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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
Four People, Including Gunman, Are Killed in Attack at Tulsa Medical Building, Police Say  —  Multiple people were shot and four people, including the gunman, were killed on Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Tulsa, Okla., the Tulsa police said.  —  The assailant, who was armed with a rifle …
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Fernando Alfonso III / NPR:
5 people dead at Tulsa medical building, in the 233rd mass shooting of 2022  —  Tulsa police confirmed that a shooter killed four people at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., on Wednesday.  —  “Four innocents and one shooter” are dead, Jonathan Brooks of the Tulsa police department said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Irma and Joe Garcia, a teacher and her heartbroken husband, are buried together in Uvalde  —  They were high school sweethearts.  Irma Garcia taught at Robb Elementary for her entire 23-year career.  Her husband died of a heart attack days after she was shot.  —  Copy link
Discussion: Associated Press and CBS News
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
What are Uvalde police hiding?
Discussion: Morning Shots
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Simplest Response to School Shootings
Discussion: Reason
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Live Updates: Facing Heavy Losses, Ukraine Slowly Falls Back in East  —  Pitched street battles raged in Sievierodonetsk as Russian forces pushed into the city center.  Germany promised Ukraine an advanced air-defense system, a day after the U.S. said it would send more powerful artillery.
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Mike Stone / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans to sell armed drones to Ukraine in coming days -sources  —  The Biden administration plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles for battlefield use against Russia, three people familiar with the situation said.
Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Documents Reveal Hundreds of Russian Troops Broke Ranks Over Ukraine Orders  —  Desertions and refusal to engage in the invasion have put Moscow in a bind over how to punish service members without drawing attention to the problem  —  Hundreds of Russian soldiers have escaped the fighting …
Alexander Martin / Sky News:
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
‘Men Always Win’: Survivors ‘Sickened’ by the Amber Heard Verdict  —  It didn't matter what the verdict was — as one domestic violence survivor puts it, “this case is my worst fear playing out on a public stage”  —  Over the past few weeks, Meghan has been watching the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial with a sinking feeling.
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Candace McDuffie / The Root:
Amber Heard Verdict Sends A Message To Black Women Everywhere  —  If the mistreatment of a wealthy blonde haired, blue-eyed white actress is ridiculed by the world, what does that mean for Black women?  —  Alerts  —  On Wednesday, a jury in Virginia decided that actor Johnny Depp …
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: Blockbuster witness for Jan. 6 hearings  —  J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge and lawyer who advised former Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to testify in the Jan. 6 select committee's public hearings this month, Axios has learned.
Washington Post:
House Republicans to unveil conservative roadmap on climate, energy  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to call for boosting domestic fossil fuel production and streamlining the permitting process for large infrastructure projects  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
$5.8 Billion in Loans Will Be Forgiven for Corinthian Colleges Students  —  The Education Department said it would wipe out the debts of 560,000 borrowers who had enrolled in the for-profit college chain, which collapsed in 2015.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Adm. Linda Fagan becomes first woman to lead U.S. Coast Guard  —  Adm. Linda Fagan was sworn in Wednesday by President Biden as the 27th commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, becoming the first woman to lead the service.  —  With her appointment, Fagan also becomes the first female service chief in American history.
New York Times:
The Middlemen Helping Russian Oligarchs Get Superyachts and Villas  —  They oversee the flow of billions of dollars from Putin-connected Russians to companies involved in superyachts and villas.  They've drawn the attention of a U.S. task force.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Washington Post
Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Records show coordinated Arizona ballot collection scheme  —  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman indicted in 2020 on accusations of illegally collecting ballots apparently ran a sophisticated operation using her status as a well-known Democratic operative in the border city of San Luis …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Emilie Raguso / Berkeleyside:
Student, 16, arrested on suspicion of mass shooting, bomb plot at BHS  —  Police say they seized “explosives and assault rifles, several knives” and other concerning materials at the boy's Berkeley home.  —  A 16-year-old Berkeley High student turned himself in to police this week following …
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Thoughts on the Michael Sussmann Verdict  —  In the years since Donald Trump's election, the former president's supporters and opponents have often seemed to occupy entirely separate factual universes regarding both his conduct and the investigations of it.  —  In the factual universe occupied …
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
Man Who Shot Reagan Granted Full Freedom  —  John Hinckley, the would-be assassin who shot President Ronald Reagan two months after his inauguration in 1981, was deemed by a federal judge on Wednesday to no longer be a “danger to himself or others.”  As a result, he will be free of all remaining restrictions by June 15.
Discussion: Associated Press and Rolling Stone
Financial Times:
Saudi Arabia ready to pump more oil if Russian output sinks under ban  —  Riyadh aware it must not ‘lose control’ of oil prices as energy sanctions hit Moscow  —  Saudi Arabia has indicated to western allies that it is prepared to raise oil production should Russia's output fall substantially under …
Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg:
One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck, Survey Finds  —  More than a third of Americans earning at least $250,000 annually say they are living paycheck to paycheck, underscoring how inflation is taking a bigger bite out of Americans' budgets at all ends of the pay spectrum.
Discussion: Breitbart and Twitchy
Reagan Knopp / The Oregon Catalyst:
BREAKING: Drazan has edge over Kotek in early poll  —  By In the news In: 2022 Election Wednesday June 1, 2022 No Comments yet, we're awaiting your thoughts  —  In a new poll from Nelson Research, Republican Christine Drazan has the early lead coming out of the primary.
Discussion: Breitbart
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by the Fed and Ukraine war  — There are two main factors that has Dimon worried: So-called quantitative tightening, or QT, is scheduled to begin this month and will ramp up to $95 billion a month in reduced bond holdings.
Pamela Falk / CBS News:
After nearly 100 days of war, two out of three children in Ukraine are displaced  —  United Nations - Over five million children are now in need of humanitarian assistance because of the war in Ukraine, with “consequences for children at a scale and speed not seen since World War II,” …
Discussion: UNICEF and The Hill
Janie Har / Associated Press:
California details racist past in slave reparations report  —  The slavery reparations movement has hit a watershed moment with the release of an exhaustive report detailing California's role in perpetuating discrimination against African Americans  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The slavery reparations movement hit …
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
A girl fled her war-torn homeland, but found more trauma in San Francisco  —  The morning began like most in the Saleh family's tiny studio six floors above Turk and Hyde streets in the Tenderloin.  The four children rose from their mats on the floor as their parents emerged from the closet where they shared a small mattress.
The Seattle Times:
Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows  —  Seattle police's sexual assault and child abuse unit staff has been so depleted that it stopped assigning to detectives this year new cases with adult victims, according to an internal memo sent to interim police Chief Adrian Diaz in April.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Two White House press office staffers leaving for other administration jobs  —  The White House press office is undergoing a minor staffing shuffle as two aides are departing for other agencies within the Biden administration.  —  Vedant Patel, who had served as an assistant press secretary …
Molly Jong-Fast / The Atlantic:
Democrats Should “Do Something” the Way the GOP Does Things  —  Gun control can be a winning issue for Democrats, if they act quickly. … On Sunday, President Joe Biden attended a Catholic Mass in Uvalde, Texas, for the 19 children and two teachers who had been murdered at Robb Elementary School.
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Salon
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Watchdog opens probe into huge Social Security fines to poor, disabled  —  An independent watchdog this week opened a broad investigation into Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office following a Washington Post report that revealed how an anti-fraud program …
Washington Post:
Buffalo shooting suspect charged with murder as a hate crime, domestic terrorism  —  The White man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store on May 14 was indicted Wednesday on 25 counts, including domestic terrorism and murder as a hate crime, authorities said.
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden Administration to Cut Costs for Wind and Solar Energy Projects  —  Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the government would sharply reduce the fees it charges to companies that operate on public lands.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration …
Discussion: Reuters
Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat:
'It's all about the kids': Florida high school raffles off rifles, handguns  —  A Florida high school raffled off guns and other weaponry through a month-long fundraising campaign that ended Wednesday.  —  James Madison Preparatory High School in Madison, a charter school …
Story County GOP:
Judge Joseph Story Dinner 2022  —  SENATOR TOM COTTON TO KEYNOTE STORY COUNTY GOP ANNUAL DINNER  —  NEVADA, IA - The Republican Party of Story County announced today that Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Judge Joseph Story Dinner.
 
 
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
50 years after the Watergate break-in, John Dean relives the scandal that changed his life
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
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Discussion: CNBC and New York Post
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
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