Former President Joe Biden has endorsed Dan Koh in a crowded Democratic primary to replace Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, who is running for Senate.

Koh's campaign released a video Monday showing the former president praise Koh, who served as a White House aide during Biden's presidency.

"You did a heck of a job for my administration. You really did. You're a tough fighter for standing up for people in the country. People needed help when they — when things happened, and you were always there," Biden says in the video.

Koh is one of seven running for the seat in the Massachusetts Democratic primary, which will be held on Sept. 1.

He's got a hefty slate of endorsements, including from former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Koh worked for HuffPost in administrative roles before entering politics.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) pointedly blamed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for the downfall of Spirit Airlines while likening her in a disturbing social media post to the slaughter of O.J. Simpson’s second wife, Nicole Brown.

“Nailed it,” Lee posted online Monday with a meme that labeled Simpson as Warren and Brown as Spirit Airlines. In 1994, Brown was found brutally stabbed to death outside of the Los Angeles home she shared with her two children.

The image was shared by Lee about an hour after he accused Warren in a separate post of having “destroyed” Spirit Airlines because she voiced support against the company merging with JetBlue two years ago.

Lee seemingly has a penchant for comparing outside events to the OJ Simpson murder trial. He referenced it last month while reacting to the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and while reacting to “climate alarmism” in 2025, and also while musing about the 2023 Chinese spy balloon incident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation.

The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed off a bird he "rescued" in a post on X, with the caption, "Starling rescue today at Dulles Airport."

The post offered no other explanation, but Kennedy has a history of absurd interactions with animals. There was the time he dumped a bear in Central Park, and more recently, it was revealed that he once cut off the genitals of a dead raccoon to "study them later." He also once sawed off the head of a dead whale and threw it on top of his minivan and drove it to New York.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is picking sides in three heavily contested Democratic primary battles.

On Monday, the group added California Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains, Pennsylvania firefighters' union leader Bob Brooks and Maine State Sen. Joe Baldacci to its "Red To Blue" program, which sends signals to donors and outside groups that they are the preferred candidates of Democratic leadership. All three are in contested primaries in swing seats.

"These latest additions to our Red to Blue program represent the strength of our people-first message and the broad appeal of our top-tier candidates,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), the chair of the DCCC. “These candidates will win because they are authentic, independent-minded leaders who are rooted in their communities."

Bains, seen as one of the most moderate Democrats in the California legislature, is running against Randy Villegas, a more progressive candidate who has the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Only one of them can advance to the general election to battle incumbent GOP Rep. David Valadao in a Central Valley district that narrowly voted for President Donald Trump.

Baldacci is facing state auditor Matt Dunlap, another progressive, in the race to replace retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) in Congress. The state's 2nd District is largely rural and voted for Trump by large margins, and the winner will face former GOP Gov. Paul LePage in the general election.

And Brooks, who has the endorsements of both Sanders and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, is battling a trio of other candidates for the right to challenge GOP Rep. Ryan McKenzie in a swing district in the state's Lehigh Valley.

The DCCC is also supporting former journalist Marlene Galán-Woods in Arizona's 1st District, Army veteran Jessica Killin in Colorado's 5th District, Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie in Pennsylvania's 1st District, Tejano music icon Bobby Pulido in Texas' 15th District and former sheriff's deputy Johnny Garcia in Texas' 35th District.

It’s the first Monday in May, meaning it’s “fashion’s biggest night out.”  The 2026 Met Gala kicks off this evening in New York City, bringing some of the year’s most high-profile fashion statements.

This year’s celebrity-packed fundraiser, which benefits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has a dress code of “Fashion is Art.”

Guests are encouraged to “express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.”

A livestream of the event can be viewed through Vogue’s digital platforms, including YouTube and TikTok. The red carpet livestream starts at 6 p.m. EST.

The exhibition and benefit are sponsored by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who are serving as honorary chairs. The couple is expected to attend the star-studded event, which has already drawn protests in the city over their involvement.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized in critical but stable condition, his spokesperson said Sunday, days after the Republican hoarsely told his talk show audience that his voice was “a little under the weather.”

The spokesperson, Ted Goodman, didn’t say what sent Giuliani, 81, to the hospital, how long he’s been there or what his prognosis is.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has tightened security – and grown increasingly isolated – amid assassination fears, according to a Financial Times report, which cited anonymous sources who know him and a source close to European intelligence services.

The Kremlin's concerns about an assassination attempt via drone have spiked, fueled by Ukraine's military capabilities and the U.S.'s capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, sources told the FT.

Putin is allowing fewer visits and has dialed up his time in bunkers as a result. He's also been hyper-focused on Russia's war with Ukraine, becoming more detached from other domestic issues.

The Kremlin did not immediately respond to The FT's request for comment.

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