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The National Archives asked former President Trump's lawyers to account for correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in May 2021 as part of a bid to locate boxes of presidential records, according to email correspondence released Monday.

Why it matters: Exactly eight weeks since the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, the former president and his legal team have still not explained why he took more than 11,000 government documents and refused to return them on request.

Former President Trump sued CNN on Monday for alleged defamation and is seeking at least $475 million in damages.

Why it matters: Trump has had a contentious relationship with the press, especially CNN, during his time as a candidate and elected official and has bashed news organizations as "fake news" and "enemy of the people."

Democrats hold an advantage in campaign spending on Facebook, Google and connected television platforms, but Republicans have closed the gap in several key Senate races in the final stretch of the midterms, Axios has learned.

The big picture: Democrats outspent Republicans $10.1 million to $8.2 million online in battleground Senate races in the week of Sept. 18-24, according to data compiled by the Democratic marketing firm Bully Pulpit Interactive.

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to delay proceedings, including his deposition, in the defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, an author who has alleged he raped her in the mid-1990s, according to a letter from his attorney filed in federal court Monday.

Driving the news: Trump's lawyer requested that the court either substitute the U.S. government as the defendant or, "at a minimum," halt proceedings until an appeals court resolves the question of who the defendant should be since he was president when he labeled Carroll a liar following her public accusation.

A Moscow region court on Monday set WNBA star Brittney Griner's appeal date for Oct. 25 after she was sentenced to nine years in prison over drug charges, AP reports.

Driving the news: Griner’s lawyers have argued that the punishment — just under the 10-year maximum — was excessive, per AP.

Coinciding with his visit on Monday, President Biden announced the administration will provide $60 million to Puerto Rico to help the island shore up protections against future storms.

Driving the news: More than two weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, 122,130 customers are still without power as of Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.

Planned Parenthood announced plans on Monday to open its first mobile clinic to provide abortion services, launching a program in Illinois to expand its footprint near the state's borders with Missouri and Kentucky.

The big picture: Since the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, 17 states have moved to ban or restrict the procedure.

The Supreme Court decided Monday to take up a case that will test the immunity social media companies have from lawsuits over content posted by users.

Why it matters: The case appears to be the court's first test of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial provision that shields online platforms from lawsuits over moderation practices and user-posted content.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to consider the defamation case lodged against him by voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems.

Driving the news: Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Lindell in February 2021, alleging that Lindell — an ally of former President Donald Trump — helped promote the baseless conspiracy theory that the company's voting machines were rigged in favor of President Biden in the 2020 election.

Maggie Haberman reports in "Confidence Man," out Tuesday, that when former President Trump was about to be discharged after COVID treatment, he had an idea that he eventually abandoned:

• "He came up with a plan he told associates was inspired by the singer James Brown, whom he loved watching toss off his cape while onstage, but it was in line with his love of professional wrestling as well."

Eric Herschmann, a top White House lawyer to President Trump, confirms to Axios he is now lead counsel to NFL legend Brett Favre, who is embroiled in a welfare-funds scandal in his home state of Mississippi.

Why it matters: The former Green Bay Packers quarterback is at the center of Mississippi’s biggest-ever public corruption case.

The British government has abandoned plans to cut taxes for the highest earners 10 days after Prime Minister Liz Truss announced the move, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng confirmed Monday.

Why it matters: The plans designed to stimulate growth sparked a growing rebellion among members of Parliament in Truss' ruling Conservative Party, and global financial markets responded by treating the U.K. as if it were an emerging market.

Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off in a runoff this month after neither political heavyweight clinched more than 50% of the vote Sunday.

Driving the news: Lula, who consistently led in the polls ahead of Sunday's election, captured 48.4% of the vote, while Bolsonaro got 43.2%, per Brazil's electoral authority.

Hundreds of hospitals and schools in Ukraine have been devastated by bombings in acts of "terrorism" since Russia's military launched its invasion, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview broadcast Sunday evening.

What she's saying: Zelenska told CBS' Scott Pelley during their interview in Kyiv that since the war began nearly 500 hospitals and clinics have been struck and entire cities destroyed — along with about 150 schools. 900 schools have been damaged.