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“The original super PAC supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign plans to report that it raised nearly $70 million in May, and that it will spend a further $100 million through Labor Day,“ the New York Times reports. “The super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., is preparing an advertising blitz focused on a handful of key states in the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt, where several polls show Mr.

“Fresh off last week’s historic guilty verdict, former President Donald Trump had a warning for his political opponents on Tuesday,” NBC News reports. “In an interview with the conservative outlet Newsmax, Trump seemed to float the possibility of imprisoning his political opponents if he becomes president again.” Said Trump: “So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.” He added: “Does that mean the next president does it to them?

“As President Biden visits France this week, he will be rallying European leaders to his side and showcasing the resolve he has helped to foster on behalf of Ukraine,” the New York Times reports. “But he will also be defying the very same leaders and standing virtually alone among Western democracies still firmly in support of Israel as it wages war in Gaza.” Politico: Foreign policy becomes a liability for Biden’s campaign as he heads to France.

“Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U. S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza,“ the New York Times reports. “The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel.”

“When the Supreme Court debated this spring whether to limit access to a widely used abortion medication, a majority of justices seemed inclined to rule against the lawsuit by finding that the antiabortion doctors behind it had no legal basis to bring the case,” the Washington Post reports. “That was the position of the Biden administration, whose lawyer pressed the justices to get rid of the challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of mifepristone, first approved by the agency more than 20 years ago.

“After years of using Hunter Biden’s legal and personal dramas to bash his father, former President Donald Trump and his campaign have been largely silent as the president’s son stands trial in Delaware in a gun case saturated in ugly family drama,” Politico reports. “While Trump’s campaign said it will continue casting Hunter Biden’s legal problems as part of the ‘Biden crime family’ and plans to highlight the trial on social media, it is not attacking every tiny development.”