The Patriot Post® · Wednesday News Executive Summary
Above the Fold
“A dereliction of our duty as elected officials”: House Republicans sue Speaker Nancy Pelosi in bid to stop unconstitutional proxy voting (Fox News)
Justice Department closes insider-trading investigations of Senators Dianne Feinstein, Kelly Loeffler, and James Inhofe; Richard Burr inquiry continues (NPR)
Government & Politics
“We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country”: The general-election scenario that Democrats are dreading (Politico)
Twitter is fact-checking Trump’s tweets using fake-news outlets WaPo and CNN (The Daily Wire)
YouTube censors criticism of China; site automatically deletes terms used by regime critics (The Washington Free Beacon)
Richard Grenell declassifies slew of Russia probe files, as John Ratcliffe takes helm as DNI (Fox News)
U.S. ahead of schedule in cutting Afghanistan troop strength; just 8,600 remain (Reuters)
Business & Economy
Salaries get chopped for many Americans who manage to keep their jobs (Bloomberg)
Reopening optimism fuels stock-market surge (Washington Examiner)
Culture & Heartland
Four Minneapolis cops fired over black man’s death (National Review)
Memorial Day weekend shootings leave 10 dead in Chicago — the most since 2015 (AP)
Illinois Democrats bank on a congressional bailout; state budget relies on billions in federal assistance (The Washington Free Beacon)
Obfuscation: New York health website deletes Governor Andrew Cuomo’s order linked to nursing-home fatalities (Fox News)
World
Birds of a feather flock together: WHO praises Communist China for “very consistent message” of “openness” in virus investigation (Washington Examiner)
China wants to keep COVID tracking system in place permanently, fold it into social-credit system (The Daily Caller)
Despite confiscation, New Zealand sees most gun crime in a decade (NRA-ILA)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Donald Trump is right to dump the Open Skies Treaty (The Daily Signal)
Policy: The space business is about to get really serious (American Enterprise Institute)
Satire: California Governor Gavin Newsom reassures public that the church of the state is still open during lockdown (Genesius Times)
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