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Politico reports: Rep. Garret Graves said Friday he will not run for reelection — ending months of questions about his political future after redistricting scrambled Louisiana’s congressional map. Graves (R-La.), in a statement, said that “it is clear that running for Congress this year does not make sense.” The decision comes as Graves, a close ally of former Speaker Kevin …

CBS News reports: Federal officials said Thursday they’re investigating an unusual rolling motion on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 that might have been caused by a damaged backup power-control unit. The Federal Aviation Administration said it’s working with Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the incident on a May 25 flight from Phoenix to Oakland. …

The Washington Post reports: Trump has made pardoning Jan. 6 defendants a signature campaign promise as he seeks another term in the White House, saying in a recent interview that he would consider all of them. Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said he will decide “on a case-by-case basis when he is back in the White House.” She did not …

Axios reports: U.S. Catholic bishops apologized Friday for the Catholic Church’s part in fostering “a history of trauma” on Indigenous children at church-run boarding schools where priests sexually abused students. It’s an official acknowledgment of the church’s past abuse against Indigenous children as the extent of widespread abuses inflicted on Native children over many decades has come into sharper focus. …

Lansing’s CBS affiliate reports: Two men charged with voter intimidation in a 2020 robocall scheme were properly criminally charged by the Office of the Michigan Attorney General, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Jack Burkman, 57, and Jacob Wohl, 25, were charged in October 2020 “for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote of predominantly black …

CNN reports: The Justice Department said Friday that it would not act on the House’s contempt referral of Attorney General Merrick Garland. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, DOJ pointed to its “longstanding” position of not prosecuting executive branch officials who withhold information subject to executive privilege from from Congress. The announcement was anticipated after the House, in …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump thinks there “could be” alien life in the universe—in large part because U.S. pilots he met while president, who he found to be “like beautiful Tom Cruise but taller”, told him they saw unexplained things in the sky. “I met with pilots … like beautiful Tom Cruise but taller—handsome, perfect people,” Trump told Logan …

The Hill reports: “We need somebody in there that’s got some common sense, you know what I’m saying? So if you need a president or a vice president, I’ll volunteer and take this country over, and I’ll rule with an iron fist,” the 70-year-old celebrity, otherwise known as Terry Gene Bollea, told the hosts of “Fox & Friends.” Hogan said …

“So there’s a sense of anxiety. It’s nervousness. And I’d say even dread is setting in among the foreign policy elites who were just blindsided in the EU election results. They just don’t understand why voters abroad are rejecting what’s so wonderful about globalism. “And they don’t understand why making America Great Again is now even resonating with our minorities …

First, an earlier report from Denver’s NBC affiliate: Republican State Rep. Richard Holtorf, a candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, disclosed Friday that he financed an abortion for one of two girlfriends he impregnated, saying it helped her “live her best life.” “I respected her rights and actually gave her money to help her through her important, critical time so …