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11:05 PM ET, May 31, 2022

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NBC News:
Texas school police chief hasn't responded for days to state investigators about Uvalde shooting  —  Police response to Uvalde school shooting under review, as funeral services begin  —  A local police chief in Uvalde, Texas, hasn't responded for a follow-up interview in a state investigation …
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Guillermo Contreras / San Antonio Express-News:
Lawyer: Uvalde teacher did not leave door open that gunman used to enter Robb Elementary School  —  An employee at Robb Elementary School had propped open a door to carry food from a car to the classroom last Tuesday, but closed it shut after realizing that a gunman was loose and heading toward the school, her San Antonio lawyer said.
Astrid Galván / Axios:   Authorities ignore Spanish speakers at Uvalde press conferences
Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine  —  The invasion Vladimir Putin thought would last days is now in its fourth month.  The Ukrainian people surprised Russia and inspired the world with their sacrifice, grit and battlefield success.
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New York Times:
Seizing Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Sets Off White House Debate
Discussion: Raw Story and rbc.ru
Washington Post:
Opinion John Durham's flop is only the latest of many Trump coverup failures  —  For three years, conservatives hyped John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's original investigation of Russia's effort to help Donald Trump get elected president in 2016.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Special counsel loses first trial of Trump probe; Sussmann acquitted  —  ‘Politics were not a factor,’ the jury forewoman said after Michael Sussmann was cleared of lying to the FBI during the 2016 election  —  A federal jury delivered a major setback to special counsel John Durham on Tuesday …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What Durham proved  —  WHAT DURHAM PROVED.  The trial of Michael Sussmann is before a jury …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What if — and bear with me here — John Durham doesn't have the goods?
Discussion: MindWar
CNN:
Treasury secretary concedes she was wrong on ‘path that inflation would take’  —  Washington (CNN)US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted Tuesday that she had failed to anticipate how long high inflation would continue to plague American consumers as the Biden administration works to contain a mounting political liability.
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
The White House has one problem that rules them all: Gas prices
Discussion: Townhall, Mediaite and Newslit Daily
NBC News:
Inside a Biden White House adrift  —  Biden facing sinking approval ratings ahead of midterm elections  —  WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they've tried …
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Mattie Kahn / Harper's BAZAAR:
A First Lady Undeterred  —  A pandemic.  A war.  A country at its breaking point.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Peter Navarro subpoena suggests DoJ may be investigating Trump  —  Justice department seeks former aide's communications with ex-president and his attorneys  —  Peter Navarro, a top White House adviser to Donald Trump, is being commanded by a federal grand jury subpoena to turn …
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CNN:
Georgia attorney general subpoenaed in Trump investigation
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Here's The DOJ Report Finding That Obama Officials Didn't Improperly Unmask Gen. Flynn  —  A Justice Department probe found that members of the Obama administration did not seek to reveal the identity of General Michael Flynn “for political purposes or other inappropriate reasons,” a newly disclosed report reveals.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court case may determine winner of Pennsylvania's GOP Senate primary  —  Oz, McCormick deadlocked in Pennsylvania GOP Senate race  —  (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito agreed Tuesday to temporarily block a lower court decision that allows the counting of undated ballots …
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Wall Street Journal:
OPEC Weighs Suspending Russia From Oil-Production Deal  —  Western sanctions have begun to take a toll on Moscow's petroleum output  —  Some OPEC members are exploring the idea of suspending Russia's participation in an oil-production deal as Western sanctions and a partial European ban begin …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Fed judiciary says yes to free PACER searches.  Here are the details so far  —  (Reuters) - Federal judiciary policymakers have approved a plan to eliminate costly fees for online docket searches amid debate in Congress about whether to force the court system to make its PACER electronic court record system free for the general public.
Axios:
Scoop: Dems' lead impeachment lawyer to run for Congress in New York  —  Dan Goldman, the former lead counsel for House Democrats in their first attempt to impeach former President Trump, is planning to jump into the crowded Democratic primary in New York's 10th congressional district.
Discussion: New York Post and BizPac Review
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Sarah Palin Didn't Supply ‘Even A Speck’ Of Proof In New York Times Lawsuit: Judge  —  On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff denied the former Alaska governor's request for a new trial.  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The judge who presided over Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times denied …
CNN:
Exclusive: Supreme Court leak investigation heats up as clerks are asked for phone records in unprecedented move  —  (CNN)Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
U.S. asks court to reverse order lifting airplane mask mandate  —  The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a U.S. District Court judge's April order that declared the government mandate requiring masks on airplanes, buses and in transit hubs unlawful.
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Cyber agency: Voting software vulnerable in some states  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Electronic voting machines from a leading vendor used in at least 16 states have software vulnerabilities that leave them susceptible to hacking if unaddressed, the nation's leading cybersecurity agency says in an advisory sent to state election officials.
New York Times:
During the Omicron Wave, Death Rates Soared for Older People  —  Last year, people 65 and older died from Covid at lower rates than in previous waves.  But with Omicron and waning immunity, death rates rose again.  —  Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people …
Kevin Bogardus / Articles Archive:
In reversal, EPA deems Pruitt's phone booth ‘a violation’  —  EPA dropped its Trump-era defense of a soundproof booth built for Scott Pruitt, its scandal-ridden former administrator, according to newly released letters.  —  EPA has acknowledged that the installation of the secure phone booth …
Ben Jacobs / Vox:
The RNC's January 6 committee strategy seeks some distance from Trump's election lies  —  In a document obtained by Vox, the RNC recommends pushing back on the select committee while taking care not to be seen as explicitly speaking on behalf of Trump.  —  Republicans' strategy ahead …
Christie Thompson / NPR:
How the newest federal prison became one of the deadliest  —  Bobby Everson was nearing the end of his decade-long federal prison sentence, but he feared he wouldn't make it home alive.  —  In July 2021, he was sent to the Special Management Unit at the new U.S. penitentiary in Thomson …
Monica Lewinsky / Vanity Fair:
Monica Lewinsky's Verdict on the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty  —  Courtroom porn and social media have turned innocent bystanders into a mass of mudslingers.  —  PHOTOS FROM GETTY IMAGES.  —  Unless you're a troglodyte, you've been exposed to something about the Depp v. Heard trial in the past few weeks.
Discussion: Insider, Breitbart and The Hill
Rory Jones / Wall Street Journal:
Expatriate Executives Flee Saudi Arabia's Bad Bosses  —  The kingdom wants to attract the world's best and brightest to futuristic projects such as Neom.  But a difficult workplace culture is driving many away.  —  In the summer of 2020, two videogame companies canceled sponsorship deals …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
A ‘Dynamite’ guest at the White House: BTS meets with Biden on anti-Asian discrimination  —  A horde of eager journalists began to crowd the aisles of the White House briefing room Tuesday long before the daily parrying session with reporters would begin — and they weren't there for Brian Deese.
 
 
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Liz Alderman / New York Times:
Eurozone inflation hits its highest level since the creation of the euro in 1999.
Finbarr Bermingham / South China Morning Post:
Europe beefs up trade armoury for long-term fight with China
Kansas City Star:
Special prosecutor in Greitens ride-along case set to moderate GOP Senate debate
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law Regulating Social Media Platforms
Piper French / Bolts:
“Fool Me Once”: Scandals and Abuses Fuel Unease Toward ‘Reform’ Talk in Los Angeles Sheriff Race
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
White Man Caught on Video Taunting Black Spa Owner: ‘Your Race Destroyed My Life’
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Waters / New Yorker:
What Made Washington, D.C., the “Gayest and Most Antigay City in America”
Jason Rantz / MyNorthwest.com:
‘White identified’ WA college staff joined radical anti-racist political workshop
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
'The Killings Didn't Stop.' In Mali, a Massacre With a Russian Footprint.
Discussion: Raw Story
The Seattle Times:
Group doorbells WA homes, searching for illegal voters and drawing complaints
James Kirchick / New York Magazine:
The Long, Sordid History of the Gay Conspiracy Theory
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How the Second Amendment was reinterpreted to protect individual rights
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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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

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

 
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