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10:25 AM ET, June 20, 2021

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One dead after pickup truck drives into crowd attending Wilton Manors LGBTQ Pride parade — A pickup truck drove into a crowd of spectators at the start of the Wilton Manors Stonewall Parade and Festival in what appeared to be an intentional act, witnesses said.

Discussion: CBS News, The Daily Beast and Mediaite

WPLG-TV:

2 hit by truck, 1 killed at Pride parade in Wilton Manors — Man behind the wheel was wearing Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus t-shirt — WILTON MANORS, Fla. - One man was killed and another injured when they were run over by a pickup truck as the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors was just getting started Saturday night.

Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, UPI, Washington Blade, Twitchy, Townhall, BizPac Review, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Insider, Washington Examiner and New York Post

Associated Press:

Driver crashes into crowd at Pride parade in Florida; 1 dead — WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and seriously injuring another, authorities said. — Some witnesses said the crash appeared …

Discussion: HotAir, Metro.co.uk and The Irish Times

Rubén Rosario / WSVN-TV:

Mayor: 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after truck hits pedestrians at Stonewall Pride Parade; driver in custody — One person has died and another has been taken to the hospital after they were run over by a truck in Fort Lauderdale at the beginning of Stonewall Pride Parade, according to the city's mayor.

Discussion: CBS Miami, Twitchy, Associated Press, ABC News, The Hill and Florida Politics

Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
One killed, two injured by pickup truck at Broward Stonewall Pride Parade, reports say

Discussion: Slate

Washington Post:

Leader of companies that pushed ‘Italygate’ election conspiracy theory falsely claimed $30 million mansion was her home — Late last December, as President Donald Trump pressed senior officials to find proof of election fraud, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emailed acting attorney …

Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story

Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo: ItalyGate Is The Crown Jewel Of Big Lie Conspiracies. And It Just Got A Lot Wilder.

Hunter Walker / New York Magazine:

A Very Late Night With the Yangs The former frontrunner and his wife vent about Eric Adams, the media, and much more. — “I have a pet peeve I want to share with you,” Andrew Yang declared immediately after we were introduced on Zoom late Thursday night. — The emotional toll of a series …

Discussion: CNN and New York Times

New York Times:

Yang and Garcia Form Late Alliance in Mayor's Race, Drawing Adams's Ire — Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia campaigned together on Saturday in a show of unity that their top rival, Eric Adams, sought to portray as racially motivated. — Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia, two leading candidates …

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, CBS New York and Gothamist

Derek Robertson / Politico:

How Republicans Became the ‘Barstool’ Party — Earlier this year, when Echelon Insights released its way-too-early poll of voters' preferences for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, political wonks could be forgiven for having to Google the name at the bottom of the list next to Sen. Josh Hawley …

Dan McLaughlin / National Review:

The Shakespearean Father-Son Tragedy of the Biden Family — It was announced Saturday that Joe Biden's dog Champ has died at age 13. By all accounts, the family German Shepherd was - as we would say - a good boy. Dogs are with us too briefly, and saying goodbye to them is inevitable but never easy.

Washington Examiner:

Sen. Tuberville blows whistle on Biden's lawsuit ‘slush funds’ — The Biden administration is trying to revive a form of thoroughly corrupt, politicized shakedowns. Thankfully, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is trying to stop them. — The shakedowns were a favorite tactic of the Justice Department under …

Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:

Is U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley now ‘vincible’? In new Iowa Poll, nearly two-thirds say it's time for someone new — Fewer than a third of Iowa's likely voters say they would vote to reelect Republican Chuck Grassley if the U.S. Senate elections were held today, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.

Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story

Nicholas Wu / Politico:

Democrats set to pare down gun control bills in aim for unity — Senate Democrats are struggling for the total unity they need on major infrastructure and elections bills. Their gun control point man is determined to avoid that kind of quicksand. — Instead, Democrats are preparing …

Zach Despart / Houston Chronicle:

Texas said inland counties had lower disaster risk, yet awarded them huge share of $1B in Harvey aid — Disasters have not fallen evenly on Iola and Port Arthur. Hurricane Harvey flooded almost the entire coastal city on the Louisiana border, which was damaged by Ike and Rita before that.

Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:

We should recognize the progress we've made on discrimination — The welcome adoption of Juneteenth as a national holiday celebrating the end of slavery proves what should have been obvious for at least a generation — namely, that we are no longer a systemically racist nation.

Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:

Column: Why Republicans are suddenly reluctant to condemn political violence — The Republican Party has a problem with political violence: It's not sure whether it's for it or against it. — In the first days after a mob loyal to former President Trump stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try …

Discussion: CNN, Raw Story, NBC News and Media Matters for America

Toby Helm / The Guardian:

John Bercow defects to Labour with withering attack on Johnson — Former Speaker says party has become reactionary and xenophobic under its current leadership — John Bercow, the former Tory MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, has delivered an extraordinary broadside against Boris Johnson …

Discussion: Breitbart, Politico, The Times of Israel, Metro.co.uk and Bloomberg

David Remnick / New Yorker:

Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, and the Weight of History — At last week's summit, on the centenary of the Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov's birth, Biden tried to reassert democratic values—and to counter Putin's amoral authoritarianism. — The lives of the saints do not alter the fate of nations—except when they do.

NBC News:

Charges dropped for hundreds of alleged looters in New York City — In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City. — Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible. Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media.

Discussion: New York Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Twitchy

Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:

What Is Going On at Yale Law School? — The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua. — A decade ago, back when we talked about things besides new coronavirus strains and vaccination rates …

Discussion: Althouse

Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:

Iran's new president Ebrahim Raisi consolidates hard-line grip as reformers pushed aside — Iran's announcement Saturday of a resounding election victory by Ebrahim Raisi, the ultraconservative judiciary chief, signaled a stunning consolidation of power, handing the elected leadership …