Sessions: Erroneous Tax Credits To ‘mostly Mexicans’ Could Pay For Wall

Donald Trump “is taking concrete steps to deprive Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of oxygen as they compete for a portion of the same voters,” The Hill reports. “The strong anti-Kennedy sentiment from Trump’s orbit comes as polling suggests the independent could take support from the former president, who is looking to galvanize the anti-establishment lane to win the White House.”

Philip Bump: “Why is the simplest explanation of campus protests so hard to accept? Young people were sympathetic to Palestinians even before the war began. Why is that ignored?”

“Ukrainian authorities said they foiled a plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking officials, making the announcement on the day of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in Moscow,” Bloomberg reports. “Two colonels with Ukraine’s Department of State Security, a special unit responsible for protecting government officials, have been detained on suspicion of high treason.”

“An American soldier detained in Russia last week will remain in jail until at least July while the authorities investigate theft charges against him, the Russian news media reported on Tuesday, citing local court officials,” the New York Times reports.

“Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off court to attend his son Barron Trump’s graduation ceremony,” Newsweek reports.

“Testimony in the criminal trial of Donald Trump has pivoted from weeks of salacious stories of sex and scandal to focus on the financial transactions at the center of the case. On Tuesday, the testimony is set to shift back, with a major witness expected to take the stand: Stormy Daniels,” the New York Times reports. “This is the first time Trump will have to be face to face with Daniels and hear her accusations.