Good morning. It’s Saturday, May 3.

1. Left Wins Australia

2. Stephen Miller Emerges as Top Contender for National Security Adviser

3. Court Audio: Abrego Garcia’s Wife Says He’d ‘Wake Up and Beat Me’

4. Trump Admin Reaches Settlement with Family of Ashli Babbitt

5. Israel Launches Airstrikes Near Syrian Presidential Palace

6. Woman Who Called Kid N-Word Raises Over $500,000 to Relocate

7. Transportation Dept. Discovers $54M in Woke Grants — And Ends Them

8. Trump Ends Tariff Loophole That Enabled Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods

1. Left Wins Australia

Australia’s centre-left Labor government claimed victory on Saturday after a tense election shaped by concerns over housing, the cost of living and the shadow of Donald Trump.

Voters swung in favour of Anthony Albanese, the incumbent prime minister, over the opposition Liberal-National coalition, led by Peter Dutton.

Mr Dutton’s policies and campaigning had been compared to those of the US president, who had loomed over the vote since its earliest days.

2. Stephen Miller Emerges as Top Contender for National Security Adviser

President Trump’s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, is garnering buzz inside the White House as a top candidate to be the next national security adviser, five sources familiar with the situation say.

Miller — the deputy chief of staff and the brain behind Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown — is one of the president’s longest-serving and most-trusted aides.

Miller’s name surfaced shortly after Trump removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser on Thursday and nominated Waltz to become the next United Nations ambassador.

3. Court Audio: Abrego Garcia’s Wife Says He’d ‘Wake Up and Beat Me’

The wife of alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia once pleaded with a Maryland judge for protection from her husband, citing multiple examples of domestic abuse, according to an unearthed audio recording obtained by USA Today.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura has repeatedly defended her husband’s innocence after the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador over his alleged gang ties but acknowledged making a “clerical error” in his removal from the US.

In the newly-surfaced audio from 2020, Vasquez Sura could be heard outlining several instances of physical abuse by Abrego Garcia that resulted in her making “a lot of police reports” and suffering “bruises” from his alleged beatings.

4. Trump Admin Reaches Settlement with Family of Ashli Babbitt

A “settlement in principle” has been reached in the $30 million federal wrongful death lawsuit by the estate of Ashli Babbitt against the federal government, two attorneys said in a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday afternoon.

No terms were disclosed in a hastily called hearing before U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes. The hearing was scheduled to handle a motion from Terrell N. Roberts III, Babbitt’s previous attorney, who on May 2 sought a restraining order and a lien for at least 25% of the gross amount of any settlement.

Judge Reyes ultimately denied Roberts’ request for a temporary restraining order, but not before the tense hearing descended into shouting. At one point, she repeatedly snapped at a Judicial Watch attorney representing Aaron Babbitt and the estate of his late wife.

5. Israel Launches Airstrikes Near Syrian Presidential Palace

Israeli warplanes struck near Syria’s presidential palace in Damascus before dawn Friday, in the most direct brushback to the former Islamist rebels who now run the country.

There were no immediate reports of damage, but the message was clear. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a warning to the government not to deploy troops to the south, in the direction of Israel, and to prevent violence against the Druze minority living in the area.

The strike followed a string of deadly clashes this week in southern Syria that involved Druze militias, government forces and extremist elements, and which have put new pressure on a nascent government trying to prevent the country from fragmenting along sectarian lines.

6. Woman Who Called Kid N-Word Raises Over $500,000 to Relocate

A Minnesota woman seen using a racial slur against a child in a video posted on social media has raised over $500,000 through a crowdfunding campaign, saying she and her family need to relocate for their safety.

The incident, which occurred at Soldiers Field Memorial Park in Rochester, shows a woman, identified as Shiloh Hendrix, using the n-word in an argument with a man, identified as Sharmake Beyle Omar, who confronted her about her language toward a black child. The video, which circulated across social media platforms including X and TikTok, shows Hendrix repeating the slur and defending her actions by claiming the child stole from her toddler’s diaper bag.

The rapid spread of the video and subsequent support for the woman at the center of the controversy has reignited debates over online harassment, free speech, racism and digital fundraising platforms.

7. Transportation Dept. Discovers $54M in Woke Grants — And Ends Them

The Department of Transportation is terminating $54 million worth of recently-discovered “woke university grants,” The Daily Wire has learned, arguing that the grants advanced radical agendas that ran counter to the department’s mission.

Seven schools received grants which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told The Daily Wire were advancing a “radical DEI and green agenda” that is wasteful and counter to the Trump administration’s priorities.

The University of California, Davis’s National Center for Sustainable Transportation was receiving $12 million for “accelerating equitable decarbonization” research, according to the department, while City College of New York’s Center for Social and Economic Mobility for People and Communities through Transportation was receiving about $9 million for research into “equitable transportation for the disadvantaged workforce.”

8. Trump Ends Tariff Loophole That Enabled Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods

One second past midnight on May 2, the United States ended a trading policy it says has been exploited by China to flood the U.S. market with cheap goods and smuggle illicit drugs into the country.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April to end the de minimis exemption for goods imported from China and Hong Kong as of May 2. The White House called it “a critical step in countering the ongoing health emergency posed by the illicit flow of synthetic opioids into the U.S.”

The de minimis exemption allows goods valued at $800 or less to enter the United States without being subject to duties and taxes.