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1:55 PM ET, June 5, 2021

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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Meadows Pressed Justice Dept. to Investigate Election Fraud Claims  —  Emails show the increasingly urgent efforts by President Trump and his allies during his last days in office to find some way to undermine, or even nullify, the election results.  —  WASHINGTON — In Donald J. Trump's final weeks …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Obtained Gag Order on Times Executives in Secret Fight Over Email Logs  —  A push by prosecutors to secretly seize data about four Times reporters' emails began in the Trump administration and continued under Biden.  —  WASHINGTON — In the last weeks of the Trump administration …
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Federal Judge Overturns California's 3-Decade-Old Assault Weapons Ban  —  The judge said the ban was a “failed experiment.”  California's governor called the ruling “a direct threat to public safety.”  —  A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the state's three-decade-old ban …
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Don Thompson / Associated Press:
California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional, federal judge rules  —  A federal judge Friday overturned California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms.  —  U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez …
Discussion: TheBlaze and CBS Los Angeles
CBS San Francisco:
Federal Judge Overturns California Assault Weapons Ban
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Matthew Brown / USA Today:
‘His presence is dominating’: How state and local Republican parties are turning ever more toward Trump
Discussion: The Hill
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Phil Keren / Akron Beacon Journal:
Memorial Day mic cut: Hudson American Legion Post's charter suspended, leader resigns  —  The charter of Hudson's American Legion post was suspended as its leader resigned Friday after a veteran's mic got cut while he spoke about Black Americans' role in the history of Memorial Day.
Discussion: Washington Post
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Media continues to lionize Anthony Fauci, despite his damning emails  —  It's official: Dr. Anthony Fauci is Teflon, at least when it comes to an American media that seems mostly petrified of challenging him in any way despite ample material with which to work.
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Marco Rubio / Fox News:
If Biden believes in science, he must fire Fauci  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci has repeatedly demonstrated a history of moving goal-posts when it comes to public health  —  Mike Pompeo: Dr. Fauci ‘saw everything I saw’  —  It will be decades before we know the true cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Post and Forbes
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Eoin Higgins / The Flashpoint:
Massachusetts Furniture Store Offers 10% Off If You're Vaccinated—60% Off If You're Not  —  The Funky Phoenix, a salvage art furniture store in Pittsfield, also offers 40% off to those who had to get a vaccine for work or school  —  A Pittsfield, Massachusetts salvaged art and furniture store …
Discussion: The Western Journal
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
G-7 countries reach agreement on 15 percent minimum global tax rate  —  The accord announced by finance ministers could reshape tax obligations of multinational corporations  —  Finance ministers for the G-7 advanced economies announced an accord that could reshape the tax obligations of multinational corporations around the world.
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Wyatt Olson / Stars & Stripes:
Gen. Charles Flynn, brother of former national security adviser, takes reins of US Army Pacific  —  FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Gen. Charles Flynn took command of U.S. Army Pacific on Friday, vowing to continue transforming the 90,000-soldier force into one that can meet the challenge of a rising China.
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Why the Pentagon isn't heeding calls to prosecute Michael Flynn under military law
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
NBC News:
The health insurance public option might be fizzling.  The left is OK with that. … WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama abandoned a public insurance option to win moderate support for the Affordable Care Act in 2009, progressives were enraged.  —  A decade later, Joe Biden campaigned …
Discussion: Vox and NPR
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:   Bipartisan Infrastructure Talks Recall Heated Health Care Summer of 2009
Politico:
The partisan divide in vaccinations is starker than you realize  —  The partisan divide in Covid-19 vaccinations is becoming starker as the nation inches toward President Joe Biden's goal of providing at least one shot to 70 percent of adults by July 4, complicating efforts to reach …
Amanda Teuscher / American Oversight:
Arizona Senate Releases Emails Related to Election ‘Audit’ to American Oversight  —  On Friday, the Arizona Senate released to American Oversight more than 500 pages of records related to the sham “audit” of ballots cast in Maricopa County.  The records include the emails of Senate President Karen Fann …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump called Arizona Senate president to thank her ‘for pushing to prove any fraud’ in election, emails show
Betsy Hammond / Oregonian:
Days before Rep. Mike Nearman helped protesters breach Capitol, he coached constituents just how he'd help them do it  —  Just days before Rep. Mike Nearman helped armed protesters enter the closed Oregon Capitol building in December, endangering fellow lawmakers and Capitol employees …
Discussion: opb and The Daily Beast
Derek Robertson / Politico:
How Everything Became ‘Cancel Culture’  —  Congresswoman Liz Cheney was canceled.  —  So her sympathetic Republican colleagues — ranging from Rep. Ken Buck to Sen. Joni Ernst to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan — declared as she was abruptly stripped of her position in party leadership last month …
Discussion: Areo
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
‘Jeb is Heartbroken’: Bush Inner Circle Responds to George P. Bush's Trumpian Campaign Launch  —  The recent campaign launch by a Bush family scion has upended their longstanding unity, causing heartbreak behind the scenes and even a rare public rebuke from a longtime Bush loyalist.
NBC News:
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.
Discussion: New York Post
The Daily Shot:
Home price appreciation is peaking  —  The Daily Shot: 03-Jun-21  —  Administrative Update  —  Please note that clicking on “unsubscribe from The Daily Shot” at the bottom of the letter will not cancel your subscription.  It will just remove you from the distribution list, and you will still have access to The Daily Shot online.
Jean Mackenzie / BBC:
Belgium's Van Ranst: Covid scientist targeted by a far-right sniper  —  For nearly three weeks Belgium's leading virologist has been living in a safehouse with his wife and 12-year-old son, guarded by security agents.  —  While scientists across the world have come under attack throughout the pandemic …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Balloon Juice
Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
Doomed campaign to reinstate Trump comes to Antrim County, original home of the election lie  —  Conservative activists striving to prove the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” still believe an obscure Northern Michigan community holds the key to unraveling an international conspiracy.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
All eyes on DeSantis  —  Ron DeSantis is sitting in the ballroom of Pittsburgh's Wyndham Hotel facing …
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U.S. Capitol Attack Is Reshaping The Federal Counterterrorism Budget
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: British doctor Peter Daszak who tried to gag the Wuhan lab leak theory is seen outside his million-dollar home in upstate NY as it's revealed …
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