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| Prosecutors will begin selections in Fulton County, Georgia, today for a special grand jury that will discern the steps former president Donald Trump and his allies took as they tried to reverse Georgia's 2020 election results. More than 100 civilians, including many women and children, are expected to arrive in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia after evacuating the Azovstal steel plant's rubble in Mariupol. Hearings for a lawsuit alleging racist hiring practices by the NFL will begin, and the Met Gala's return to the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tonight will surely be extravagant. |
| I'm Nicole with Monday's news. |
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| 📰 Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson revived the White House Correspondents' Dinner. |
 | | An assistant fixes Kim Kardashian's train while she poses with boyfriend Pete Davidson at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. | | Paul Morigi, Getty Images | |
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| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, reporter Chris Woodyard tells us how Russia's latest moves are shaking up world energy markets. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
Panel weighing Trump election interference in Georgia to begin |
| Jury selection will begin Monday in Fulton County, Georgia, for a special grand jury to weigh evidence and testimony concerning election interference by former president Donald Trump. A major focus of the inquiry, which began last year, has been Trump's Jan. 2, 2021, telephone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the former president urged Raffensperger to tilt the 2020 statewide vote in his favor. In addition to the Georgia probe, the New York attorney general is continuing to develop a civil case over Trump's financial practices, and a special House committee is investigating Trump's links to the Jan. 6 insurrection and the bid to void President Joe Biden's election victory. |
| 🔴 Georgia is planning to call dozens of witnesses before the special grand jury. |
| 🔴 Trump under the legal gun: Analysts doubt charges will hurt him with his base. |
 | | Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis poses for a photo at her office, Feb. 24, 2021 in Atlanta. | | John Bazemore, AP | |
More than 100 civilians expected to arrive in Zaporizhzhia, Zelenskyy says |
| Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 100 civilians, primarily women and children, were expected to arrive in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday. The expected arrival comes after a video posted online by Ukrainian forces showed elderly women and mothers with small children being helped as they climbed a pile of debris from the sprawling steel plant in Mariupol. Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised military and financial support after leading a top-level meeting with Zelenskyy in Kyiv. Pelosi, the most senior American lawmaker to visit Ukraine since Russia's war began, said that the U.S. congressional delegation she led was proud to convey to Zelenskyy "the message of unity from the Congress of the United States, a message of appreciation from the American people for his leadership and admiration for the people of Ukraine for their courage." |
| 🟡 ''We do not want to be involved'': As horror unfolds in Ukraine, most of the world isn't punishing Putin. |
 | | A man feeds a child as they arrive by bus at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022. | | Francisco Seco, AP | |
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Met Gala: Fashion's biggest night |
| Tonight will glitter as some of the world's most influential people dazzle on the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday at this year's Met Gala. It's the first time since 2019 that the museum has seen the in-person event at its traditional berth on the first Monday in May. The gala is an annual fundraiser for the Met's Costume Institute and calls on designers to adorn stars, models and other changemakers according to a selected theme to match a wing of the museum's exhibit. The latest exhibit — ''In America: An Anthology of Fashion'' — has inspired the 2022 theme ''Gilded Glamor,'' a reference to the late-1800s era defined by industrialization and innovation. Regina King, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Lin-Manuel Miranda will serve as co-chairs of the event. |
| ⭐ 2022 Met Gala: Exhibit will highlight 8 top film directors. |
 | | Blake Lively attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition on Monday, May 7, 2018, in New York. | | Charles Sykes, Charles Sykes/Invision/AP | |
Hearings for NFL discrimination lawsuit to begin |
| Hearings for a lawsuit brought against the NFL for alleged racist hiring practices begins Monday. Brian Flores, who was fired from his role as head coach of the Miami Dolphins in January, brought forward the lawsuit, alleging that the league is "rife with racism" despite publicly condemning it. Two other coaches — Steve Wilks and Ray Horton — joined Flores in the lawsuit in April. In a letter from the NFL released Thursday, the league asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss the coaches' claims or force them into arbitration, saying the claims lack legal merit. In the same letter, lawyers for Flores and the other coaches said they will oppose the NFL's plans. The lawsuit comes as the NFL wraps up its annual draft ahead of the 2022-2023 season. |
| 👉 Ray Horton, Steve Wilks join Brian Flores' discrimination lawsuit against NFL. |
| 👉 Brian Flores says he declined to sign non-disclosure agreement when Dolphins fired him. |
 | | Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores stands on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the New York Jets on Nov. 21, 2021, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. | | The Associated Press | |
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| 📃 A bill that would protect in-state abortion providers from out-of-state laws passed in the Connecticut Senate. |
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| 💧 Lake Mead is hitting historic low water levels, threatening the water supply for millions. |
 | | This photo taken Monday, April 25, 2022, by the Southern Nevada Water Authority shows the top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. | | AP | |
Feds investigate former Peace Corps employee |
| A former Peace Corps employee in Africa who avoided prosecution after killing a mother of three in a car crash in 2019 is once again the subject of a federal watchdog's inquiry into whether he had a history of hiring sex workers overseas . The 2019 incident unfolded after John Peterson, 67, had been drinking at a bar and picked up a sex worker, according to the Peace Corps. The Department of Justice declined to prosecute him, citing a lack of jurisdiction. The reason for the renewed interest in the case is unclear, but it comes after USA TODAY exposed details of a chaotic episode in which Peterson's vehicle plowed into and killed Rabia Issa, 47, as she set up a roadside food stand. |
 | | Rabia Issa's relatives kept a photocopy of John Peterson's driver's license, which they say police gave them after Issa's death. | | Peter Mgongo for USA TODAY | |
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📷 Photo of the Day: May Day 2022 worker protest around the world📷 |
 | | Mayor Franziska Giffey reacts as a security member with an umbrella smashes an egg that got thrown at her by an audience member as she delivered a speech on stage in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on May Day. | | TOBIAS SCHWARZ, AFP via Getty Images | |
| Tens of thousands of people marched in cities across Europe on Sunday to honor workers and pressure national governments to do more for their citizens . From Turkey to Cuba to France, the rallies marking International Workers Day called for action to address grievances such as rising inflation, food shortages, increasing costs of living and the need for action against climate change. In one instance in Germany, Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey briefly interrupted her May Day speech at a trade union rally when someone threw an egg at her but missed. |
| Click here to see photos of the 2022 May Day rallies. |
| Associated Press contributed reporting. |
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