Top of the Fold

• Liz Cheney ousted from role as House GOP Conference chair; replacement still unclear (Fox News)

• Consumer prices increase 4.2% to the highest level since 2008 (Daily Caller)

• Southeast sees gas shortages amid pipeline shutdown (The Hill) | Gas prices reach six-year high (Free Beacon)

Government & Politics

• CDC’s risk estimate of COVID transmission outdoors greatly exaggerated, bombshell report finds (Fox News)

• Education secretary opens emergency grants to undocumented and international college students (Washington Post)

• Numbers undercut Biden administration claims on ghost guns (Washington Times)

• Crisis worsens: 178,622 attempted to cross the border illegally in April, most in two decades (Washington Examiner)

Economy

• Job openings leaped above eight million in March, a new high (CNBC)

• Missouri and Tennessee join states cutting pandemic payments (Reuters)

Other Notables

• The wokest place on Earth: Disney mounts an internal campaign against “white privilege” and organizes racially segregated “affinity groups” (City Journal)

• Judge dismisses NRA bankruptcy case in blow to gun group (AP)

• Hamas lobs hundreds of rockets in 24 hours; Israel responds by attacking targets in Gaza (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Biden’s patent waiver decision raises more problems than it solves (AEI)

• Humor: Biden worried gas shortages may hurt Carter’s chances against Reagan (Babylon Bee)

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