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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department fights release of legal memo on prosecuting Trump — The Justice Department on Monday released more of a key legal memo concluding that former President Donald Trump did not commit obstruction of justice through his alleged attempts to thwart federal investigations …
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USA Today, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Crooks and Liars and Bloomberg
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry — A delay is said to have stemmed from an initial threat by former President Donald J. Trump to intervene, but he apparently reversed course. — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump's former White House counsel …
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CNN, Insider, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Political Wire
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction — (CNN)The Justice Department is partially appealing an order to publicly release a pivotal 2019 memo about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation.
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Insider and BuzzFeed News
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) …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
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Michael Steele / MSNBC:
Trump's stranglehold on the GOP is a death trap for American democracy — Addressing a reunion of Civil War soldiers in 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant predicted that the dividing line in the nation's next great conflict “will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side …
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Jason Sattler / USA Today:
Senators swore to support America, not the filibuster. Kill it to save the January 6 commission.
Senators swore to support America, not the filibuster. Kill it to save the January 6 commission.
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IJR, Wisconsin Examiner, BizPac Review and Raw Story
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Any bipartisan January 6 commission is probably doomed
Any bipartisan January 6 commission is probably doomed
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CBS News, Forbes, Raw Story and Washington Post
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If the GOP is now home to ‘evil lunacy,’ it's time to leave
If the GOP is now home to ‘evil lunacy,’ it's time to leave
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Progressive Eruptions, The Intellectualist and HuffPost
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Attacks on Jews Over Israel Are a Gift to the Right — 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 …
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
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New York Times, Jewish Journal, TheBlaze, Commentary Magazine and Breitbart
The Dispatch:
How the West Must Handle Lukashenko's Threat to the International Order — Designating the Belarusian dictator as a terrorist would be one step. But leaders must also pressure Vladimir Putin. — 2 hr ago — Alexander Lukashenko's 27 years in power in Belarus have been marked by murder, brutality, and repression.
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CNN:
Biden and Putin summit to take place next month in Switzerland
Biden and Putin summit to take place next month in Switzerland
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Holly Ellyatt / CNBC:
Russia's power over Belarus is in the spotlight after plane ‘hijacking’ incident
Russia's power over Belarus is in the spotlight after plane ‘hijacking’ incident
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Insider, Washington Post, spectator.us, EURACTIV.com, Responsible Statecraft and Politico
Washington Post:
Infrastructure talks hit a wall as Senate GOP and White House exchange blame — Republicans allege that Biden's aides reversed course — The prospects for a bipartisan infrastructure deal dimmed even further Monday, as Senate Republicans alleged that the White House had agreed to narrow …
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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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HotAir, Forbes and Mother Jones
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off Yemen — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.
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HotAir and Al Jazeera
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic — The New York Times is looking into a potential acquisition of The Athletic, three sources familiar with the matter tell Axios. — Driving the news: Sources say The Times approached The Athletic following a report about a potential deal between The Athletic and Axios in March.
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.”
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.
Fox News:
Rand Paul receives death threat package with white powder and violent, profane message — On the outside of the envelope was a picture of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun to his head — Biden facing investigation over $87M migrant hotel housing contract
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Crooks and Liars, Daily Mail, Townhall, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, The Hill and RedState
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Suspicious package sent to Rand Paul's home
Suspicious package sent to Rand Paul's home
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David McCabe / New York Times:
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates — The new law is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's suspensions of former President Donald J. Trump. — WASHINGTON — Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook …
Washington Examiner:
We don't need a woke Fed — Racial equality is an incredibly important cause, but we don't understand what it has to do with the Federal Reserve. We suspect the Fed doesn't have a clue, either. — So it's a good thing Sen. Pat Toomey is asking it. — Congress created the Federal Reserve …
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey — Since 2018, backing for Israel down from 75% to 33% now; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Smashes Peter Doocy As He Tries To Blame Biden For COVID Deaths — Video: … Doocy asked, “On the origins of covid, there is a new Wall Street Journal story that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of urology were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with covid-19 and common seasonal illness of November 2019.
Matt Dixon / Politico:
How Matt Gaetz helped make Ron DeSantis — TALLAHASSEE — Just weeks after he took office as governor, Ron DeSantis held a press conference with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) that left Florida's political class befuddled. — Standing with Republicans DeSantis and Gaetz was a major Democratic donor …
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Will Folks / FITSNews:
Nancy Mace's Challenger Holds ‘Mask-Burning’ Event — A Republican challenger to incumbent congresswoman Nancy Mace held a mask-burning bonfire over the weekend, calling the gathering a statement against oppression and tyranny. — “This is saying no to tyranny,” said Lynz Piper-Loomis …
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Raw Story
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge — Jim Conway started working in restaurants in 1982, making $2.13 an hour, plus tips. — And though the world has changed significantly in the nearly 40 years since then, his hourly wage has not.
Moderna, Inc.:
Moderna Announces TeenCOVE Study of its COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents Meets Primary Endpoint and Plans to Submit Data to Regulators in Early June — Primary endpoint of non-inferior immunogenicity versus the Phase 3 study adult comparator group was met — No cases of COVID-19 observed …
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Scmp / 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 …
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National Review, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, CNN and Bloomberg
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Labor shortages end when wages rise, say some local businesses — As his six restaurants started ramping up for a post-pandemic world, Brian Will was struggling to find employees, so he went with the classic economics response for hard-to-find things. — He paid more.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Arrested insurrectionist visited Ted Cruz's house — and brought 11 molotov cocktails to Jan. 6 riot: report — Lonnie Coffman of Alabama will remain in a Washington, DC-area jail until his trial, I federal judge ruled on Monday. — “A north Alabama man facing multiple charges in connection …
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Washington Post:
Rising Democratic star Val Demings wants to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio. Could she win? — Her network of Black women's civic organizations would give her a critical boost — Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) is reportedly planning to run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).