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The Texas Tribune reports: Elon Musk’s wish to create his own city just came true. On Saturday, voters living around SpaceX’s rocket testing and launch facility in South Texas approved a measure to incorporate the area as a new city. Soon after polls closed at 7 p.m., Cameron County election officials confirmed that overwhelming support among early voters clinched the …

Sports Illustrated reports: Journalism lost today—literally. In the 151st Kentucky Derby Saturday, Sovereignty won the Run for the Roses over pre-race favorite Journalism. Sovereignty, who entered the race with 9-to-1 odds, pulled ahead of the 19-horse pack alongside Journalism as they rounded for the race’s final quarter-mile stretch. Sovereignty was too much for Journalism and third-place finisher Baeza to keep …

The Washington Post reports: Steven J. Hatfill, a virologist and White House adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term who pushed hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus despite what most researchers said was a lack of scientific evidence, has joined the second Trump administration in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services. An Army biodefense …

“Seeing is believing! A picture is worth a thousand words. Glad to report there is very positive reception and strong momentum for President Trump to be the next Pope. But I will be first to admit there has been some resistance! Must keep your head down and plow forward — can’t let the naysayers win the day. Next week is …

The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department unit that ensures compliance with voting rights laws will switch its focus to investigating voter fraud and ensuring elections are not marred by “suspicion.” The new mission statement for the voting section makes a passing reference to the historic Voting Rights Act, but no mention of typical enforcement of the provision through protecting …

Variety reports: Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” will easily top the weekend box office after cracking a $31.5 million gross across Friday and preview screenings from 4,330 theaters. That puts the ensemble action piece, which follows a ragtag team-up of Marvel’s least superpowered personalities, on pace to land within projections for a domestic opening between $70 million and $75 million. The movie also …

The Daily Beast reports: New York’s Catholic bishops—led by Trump‘s favorite cardinal—sharply rebuked the president over an AI-generated photo he posted of himself as pope. “There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President,” the New York Catholic Conference of Bishops said in a post on X Saturday. “We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals …

MARCO RUBIO: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.” GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: “This is democracy. This decision is …

Mediaite reports: Friday evening, the DOD Rapid Response account shared an image of Hegseth standing in front of a trio of what appeared to be paramilitary drug slingers. While the Pentagon likely sought to portray the military as in command of security at some parts of the country’s border with Mexico, Hegseth’s hand was missing the pinky. The missing appendage …

Florida Politics reports: LGBTQ advocates are celebrating several bills — including one that could have banned Pride flags flown at government buildings — stalling out this Session. “Once again, we’ve done what many thought was impossible: not one anti-LGBTQ bill passed this session,” Equality Florida’s Executive Director Nadine Smith said in a statement Saturday. The Legislative Session ended Friday although …