HUFFPOST - Trump Education Department’s MAGA ‘SpongeBob’ Post Quickly Sinks Online
The department’s Teacher Appreciation Week post featuring Mrs. Puff crashed like one of her boating school’s cars.
NYTIMES (Jin Yu Young) - Tornadoes in Mississippi Damage More Than 1,000 Buildings
State officials were assessing the damage from a storm that ripped through the region overnight. At least four people suffered minor injuries.
NPR (The Associated Press) - Paris Saint-Germain returns to Champions League final after beating Bayern Munich
The French league leader will face Arsenal in the final in Budapest, Hungary, on May 30, after the Gunners defeated Atletico Madrid 1-0 on Tuesday to progress 2-1 on aggregate.
STRIPES (Gary Warner) - Remains of WWII Medal of Honor recipient buried at home after decades listed as ‘unknown’ | Stars and Stripes
Medal of Honor recipient Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi was buried more than 80 years after his death aboard a Japanese prisoner of war “hell ship.”
STRIPES (Brian McElhiney) - F-22s arrive at Air Force base on Okinawa as F-15EX delivery stalled | Stars and Stripes
Two F-22 Raptors squadrons arrived at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, for rotational duty while a permanent fleet of replacement F-15EX Eagle IIs remains delayed.
NPR (The Associated Press) - Federal authorities arrest 18 for alleged drug distribution around Los Angeles park
The area, called MacArthur Park, is a densely populated immigrant neighborhood west of downtown LA where federal immigration authorities and the National Guard made a brief show of force last summer.
NYTIMES (Trish Bendix) - Late Night Isn’t Buying Trump’s New ‘Skirmish’ in Iran
After Trump used the terms “miniwar” and “excursion” to describe the conflict in Iran, Jimmy Kimmel predicted that the president would next call the war “a tiff. It will be a $200 billion tiff.”
AMERICANGREATNESS (Mimi Walters) - The Egg Price Spike Wasn’t an Accident—Trump’s DOJ Is on It
For many Americans, inflation has become less an issue debated on Capitol Hill than something felt each weekend at the grocery store. One of the […] Source
AMERICANGREATNESS (Victor Davis Hanson) - The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!
For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions. Unemployment insurance, a […] Source
AMERICANGREATNESS (Lipton Matthews) - The Experiment on Adolescence
Public discussion of gender-affirming medical treatment is typically framed as a moral imperative, as though affirmation itself settles the empirical question. Yet medicine is not […] Source