“Seven staff members from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert were arrested for allegedly trespassing in a Capitol Hill building on Thursday night, authorities have said. All seven were each charged with unlawful entry,” The Guardian reports.

“The employees, including Robert Smigel, the voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, were found by US Capitol police officers inside the Longworth House Office Building, which houses offices for members of the House of Representatives.”

“Michael Avenatti, the twice-convicted lawyer who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in her legal battles against former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Sunday offered to plead guilty to ‘multiple’ criminal charges he still faces in California,” Reuters reports.

Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio says there are “two standards” between Black Lives Matter protests and January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Said Del Rio: “I can look at images on the TV — people’s livelihoods are being destroyed. Businesses are being burned down. No problem.”

He added: “And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re going to make that a major deal. I just think it’s kind of two standards.”

“Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control,” CNN reports.

“McConaughey, a Uvalde native, said he and his wife, Camila Alves, spent most of the past week with the families of those who were killed in his hometown. He showed pictures of their artwork and brought to the briefing room the green Converse shoes that one girl wore every day that were used to identify her body after the shooting. She had drawn a heart on one of the shoes.”

“Sheryl Sandberg may pursue a career in politics after she leaves Facebook, with some Beltway observers highlighting her high profile, a history of business success, a popular book, and a compelling personal story,” Insider reports.

“One person suggested Sandberg is eyeing Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat.”

San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said he will not take the field for the national anthem at tonight’s game against the Cincinnati Red or any game “until I feel better about the direction of our country.”

Said Kapler: “I don’t believe it is representing us well right now.”

He added: “Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I’m participating in a self congratulatory glorification of the ONLY country where these mass shootings take place.”

Michelle Obama praised Oprah Winfrey in a Time magazine essay as the country’s “common denominator.”

Said Obama: “No matter where you go, everyone knows her name. And all of it makes me wonder: maybe her success isn’t rooted in the fact that she found a common denominator that unites us all. Maybe Oprah is our common denominator.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked on his podcast how someone like former Saturday Night Live actor Pete Davidson gets “all of these, like, hot women.”

Golf legend Greg Norman attempted to brush off questions about the murder of the dissident Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi by saying “we’ve all made mistakes,” the Times of London reports.

He added: “You just want to learn from those mistakes and how you can correct them going forward.”

“The sound of Sunday Bloody Sunday blasted out of a subway station in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday as Bono and The Edge took to a makeshift stage in a makeshift bomb shelter and performed a surprise 40-minute concert to a backdrop of air-raid sirens and war,” the Irish Times reports.

“There was some, the dress, the stuff that these young women — liberated women — are wearing. They wear this stuff and then they talk about #MeToo. It sends a mixed signal, that’s for sure.”

— Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), quoted by the American Independent, suggesting that women on the Grammy Awards were inviting sexual assaults.

Farhad Manjoo: “Elon Musk is hard to love. Elon Musk is hard to like. On his way to becoming the world’s wealthiest person, Musk has emitted so many metric tons of self-indulgent puerility he might have violated the Paris Accords.”

“But one need not find Musk personally or politically appealing to appreciate that his contributions to humanity could end up being profound.”

“Through his endeavors in solar power and electric cars, Musk might do more to combat climate change than just about any lefty environmental activist or politician you can name. Musk looks even better when judged against other globe-straddling billionaires in his orbit. His is not an empire built on inheritance, dumb luck, monopoly or, subsidies notwithstanding, insider access. Indeed, his businesses seek to undermine some of the most harmful and politically entrenched industries on the planet, among them defense contractors, utilities, oil companies and combustion-engine automakers.”

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Donald Trump called for Queen Elizabeth to strip Prince Harry and Meghan of their royal titles, The Sun reports.

Trump also said Harry, who quit royal duty to live in the United States with Meghan, was the most “whipped” man he has ever seen.

It’s the 15th anniversary of one of my favorite moments from Fenway Park.

New York Times: “The opinions poured in, 280 characters at a time, as to whether it was good or bad that Elon Musk had offered to buy Twitter for more than $40 billion and take it private.”

“A person’s politics typically dictated how they felt: Conservatives cheered it as victory for free speech. Liberals fretted that misinformation would spread rampantly if Mr. Musk followed through with his plan to dismantle how the social network monitors content.”

“But what no one seemed to be able to say with any certainty was what kind of political philosophy the enigmatic billionaire believes himself.”

“That’s because Mr. Musk, 50, who was born in South Africa and only became an American citizen in 2002, expresses views that don’t fit neatly into this county’s binary, left-right political framework.”

Donald Trump opened up Kid Rock’s concert in Indiana last week with a video message, and after the singer performed a song targeting Black Lives Matter supporters and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Insider reports.