WASHINGTON: FOX: More than 100 former Trump administration officials have formed a growing coalition backing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to be the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee.

NEW JERSEY: Police in Lakewood are looking for the people who tossed a lit explosive out of a vehicle near a Shul on Squankum Road near Shafto Road this past Motzei Shabbos. No one was hurt B"H.

WASHINGTON: The driver of a U-Haul truck was detained by the Secret Service after crashing into security barriers on Lafayette Square near the White House where a robot is doing a search of the vehicle.

WASHINGTON: Police arrested a man who crashed a U-Haul truck near the White House last night and charged him with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on the President, VP or a family member, assault with a dangerous weapon and trespassing.

WASHINGTON: UPDATE: Police have identified the driver of the U-Haul truck as 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri. Authorities found a Nazi flag near the crash site.

NEW YORK: Former President Trump will make a virtual appearance in criminal court for first time since pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He will be read the terms of a protective order barring him from disclosing certain evidence.

MOSCOW: A Russian court has extended the pre-trial detention of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich by three months to August 30.

WASHINGTON: Federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents have issued a subpoena for information about his business dealings in seven foreign countries since he took office.

CALIFORNIA: Microsoft launches a new AI tool in multiple languages trained to detect harmful content across images and texts for safer online communities and environments.

ISRAEL: VIDEO: Reb Chaim Stern, a Viznitz Chasid and prime financial backer, lands in Eretz Yisroel and receives a Kabulas Panim from the Viznitz Rebbe and Kehilla. It's his first visit since getting released from prison in the USA.

NEW YORK: Professor Alan Dershowitz said he will be representing Rabbi Leo Dee, whose daughters and wife were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan valley, for free, in his lawsuit against CNN.

FLORIDA: JUST IN: NBC: Governor Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for president during a Twitter Spaces discussion with Elon Musk tomorrow night at 7pm.

CALIFORNIA: Apple signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Broadcom to manufacture microchips in the US to develop 5G radio frequency and wireless connectivity components.

NEW YORK: A Manhattan judge set March 25 as the start of the criminal trial against former president Trump in the hush money case, which will be in middle of the '24 primary campaign and less than eight months before the presidential election.

WASHINGTON: NYT: Trump's Justice Department kept open an investigation into the Clinton Foundation until the last days of his presidency resulting in no charges being filed.

TENNESSEE: The Daily Wire plans to put its entire slate of podcasts, which are almost all recorded as videos, on Twitter beginning May 30.

WASHINGTON: Attorneys for Trump are requesting a meeting with AG Merrick Garland, saying the former president being treated unfairly, amid fears that an indictment is imminent in the classified docs probe.

CALIFORNIA: The Gap is suing Kanye West for $2 million over their failed collaboration, claiming the rapper made unapproved changes to a leased Yeezy storefront in Los Angeles without permission which the landlord is trying to collect on.

NEW YORK; Poll: Mayor Eric Adams would beat Public Advocate Jumaane Williams (45-25%) and Comptroller Brad Landers (48-17%) if they decide to challenge his re-election bid in a 2025 Democratic primary.

MISSOURI: Bud Light sales plunged 26% compared to this time last year amid backlash from its customers over their woke marketing pitch.