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4:00 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 …
New York Times:
White House Disavows Knowledge of Gag Order on Times Leaders in Leak Inquiry  —  The Justice Department also said it was changing its policy to bar seizing reporters' phone and email records in hunts for their sources.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said on Saturday …
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department to End Pursuit of Reporters' Phone Records Over Leaks  —  The change reverses a longstanding practice after President Biden said it was wrong  —  The Justice Department said it would no longer seek reporters' phone records when investigating government leaks of sensitive information …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
U.S. Capitol Attack Is Reshaping The Federal Counterterrorism Budget
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Dept. vows to end court orders seeking journalists' data in leak probes
Discussion: The Daily Beast, UPI and Al Jazeera
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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
Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
AOC Set To Back Maya Wiley In The NYC Mayor's Race  —  This is a special breaking news issue of The Uprising, a daily politics newsletter.  If you enjoyed this story and want to read more like it, please sign up!  —  Rep, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one if the most influential progressives …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Maya Wiley for N.Y.C. Mayor
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Post
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Is There Any Time Left for Maya Wiley?
Discussion: Forbes, NBC New York and Gothamist
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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CNN:
A federal judge, who compares an AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, overturns California's ban on assault weapons  —  (CNN)In a ruling that compared the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, a federal judge overturned California's longtime ban on assault weapons on Friday, ruling it violates the Second Amendment's right to bear arms.
Don Thompson / Associated Press:
California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional, federal judge rules
Discussion: TheBlaze and CBS Los Angeles
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
COVID-19 Vaccines Keep Showing They're Truly Spectacular At Fighting The Coronavirus  —  Amid a global tragedy, the striking effectiveness of vaccines against the coronavirus stands out as one of the pandemic's few good news stories for humanity.  —  And the vaccines are the success story that, so far, has kept on going.
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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  —  When Michael Flynn, a retired three-star general, appeared to back calls for a coup last week, critics accused him of defying military deference to civilian authority, a tenet that is central to the ethos of the armed forces.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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
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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 and BizPac Review
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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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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
Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump and why obstruction of justice matters … Elected officials don't have the right to break the laws the rest of us have to follow.  And they also shouldn't be able to obstruct justice when they're under investigation.  If anything, the bar should be higher for our elected officials.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
Royal Caribbean reverses, won't require passengers on U.S. cruises to be vaccinated  —  Royal Caribbean International will no longer require any of its cruise passengers to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as it had previously planned to.  —  In a press release Friday announcing cruises for sale …
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
Breaking: HHS confirms ACA enrollment is at an all-time high: Over 31 million covered  —  A month ago I noted that by my back-of-the-envelope math, … - Effectuated ACA exchange: 10.8 million / at least 10.7 million  — Basic Health Plan (MN/NY only): 450,000 / 975,000
 
 
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Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
Doomed campaign to reinstate Trump comes to Antrim County, original home of the election lie
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Shot:
Home price appreciation is peaking
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
All eyes on DeSantis  —  Ron DeSantis is sitting in the ballroom of Pittsburgh's Wyndham Hotel facing …
 Earlier Items: 
Derek Robertson / Politico:
How Everything Became ‘Cancel Culture’
Discussion: Areo
Politico:
The partisan divide in vaccinations is starker than you realize
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
‘Jeb is Heartbroken’: Bush Inner Circle Responds to George P. Bush's Trumpian Campaign Launch
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
Our Politics And The English Language
Jean Mackenzie / BBC:
Belgium's Van Ranst: Covid scientist targeted by a far-right sniper
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Balloon Juice
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 …
Discussion: New York Post
NBC News:
The state of Alabama took his gun away. When authorities gave it back, he shot and killed his wife.
Discussion: New York Post
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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