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Massachusetts relocates migrants Gov. DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard; Italy and Pakistan floods are linked to climate change.

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DeSantis uses migrants as political pawns

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• Friday, Massachusetts moved 50 migrants from Martha’s Vineyard to a military base on Cape Cod, where there’s access to food, shelter, and services. [Washington Post / Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Maria Sacchetti]
• Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis flew the migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in chartered planes on Wednesday as a way to attack the Biden administration’s immigration policies. [Guardian / Richard Luscombe]
• Most of the migrants are asylum seekers who crossed the US-Mexico border to escape violence and economic strife in Central and South America; after being processed by immigration authorities, such migrants are typically released in the US until their asylum claims are heard. [CNN / Zachary B. Wolf]
• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, have also bused thousands of migrants to New York and Washington, DC. [New York Times]
• Top Biden administration officials met Friday to consider legal action against Republican governors for busing migrants from the border. [Axios / Stef W. Knight]

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Italy and Pakistan floods

• At least 10 people were killed and four others are missing after flash flooding in central Italy. [Associated Press / Fanuel Morelli and Frances D’Emilio]
• Almost 16 inches of rain — a third of the yearly total — fell in just a few hours, sweeping away cars and debris. [Reuters / Cristiano Corvino]
• Although it is difficult to link one flooding event to climate change, a warmer atmosphere holds and releases more water that becomes rainfall. [NYT/ Elisabetta Povoledo]
• Heavy rainfall will become more common because of climate change, increasing the flood risk when the water has nowhere to go. [NPR / Rebecca Hersher]
• That’s the case in Pakistan, where a recent study found climate change likely worsened the rainfall that recently caused catastrophic floods. [Guardian / Fiona Harvey]

Federal Judge Raymond Dearie will serve as special master to review documents seized last month from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. [Vox / Ian Millhiser]

• Columbia University dropped in college rankings after a professor at the school revealed it used fake data to improve its US News ranking. [Guardian / Chris McGreal]
• Abortion and Donald Trump are keeping Democrats competitive in midterm races, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll. [NYT / Lisa Lerer and Nate Cohn]
• The wait to observe Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin hit 24 hours Friday. [AP / Mike Corder, Jill Lawless, and Danica Kirka]

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“That DeSantis would go to Texas to round up Venezuelans to drop them off in Martha’s Vineyard, the guy has not the shadow of a heart or a conscience.”

[Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) / The Hill]

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