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 …

Anthony Fauci urges China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers  —  Biden adviser calls for help on solving question of whether Covid ‘leaked’ from facility  —  Joe Biden's chief medical adviser has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose illnesses might …

Facebook to end a longtime exception made for politicians who break its rules  —  The change is part of a series of responses to the Facebook Oversight Board's ruling on former president Trump.  —  Facebook plans to announce Friday that it will no longer automatically give politicians a pass …

Biden can't quit infrastructure talks and progressives are losing their minds  —  Progressive activists have mostly kept their cool as President Joe Biden's infrastructure negotiations with Republican senators stretch on longer than planned.  —  But with talks ongoing and new concessions being offered …

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.

‘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 …

Biden just scrapped a good border policy, all because it was Trump's  —  “Some things may be true, even if Donald Trump said them.”  —  That was the epiphany that ABC's Jonathan Karl had over the weekend.  It's a difficult concept for the news media, and the Biden administration is having …

Manchin offers little comfort to frustrated Democrats  —  (CNN)The riddle of Joe Manchin is going to drive his fellow Democrats to distraction.  —  The senator from West Virginia, who sits at the fulcrum of Washington's balance of power, signaled in a new CNN exclusive interview …

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.

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.

POLITICO Playbook: Tapper and Wallace take opposing tacks on GOP election deniers  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Happy Friday, Playbookers.  If you thought President JOE BIDEN'S offer to keep the corporate tax rate at 21% might yield a breakthrough on infrastructure ... not so much.

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 …

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 …

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 World Needs Answers on Covid's Origin  —  China wants the issue to go away.  The U.S. should use all of its tools to keep the pressure on Beijing.  —  Covid-19 began trickling out of Wuhan, China, at least a year and a half ago.  The world still knows far too little about the origins of the outbreak.

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 …

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 …