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From the Justice Department: A Fort Worth man has been charged with threatening an FBI agent involved in a high-profile investigation, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton. Timothy Muller, 43, was charged via criminal complaint on Thursday with interstate threatening communications and influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official. He was arrested outside his …

Axios reports: The Democratic National Committee is launching billboards in 10 locations across Milwaukee on Friday featuring former President Trump’s reported diss of the city that’s the site of the Republican National Convention next month. Trump reportedly used “horrible” to describe the city in the key swing state during his closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday with House Republicans, …

Reuters reports: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned on Friday that a vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party would hand electoral victory to Labour, after a poll put the right-wing group ahead of Sunak’s Conservatives for the first time. Farage is one of Britain’s most recognisable politicians best known for his decades long – and eventually successful – crusade …

“If they aren’t that worried that Joe’s going to lose, given his sorry state, what are they planning? What are they doing to save the day? What is up the Dems’ sleeve to drag that body back into the White House? What’s the dog that’s not barking? “And then let’s say, by some weird, miraculous chance that we didn’t see …

“Supporters of the natural family and traditional values have caused a seismic shift in the direction of the European Parliament, crushing the left in European parliamentary elections this past weekend. “Conservative pro-family leaders such as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen are big winners, helping wrest control of the EU Parliament away from leftwing leaders …

Deadline reports: The legal fight between The Walt Disney Co. and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is officially over. The company has dropped its appeal that challenged DeSantis’ moves to strip the company of control over a special district that covered its Florida theme park properties. The dismissal came after the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board, made up of DeSantis’ …

Ars Technica reports: Victor Miller is running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an unusual campaign promise: If elected, he will not be calling the shots—an AI bot will. VIC, the Virtual Integrated Citizen, is a ChatGPT-based chatbot that Miller created. And Miller says the bot has better ideas—and a better grasp of the law—than many people currently serving in …

Gothamist reports: Dozens of businesses that have been shut down in the cannabis enforcement blitz that New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched in early May are filing a class-action lawsuit against the city to stop the expedited closures, claiming they’re unconstitutional. The enforcement effort, dubbed “Operation Padlock to Protect,” closed more than 300 stores suspected of making unlicensed cannabis …

The Hill reports: Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Thursday protested an amendment added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that bars funding for drag performances with a blown-up photo of former President Trump and Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and Trump attorney, dressed in drag. An amendment filed this week to the annual defense policy bill …

NBC News reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk won the backing of shareholders Thursday in his fight to reclaim a $56 billion pay package voided by a Delaware judge who ruled the record-breaking compensation was excessive. Shareholders voted in favor of restoring the package they approved in 2018, Brandon Ehrhart, Tesla’s general counsel and board secretary, announced on stage at the …