| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, May 14TRUMP ROLLS OUT RED CARPET FOR AUTOCRAT He’s been ostracized by his neighbors in Europe for his anti-Semitic, white nationalist and authoritarian views, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán found love at the White House from President Donald Trump. [HuffPost]SPANISH SPEAKERS AREN’T 'SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS’ A federal judge ordered nearly three dozen counties in Florida to provide ballots in Spanish ahead of the 2020 election, calling the issue a “fundamental right” for voters. [HuffPost]BAYER LOSES $2 BILLION IN ROUNDUP CANCER TRIAL A California jury awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller caused their cancer, the largest U.S. jury verdict to date in litigation over the chemical. Bayer insists Roundup is safe and still sells it without warnings, which means liability could continue to mount. [Reuters]5 DEAD AFTER ALASKA FLOATPLANES COLLIDE At least five people were killed and several others were hospitalized after two floatplanes carrying cruise passengers collided in midair near the Alaskan town of Ketchikan. [HuffPost]SAUDI ARABIA: 2 OIL TANKERS DAMAGED BY ATTACKS Saudi Arabia said two of its oil tankers were sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, causing “significant damage.” One of the ships was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the United States. [AP]CHINA STRIKES BACK WITH TARIFF HIKE China said it would impose higher tariffs on a list of U.S. goods worth $60 billion, striking back in a trade war with Washington shortly after Trump warned it not to retaliate. World stock markets swooned Monday and braced for more swings today. [Reuters]
 MONTANA GOV. STEVE BULLOCK IS RUNNING Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) is running for president. “We need to defeat Donald Trump in 2020 and defeat the corrupt system that lets campaign money drown out the people’s voice, so we can finally make good on the promise of a fair shot for everyone,” Bullock said Tuesday. [HuffPost]TRUMP TARGETS COLLEGE MONEY FOR NASA The Trump administration is hoping to shift money for Pell Grants for college education to fund new spending, including a $1.6 billion bump for NASA. The administration would use an additional $1.9 billion in surplus Pell Grant money to fund other budget priorities. [AP]LIBERAL SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ISSUES WARNING The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a 40-year-old legal precedent regarding state sovereignty, leading Justice Stephen Breyer to ask in a dissenting opinion which longstanding rulings the court may choose to toss out next. [HuffPost]SWEDISH PROSECUTORS REOPEN ASSANGE RAPE PROBE Julian Assange will face a revived investigation over a rape allegation in Sweden after a decision by prosecutors to reopen the case. The WikiLeaks co-founder, who denies the claim, avoided extradition to Sweden by taking refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012. [HuffPost]FOX’S INGRAHAM: LOSING COUNTRY TO ‘HUGE DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS’ Fox News host Laura Ingraham fearmongered as she claimed the tax cuts championed by Trump’s administration will be “bled away” by the “huge demographic shift” caused by illegal immigration. [HuffPost]GREEN NEW DEALERS FIND VILLAIN IN BIDEN’S ‘MIDDLE GROUND’ The former vice president may call himself by the affectionate nickname “Middle-Class Joe,” but for proponents of the Green New Deal, “Middle-Ground Joe” could become an epithet. [HuffPost]
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