Maggie Haberman Is Right  —  Donald Trump really does believe that he, along with two former GOP senators, will be ‘reinstated’ to office this summer.  —  WORLD  —  Were Wuhan Lab-Inquiry Opponents Worried about Provoking China?  —  By JIMMY QUINN June 3, 2021

The Groupthink That Produced the Lab-Leak Failure Should Scare Liberals  —  As we sift through the lab-leak debacle, the good news is that the healthy antibodies in the system are still strong enough to overcome the groupthink that produced the original error.

Biden offers major change to tax proposal in effort to secure infrastructure deal with Republicans  —  Instead of raising corporate tax rates to 28 percent, Biden has offered to create a new tax floor of 15 percent for businesses that pay very little.  —  President Biden signaled …

Government Finds No Evidence That Aerial Sightings Were Alien Spacecraft  —  The strange objects witnessed by Navy pilots remain unexplained, but officials briefed on a new study say they are not secret technology from a classified American program.  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials …

FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with past political fundraising  —  The FBI is investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign fundraising activity involving his former business, according to people familiar with the matter and a spokesman for DeJoy.

‘They are hair on fire’: Biden admin mulling cyber attacks against Russian hackers  —  The Biden administration is moving to treat ransomware attacks as a national security threat, using intelligence agencies to spy on foreign criminals and contemplating offensive cyber operations …

Tucker Carlson: Fauci deserves to be under criminal investigation  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson opened his show Wednesday addressing recently exposed emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci, concluding the immunologist should be under criminal investigation.  —  “Are Peter Daszak and Tony Fauci under criminal investigation?”

Donald Trump is getting worse  —  (CNN)The evidence is everywhere.  —  CNN's Dana Bash reported Thursday morning that former President Donald Trump is “more obsessed than ever with the 2020 election,” with one former Trump aide telling her that the former President is only listening to …

As a vet spoke about Memorial Day's roots in Black history, his mic was cut.  It was no accident.  —  Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was midway through his speech at a Memorial Day ceremony in an Ohio cemetery when he started discussing the role that freed Black enslaved people played in an early event honoring Civil War dead.

A Former Treasury Official Was Sentenced To 6 Months In Prison For Giving Documents To BuzzFeed News  —  A former Treasury Department official was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday after she admitted to providing highly confidential banking documents to a BuzzFeed News reporter.

Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban  —  Going forward politicians will be treated more like everyone else  —  Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users …

COVID-19 cases hit lowest point in U.S. since pandemic began  —  The U.S. has brought new coronavirus infections down to the lowest level since March 2020, when the pandemic began.  —  The big picture: Nearly every week for the past 56 weeks, Axios has tracked the change — more often than not …

This Undercover Operative Says She Recruited the Proud Boys for the GOP  —  “Just received this from the GOP.  They are asking me to potentially gather the 'boys and all the patriots and lead a literal (non violent) charge on the County Elections office.”  —  A transgender poker player …

The new Israeli government should turn the page on Netanyahu's destructive approach to Washington  —  Shalom Lipner, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, served seven consecutive Israeli premiers over a quarter-century at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

MyPillow Guy's Bizarre New Lawsuit Invokes Sci-Fi and RICO  —  The Minnesota MAGA enthusiast filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic engaged in a racketeering conspiracy.  —  Pillow magnate Mike Lindell is trying to re-litigate the election with a second lawsuit …

What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth?  —  I always thought that if you lived through a revolution it would be obvious to everyone.  As it turns out, that's not true.  Revolutions can be bloodless, incremental and subtle.  And they don't require a strongman.

Minneapolis Removes Memorials and Barricades From ‘George Floyd Square’  —  City workers began clearing the intersection where the police killed Mr. Floyd just over a year ago.  The reopening efforts drew criticism from some activists.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The bulldozers arrived before dawn …

Biden is sending Joe Manchin a very loud message.  Will the senator hear it?  —  If this doesn't move Sen. Joe Manchin III, then nothing will.  —  President Biden has sliced hundreds of billions of dollars off his latest infrastructure offer to Republicans, multiple news outlets are reporting.

Watch What's Happening in Red States  —  It's not just voting rights.  —  Though this year's proliferation of bills restricting ballot access in red states has commanded national attention, it represents just one stream in a torrent of conservative legislation poised to remake the country.

Column: He helped make Ronald Reagan president.  Now he's had it with the Republican Party  —  Recently, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library launched a lecture series entitled “Time for Choosing,” a name consciously echoing the famous 1964 speech that launched Reagan's political career and put him on a path to the White House.

Michael Flynn, and Trump's lasting elevation of the fringe  —  Then-President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to elevate Michael Flynn to White House national security adviser, in many other contexts, would have made lots of sense.  Flynn was a military general.

The RNC's scandal-plagued finance team, four years later  —  Four years ago, the RNC announced its national finance team.  How many of the quartet have faced Justice Department investigations?  All of them.

Mike Pence says he and Trump may never ‘see eye to eye’ on January 6th, but have spoken ‘many times’ since their reported falling out  — Vice President Mike Pence addressed the January 6 insurrection in a speech Thursday night.  — Pence told New Hampshire Republicans that he and Trump man never “see eye to eye on that day.”

Supreme Court narrows scope of sweeping cybercrime law  —  The Supreme Court has sharply curtailed the scope of the nation's main cybercrime law, limiting a tool that civil liberties advocates say federal prosecutors have abused by seeking prison time for minor computer misdeeds.

F. Lee Bailey, Lawyer for Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson, Dies at 87  —  With theatrical courtroom flair, he was involved in a host of notorious criminal cases, including those of the Boston Strangler and a Vietnam War massacre.  —  F. Lee Bailey, the theatrical criminal lawyer who invited juries …

Kamala Harris Will Go Around Congress To Build Support For Voting Rights  —  The vice president will work with corporations and civil rights groups to battle GOP efforts to restrict voting.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' new job leading the White House's voting rights effort …