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1:15 AM ET, June 5, 2023

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Washington Post:
Sonic boom heard across D.C. region caused by military flight, officials say  —  An authorized Defense Department plane caused a sonic boom heard across the D.C. region Sunday afternoon, officials in Maryland said.  —  The sonic boom was related to an incident involving a Cessna that crashed in Virginia …
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Reuters:
Jet fighters chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia  —  U.S. officials scrambled jet fighters in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft that violated airspace in the Washington D.C. area and later crashed into mountainous terrain in southwest Virginia, officials said.
Associated Press:
Unresponsive small plane over Washington causes military jet to scramble, later crashes in Virginia  —  A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said.
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Netanyahu's New Media Adviser Called Biden ‘Unfit,’ Echoed Trump's Voter Fraud Claims  —  Gilad Zwick has criticized the U.S. president and the validity of the 2020 elections, claiming he is ‘slowly but surely ruining America’ and referring to him as ‘Supreme Leader Biden’
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden has a theory of MAGA that just might be working  —  Now that Congress has passed the debt limit deal, explanations for President Biden's success in negotiating the outcome are abounding.  Among them: Biden drew on his long experience in Washington to achieve bipartisan compromise …
Discussion: Raw Story and Digital Chosunilbo
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Chuck Todd leaving NBC political panel show ‘Meet the Press’ and being replaced by Kristen Welker  —  Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he'll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Chuck Todd to leave NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Welker will become host  —  The transition will happen in September, a major change at one of broadcast television oldest institutions  —  Chuck Todd, who has served as moderator of NBC's Sunday-morning talk show “Meet the Press” since 2014 …
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Chuck Todd will depart NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Kristen Welker to become host
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN?  He Seems to Think So.  —  It's been more than a year since he was forced from the top job at the network.  Since then, he has made no secret of his frustrations with his exit — or his low regard for the man who replaced him, Chris Licht.
New York Times:
What Happened When a Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days  —  On a two-block stretch of Brownsville in April, the police stepped aside and let residents respond to 911 calls.  It was a bold experiment that some believe could redefine law-enforcement in New York City.
Nijzel Dotson / KSBW:
Gov. Gavin Newsom investigating after migrants from Texas left in front of California church without warning  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a statement on Saturday regarding a group of migrants from Texas who were dropped off in front of a church in Sacramento without warning.
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Showtime Pulls ‘Vice’ Episode on Ron DeSantis  —  An installment delving into the Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate's time as a U.S. Navy JAG officer at Guantanamo Bay was quietly shelved without explanation.  —  Showtime quietly pulled an episode of its Vice newsmagazine last week …
Katie Baker / The Daily Beast:
Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania  —  She'd better hope that pleather is pudding-proof. … The First Lady of Florida showed up on the campaign trail in Iowa this weekend wearing a ghastly black leather jacket—American flag on front, an alligator and the silhouette of her state on the back …
David Mchugh / Associated Press:
With oil prices slumping, OPEC+ producers weigh more production cuts  —  Saudi Arabia will reduce how much oil it sends to the global economy, taking a unilateral step to prop up the sagging price of crude after two previous cuts to supply by major producing countries in the OPEC+ alliance failed to push oil higher.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Inside the high-stakes clash for control of Ukraine's story  —  The News  —  Journalists covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine are engaged in a running, low-grade conflict with the Ukrainian government, which many believe uses access and accreditation to shape their stories.
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Immense Crowds Protest Poland's Governing Conservative Party  —  The country's largest antigovernment gathering in years sought to reclaim the legacy of the Solidarity movement that led the struggle against a Communist system imposed by Moscow.  —  Reporting from Warsaw
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump's GOP rivals pounce after he congratulated Kim Jong Un: ‘Not something to play with’  —  WASHINGTON − Republican presidential candidates and other GOP leaders shed their reluctance to criticize Donald Trump this weekend after the ex-president served up an unusual political issue: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Associated Press:
Transgender adults in Florida ‘blindsided’ that new law also limits their access to health care  —  Debate surrounding Florida's new restrictions on gender-affirming care focused largely on transgender children.  But a new law that Republican presidential candidate and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed …
Mirna Alsharif / NBC News:
Sonic boom from Department of Defense aircraft jars residents in DMV area; DoD confirms no threat to public  —  Rattled residents took to Twitter to report hearing some sort of explosion in the area at around 3 p.m. on Sunday.  —  A thunderous explosion heard across the Washington Metropolitan area …
Bloomberg:
Mystery Trader's Debt-Ceiling Windfall Sparks Insider Concerns  —  The US government's move to greenlight a 300-mile natural gas pipeline as part of legislation to stave off a Treasury default shocked just about everyone, except for a mystery trader who somehow appears to have seen it coming.
Discussion: Insider
Miles Parks / NPR:
How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud  —  On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La.  —  With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
DGA:
DGA Tentative Agreement Achieves Historic Breakthroughs on Key Global, Economic, Creative Rights, and Safety Issues  —  Tentative Agreement to be submitted to DGA National Board at special meeting Tuesday.  —  LOS ANGELES, CA - The Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced tonight …
Nina Burleigh / American Political Freakshow:
Sunday Scaries  —  The Religious Right: Method and Madness … The American Political Freakshow tent is usually open only on Saturdays but once in a while, when the spirit moves us, we have a Sunday morning special.  —  Hallelujah!  —  To share the spirit, please enjoy this half-minute …
Reuters:
Exclusive: World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore  —  Senior officials from about two dozen of the world's major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.
 
 
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