanic Temple, which boasts that it’s the only satanic organization officially …

NBC News reports: Five environmental and cultural heritage groups are suing the Federal Aviation Administration, alleging that the agency violated the National Environment Policy Act when it allowed SpaceX to launch the largest rocket ever built from its Boca Chica, Texas facility without a comprehensive environmental review. SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy test flight on April 20 blew up the company’s …

The Daily Beast reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene is disgusted that websites like Pornhub exist, and even more horrified that Hunter Biden may have used them. Raw Story reports that the Republican from Georgia shared her newfound knowledge of the adult film landscape in a keynote address at the Putnam County Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Sunday. “There is a website–you may …

The Associated Press reports: Alabama has joined states trying to limit drag shows after legislation was filed Thursday that would prohibit the performances in public places where children are present. The bill by Republican Rep. Arnold Mooney would add a provision to the state’s anti-obscenity laws to prohibit “male or female impersonators, commonly known as drag queens or drag kings” …

ABC News reports: Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr is suing the state, House Speaker Matt Regier and Sergeant at Arms for the Montana House of Representatives Bradley Murfitt after being censured by House Republicans. “The recent actions violate my 1st amendment rights, as well as the rights of my 11,000 constituents to representation,” Zephyr said in a tweet Monday. “Montana’s …

CBS News reports: Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Monday denied a motion by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to declare a mistrial the civil battery and defamation lawsuit against him that was brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. In a letter filed early Monday, Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina alleged Kaplan had made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against the …

The Baltimore Sun reports: U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin says he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a nearly 60-year run in Maryland politics and creating a scramble to fill a rare vacancy in the closely-divided Senate. “It’s time,” the 79-year-old Democrat told The Baltimore Sun in an interview at his Pikesville home in advance of his anticipated announcement Monday. “I …

The Insider reports: A district board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis passed a motion Monday during an emergency meeting to counter-sue Disney. The lawsuit will be filed in central Florida, Martin Garcia, chairman of the board for the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, said. It was not immediately clear from Monday’s meeting what the basis of the lawsuit would …

The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up a case that could do away with a decades-old precedent that tells judges to defer to federal agencies when interpreting ambiguous federal laws, a deference long targeted by conservatives concerned about the power of the administrative state. As the Supreme Court has become more conservative, the …

Nexstar Media reports: Bits of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt – a 5,000-mile-wide seaweed bloom – have started to wash up in Florida, but we’re likely months away from peak activity, researchers said Sunday. Photos show piles of the algae starting to accumulate on beaches in Fort Lauderdale, and videos posted by Fox Weather show it piling up in marinas …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has asked the judge to declare a mistrial in his civil battery and defamation trial, arguing the judge has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against him. Trump attorney Joe Tacopina, in a letter filed overnight Monday, said alternatively he would ask Judge Lewis Kaplan to “correct the record for each and every instance …