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ABC News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Donald Trump to obstruct the government’s investigation of his handling of classified documents, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday. The opinion was released as an exhibit in filings responding to Trump’s efforts to have the case dismissed, ahead of two hearings Wednesday related …

The Huffington Post reports: More than 40 House Democrats are calling on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection over the display of an upside-down U.S. flag at the conservative justice’s home shortly after the attack on Congress occurred. In a letter addressed to Alito and obtained by HuffPost, Reps. Hank …

Semafor reports: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would be gone in the first 100 days of a second Donald Trump term that would also include mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, Peter Navarro told Semafor from the federal prison where he is serving a four-month sentence for refusing to cooperate with a congressional probe into the Jan. 6 riots at the …

The New York Times reports: The arraignments of Rudolph W. Giuliani and 10 other allies of Donald J. Trump were underway on Tuesday morning in an Arizona criminal case that charges them with trying to keep Mr. Trump in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election. A total of 50 people — including Mr. Trump, who has locked up …

Mediaite reports: Sebastian Gorka stopped a press conference briefly outside Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan to tell a reporter it was “pathetic” to suggest the former president is part of the “ruling class” or “elite.” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at one point accused the “ruling class” of targeting Trump for political purposes, and the lieutenant governor snapped …

The Associated Press reports: Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera. The Qatari satellite channel is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from the AP and other news organizations. The …

Via press release from hate group leader Monica Cole: Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new “$10 Tuesdays” commercial includes insinuated profanity that conservatives are finding completely unnecessary. The ad praises their food, of course, and also brags about their $10 Tuesdays deal as part of their “Taste of KFC Deals” campaign. Then the commercial ends soon after the insinuated but obvious profane …

“Donald Trump is being targeted because of who he is. If he was not running for president again, I don’t think you’d see any of this barrage of prosecutions, these local district attorneys and state attorneys who are after him. They have targeted him because he is soon to be officially the nominee of the Republican Party for president, and …

The Star Observer reports: A new series from NBC called Queer Planet is providing fascinating looks at both homosexuality in the animal kingdom and at the people apparently incapable of even acknowledging that it exists. The trailer for the documentary series was released on May 17th and gave a preview of a “rich diversity of animal sexuality” with gay penguins, …

CNBC reports: Defense lawyers for Donald Trump rested their case at his criminal hush money trial Tuesday without calling the former president to testify. Trump’s decision not to take the witness stand was not a surprise, as testifying carries serious risks for any criminal defendant, particularly for one with a tendency to speak off the cuff and undercut his prior …