Top of the Fold

• Biden finds a pipeline he likes: U.S. makes “stunning” move to waive sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s pet pipeline project (Free Beacon) | Blinken/Biden hypocritical statement from March: “Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal” (State.gov)


• Virtue-signaling Hate Crimes Act passes Congress, heads to Biden (NPR)

Government & Politics

• Senate GOP will “push the pause button” on House riot commission (Washington Examiner)

• New York attorney general says Trump Org probe is now criminal (AP)

• Citizenship rules eased for kids born abroad via IVF or surrogacy (Roll Call)

• President Decency jokes about running over reporter with vehicle during Ford test drive (Fox News)

National Security

• Dozens of House Dems cite “racial reckoning” to oppose targeting gang members for deportation (Fox News)

• More than 61,000 migrants released into the U.S. under Biden (Washington Examiner)

• Border officials seized more fentanyl in the first four months of 2021 than during the same period in 2020 (Daily Caller)

Around the Nation

• Several states report zero COVID deaths for the first time in months (Axios)

• Texas governor bans mask mandates for public schools, local governments (Axios)

• Officers won’t be charged in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. (The Hill)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

• Black Lives Matter “stands in solidarity” with Palestinians, vows to fight for “Palestinian liberation” (Fox News)

• Twitter doesn’t follow the science, suspends Spanish politician for tweeting “a man cannot get pregnant” (PJ Media)

• Virginia Little League coaches must attend “antiracist” training (Free Beacon)

• Ultra-woke “Saturday Night Live” hits ultra-low rating (Daily Wire)

Annals of Integrity

• Tennessee to mandate bathroom signs about transgender use (AP)

• “A danger for our country”: France bans woke gender-neutral language in schools (Daily Wire)

• UFC fighter dedicates his victory to victims of communism (FEE)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber hitting U.S. homebuyers hard (Heritage Foundation)

• Policy: How monetary expansion creates income and wealth inequality (Mises Institute)

• Satire: Luke Skywalker condemned for blowing up Associated Press office located on Death Star (Babylon Bee)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report.

The Patriot Post is a certified ad-free news service, unlike third-party commercial news sites linked on this page, which may also require a paid subscription.