'There have been approximately 652 school shooting incidents since Uvalde, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, which was created and is maintained by David Riedman, a researcher who tracks gun violence in schools.'

Predictably, climate change and the natural disasters it's delivering is driving the escalation in home insurance and reinsurance rates. wsj.com/finance/home-i…

AG Merrick Garland called Trump’s distortion “false and it is extremely dangerous. The document that is being referred to in the allegation is a Justice Department standard policy limiting the use of force. As the FBI advises it is part of a standard operations plan for searches

A source familiar tells NBC News the DoJ policy statement on when officers can use lethal force—which has been misrepresented by Donald Trump and his supporters as an authorization to use force at Mar-lago—was also included in the paperwork connected to the consensual search the

Another disturbing inspection of a federal prison by ⁦DOJ Inspector General⁩. Grim health care conditions. ⁦Federal Bureau of Prisons⁩ appears to still be broken. oig.justice.gov/reports/inspec…

The politics of ignorance

DC's 911 system is really struggling.

They are supposed to answer 90% of calls within 15 seconds but they are only achieving that 60-74% of the time.

Over 200 people each day are calling, not getting an answer and eventually hanging up.

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How the President got from “Saudi is a pariah state” to essentially “we will build your nuke program” is something else, a policy flip flop for the history books. Yes yes, I get all the arguments why this is important, but the evolution of Biden on Saudi policy is remarkable.

“Measured against these goals, Judge Cannon has made almost no progress over the past 11 months. That is shocking and indefensible.” nytimes.com/2024/05/18/opi…

Fascinating thread with Justice Alito’s direct excuse. Remarkably he admits the upside-down flag flown on his home was a direct response to his wife being mad at a neighbor’s ‘Fuck Trump’ sign—ie an explicitly partisan gesture.

The WH and DoJ is glad to have the Hur audio issue framed as a fight with extremist House Republicans. But it’s also a fight with the news media over access to public records. This is no reasonable argument that a recording of an already released transcript is not releasable

NEW: Joe Biden asserts executive privilege over audio of the interview that led Republican special counsel Robert Hur to conclude that the president could present himself as an 'elderly man with a poor memory.'

With Ken Dilanian and Monica Alba:

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Attorney General Merrick Garland just spoke to reporters at DoJ defending his decision to withhold the audio. He did not mention that it's not just House Republicans who seek it -- it's a cross section of major news organizations, including NBC, CBS, CNN, AP, the Washington

In 1998, video of President Clinton’s grand jury testimony was made public after the independent counsel turned it over to Congress. Then as now, the White House fought its release.

Breaking: President Biden is citing executive privilege in seeking to keep secret the audio of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. NBC News and many other news organizations are seeking this audio because we believe it's a public record and it's in the public interest

Devastating.

'Protecting the people who carry out that violence is the dark secret of Israeli justice. The long arc of harassment, assault and murder of Palestinians by Jewish settlers is twinned with a shadow history, one of silence, avoidance and abetment by Israeli

U.S. halts funding to virus research organization linked to pandemic probes washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05…

The jury was selected in Sen. Menendez corruption trial

Ken Dilanian previews what to expect from opening statements in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge in the Menendez corruption trial says jury may be finalized soon and opening statements to begin midday. Ken Dilanian has the latest.

The judge on Tuesday ruled Sen. Menendez can’t invoke the “emotional support gold bars” defense.