💬 Quoted… “A second job for $1 million."

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was told by the Justice Department yesterday that he was the second target of a foiled assassination plot by an Iranian operative. 

• The first target? Then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, who the suspect allegedly tried to hire someone to assassinate for $300,000, Axios reports.

🦠 Stat of the Day: 7 in 10 Americans, regardless of party affiliation, want to be able to vote on an abortion measure on their state ballot, according to an Ipsos/USA Today poll published yesterday.

• If there was an abortion-related state ballot measure, the poll found 54% of Americans would vote in favor of abortion legality, whereas 28% say they’d vote against it.
• Party-wise, Democrats overwhelmingly support legal abortion in their state (76%-10%), Independents favor it by a 2-to-1 factor (52%-27%), and most Republicans would oppose it (34%-54%).

🌎 Around the World: Drought conditions are currently affecting about 60% of the EU and UK, according to new research from the European Drought Observatory.

🤯 Did You Know?... The term ‘buccaneer’ was derived from a process for smoking meat.

📖 Worth a Read: The Haves and the Have-Yachts → The New Yorker

📊 Poll results: Yesterday, we asked whether y’all agreed with the FBI’s decision to search former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

• 53% of y’all said yes, 25% said no, 18% said there’s not enough info yet, and 4% were unsure or had a different, more nuanced opinion.

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