Pentagon ran secret anti-vax propaganda campaign to incite fear of China vaccines during pandemic  —  The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China's Sinovac inoculation - payback for Beijing's efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic.

Scoop: Democrats plan to go bigger than a boycott for Netanyahu speech … - The proposals include a press conference, a vigil, or an event with families of those taken hostage by Hamas, many of whom feel Netanyahu hasn't done enough to free their loved ones.

Supreme Court rules gun ‘bump stocks’ ban is unlawful  —  The ban was imposed by the Trump administration after the accessory was used during the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.  —  WASHINGTON — In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that federal ban on …

Trump, Biden Prep for Debate Where Any Misstep Threatens Hopes  — Biden team blocking off days next week to prepare president  — Trump eschews formal prep but workshops debate answers  —  President Joe Biden and challenger Donald Trump face the same problem in their first debate …

Trump has ‘sort of a pretty good idea’ of VP pick, will probably announce during RNC convention  —  Trump will likely announce VP pick during the Republican National Convention, which will be held in July in Milwaukee  —  Join Fox News for access to this content

Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Billionaire political donor Harlan …

The Disappearing Tucker Carlson  —  A major publisher just canceled a big-budget book on the former Fox News star, cementing his mainstream absence.  —  For Tucker Carlson, it has to be the ultimate good-news, bad-news moment: A major publishing house has canceled a prominent political …

How far-right parties seduced young voters across Europe  —  Young people abandoned mainstream parties in last weekend's European elections - a sign that their anxieties are not being heard  —  That far-right parties fared well in the European elections came as no surprise - surveys had consistently foretold their triumph.

Republicans vent fury over speaker's elevation of Scott Perry: 'There isn't only one group that can threaten them'  —  Frustration is boiling over among rank-and-file House Republicans with leaders' practice of trying to mollify critics by bestowing plum posts and other perks.

‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump's Closed-Door Rant to House Republicans … Donald Trump came to the Capitol Hill Club Thursday morning supposedly to discuss his agenda for a second term with House Republicans.  Instead, Trump treated his meeting as an opportunity to deliver a behind-closed-doors …

The case centered on mifepristone, a drug long approved by the F.D.A. Here's the latest.  —  The justices unanimously rejected a bid to sharply curtail access to a widely available abortion pill, finding that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue.  —  The case centered on mifepristone …

Donald J. Trump, the Man, the Flag  —  In a visual age, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is making himself into the 51st star.  —  When Donald J. Trump held his post-conviction news conference at Trump Tower after his hush-money trial in May, he did so in his signature red …

The GOP's Whitewashing Of Jan. 6 Is Now Complete  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  —  Will We Never Learn?  —  Donald Trump's return to the scene of the Jan. 6 attack that he instigated was a watershed moment in the whitewashing of his failed auto-coup.

Fauci Speaks His Mind on Trump's Rages and Their ‘Complicated’ Relationship  —  In a new book, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents.  The chapter about Donald J. Trump is titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”  —  Three months into the coronavirus pandemic …

Exclusive: DNC launching billboards hitting Trump over Milwaukee comments … - They say that Trump was referring to the crime in the city, not the city itself.  — Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote that the former president was referring to “how terrible crime and voter fraud are.”

The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled  —  After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down.  Its founding director, Alex Stamos, left his position in November.  Renee DiResta, its research director …

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Scoop: McConnell eyes his next move … - McConnell, 82, is both a student and a practitioner of power.  — While no final decision has been made, such a post would let him remain a force with real juice, wielding enviable say over funding for everything from the Pentagon to pet projects until he finishes his term in 2027.

Pelosi: Vice president is a ‘safeguard’ if GOP contests the election  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Today is former president Donald Trump's 78th birthday.  Send tips to earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.

Beware ‘Christian nationalists’ hiding under your bed — the Left's new imaginary menace  —  Summertime in presidential campaign season tends to resemble midyear network TV schedules of yesteryear: unpopular, full of re-runs and marred by the occasional high-concept experiment gone horribly wrong.

Top GOPer Accidentally Wrecks Trump's Biggest Lie About Jack Smith … Don't look now, but Donald Trump's criminality is slowly morphing into a serious wedge issue against the Republican Party—and Democrats, fortunately, are beginning to act like it.  —  Politico's Playbook reported Thursday …