The Texas Tribune reports: Locally elected prosecutors who do not enforce certain laws could be removed from office under a bill approved by the Texas House of Representatives on Friday. The bill passed 97-51, -and will now move to the Senate. Republican-led House Bill 17 is a response to elected district and county attorneys in Texas’ large, left-leaning counties who …

First, an earlier report from Media Matters: Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman and the CEO of former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, appeared on a QAnon-supporting show to promote Trump’s platform and repeatedly lauded the show for “getting the truth out.” On April 14, Nunes appeared on QAnon show X22 Report, whose host is known only …

The Associated Press reports: Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank in a bid to head off further banking turmoil in the U.S. San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to fail in two months. It is the second-biggest bank failure in …

Fierce Biotech reports: An HIV drug from GSK or ones like it could have new therapeutic potential against neurodegenerative disease, findings in mice suggest. In a report published April 26 in Neuron, scientists from the University of Cambridge described how they established a link between microglia and autophagy in the etiology of dementia and Huntington’s disease. They also showed that …

NBC News reports: A man suspected of using an AR-15 rifle to kill five neighbors execution-style continued to elude an army of law enforcement hunting for him outside Houston over the weekend. Authorities said Sunday afternoon that Francisco Oropesa, 38, appeared to have slipped past a 2-mile dragnet of more than 150 law enforcement officers in Cleveland, Texas, about 45 …

The Times Of Israel reports: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy called Israel “a blessed nation” in Jerusalem on Sunday, a day before he was set to address the Knesset. “Israel you are a blessed nation,” McCarthy wrote in the Western Wall visitors’ book after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, adding: “Our shared values unite a bond …

From Trump’s interview last night with Fox’s Mark Levin: Look, they say that Andrew Jackson was the most vilified person. His wife died during this thing, and they said such horrible things. And he had a very tough presidency. He was a very good president. He was a great general and a good president. Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you …

The New York Post reports: Megyn Kelly caused a stir on social media after she posted a photo of herself wearing a red MAGA-style baseball cap on Twitter over the weekend. The hat in question read “Make women female again” in all capital letters — a nod to the apparent culture war over gender and trans people. Kelly, who notoriously …

Via press release from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: Governor Greg Abbott today announced a $50,000 reward for a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) top 10 fugitive who is in the country illegally and killed five illegal immigrants in a shooting Friday night in Cleveland, Texas. “Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of the five victims …

The BBC reports: A US principal forced to resign after parents complained about an art lesson showing one of the world’s most famous sculptures has visited the masterpiece. Hope Carrasquilla and her family went to see Michelangelo’s David on Friday at Florence’s Accademia Galleria. They came at the invitation of museum director Cecilie Hollberg, who said that she was grateful …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Sunday that he will make a “major announcement” on May 22 about his presidential bid, offering his most specific timeline yet for what he has signaled will be an official campaign launch. Scott is in some key ways effectively running for president already: Earlier this month, he announced the creation of …