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- Washington Post, Buffalo shooting suspect wrote of plans months ago, online messages show
- New York Times, Live Updates: White Supremacy Is ‘Poison,’ Biden Says in Emotional Speech in Buffalo
- New York Times, Buffalo Live Updates: Accused Gunman in Buffalo Planned to Attack Second Target
- New York Times, F.D.A. and Abbott Reach Agreement on Baby Formula to Try to Ease Shortage
- New York Times, As Ukraine Fighters Are Told to Give Up Steel Plant, Their Future Is Uncertain
- Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Ukraine ends bloody battle for Mariupol, evacuates fighters in steel plant
- New York Times, Among President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, only Belarus supports him on Ukraine
- New York Times, Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Hundreds of Ground Forces Into Somalia
More On U.S. Media, Race, Shootings
New York Times, Biden took time to describe each of the victims of the racist massacre
More On Ukraine War
New York Times, Growing evidence of a military disaster on the Donets pierces a pro-Russian bubble
- New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Setbacks in Ukraine’s East Force Russia to Shift Its Ambitions
- New York Times, Estonia’s Tough Voice on Ukraine Urges No Compromise With Vladimir Putin
Washington Post, McDonald’s seeks to sell Russian business that is ‘no longer tenable’
- Politico, Sweden’s governing party backs NATO membership
- Washington Post, Ukraine Updates: Blinken discusses Ukraine military aid; Finland confirms NATO bid
U.S. Law, Courts, Security
- New York Times, Justice Dept. Requests Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee
- Politico Magazine, Landmark law for California women gets shut down in court
- Washington Post, Women settle lawsuit against Liberty University
- Sinclair Broadcasting via WKRC-TV (Cincinnati), Former Clinton campaign lawyer in court for special counsel John Durham's probe
- Fox News, Jury selected in Durham-Sussmann trial: Opening arguments, testimony from Democratic lawyer Marc Elias to come
- New York Times, Trump-Era Prosecutor’s Case Against Democratic-Linked Lawyer Goes to Trial
- CNN, Who's who in the Michael Sussmann trial, Marshall Cohen
- Politico, Opinion: John Durham Has Already Won, Ankush Khardori
- Washington Post, State constitutions loom as the next front in abortion battle
U.S. Politics, Governance, Economy
- New York Times, Jeff Bezos Battles With President Biden Online Over Taxes
- New York Times, Lawmakers in Albany Consider How to Make Tight Gun Laws Even Tighter
- New York Times, Wisconsin Democrats sued 10 Republicans who were on a fake slate of electors and attempted to help overturn the 2020 election
- New York Times, House Democrats Release $28 Million Aid Bill to Address Formula Shortage
- Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Democrats on campaign trails must be wary of what they eat or drink at public events, Wayne Madsen
- New York Times, G.O.P. Senate Candidate in North Carolina Thrives as 2 Key Backers Squabble
Pro-Trump Capitol Insurrection, Elections Claims
- Washington Post, Leading GOP candidates in Pennsylvania were in Washington on Jan. 6
- Daily Beast, GOP Senate Candidate Kathy Barnette Spotted Marching With Proud Boys on Jan. 6
World News, Human Rights, Disasters
- New York Times, Poor Countries Face a Mounting Crisis Fueled by Inflation and Deb
- New York Times, Hezbollah Loses Majority Bloc in Lebanon Election, Results Show
- New York Times, U.S. to Offer Minor Sanctions Relief to Entice Venezuela to Talks
New York Times, Taking Aim at Left-Leaning Voters, Macron Names a Woman Prime Minister
- Washington Post, Opinion: The tragedy of ISIS fighters’ families left behind in Syria, David Ignatius
Virus Victims, Responses- New York Times, How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 1,026,899
- Washington Post, 220.6 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated
Climate, Environment, Disasters
- New York Times, 115 Degrees in India. 120 in Pakistan. Can We Even Call Deadly Heat ‘Extreme’ Anymore? David Wallace-Wells
- New York Times, Here Are the Wildfire Risks to Homes Across the Lower 48 States
More On Media, Sports
- New York Times, Twitter Presses Ahead on Deal as Elon Musk Casts Doubt on It
- Washington Post, Opinion: Democracy is at stake in the midterms. The media must convey that, Margaret Sullivan
- Mediaite, WHCA Threatens Reporter Who Interrupted Psaki Briefing With Possible Expulsion in Scathing Email
Top Stories
Law enforcement authorities said Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old White man, approached the store in a predominantly Black neighborhood and opened fire on shoppers and employees, shooting 13 people including a security guard, Aaron Salter Jr., shown above in a file photo. Authorities gave this account: The gunman, who was heavily armed and wearing tactical gear, used a camera to live-stream the attack and shot several victims in the parking lot before entering the store. The grocery’s longtime security guard, a retired policeman, fired back, but the gunman’s body armor blocked the shot and the guard was killed.
New York Times, Live Updates: White Supremacy Is ‘Poison,’ Biden Says in Emotional Speech in Buffalo, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Peter Baker, May 17, 2022. In his visit to a largely Black community where a mass shooting left 10 dead, President Biden criticized those who use hate speech for political gain. Mr. Biden shared the stories of each victim and called for stricter gun control, denouncing the attack as racist terrorism. Here’s the latest.
President Biden called on Tuesday for Americans to “take on the haters” and “reject the lie” of racial replacement that reportedly animated a white man to gun down Black shoppers on Saturday in the latest eruption of violence targeting people of color in the United States.“What happened here is simple and straightforward: Terrorism. Terrorism. Domestic terrorism,” Mr. Biden told mourners in this city in upstate New York. “Violence inflicted in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group, a hate that through the media and politics, the internet, has radicalized angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced.”
This so-called replacement theory, the notion that an elite cabal of liberals is plotting to substitute immigrants or other people of color for white Americans, has become an increasingly common talking point on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and among some Republican leaders. While Mr. Biden did not specify names, he accused certain politicians and pundits of deliberately promoting the conspiracy theory and stoking racial animus out of a cynical desire to score political points and make money.
New York Times, As Ukraine Fighters Are Told to Give Up Steel Plant, Their Future Is Uncertain, Marc Santora, May 17, 2022. Russia will interrogate Ukrainian fighters who have withdrawn from the Mariupol steel plant, the country’s top investigative body said.
Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who had held out for weeks at a steel complex in Mariupol are in Russian custody. Russian threats to prosecute them raise questions about the viability of the surrender deal.
Hundreds of die-hard Ukrainian soldiers who had made a last stand against Russian forces from a hulking Mariupol steel mill faced an uncertain future under Kremlin custody Tuesday after Ukraine’s military ordered them to surrender.
The surrender directive, issued late Monday, effectively ended the most protracted battle so far of the nearly three-month-old Russian invasion. Even as Russia has struggled on other fronts in Ukraine, the surrender solidified one of Russia’s few significant territorial achievements — the conquest of a once-thriving southeast port.
Still, Mariupol has been largely reduced to ruin, tens of thousands of its inhabitants have been reported killed, and the city has come to symbolize the war’s grotesque horrors.
By early Tuesday, more than 200 of the fighters ensconced in the Azovstal steel mill, besieged by the Russians for weeks, had surrendered as prisoners of war, evacuated to Russian-held territory aboard buses emblazoned with “Z” — the Russian emblem for what President Vladimir V. Putin has called his country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian authorities said little about the terms of the surrender except to assert that the Ukrainian prisoners would soon be exchanged for Russian prisoners held by Ukraine.
But Russian officials said nothing about a possible exchange.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., said Tuesday that investigators would interrogate the captured fighters to “check their involvement in crimes committed against civilians.”
And the prosecutor general’s office asked Russia’s Supreme Court to declare the military unit to which most of the captured fighters belong, the Azov battalion, a terrorist organization. Russian news media has seized on the Azov batallion’s connections to far-right movements to provide a veneer of credibility to the Kremlin’s false claims that its forces were fighting Nazis in Ukraine.
The Russian threats against the prisoners raised questions about the viability of the deal Ukraine had made with Russia to surrender, and whether the hundreds of troops still remaining at the steel ...
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