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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department defends Trump in suit over rape denial  —  The Biden administration is pressing on with a controversial Justice Department defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by a writer who accused him of raping her at a New York City department store in the 1990s.
Discussion: Twitchy and Insider
Erica Orden / CNN:
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit  —  New York (CNN)The Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Biden DOJ Will Keep Defending Trump on Rape Defamation Case  —  Donald Trump used the Justice Department to defend him in a defamation case that accuses him of rape, and the Biden administration will continue defending him.  —  Donald Trump can continue to lean on the executive power he once …
Discussion: Just The News
The Daily Beast:
What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld's Iceberg of Crazy?
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds  —  The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the violent attack, including a breakdown within multiple …
Discussion: NPR
CNN:
Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role  —  (CNN)A new Senate report reveals previously unknown details about the stunning security breakdowns ahead of the January 6 US Capitol attack, adding an authoritative emphasis …
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:   Bipartisan group of senators release report on Capitol attack, make recommendations
Justin Haskins / The Hill:
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America  —  On Sunday, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an op-ed by Sen. Joe Manchin in which the West Virginia Democrat announced his opposition of the For the People Act, a bill that aims to impose a variety …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
Discussion: Political Wire
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Joe Manchin Survives as a Democrat in West Virginia
Discussion: Opinion Today and Washington Post
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
Are we going to let Joe Manchin sink democracy?
Discussion: New York Times
ProPublica:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax  —  The Secret IRS Files  —  In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.  He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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ProPublica:   You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire
Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos announces he'll be on first crewed spaceflight of Blue Origin rocket
CNN:
Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies  —  (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab  —  The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration  —  WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming …
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Reuters:   U.S. report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab - WSJ
Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers  —  Washington (CNN)US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month, according to people briefed on the matter.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson  —  Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.
Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Muslim family in Canada killed in ‘targeted’ attack, police say  —  TORONTO — A man accused of mowing down five members of the same family with a black pickup truck in an Ontario city on Sunday, killing four and seriously injuring a 9-year-old boy, targeted them because they were Muslim …
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Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Deranged Theory That Democrats Would Replace Biden Might Have Helped Him Lose 2020  —  The president was obsessed with the idea that Democrats would strip the primary win from Joe Biden and nominate Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama instead, reporter Michael Bender writes in an upcoming book.
New York Times:
Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide  —  A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor.  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached …
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Material Related to Andrew Cuomo's Book  —  State officials who edited early versions of New York governor's memoir were among those receiving requests for information  —  Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed material related to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent memoir …
David Harsanyi / National Review:
The 1619 Project Comes for the Second Amendment  —  If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves?  —  Left-wing academic Carol Anderson's new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods  —  (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried …
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
The four best ways Team Biden can show America the Donald Trump era is really over  —  Trump treated our Constitution and laws as doormats.  Biden must reassert the primacy of the law and the importance of transparency in our democracy.  —  Tame the COVID-19 pandemic?  Check.
Discussion: Associated Press and NBC News
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World  —  “This is an earthquake,” a prominent Christian writer told me.  —  The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020, letter by Russell Moore, one of the most influential and respected evangelicals in America (and a friend), has shaken the Christian world.
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden warned as a court slaps down race-based COVID relief  —  As President Joe Biden pursues initiatives he announced last week to “help narrow the racial wealth gap,” he should heed a late-May reminder from the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that preferential treatment based on race is presumptively invalid.
 
 
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Bryan Metzger / Politico:
Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race
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Marley Parish / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Pa. GOP lawmakers stay quiet on who paid for their trip to see Arizona audit. What's the impact?
Discussion: NBC10 Philadelphia
Gavin Bade / Politico:
Biden to shore up supply chains for four sectors after 100-day reviews
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Fox News:
Biden White House powered by family connections
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Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Mandates Body Cameras for Federal Law-Enforcement Officers
Derek Lacey / USA Today:
New Super PAC formed with one goal: Fire Madison Cawthorn
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Pro-McConnell PAC to vet Trump's 2022 primary picks
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Top White House tech critic Tim Wu holds more than $1M in Bitcoin
CNN:
This is the first ever Holocaust exhibition to open in the Middle East
Theo Stein / NOAA Research:
Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory
Taylor Goldenstein / Houston Chronicle:
Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman resigns, fueling 2022 speculation
Discussion: Off the Kuff and The Texas Tribune
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Guatemala's prez blames Biden for border crisis as protesters tell Kamala Harris ‘Trump won’
 

 
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