May 21, 2023

Top Trump attorney says he quit over legal team’s in-fighting

Trump lawyer Timothy Parlatore has resigned from the classified documents investigation after testifying to a federal grand jury and overseeing searches of the former president’s properties. MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin discusses what Trump’s “increasingly dwindling pile of lawyers” means amid his growing legal troubles.

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Saudi astronauts, including kingdom’s first woman space traveler, blast off on private flight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft, stands ready for launch to the International Space Station on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Renna) (Terry Renna / Associated Press) Saudi astronauts, including...

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How Ukraine is trying to woo the Global South — and why it’s so hard

Louise Delmotte/POOL/AFP via Getty Images President Zelenskyy visited the G7 and Arab League summits to make Ukraine’s case. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Hiroshima, Japan to make the case for expanded support from non-Western countries at the Arab League summit and...

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‘Exhaust them’: Why Ukraine has fought Russia for every inch of Bakhmut, despite high cost

FILE – Ukrainian soldiers fire a howitzer D-30 at the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, May 21, 2023 that Russian forces werent occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscows insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had...

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Biden wraps up G-7 summit with more aid for Ukraine, confusion over Bakhmut and glimmer of optimism on China

Biden wraps up G-7 summit with more aid for Ukraine, confusion over Bakhmut and glimmer of optimism on China Courtney Subramanian Tracy Wilkinson May 21, 2023 Wrapping up a summit of the world’s wealthiest democracies here Sunday, President Biden had domestic trouble on his mind the...

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