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It's May 5, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief. I'm Chris Cotnor.

Our top stories from international outlets this morning, according to the New York Times, the Serbian police arrested a suspect early Friday after an hours long overnight manhunt for the gunman who killed eight people and injured at least 14 others near Belgrade, according to Serbia's interior ministry.

The attack late Thursday was the nation's second mass shooting in two days and rattled a country still reeling from an attack at a school that killed eight students into security guard.

An official three-day morning period for the earlier shooting was to begin Friday.

Serbia has historically had a high level of gun ownership compared with other countries because of its recent history of armed conflict and a cultural tradition of owning guns.

But has not had high levels of gun violence, according to an October 2022 report by the Flemish Peace Institute, an independent research group.

The Washington Post reports that conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off building paper.

According to documents reviewed by the Washington Post.

In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP poster Kellyanne Conway to build a nonprofit group he advises and use that money to pay Virginia, Ginny Thomas, the documents show.

The same year, the nonprofit, the Judicial Education Project filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.

Conway's firm, the polling company, sent the Judicial Education Project a $25,000 bill that day.

Per Leo's instructions, it listed the purpose as supplement for Constitution polling and opinion consulting the documents show.

In all, according to the documents, the polling company paid Thomas's firm Liberty Consulting $80,000 between June 2011 and June 2012 as it expected to pay $20,000 more before the end of 2012.

The documents reviewed by the Post do not indicate the precise nature of any work Thomas did for the Judicial Education Project or the polling company.

According to the BBC, the leader of Russia's Wagner Group has threatened to withdraw his troops from the Ukrainian city of Buck Moot by Wednesday in a dispute over ammunition.

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