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

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 …

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 …

Pence says he and Trump may never ‘see eye to eye’ on Jan. 6 insurrection  —  In his second public address since leaving office, former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday put a little space between himself and his ex-boss, saying he and former President Donald Trump might never “see eye to eye” on the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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.

Facebook Plans to End Hands-Off Approach to Politicians' Posts  —  The social network, under pressure since barring former President Donald J. Trump, will no longer automatically give world leaders special treatment.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce on Friday …

Exclusive: U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism  —  The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters.

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.

F. Lee Bailey, defense lawyer for OJ Simpson and Patty Hearst, dies at 87  —  His son Bendrix Bailey confirmed his death but didn't disclose the cause.  —  Story at a glance  — F. Lee Bailey died on Thursday, June 3 in a Georgia hospice center at the age of 87.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Hating Trump is no excuse for comparing 1/6 to 9/11  —  “I'd like to see Jan. 6 burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11.”  —  So said George Will on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday, in what is a growing chorus by super-serious people in political media pushing a super-insulting comparison between …

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.

Giuliani and Prosecutors Agree on Former Judge to Review Seized Materials  —  Barbara S. Jones conducted a similar screening during the investigation into Michael D. Cohen.  —  Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have recommended that Barbara S. Jones, a former judge in Manhattan …

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.

Ron Johnson is still weighing whether to run for a third senate term next year, but says he's ‘panicked’ for the nation  —  Bill Glauber Craig GilbertMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  The Milwaukee Press Club got the full Ron Johnson on Thursday.  —  In a virtual session that lasted an hour …

A teacher at a Main Line Jewish school criticized Zionism on Twitter.  Then he got fired.  —  When Jesse Schwartz got fired from his teaching job at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, administrators at the Main Line private school said it was because he had violated the school's social media policy …

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?”

Positive new data builds expectations for a whopper number for Friday's closely watched jobs report  —  Positive labor market data released Thursday added to rising confidence that the economy is returning in full force, with the latest weekly initial jobless claims falling below 400,000 …

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.

For Many of America's Elites, China and Communism Have Already Won  —  Those who thought America was turning communist I would privately think of as paranoids.  —  No longer.  —  This change evolved from my observation of how communism is actually practiced in the People's Republic of China …

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.

Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms  —  aDepartment of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;  —  bDepartment of Political Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487;  —  cDepartment of Government, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755;

High School Valedictorian Takes Aim at Texas Abortion Law  —  In a graduation speech, Paxton Smith, 18, of Dallas said the new law, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, was “a war on my body and a war on my rights.”  —  Paxton Smith, the valedictorian at her Dallas high school …