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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump was continuing to ask fossil-fuel executives to fund his presidential campaign on Wednesday, despite scrutiny of his relationship with the industry. The former president attended a fundraising luncheon at Houston’s Post Oak hotel hosted by three Big Oil executives. The invitation-only meeting comes a day after the defense rested its case in Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, and a week after Houston was battered by deadly storms.

“Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will stand as an independent candidate in the general election, a potentially awkward moment for his old party and Keir Starmer’s campaign to become UK prime minister,” Bloomberg reports.

New York Times: “Ever since he vaulted to the leadership of the Republican Party eight years ago, the same Republicans who once deemed him a ‘kook,’ a ‘pathological liar’ and a ‘delusional narcissist’ nonetheless have come around to endorse handing him the nuclear codes. Even many of those who called him out for trying to overturn an election that he lost are now willing to entrust him again with the future of American democracy.” “Given Mr.

“At five in the morning one week after Republican Royce White lost his 2022 Minnesota congressional primary, his campaign shelled out more than $1,200 in donor funds to a vendor 1,800 miles away not typically associated with political expenses—an all-nude strip club in Miami, Florida, called ‘Gold Rush Cabaret,’” the Daily Beast reports. “That is just one among dozens of outlandish but previously unreported payments that The Daily Beast has identified from White’s 2022 Federal Election Commission filings.

Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), a top possible VP pick for former President Trump, has spent the past six months lobbying some of the heaviest hitters in Silicon Valley to back Trump, Axios reports.

Only a very frightened politician would commit the kind of gaffe that reveals what she truly thinks of voters.