'Time-honored political tactic: Throw your wife under the bus'

Monday's newspapers allude to the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi but were published before his death was confirmed. He was "feared lost in crash," The Boston Globe says, after his helicopter "crashes in heavy fog," The Wall Street Journal adds. The New York Times says that as Donald Trump's New York criminal trial "nears its end, prosecutors seem to have edge," though The Washington Post says the presiding judge still "faces major choices." The Times also has a front page look at a "time-honored political tactic" being employed by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) in his federal criminal trial and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as he tries to explain an upside-down American flag that flew outside his house: "Throw your wife under the bus."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution dedicates most of its front page to President Joe Biden's commencement speech at Morehouse College, summarizing his message to the historically Black men's college: "I hear you."

The Houston Chronicle features an article on the first Black astronaut candidate "finally" living his dream and going to space — on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. "I thought I didn't need it in my life, but I lied," Ed Dwight, 90, said after leaving the cockpit. "I really, really did need it."

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