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12:30 PM ET, May 25, 2021

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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 …
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:   CREW statement on DOJ blocking release of Trump obstruction memo
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
House Republican Leader:
Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust  —  Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Real Clear Politics
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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) …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
Jordan Schachtel / The Dossier:
What to make of the COVID-19 lab leak theory
Discussion: Fox News, Reuters and Breitbart
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 …
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Blake Flayton / The Bulwark:
Inconvenient Anti-Semitism Is Still Anti-Semitism  —  Liberals must oppose leftwing anti-Semitism as stridently as rightwing anti-Semitism.  —  Every Jewish American remembers the evening of August 11th, 2017.  During the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, we found ourselves glued …
Discussion: Forbes, New York Post, Axios and NPR
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.
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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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NBC News:   In the post-Trump era, Virginia's GOP gubernatorial nominee tries to thread the needle
BNN:
Republicans Plan New Offer to Biden; Wicker Sees $1 Trillion
Discussion: Associated Press
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. wants to reopen Jerusalem consulate, Blinken tells Netanyahu  —  Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in their meeting on Tuesday that the Biden administration wants to reopen the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem as soon as possible, Israeli officials tell me.
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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.
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republicans to quickly kill Medicaid expansion  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature planned Tuesday to convene then immediately end a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to expand Medicaid.  —  Rejecting expansion means Wisconsin …
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.
Discussion: HotAir
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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 …
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
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.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners  —  U.S. President Joe Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed …
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
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
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Perry Bacon / Washington Post:
The progressives are right about foreign policy, too  —  On economic issues, the Democratic Party has moved from “the era of big government is over” to a more populist agenda.  On racial issues, the party has eschewed “Sister Souljah” policies and rhetoric designed to woo White swing voters …
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.
April Ryan / TheGrio:
What is really holding up the George Floyd policing act from Biden's desk?  —  EXCLUSIVE: A high-ranking Democrat tells theGrio that Republicans are holding up the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act because they're seeking buy-in from law enforcement organizations  —  Loading the player...
 
 
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
George P. Bush consults with Donald Trump before his expected challenge against Texas AG Ken Paxton
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit
Discussion: Associated Press
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Kristen Clarke poised to become first woman of color to lead Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Democrats, Once Outraged, Take a Quieter Approach to Migrant Children
Discussion: HotAir
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Any bipartisan January 6 commission is probably doomed
Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News and Raw Story
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
The Child Soldiers of the Culture War
Washington Post:
Rising Democratic star Val Demings wants to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio. Could she win?
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
January 6th just the beginning, as ‘second civil war’ is plotted
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Labor shortages end when wages rise, say some local businesses
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Fox News:
Rand Paul receives death threat package with white powder and violent, profane message
David McCabe / New York Times:
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates
 

 
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