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6:50 PM ET, May 25, 2021

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Washington Post:
Prosecutor in Trump criminal probe convenes grand jury to hear evidence, weigh potential charges  —  NEW YORK — Manhattan's district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, other executives at his company or the business itself …
House Republican Leader:
Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust  —  Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Strange Anti-Semitism of the Pro-Jewish Right Marjorie Taylor-Greene loves the Jews to death.  —  Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene is perhaps best known for having shared her belief that California wildfires were deliberately started by space lasers controlled by the Rothschild family …
Discussion: The Hill, Slate and New York Post
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence  —  Violence between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East is often accompanied by spikes in anti-Semitic activity in the United States, but what's happened over the last week or so has been different.  —  As Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director …
MSN:
Democrats consider the possibility of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeking a restraining order against Marjorie Taylor Greene  — Senior Democrats have discussed whether AOC could seek a restraining order against Marjorie Taylor Greene.  — Greene has repeatedly targeted AOC, recently chasing her down a hallway in the Capitol.
Discussion: Insider
Emily Bohatch / The State:
SC's Mace calls Marjorie Taylor Greene's vaccine ID Holocaust comparison ‘appalling’
Arizona Republic:
Tech company running Arizona ballot audit backs out: ‘They were done’  —  Jen Fifield Andrew OxfordArizona Republic  —  The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:   Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit
Washington Post:
Bipartisan group of senators prepares new infrastructure plan as talks stall between White House and GOP  —  Romney and several others are trying to craft a deal that they hope can win support from lawmakers in both parties  —  A small bipartisan group of senators is privately sketching …
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Mark Phillips / KNXV:
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs stripped of roles by Appropriations Committee  —  PHOENIX — Political score-settling is not supposed to be part of the budgeting process, but you will have a hard time convincing Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee of that.
Discussion: Raw Story
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What Biden Didn't Realize About His Presidency  —  Joe Biden had been president for less than two weeks when he told me something he'd heard from a friend after the election.  Biden was like the dog that caught the car, the friend told him—after a lifetime of dreaming of becoming president, he'd finally done it.
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Michael Steele / MSNBC:
Trump's stranglehold on the GOP is a death trap for American democracy
Discussion: Bloomberg, Raw Story and USA Today
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. releases part of internal memo on not charging Trump in Russia probe  —  The Justice Department late Monday night released part of a key internal document used in 2019 to justify not charging President Donald Trump with obstruction, but also signaled it would fight a judge's effort to make the entire document public.
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:   CREW statement on DOJ blocking release of Trump obstruction memo
Keith E. Whittington / Chronicle of Higher Education:
We Are Critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones.  Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty.  —  Political intervention in hiring will badly damage higher ed.  —  Today's rampant political polarization has led to alarming interference in academic affairs, threatening basic principles of openness and faculty authority …
Discussion: New Republic
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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon's fraud case dismissed after months of haggling over Trump pardon  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday formally dismissed the fraud case against Stephen K. Bannon, the conservative provocateur and ex-adviser to President Donald Trump, ending months of litigation …
Discussion: Insider
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Kathryn Garcia leads field in new poll, 4 weeks ahead of Election Day  —  Former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia is leading the Democratic field of mayoral contenders, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hot on her trail, according to a new poll four weeks ahead of Election Day.
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Senate confirms DOJ nominee Kristen Clarke with just one Republican vote  —  Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted yes with all Democrats, and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., did not vote  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for May 25  —  The Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke as the first Black woman …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump responds to insurrection lawsuit by claiming immunity while he was President  —  ‘Storm the Capitol!’:  Rioters react to Trump speech  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's attorney defended the ex-President's incendiary speech on January 6, saying he is protected under the First Amendment and had …
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
The End IS Near.  No, Seriously.  —  The tone of some recent writing about this pandemic has seemed — to me, anyway — strangely defeatist.  —  Friends keep asking me questions like: “Is what I'm hearing true?  We'll never reach herd immunity?”  —  The subtext is we'll never really be safe …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems fight off ‘defund the police’ attack in New Mexico special election  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Melanie Stansbury, the Democratic candidate in next week's special congressional election here, spent last weekend touting Joe Biden's agenda, vowing to strengthen infrastructure and fight climate change, drought and hunger.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Chris Cuomo Made a ‘Mistake,’ CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Tells Concerned Staffers  —  In a staff-wide meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the CNN chief addressed “unease” over the news that Cuomo advised his powerful brother on handling multiple misconduct allegations.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible  —  The source of the coronavirus that has left more than 3 million people dead around the world remains a mystery.  But in recent months the idea that it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) …
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Re-emerging without trust  —  Americans are taking off their masks and re-engaging publicly at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic, with the most dramatic shifts in people over 50 and those who've been vaccinated, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
South China Morning Post:
WWE's Cena apologises to China after Taiwan country reference  —  John Cena says on Taiwanese TV that it would be ‘the first country to watch the film’ American quickly backtracked on Weibo, saying he made ‘one mistake’ after doing ‘a lot of interviews’ John Cena backtracks comments …
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
After Trump, EU feels a more familiar US arrogance  —  European leaders are thrilled to have Joe Biden and a return to the friendly American exceptionalism they know so well.  —  With Joe Biden preparing for his first trip abroad as president, European leaders are noticing a change in the transatlantic air.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:
Rejecting precedent and Trump, Biden ousts members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts  —  Having ousted four Trump-appointed members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, President Biden announced Tuesday that he will replace them with four people who bring “a diversity of background and experience …
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How Libs Can Stop Owning Themselves Online  —  The Right has mastered trolling as a political communications strategy and Dems have to stop falling for it  —  In the last few weeks, Senator Ted Cruz, no stranger to Twitter controversy, has  — Retweeted a Russian propaganda video while calling the U.S. military “emasculated.”
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Washington Post:
Biden administration reins in street-level enforcement by ICE as officials try to refocus agency mission  —  At the detention centers and county jails that the Trump administration once filled with immigrants facing deportation, thousands of beds are now empty.
Discussion: Page Array
Matthew Boedy / flux.community:
Charlie Kirk wants to save America in the name of Republican Jesus  —  Charlie Kirk, the 27-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, didn't start his career claiming to be a servant of God, but all of that appears to be changing as he launches a new initiative aimed at leveraging the intense loyalty …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Murkowski to back Jan. 6 commission bill  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday became the second Senate Republican to say she will support a House-passed bill to establish a bipartisan commission on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which could come to the floor for a vote this week.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right  —  One of the strange things about the last year in Western political debate is how rarely the name of the departed philosopher Michel Foucault came up — and not for want of opportunity.  One of Foucault's key concepts, “biopolitics,” …
 
 
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida state Sen. Bracy to run for congressional seat now held by Demings
Discussion: The Hill
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
George Floyd's family meets with Biden, Harris on anniversary of his death
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Chinese Propaganda Outlet Paid Millions to American Newspapers and Magazines, Records Show
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tara Copp / Defense One:
US Air Force Will Cut Turkey from F-35 Production, Kendall Says
Discussion: Washington Examiner
The Intercept:
Senate Preparing $10 Billion Bailout Fund for Jeff Bezos Space Firm
Nicole Friedman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Home-Price Growth Surges as Demand Overwhelms Supply
Discussion: The National Interest
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Gutmann / The Hill:
One father's stand against critical race theory: We're indoctrinating our children
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Majority Leader Hoyer Pressured Rep. Gottheimer to Vote ‘No’ on Israel Security Funding
Richard Harris / NPR:
Children's Risk Of Serious Illness From COVID-19 Is As Low As It Is For The Flu
Discussion: CNN and HotAir
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. wants to reopen Jerusalem consulate, Blinken tells Netanyahu
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off Yemen
Discussion: HotAir, Al Jazeera and Deseret News