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Tampa’s Fox affiliate reports: About a week before the start of Pride Month, locals in St. Pete said the rainbow street mural in the Grand Central District has been defaced twice in less than one week. The St. Petersburg Police Department said officers got a call about tire marks on the mural on Central Avenue and 25th Street on Friday. …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Monday to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order in the classified documents case and to find the federal prosecutors who wrote the request in contempt. Smith’s office has requested that the Florida judge overseeing the classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, place a gag order on …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Monday again denied rape and defamation claims against him by writer E. Jean Carroll, nabbing the attention of her lawyer. In a post on Truth Social, the former president kicked off with ‘Happy Memorial Day to All,’ and quickly derailed into a tirade against Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s claims: “TWO separate …

Reuters reports: Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests, Italian media reported on Monday. La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, Italy’s largest circulation dailies, both quoted the pope as saying seminaries, or priesthood colleges, are already …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial will enter its final stage Tuesday as defense lawyers and prosecutors deliver their closing arguments in a last attempt to sway the 12 New Yorkers who will decide his fate. First the defense and then the prosecution will spend hours weaving disparate strands of evidence into a …

Politico reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans have spent years aggressively turning the state into a haven for school choice. They have been wildly successful, with tens of thousands more children enrolling in private or charter schools or homeschooling. Now as those programs balloon, some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines — and grappling with …

The Daily Beast reports: After nearly half a billion dollars in legal judgments against him this year, Donald Trump’s company opted to offload one of his private jets this month, public filings show. And the buyer is a Republican megadonor who poured nearly $250,000 into a political committee tied to Trump’s 2020 campaign. The plane, a 1997 Cessna jet, is …

Broadway.com reports: Golden Globe-winning actress Brooke Shields has been elected president of Actors’ Equity Association, the actor-stage manager union. Shields replaces Kate Shindle, president of AEA since 2015, who opted not to seek re-election. Best known as a screen actress (The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love, Suddenly Susan), Shields’ Broadway credits include Chicago, Grease and Cabaret. Founded in 1913, Actors’ Equity …

CBS News reports: The National Park Service (NPS) denied claims that park officials at Denali National Park ordered a construction crew to not fly the American flag over Memorial Day weekend. The claim appears to have originated from a report by Alaska Watchman, a conservative news outlet, which cited an anonymous construction worker. On Friday, Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan …

“Today I turned 50! Many people go into their 50th birthday thinking it’s a bad thing, but I truly feel it’s wonderful and I’m so excited and grateful God let me live 50 years and do so many things. “From being the first person to graduate college in my family, to carrying 3 babies in my womb and the absolute …