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Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins — Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark. — I. A Group Called DRASTIC
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New York Post:
Fauci emails all the more reason for US to get to bottom of COVID origins
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Washington Post:
A scientist adventurer and China's ‘Bat Woman’ are under scrutiny as coronavirus lab-leak theory gets another look
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Fuzzy Slippers / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
FauciEmails Reveal A Career Bureaucrat Who Followed Political, Not Medical, Science
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
What Did Fauci Tell Trump About Wuhan?
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Secretly Seized Phone Records of Times Reporters — The admission by the Biden Justice Department followed similar recent disclosures to The Washington Post and CNN. — WASHINGTON — The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. secretly obtained New York Times reporters' phone records during Trump administration
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
White House seeks to keep focus on infrastructure with Harris event on broadband
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Washington Post:
Biden offers major change to tax proposal in effort to secure infrastructure deal with Republicans — Instead of raising corporate tax rates to 28 percent, Biden has offered to create a new tax floor of 15 percent for businesses that pay very little. — President Biden signaled …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: SCOOP: What Biden told Capito in their Oval Office meeting — DRIVING THE DAY — A seemingly sleepy post-Memorial Day week turned surprisingly newsy late Wednesday into this morning. Here's what you need to know to understand the three big storylines overnight: — INFRASTRUCTURE
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Washington Post:
Trump has grown increasingly consumed with ballot audits as he pushes falsehood that election was stolen — Former president Donald Trump remains relentlessly focused on the false claim that the November election was stolen from him and is increasingly consumed with the notion …
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NBC News:
New GOP voting laws target more than just voter access — WASHINGTON — Across the country, Republican-controlled state legislatures have done more than pass voting restrictions after losing the 2020 presidential contest. — They've enacted or drafted provisions that create new election powers …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Law Student Who Made Fun of the Federalist Society Will Be Allowed to Graduate After All — Update, 9: 30 p.m.: Stanford has concluded that Nicholas Wallace engaged in protected speech, dropped its investigation, and lifted the hold on his diploma. Wallace has confirmed that he will be allowed to graduate.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Federal prosecutors looking into whether Gaetz obstructed justice — MIAMI — Federal prosecutors are examining whether Rep. Matt Gaetz obstructed justice during a phone call he had with a witness in the sex-crimes investigation of the Florida congressman, according to two sources familiar with the case.
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Phil Keren / Akron Beacon Journal:
Veteran's microphone cut off when he discusses Blacks' role in establishing Memorial Day — Event organizer turned down sound for part of speech; Speaker says he was censored by Hudson American Legion — HUDSON — What at first blush appeared to be a short audio malfunction at Monday's Memorial …
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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
As a vet spoke about Memorial Day's roots in Black history, his mic was cut. It was no accident. — Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was midway through his speech at a Memorial Day ceremony in an Ohio cemetery when he started discussing the role that freed Black enslaved people played in an early event honoring Civil War dead.
Axios:
COVID-19 cases hit lowest point in U.S. since pandemic began — The U.S. has brought new coronavirus infections down to the lowest level since March 2020, when the pandemic began. — The big picture: Nearly every week for the past 56 weeks, Axios has tracked the change — more often than not …
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Kat Rosenfield / spectator.us:
Ellie Kemper and Twitter's Two Minutes Hate — Twitter's sidebar points to people who have been declared fair game for punching and the mob gleefully piles on — If you've spent any time in the land of online controversies this week, you may have heard that Ellie Kemper …
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Burning of Ellie Kemper shows we're living in a modern-day Salem witch trial
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The White House:
Memorandum on Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core United States National Security Interest … Section 1. Policy. Corruption corrodes public trust; hobbles effective governance; distorts markets and equitable access to services; undercuts development efforts …
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Associated Press:
Candidate interrupted by sex toy on drone, punched at event — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — A New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque was interrupted while on stage at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it and a man who punched him.
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New York Post, Political Wire and Associated Press
Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Why the Manhattan District Attorney Should Have Trump Worried — Donald Trump's case won't be Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's first high-profile prosecution. — On May 25, the day after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that he had convened a criminal grand jury …
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Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Looking to themselves, Palestinians expect little from Israeli changes. — Negotiating as the clock ran down, Israeli parties ranging from the left to the far right, including an Arab bloc, agreed on a coalition government. … Here's what you need to know: — Israeli opposition makes a coalition deal to topple Netanyahu.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rep. Mo Brooks is avoiding an insurrection lawsuit. Rep. Eric Swalwell hired a private investigator to find him. — (CNN)Republican Rep. Mo Brooks is avoiding a lawsuit from his Democratic colleague Rep. Eric Swalwell that seeks to hold him accountable for the January 6 Capitol insurrection …
George Conway / Washington Post:
Republican senators managed to outdo themselves in cowardice — Republican senators have managed to outdo themselves in cowardice — which is quite a feat. — Last week's Senate vote blocking a national commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol was even more appalling …
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Katie Herzog / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
What Happens When Doctors Can't Speak Freely? — Whole areas of research are off-limits. Top physicians treat patients based on their race. An ideological ‘purge’ is underway in American medicine. — 1 hr ago … ‘People Are Afraid to Speak Honestly’
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Politico:
Sources: Dem lobbying firm under federal investigation for Burisma work — The Justice Department is investigating the work of a consulting firm linked to the president's son for potential illegal lobbying, four people familiar with the probe told POLITICO.
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The Hill, National Review, Insider and Twitchy
Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
Want to Stop Ransomware Attacks? Ban Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies. — Let's say you're a hacker who wants to extort money from a big corporation. A decade or two ago, you might have hacked into their systems, stolen some data, and sold it for pennies on the dark web or demanded money for its return.
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Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg:
Russia-Linked Group Behind JBS Attack Revels in ‘Audaciousness’
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Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Cuomo accuser: 'He's like Darth Vader, he scares everyone' … Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of sexual harassment, called him an “abusive man” and compared him to “Darth Vader” in an interview on Hill.TV's “Rising.”
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Katie Hill ordered to pay $220,000 in attorneys' fees in revenge porn case — Former Rep. Katie Hill has been ordered to pay about $220,000 in attorneys' fees to a British tabloid and two conservative journalists she sued in her unsuccessful revenge porn lawsuit.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Democrats Want to Destroy Democracy to Save It — Our democracy is in peril, according to unbiased experts of expertise who really want Joe Manchin to roll-over on the filibuster. We have to pass the Perpetual Democrat Control Act now, or it's curtains for our democracy …
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The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Vigilante's ‘Alarming’ Gubernatorial Run Has Some Bracing for Chaos — Ammon Bundy is currently barred from entering the Idaho state Capitol where he would ostensibly need to conduct official business. But his campaign is anything but a joke. — BOISE, Idaho—Far-right agitator …
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