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One of the largest political action committees aligned with House Republicans is backing a progressive Democrat in California running to unseat Rep. David Valadao (R-CA), a move that one political expert described as a "confession," according to a new report.

The Congressional Leadership Fund recently sent out mailers supporting progressive Democrat Randy Villegas, a college professor, as he competes against Democratic Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains in California's 22nd District, The Sacramento Bee reported. Some experts suggested that the move is intended to help Villegas win the race against Bains by turning moderate voters away from Democrats and toward Republicans.

The state of Florida's deal for a Trump presidential library in Miami was effectively an illegal gift in violation of the U.S. Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.

Trump unveiled plans for his library at the end of March. The structure, which is envisioned as a high-rise skyscraper with a luxury hotel built into it, will sit on land taken from Miami Dade College, one of the most heavily Hispanic higher education institutions in the United States. The land is valued at $67 million, but was sold off for the Trump library for just $10.

A popular white livestreamer who goes by the name "Chud the Builder" said that he shot a Black man after an altercation over racial slurs.

The reported shooting comes a day after the streamer, 28-year-old Dalton Eatherly, was arrested in Nashville because he allegedly refused to pay for dinner following the restaurant's demand that he not livestream.

The weaponization of the FBI under the Trump administration and Director Kash Patel is entering territory America has never seen before, MS NOW justice correspondent Ken Dilanian told anchor Katy Tur on Wednesday.

This comes after bombshell allegations from Patel's acting predecessor, Brian Driscoll, that Patel is "padding" FBI statistics to make his leadership look more effective than it actually is.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) announced a special legislative session to redraw congressional maps ahead of the 2028 elections — a move that could deliver Republicans a stranglehold on the state's congressional delegation and put a crosshairs on one of the last rural Black-majority congressional districts in the South.

The announcement comes in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in a Louisiana case that handed Republican-controlled Southern legislatures a green light to revisit their congressional maps. GOP governors across the region have been racing to take advantage of the decision ever since.

FBI Director Kash Patel strutted into a Senate hearing Tuesday, brandishing a large black placard of statistics and daring his critics to dispute them. But current and former law enforcement officials say those numbers are a sham.

"They are absolutely padding the stats and claiming arrests they would not have claimed [previously]," one current FBI official told MS NOW. "So comparing 2025 to 2024 is not apples to apples."

Republican chances of holding on to their House majority have gotten a major boost this month with a pair of court rulings, but an analyst warned that might set the stage for new problems down the road.

Two weeks ago, the outlook was dim for GOP chances for keeping the House and not much better for the Senate, with President Donald Trump's poll numbers sinking to new depths and fractures appearing in his MAGA coalition, but that forecast improved since the start of May, wrote MS NOW columnist Hayes Brown.