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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Justice official resigning amid uproar over Dems' subpoenas  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's top national security official is resigning from his position after revelations that the department secretly seized record s from Democrats and members of the media.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As Trump-era Justice Dept scandal intensifies, Republicans shrug
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell On President Biden Judicial Nominees, A New “JCPOA”  —  GOP Senator Mitch McConnell joined me this morning:  —  Audio:  —  06-14hhs-mcconnell  —  Transcript:  —  HH: Joined now by an old friend of show, Senate Leader of the GOP, Mitch McConnell.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell signals GOP would block Biden Supreme Court pick in '24  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled Monday that Republicans, if they win back control of the chamber, wouldn't advance a Supreme Court nominee if a vacancy occurred in 2024, the year of the next presidential election.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court puts off decision on reviewing Harvard race-conscious admissions system
Jordain Carney / The Hill:   McConnell warns he's willing to intervene in 2022 GOP primaries
Jane E. Brody / New York Times:
The Health Benefits of Coffee  —  Drinking coffee has been linked to a reduced risk of all kinds of ailments, including Parkinson's disease, melanoma, prostate cancer, even suicide.  —  Americans sure love their coffee.  Even last spring when the pandemic shut down New York …
Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Former NSA contractor Reality Winner, jailed for leaking secrets about Russian hacking, released early from prison … Reality Winner, the former National Security Agency contractor who was jailed for leaking secrets about Russian hacking, has been released early from prison, her lawyer said Monday.
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Reality Winner, NSA contractor in leak case, out of prison
Discussion: New York Magazine
New York Times:
China's ‘Bat Woman,’ at the Center of a Pandemic Storm, Speaks Out  —  Shi Zhengli, a top virologist, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless.  But China's habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.  —  To a growing chorus of American politicians …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Yup, the Wuhan Institute of Virology Kept Live Bats within Its Walls  —  On the menu today: New evidence shows that despite the contentions of Peter Daszak, the Wuhan Institute of Virology did indeed have live bats within its walls; a spectacularly inaccurate op-ed attempting to dispel the lab-leak theory …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
GOP Senator Says Democracy, Majority Rule Aren't What Our Country Stands For Rand Paul gets a little too honest about his beliefs.  —  One of the edifying side effects of the Trump era has been that, by making democracy the explicit subject of political debate, it has revealed the stark fact …
Discussion: Twitchy
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NBC News:
Putin dismisses criticism of hacking and internal crackdowns ahead of Biden summit … MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin denied ordering a hit on political rival Alexei Navalny, but in an exclusive interview with NBC News he did not guarantee that the jailed Kremlin critic …
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Washington Post:
Biden will give Putin a list of demands. The Russian president may ignore them.
Washington Post:
Coronavirus infections dropping where people are vaccinated, rising where they are not, Post analysis finds  —  States with higher vaccination rates now have markedly fewer coronavirus cases, as infections are dropping in places where most residents have been immunized and are rising …
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
House GOP prays Trump can kick his habit of 2020 grievances  —  Donald Trump just can't seem to quit 2020.  That means Republicans can't either.  —  The former president is returning to the national spotlight with plans to play a central role in the GOP's push to reclaim power …
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Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility  —  (CNN)The US government has spent the past week assessing a report of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company that part owns and helps operate it warned of an “imminent radiological threat,” …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Extreme wokeness vs. right-wing authoritarianism?  It's no contest which is worse.  —  America is in a contest of contending nightmares.  —  The dreams of conservatives are currently troubled by “wokeness” and critical race theory.  As with most nightmares, there is a grain of truth within such terrors.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops: Don't Deny Biden Communion Over Abortion  —  Conservative American Catholic bishops are pressing for a debate over whether Catholics who support the right to an abortion should be allowed to take Communion.  —  ROME — The Vatican has warned conservative American bishops …
Washington Post:
2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades.  So far, 2021 is worse.  —  The shootings have come at a relentless pace.  Gun violence this year has cut through celebrations and funerals, places of work and houses of worship.  It has taken lives at a grocery store and in a fast-food drive-through lane.
Discussion: ABC News and Daily Kos
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why The New Yorker's Stars Didn't Join Its Union  —  The 96-year-old magazine, known for its revered writers and sophisticated audience, is being consumed by a labor dispute.  —  Writers for The New Yorker have been known to refer to the editor, David Remnick, as “Dad,” …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Full of s—’: Candidates warned not to fake Trump endorsement  —  Lynda Blanchard donated nearly $1 million to pro-Donald Trump political committees, served as his ambassador to Slovenia and launched her Alabama Senate campaign with a video spotlighting her Trump bumper sticker-adorned pickup truck.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These 25 rainbow flag-waving corporations donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years  —  This month, corporations are plastering their social media avatars with rainbows, sponsoring Pride parades, and declaring their unwavering commitment to the LGBTQ community.
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Are Democrats doomed in the midterms?  Not if they can do this first.  —  The midterm elections will take place in approximately 500 days.  Which is exactly why some Democratic strategists believe it's urgent to begin executing their midterm strategy right now — nearly a year and a half in advance.
CNN:
First on CNN: FBI warns lawmakers that QAnon ‘digital soldiers’ may become more violent  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI has warned lawmakers that online QAnon conspiracy theorists may carry out more acts of violence as they move from serving as “digital soldiers” to taking action in the real world following the January 6 US Capitol attack.
Discussion: Insider
Glenn Greenwald:
The Enduring False Narrative About the PULSE Massacre Shows the Power of Media Propaganda  —  Politicians and activists should stop ratifying the fiction that Omar Mateen was motivated by anti-LGBT hatred.  It dishonors the victims and obscures the real motive.  —  2 hr ago
Discussion: The Western Journal and TheBlaze
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Saudi assassins picked up illicit drugs in Cairo to kill Khashoggi  —  Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo.  The purpose: to pick up a lethal dose of “illegal” …
Fletcher Peters / Decider:
Ana Navarro Defends Jeffrey Toobin's CNN Return on ‘The View’: “He Was Not Sexually Harassing Somebody, He Was Sexually Harassing Himself”  —  On today's episode of The View, the co-hosts tore into Jeffrey Toobin's return to CNN last Thursday (June 07) after he exposed himself on a New Yorker Zoom call last Fall.
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Novavax's coronavirus vaccine is 90 percent effective, study finds  —  The vaccine is one of six the U.S. bet on but is likely to have its biggest impact globally  —  Novavax, a Maryland biotechnology company that endured delays in developing a coronavirus vaccine, revealed results Monday showing …
Discussion: NPR, New York Times and The Verge
Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
Woman Dies After Driver Hits Crowd in Minneapolis  —  The group was gathered on Sunday night to protest police brutality.  Three other people were injured, the police said.  —  A woman was killed and three people were injured in Minneapolis late Sunday after a man drove a car into a group …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Leaked Chats Show Ex-Marine Wants to Make Maine Safe Space for Neo-Nazis  —  “We are white nationalist preppers.”  —  Ben Makuch  —  A neo-Nazi and ex-Marine who coordinated a national counterprotest on the anniversary of George Floyd's murder, is making plans to turn Maine into an all-white ethnostate.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarah Mucha / Axios:
Harris' trip problems rekindle 2020 campaign doubts  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' stumbles during her first foreign trip have rekindled the debate from her presidential campaign about whether she — and not her staff — is to blame.  —  Why it matters: While Harris' only overture toward running …
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
G.O.P. Bills Rattle Disabled Voters: 'We Don't Have a Voice Anymore'  —  Legislation across the country would restrict voting methods and accommodations that people with disabilities are disproportionately likely to rely on.  —  The experience was so demeaning that Susie Angel did not vote again for two decades.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
New Israeli foreign minister stresses need to repair ties with Democrats  —  Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a ceremony on his first day in office on Monday that the new government must repair Israel's relationship with the Democratic Party, which he said had badly deteriorated …
 
 
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Tameem Akhgar / Associated Press:
Islamic State claims responsibility for bomb attacks in Afghan capital that kill 7
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Politico:
Adams, Garcia top latest poll in New York mayor's race
Discussion: The Hill, Political Wire and Bloomberg
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Vermont becomes first state to reach 80% vaccine threshold
Discussion: Townhall, Forbes and Political Wire
Laura Gómez / Arizona Mirror:
DPS: State trooper wrong to say he ‘smelled’ undocumented migrants
Discussion: Raw Story
Errin Haines / The 19th:
Barack Obama: Women have found themselves “in an impossible situation”
Discussion: The Hill
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Biden advisor Steve Ricchetti's son lands job at the Treasury Department a year out of college
Thomas Shattuck / Foreign Policy Research Institute:
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Russia is Hammering the U.S. in Cyberspace, Why is Biden Meeting with Putin at All?
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
McAuliffe doubles down on false budget claim that has been fact-checked three times
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
theepochtimes.com:
News Flash: Trump Was Right
Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
NIMBYism and the Externalities of Non-Development
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justices rule against low-level crack cocaine offenders
Discussion: Washington Post
Andrew Das / New York Times:
Westminster Dog Show 2021: Wasabi the Pekingese Wins Best in Show
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

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