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Washington Post:
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 …
Washington Post:
FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with his 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.
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
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.
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Phil Keren / Akron Beacon Journal:
Veteran's microphone cut off when he discusses Blacks' role in establishing Memorial Day — Event organizer turned down sound for part of speech; Speaker says he was censored by Hudson American Legion — HUDSON — What at first blush appeared to be a short audio malfunction at Monday's Memorial …
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Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins — Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark. — I. A Group Called DRASTIC
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Secretly Seized Phone Records of Times Reporters — The admission by the Biden Justice Department followed similar recent disclosures to The Washington Post and CNN. — WASHINGTON — The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: SCOOP: What Biden told Capito in their Oval Office meeting — DRIVING THE DAY — A seemingly sleepy post-Memorial Day week turned surprisingly newsy late Wednesday into this morning. Here's what you need to know to understand the three big storylines overnight: — INFRASTRUCTURE
Washington Post:
Trump has grown increasingly consumed with ballot audits as he pushes falsehood that election was stolen — Former president Donald Trump remains relentlessly focused on the false claim that the November election was stolen from him and is increasingly consumed with the notion …
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CNN:
What Fauci's emails reveal — and what they don't — Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of emergency medicine; co-founder of GetUsPPE; and a CNN medical analyst. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon / Fox News:
Fauci not honest about COVID origin, says Adm. Brett Giroir
Fauci not honest about COVID origin, says Adm. Brett Giroir
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The Federalist
The White House:
Memorandum on Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core United States National Security Interest … Section 1. Policy. Corruption corrodes public trust; hobbles effective governance; distorts markets and equitable access to services; undercuts development efforts …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core U.S. National Security Interest — The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to tackling corruption as an economic and national security priority, and has pledged to lead international efforts to bring transparency …
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Associated Press
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Federal prosecutors looking into whether Gaetz obstructed justice — MIAMI — Federal prosecutors are examining whether Rep. Matt Gaetz obstructed justice during a phone call he had with a witness in the sex-crimes investigation of the Florida congressman, according to two sources familiar with the case.
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Axios:
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 …
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Katie Herzog / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
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.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Law Student Who Made Fun of the Federalist Society Will Be Allowed to Graduate After All — Update, 9: 30 p.m.: Stanford has concluded that Nicholas Wallace engaged in protected speech, dropped its investigation, and lifted the hold on his diploma. Wallace has confirmed that he will be allowed to graduate.
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
A Law Student Mocked the Federalist Society. It Jeopardized His Graduation.
A Law Student Mocked the Federalist Society. It Jeopardized His Graduation.
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Associated Press:
Candidate interrupted by sex toy on drone, punched at event — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — A New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque was interrupted while on stage at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it and a man who punched him.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rep. Mo Brooks is avoiding an insurrection lawsuit. Rep. Eric Swalwell hired a private investigator to find him. — (CNN)Republican Rep. Mo Brooks is avoiding a lawsuit from his Democratic colleague Rep. Eric Swalwell that seeks to hold him accountable for the January 6 Capitol insurrection …
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Politico:
Sources: Dem lobbying firm under federal investigation for Burisma work — The Justice Department is investigating the work of a consulting firm linked to the president's son for potential illegal lobbying, four people familiar with the probe told POLITICO.
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Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
Germany faced its horrible past. … Shortly after the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in 2016 on the National Mall, I was speaking to some patrons of a successful nonprofit about the importance of candid racial dialogue in politics and in the places we live, work and worship.
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Miseducation of White Children — The attacks on critical race theory are just another attempt to prevent this country from reckoning with its racist past and present—by keeping white kids ignorant. — President Joe Biden went to Tulsa, Oklahoma this week to honor the victims of the 1921 massacre on …
Washington Post:
The way forward on containing Iran's nuclear ambitions — Bob Menendez, a Democrat, represents New Jersey in the U.S. Senate and serves as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, represents South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.
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The Dispatch
Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Why the Manhattan District Attorney Should Have Trump Worried — Donald Trump's case won't be Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's first high-profile prosecution. — On May 25, the day after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that he had convened a criminal grand jury …
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Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
Biden privately called Lawrence Summers, a critic of White House agenda, to discuss economy — President Biden recently called former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Democrat who has been openly critical of his economic agenda, to acknowledge Summers's concerns and ask him to explain …
Erin Banco / Politico:
Biden admin reveals plans for first 25 million donated vaccine doses — The Biden administration has announced which countries will share in the first 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the U.S. to help low- and middle-income nations combat the pandemic.
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George Conway / Washington Post:
Republican senators managed to outdo themselves in cowardice — Republican senators have managed to outdo themselves in cowardice — which is quite a feat. — Last week's Senate vote blocking a national commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol was even more appalling …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Live chat — Updates about tonight's races in New Jersey — 🌖Our chat has ended, but you can still read it back. — Reporter and author of New Jersey Playbook — The other really big race in New Jersey is freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski's reelection against Republican Tom Kean Jr. …
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Politico:
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.
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw's search for ‘woke military’ complaints draws ridicule — and war movie quotes — Reports from the field have been grim. — A male soldier wearing dresses at a combat field hospital. Insubordination and the theft of strawberries on a Navy ship.
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Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
What Woke's Worth and Why — In early 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivered the inaugural “Distinguished Diversity Lecture” at the Ohio State University. Coates's hourlong engagement, which included a reading, a moderated conversation, and an audience Q&A, cost OSU $41,500.
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WFLA-TV:
Tampa Bay teacher facing several charges in connection with US Capitol riot — by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff, Justin Schecker — You have been added to Daily News Newsletter — TAMPA (WFLA) - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested Audrey Ann Southard on charges related …
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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
NFL pledges to halt ‘race-norming,’ review Black claims — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.
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New York Times:
India and Israel Inflame Facebook's Fights With Its Own Employees — The social network wrongly bowed to government demands to take down content in the countries, employees said, in more signs of internal dissent. — SAN FRANCISCO — When India's government ordered Facebook and other tech companies …
Julie Gerstein / Insider:
Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces in which he claimed Jews have ‘an insatiable appetite for war’ — Kamau Bobb, head of Google's diversity strategy and research team, was removed from his post after an antisemitic blog post he had written was uncovered.
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