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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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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Official to Step Down Amid Uproar Over Leaks Inquiry — John Demers, a Trump appointee who remained in the department, would typically have been briefed on investigations like those involving the secret collection of journalists' phone records.
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Justice official resigning amid uproar over Dems' subpoena
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Merrick Garland has said some fine words. Now he needs to act.
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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.
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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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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
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Congress, Republicans Shrug at Warnings of Democracy in Peril — As G.O.P. legislatures move to curtail voting rules, congressional Democrats say authoritarianism looms, but Republicans dismiss the concerns as politics as usual. — WASHINGTON — Senator Christopher S. Murphy concedes …
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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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats, Republicans prepare to sell nearly $1 trillion infrastructure deal to White House
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John McCormack / National Review:
Chip Roy Charts His Own Course in the House
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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:
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 …
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,” …
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,” …
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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” …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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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