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Each week, we bring you a collection of the most viewed stories from The Daily Brew, condensed. Here are the top stories from the week of May 15-May 19.

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Weisselberg faces charge unless he flips

Former Trump Organization financial chief already served 100 days in Rikers — now he may be charged with perjury

Salon

FBI veterans admit to taking money from ex-Trump aide Kash Patel at GOP hearing on government ‘weaponisation’

Democratic representative Daniel Goldman asks the role of Kash Patel

The Independent UK

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Republican debt-ceiling negotiators walk out of meeting, say White House ‘unreasonable’

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top debt-ceiling negotiators abruptly left a closed-door meeting with White House representatives soon after it began Friday morning, throwing into doubt the status of talks to avoid a US default.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis more likely to ‘double down’ than pivot as he enters presidential race

Thomas Massie had been in Congress less than a year when a colleague approached him with a controversial plan. Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida, himself a freshman, was urging Republican lawmakers on to the U.S. House floor to rail against a proposed Internet sales tax that had the strong support…

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Disillusioned Republicans return to polls after ’21 US Senate runoff

Turned off by the chaos that followed the 2020 presidential election, Republican voters who skipped Georgia’s runoffs for U.S. Senate are starting to come back.

Tribune News Service

What do we know about Ron DeSantis’s teaching career?

Florida governor and likely presidential candidate spent a year giving history lessons at the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia, after graduating from Yale

The Independent UK

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Republicans push surge of laws targeting transgender people in US

Laws restricting transgender rights have piled up in recent months, underscoring likely 2024 election battle lines.

Al Jazeera

Sen. Tim Scott files paperwork to run for president in the 2024 election

Tim Scott has a major announcement Monday in his home state of South Carolina. He is expected to announce a run for the White House and an official FEC filing Friday makes that even more likely.

WEKU

MTG's Biden impeachment "stunt" mocked

MAGA Republicans want to impeach the president while defending "fraudster George Santos," top Democrat says

Salon

Trump’s White House lawyer predicts ex-president will end up in jail as Mar-a-Lago probe heats up

Ty Cobb’s prediction came as it was revealed that the National Archives had found a trove of records allegedly proving the former president knew he shouldn’t have taken classified documents to Mar-a-Lago

The Independent UK

Parents of transgender kids seek to block DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for minors

The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal judge to block a new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, a signature policy of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as he nears his presidential campaign

The Independent UK

Tim Scott files paperwork for 2024 presidential campaign

Scott is the most prominent Black figure in the Republican Party.

Axios

DeSantis says only he can beat Biden in 2024 presidential election

Florida governor, expected to announce run soon, tells fundraising event Trump does not have ‘serious chance’ of being elected

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How one North Carolina lawmaker's defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections

North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham’s recent switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP opened the door for Republicans to enact new abortion restrictions over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's opposition

The Guardian - US

Georgia prosecutor signals charges in 2020 election inquiry may come end of July

Fani Willis prepared her team for remote work during that time, expected to be the window for indictments

The Independent UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Gavin Newsom of ‘mansplaining’ as Democrats rally around Jamaal Bowman

Newsom has become the latest Democrat to support his colleague, Bowman, following Taylor Greene’s remarks

The Guardian - US

US debt ceiling talks hit bump as White House says ‘real differences’ remain – as it happened

Official indicates lack of agreement on budget issues, saying' ‘talks will be difficult’

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Salon

DeSantis' deal with the devil won't help

DeSantis' chances of winning the election once the country learns of his radical record are worse than Trump's

Salon

Ex-official: FBI called Jordan's "bluff"

FBI letter shows Jordan's narrative is "absolutely nonsense" and a "fictional account," says Frank Figliuzzi

The Independent UK

Missouri governor to announce his pick as new St. Louis prosecutor after Kim Gardner resignation

Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday will announce his pick to serve out the remainder of Kim Gardner’s term as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis, following her sudden departure earlier this week

The Independent UK

Prosecutor suggests any indictments in Trump election investigation would likely come in August

The Atlanta prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke the law while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia seems to be suggesting that any grand jury indictments in the case would likely come in August

The Guardian - US

He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020. Then came the criminal charges

John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020. Now he’s been found guilty of voter fraud

The Guardian - US

How Republicans are embracing the accused subway killer Daniel Penny

White former marine accused of killing Black street performer has raised more than $2m for his legal defense fund

The Guardian - US

Negotiating with post-Trump Republicans is like dealing with a toddler’s tantrum

While one side is happy to defecate on the floor, the other side has no choice but to clean up the mess

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