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12:20 PM ET, June 3, 2021

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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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and New York Times
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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
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.
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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 …
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 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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CNN:
What Fauci's emails reveal — and what they don't  —  Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of emergency medicine; co-founder of GetUsPPE; and a CNN medical analyst.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.  View more opinion on CNN.
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Is Dr. Fauci under criminal investigation?
Discussion: Townhall
New York Post:
Fauci emails all the more reason for US to get to bottom of COVID origins
Discussion: NewsNation Now
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
Discussion: CNBC, Insider and Political Wire
Washington Post:
FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with his political fundraising  —  The FBI is investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign fundraising activity involving his former business, according to people familiar with the matter and a spokesman for DeJoy.
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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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
A Law Student Mocked the Federalist Society. It Jeopardized His Graduation.
Discussion: The Hill and Stanford Today
FIRE:
Law student's graduation in jeopardy as Stanford investigates satirical email lampooning Federalist Society, Sen. Hawley, and Jan. 6 [UPDATED]
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
Discussion: CNBC and UPI
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core U.S. National Security Interest  —  The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to tackling corruption as an economic and national security priority, and has pledged to lead international efforts to bring transparency …
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
Discussion: Townhall and BizPac Review
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.
Katie Herzog / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth?  —  I always thought that if you lived through a revolution it would be obvious to everyone.  As it turns out, that's not true.  Revolutions can be bloodless, incremental and subtle.  And they don't require a strongman.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Instapundit and Twitchy
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Israeli opposition forms government in deal that could end Netanyahu's career
Erin Banco / Politico:
Biden admin reveals plans for first 25 million donated vaccine doses  —  The move comes after months of internal debate and external pressure.  —  Empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.  The Biden administration has announced which countries will share in the first 25 million …
Discussion: Associated Press
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The Washington Post opinion section is leaning into local with “Voices Across America”  —  Fans of The Washington Post's opinion section will get to experience a wider range of viewpoints starting this month.  On June 1, the Post announced the launch of Voices Across America …
Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
Germany faced its horrible past. … Shortly after the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in 2016 on the National Mall, I was speaking to some patrons of a successful nonprofit about the importance of candid racial dialogue in politics and in the places we live, work and worship.
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.”
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw's search for ‘woke military’ complaints draws ridicule — and war movie quotes  —  Reports from the field have been grim.  —  A male soldier wearing dresses at a combat field hospital.  Insubordination and the theft of strawberries on a Navy ship.
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Allie Morris / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announces GOP primary challenge to Attorney General Ken Paxton
Discussion: Townhall and Off the Kuff
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden to meet with Queen Elizabeth on first overseas trip as president
New York Times:
India and Israel Inflame Facebook's Fights With Its Own Employees
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
What Woke's Worth and Why  —  In early 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivered the inaugural …
Nicholas R. Micinski / Washington Post:
Why Biden's plan to slow migration through international aid is unlikely to succeed
Discussion: Politico and Vox
New York Times:
Tasked to Fight Climate Change, a Secretive U.N. Agency Does the Opposite
 Earlier Items: 
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Democrats Want to Destroy Democracy to Save It
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Vigilante's ‘Alarming’ Gubernatorial Run Has Some Bracing for Chaos
Discussion: Raw Story
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Right-wing pastor gets Covid after saying vaccines were part of ‘mass death campaign’
J.D. Vance / The American Mind:
Fighting Woke Capital
Miriam Kramer / Axios:
NASA is going back to Venus  —  NASA has chosen two new missions to unlock the mysteries of Earth's evil twin: Venus.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Fake History of the Filibuster Won't Die Senators keep repeating a made-up origin story.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite