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Tom Brenner/ReutersDonald Trump was apparently full of religious zeal early Friday as he fired off an all-caps post throwing his support behind a move to force the Ten Commandments on public schools.The former president’s Truth Social rant came after Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed a law requiring every public classroom in the state to display a poster of the commandments. “I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER,” Trump wrote in his post.Trump went on to urge his followers to study the commandments. “READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG?” he wrote. The former president’s public support for the commandments—which prohibit lying and adultery—follows his conviction last month of falsifying business records after he was accused of attempting to hide a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to stop her speaking about her claims of an extramarital one-night stand with him.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersSteve Bannon’s most recent effort to avoid his looming prison sentence did not go well.The former Donald Trump adviser’s lawyers had asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow Bannon to remain free while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction related to his defiance of a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. In a 2-1 vote, a panel of judges ruled that Bannon’s case “does not warrant a departure from the general rule” that defendants start serving their sentence after conviction—meaning he’s still expected to begin his four-month prison term on July 1.Explaining the ruling, the judges said Bannon’s request to stay out of jail while he fights his conviction up to the United States Supreme Court wasn’t compelling because it’s not likely the justices will agree with his argument. Judges Bradley Garcia, a Biden appointee, and Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee, wrote that Bannon has “no basis” to think the high court will be favorable to his case.Read more at The Daily Beast.

REUTERS/Joshua RobertsSimmering tensions at The Washington Post surrounding its new leadership appear to be boiling over, with one of the newspaper’s most esteemed figures now publicly criticizing its owner, Jeff Bezos.David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and associate editor at the Post, wrote on Facebook Wednesday that he doesn’t know “a single person” at the publication who thinks the ongoing drama surrounding new CEO and publisher Will Lewis “can stand.” “There might be a few,” Maraniss added, “[B]ut very very few.”“Jeff Bezos owns the Post but he is not of and for the Post or he would understand,” Maraniss wrote. “The issue is one of integrity not resistance to change.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Miami-Dade Corrections & RehabilitationTravis Scott took to social media to post three simple letters after he was arrested on Thursday morning in Miami: “Lol.”The cryptic tweet came after the rapper was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 4:35 a.m., according to information from the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department. He’s now facing charges of trespassing after a warning and disorderly intoxication.Scott—whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster II—submitted a $650 bond and was released from the jail. His arrest comes just a few days before he is due to head out on his international Circus Maximus stadium tour, which kicks off in the Netherlands on June 28. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Leon Neal/ReutersPrime Minister Rishi Sunak took a big gamble calling the British election early. Now his odds for winning are getting even longer thanks to a betting scandal that just cost him the guy running the entire campaign.One of the Conservative Party candidates running for a parliamentary seat is being probed by the U.K.’s gambling regulator over allegedly using inside information to place a bet on the timing of the upcoming general election, the BBC reported Thursday.Adding intrigue to the report is the fact that the candidate in question is married to the Tories’ director of campaigns—who is also now reportedly being looked into by the regulator. That shock revelation means the Conservatives’ director of campaigning has taken a leave of absence with just two weeks left of the campaign, which was already going absolutely terribly.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Theo Wargo/The Hollywood Reporter via GettyWhat’s the deal with all these protesters?Jerry Seinfeld once again found himself dealing with pro-Palestinian activists disrupting one of his shows in Australia on Tuesday after facing similar disruption over the weekend. The latest interruption took place at the ICC Sydney Theatre, where two men in the audience stood and shouted “free Palestine” while also unfurling a Palestinian flag, according to 7News Australia. Video of the incident shared online captures the crowd loudly booing the stunt, while Seinfeld can be heard telling the protesters: “You’re doing great—you’re getting them on your side, can you hear it? It’s working!”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Nathan Howard/ReutersSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) found himself feeling the heat over the weekend with a Father’s Day barbecue post that was mercilessly skewered online.“Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years, but my daughter and her wife just bought a house with a backyard and for the first time we’re having a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill!” Schumer wrote in a caption on the X post, which has since been deleted. It appears to have been taken down after other social media users roasted one particularly unpalatable detail in the photo Schumer seemingly didn’t spot before he included it in his post.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Slaven Vlasic/GettyU.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the risks posed by social media to young people’s mental health are so severe that platforms should be required to carry warnings labels like those on alcohol and tobacco products.“The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency—and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Dr. Murthy wrote in a New York Times op-ed Monday, citing studies linking adolescent social media use with increased risk of mental health issues. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” he added.Such labels will require congressional action and cannot be unilaterally imposed by the surgeon general. But Murthy pleaded with lawmakers to make them a reality in order to “regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Rebecca Cook/ReutersDonald Trump apparently made time on Father’s Day to mount an all-out attack on The Washington Post, furiously claiming the newspaper has “fools and stupid people” while namechecking a columnist who recently questioned his mental fitness.After firing off one bonkers Truth Social message to “RADICAL LEFT DEGENERATES” earlier on Sunday, the former president then turned his ire on the Post, baselessly accusing it of “absolutely blowing up with Fake Stories!” “They ought to clean up their act,” he continued, “Start writing the TRUTH, and maybe they’d get some of their Readers back, considering that they’ve lost over 50% in just a short period of time.”The Post says its audience has halved since 2020 and its new CEO and Publisher Will Lewis revealed last month that the company lost $77 million over the last year. Lewis himself has come under fire recently amid claims that he tried to kill stories about his alleged involvement in covering up a hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids (Lewis denies all wrongdoing).Read more at The Daily Beast.

Logan Cyrus/AFP via GettyFormer South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Sunday that her dad had died on Father’s Day.“This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley wrote in a post on X which also included a picture of her embracing her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa. “My heart is heavy knowing he is gone.”The former United Nations ambassador, who sought the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year, did not say how old her father was or give a cause of death. In January, Haley briefly left her campaign trail to visit her dad after he was hospitalized. Reports at the time said he had cancer.Read more at The Daily Beast.