In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years; Will Only Be Reinstated if Conditions Permit  —  Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension of former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6.

Manhattan DA brought Trump Organization controller to testify before special grand jury: Sources  —  Jeff McConney has testified in the probe of Trump's finances, sources say.  —  One of the most senior officials in the Trump Organization has testified before a special grand jury empaneled …

Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The building has stunning Manhattan skyline views, its spa offers deep-tissue massages, and the fancy restaurant off the lobby serves up prime steaks.  Best of all, many apartments at the Trump World Tower …

Major Kyrsten Sinema Supporter Says Abolish Filibuster Or Get Out Of The Senate  —  Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods prominently backed Sinema, but he says she now needs to support getting rid of the filibuster.  —  Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods …

Biden rejects another GOP infrastructure offer  —  President Joe Biden rejected a slightly higher infrastructure offer from Senate Republicans on Friday, the latest setback for bipartisan talks.  —  In a phone call with the president, Republicans' lead infrastructure negotiator …

‘The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind’  —  A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale's Child Study Center spoke about ‘unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.’ … KH: Your bio online says you are a “Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, with expertise in violence …

Attacks on Fauci grow more intense, personal and conspiratorial  —  For over a year, Anthony Fauci has been a bogeyman for conservatives, who have questioned his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and accused him of quietly undermining then-President Donald Trump.

As Trump readies summer rallies and speeches, allies worry he's stuck in the past  —  (CNN)A cadre of aides and advisers working to tame Donald Trump's obsession with the 2020 election, including his fixation with debunked voter fraud theories and ballot audits, are realizing the task at hand is much tougher than they thought.

Alleged US Capitol rioter who heckled police for ‘protecting pedophiles’ served jail time for statutory rape of 14-year-old girl  —  (CNN)A Trump supporter accused of storming the US Capitol and heckling police officers for “protecting pedophiles” previously served jail time after being convicted …

Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised Password  — Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak  — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad  —  The hack that took down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. and led to shortages across …

EXCLUSIVE JPMorgan freezes donations to Republicans who contested 2020 election  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) will resume making political donations to U.S. lawmakers but will not give to Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn President Joe Biden's election victory …

Bing Censors Image Search for ‘Tank Man’ Even in US  —  “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term.  —  Joseph Cox  —  Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying image results for a search for “Tank man,” even when searching from the United States.

Scott Stringer Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 2nd Woman  —  The woman, Teresa Logan, accused Mr. Stringer of sexual harassment and making unwanted advances while she was working for him at a bar and restaurant he co-owned in 1992.  —  Five weeks after an allegation of unwanted sexual …

Barnes & Thornburg Partner Leaves Firm After Representing My Pillow CEO in Suit  —  The Am Law 100 firm said the partner didn't receive “authorization” for the suit and the firm is withdrawing as local counsel.  —  A Minneapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg partner representing My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell is …

You Can Have My Mask When You Pry It off My Cold, Dead Face  —  I'm not ready for a future in which I just go around without a visible display of my self-righteousness.  —  Sure, I've read the studies that say masks probably don't do much of anything, and yes, I've been quintuple-vaccinated.

Top Candidate Turns Down UNC Job, Cites School's Mistreatment Of Nikole Hannah-Jones  —  Chemist Lisa Jones turned down a job at the University of North Carolina after trustees rejected Nikole Hannah Jones' tenure request.  —  In a letter sent to school administrators …

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.

Goldman Folds to Pressure on Secrecy Stance in Harassment Claims  — Bank plans to study effects of mandatory arbitration  — Reversal follows embarrassing vote at shareholder meeting  —  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reversed its stance on disclosing the effects of forced arbitration …

You Should Learn the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre  —  Mr. Hanks is an actor and filmmaker whose projects include historical works like “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific” and “John Adams” and documentaries about America from the 1960s to the 2000s.  —  I consider myself a lay historian …

The state of Alabama took his gun away.  When authorities gave it back, he shot and killed his wife. … HOOVER, Alabama — Late one night in February 2019, a 31-year-old woman in a troubled marriage was rushed to an emergency room in a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb, with a gunshot wound in her upper right arm.

Putin questions U.S. prosecution of Capitol rioters, saying mob carried only ‘political requests’  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Less than two weeks from a first face-to-face with President Biden in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized the U.S. prosecution of rioters who took part …

Here come the pandemic memoirs  —  WHAT WENT WRONG — The Trump book boom is about to enter its next phase: the pandemic memoir.  And a big name looks to be first to print.  Scott Gottlieb, FDA commissioner under the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019, tweeted this week that his book …

What whistleblower case reveals about Florida's COVID response |  Miami Herald  —  What Rebekah Jones saw behind the scenes at the Florida Department of Health  —  Just hours after the police entered her home, guns drawn and warrant to seize her electronics in hand, Rebekah Jones …

U.S. Life Becomes Quasi-Normal as Virus Fears Fade  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that the majority of Americans aged 18 and older are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and restrictions meant to curb the spread of the disease are increasingly being rolled back, two-thirds of U.S. adults (66%) …

An ugly new GOP attack line is prompting a useful rethink among Democrats  —  With crime rising in U.S. cities, Republicans are confident that they can win the midterms by tying it to Democrats and the “defund the police” movement.  This, in turn, has prompted a mini-battle among liberals …

Congress Needs to Defend Vote Counting, Not Just Vote Casting  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.  —  Republican-controlled state legislatures …

SEC Ousts Head of Top Audit Regulator Amid Warren Pressure  — PCAOB Chairman William Duhnke replaced by Duane DesParte  — Progressive Democrats had called for Duhnke's removal  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission, led by Chairman Gary Gensler, has fired the U.S.'s top accounting regulator …

The racist legacy many birds carry  —  The birding community faces a difficult debate about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers  —  Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies.  —  When she joined Georgia Audubon …

There's nothing “delusional” about Donald Trump's conspiracy theories.  They are working  —  Trump's conspiracy theories aren't delusional, they are aspirational — and so far, they are working for him  —  “Delusion.”  “Off the chart bonkers.”  “Insane.”  “Objectively nuts.”

State Department Shuns Term ‘Abraham Accords’  —  The Biden State Department discourages employees from referring to the historic peace agreements signed by Israel and its Arab neighbors by its official name, the Abraham Accords, according to one source with direct knowledge …

Letting the Economy Create Jobs for Everyone Is (Sadly) Radical  —  Everyone in American politics believes that jobs should be plentiful and wages should be high — they just disagree about how to achieve those outcomes.  —  Or so our nation's political rhetoric might lead one to believe.