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• NY Times – Business

  • Lordstown Motors' Top Executives Resign After Board Investigation
  • Novavax Offers U.S. a Fourth Strong Covid-19 Vaccine
  • How Private Equity Conquered the Tax Code
  • England's Delayed Reopening Is Expected to Have 'Minor' Impact
  • Americans Plead Guilty in Japan to Aiding Carlos Ghosn’s Escape
  • Weddings Took a Big Hit in 2020. Enter the Micro-Wedding.
  • The Recession Isn’t Over Till They Say It’s Over. (But Who Are They?)

• Washington Post

  • Disagreements flare among NATO allies despite relief at Biden’s arrival
  • Live updates: Biden says U.S. has a ‘sacred obligation’ to its NATO allies as he arrives at summit
  • Temp checks, digital menus and ‘touchless’ mustard: The maddening persistence of ‘hygiene theater’
  • Biden will give Putin a list of demands. The Russian president may ignore them.
  • Biden’s vow to limit ethics conflicts finds a test case: the Ricchetti brothers
  • McAuliffe doubles down on false budget claim that has been fact-checked three times
  • ‘I didn’t take an oath to defend Donald Trump’: Rep. Tom Rice tests whether Republican voters will support a conservative who crossed Trump

• Review Journal

  • Actor Ned Beatty, indelible in ‘Deliverance’ dies at 83
  • ‘Beyond rare:’ State drops water for bighorn sheep as drought persists
  • Israel swears in new coalition, ending Netanyahu’s reign
  • G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations
  • $28M bid gets ride into space with Jeff Bezos
  • How Biden’s free community college proposal could impact Nevada
  • Pulse Nightclub to be designated national memorial
  • Georgia shooting leaves 1 dead, several critically injured
  • 2 sought in Texas mass shooting that wounded 14
  • Biden urges G-7 leaders to call out, compete with China

• BBC World News

  • Irish police to be given powers over passwords
  • Wrong seat: Netanyahu sits in PM's chair after loss
  • Nato summit: Nato must face up to China's rise, alliance chief says
  • IS Badoush prison massacre: Iraq exhumes bodies from mass grave
  • Aung San Suu Kyi: Trial of ousted Myanmar leader begins
  • China denounces G7 after statement on Xinjiang and Hong Kong
  • Carlos Ghosn: US father and son admit role in Nissan chief's escape

• NPR News

  • 2 Americans Are Standing Trial In Japan Over Allegedly Helping Carlos Ghosn Escape
  • Ned Beatty, Character Actor Of 'Network' And 'Deliverance,' Has Died At 83
  • Novavax Says Its COVID Vaccine Is Extremely Effective
  • 1 Woman Is Dead, Others Injured In Minneapolis After A Driver Plows Into Protesters
  • It's Personal: Zoom'd Out Workplace Ready For Face-To-Face Conversations To Return
  • China Has Promised To Go Carbon-Neutral By 2060, But Coal Is Still King
  • 5 Things To Watch At The Biden-Putin Summit
  • Anti-Vaccine Activists Use A Federal Database To Spread Fear About COVID Vaccines

• Roll Call

  • Legal threats loom over Senate hearing on Dreamers
  • Hill staffers expect infrastructure bill to pass, but little else
  • G-7 leaders buy into Biden’s ‘build back better’ pitch
  • Capitol Police watchdog flags training contractor’s use of Nazi-adjacent symbols
  • House committee unveils bipartisan Big Tech antitrust agenda
  • Garland zeroes in on voting rights
  • House chamber mask mandate lifted for vaccinated members, staff

• The Hill – Top News

  • Police investigating death of TV anchor who uncovered Clinton tarmac meeting as suicide
  • The Hill's Morning Report - Biden-Putin meeting to dominate the week
  • This week: Democrats face fractures in spending fight
  • Victim dies after being wounded in Austin mass shooting
  • Media leaders to meet with Garland to discuss leak investigations
  • Three killed, four wounded in Cleveland shooting
  • First four states cut off federal unemployment benefits

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

  • An Indigenous Systems Approach to the Climate Crisis (Blog)
  • Research to Build Resilient Social Economy Ecosystems in Europe (Blog)
  • Thinking Small
  • Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society (Blog)
  • The Office Door (Blog)
  • Social Change in the Office (Blog)
  • Social-Tech Entrepreneurs: Building Blocks of a New Social Economy (Blog)
  • The Racism of the ‘Hard-to-Find’ Qualified Black Candidate Trope (Blog)
  • Four Ways to Age-Integrate National Service (Blog)
  • We Need to Reimagine the Modern Think Tank (Blog)

• Real Clear Sports

• Curio Blog Feed

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• Julia Bloggers

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• The New Republic

  • The Sleazy Story of How Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Snake Oil Got Approved
  • Impostor Syndrome Explores the Secret Life of a Woman in Tech
  • Let’s Take the Filibuster to Court
  • How Deep Is America’s Reckoning with Racism?
  • Forget Putin, Merkel, and Macron. It’s Manchin, Sinema, and Feinstein Who Need the Democracy Lecture.
  • Republicans Seriously Think Trump Lost the Election Because of a Lab Leak Coverup That They Invented
  • Here’s an Idea for Liberals: Propaganda
  • Corporations Urging “Bold Action” on Climate at the G7 Gave $1.7 Million to Politicians Blocking It in the U.S.
  • Trump’s Justice Department Was Even More Malicious Than We Thought
  • Herd Immunity Is Not a Magical Percentage

• Economia & Negócios

  • Cade deve julgar nesta semana acordo com a Petrobrás no mercado de Gás
  • Há expectativa de que o relatório da Previdência seja votado até quinta-feira, diz Maia
  • Petrobrás terá que vender ações das empresas de transporte e distribuição de gás
  • Bancos estrangeiros mudam previsão para a Selic e passam a ver até três cortes de juros este ano
  • Nomeações das agências devem garantir equilíbrio de interesses
  • União vai ajudar Estados que contribuírem para redução do preço do gás
  • Projeção para alta do PIB recua e passa de 0,93% para 0,87%
  • Entenda o que é o Ibovespa e como o índice é calculado
  • Lucro da Caixa sobe 23% no primeiro trimestre e chega a R$ 3,9 bilhões
  • Coluna Teaser: Veja campanha que ajudou Burger King a ser anunciante mais criativo em Cannes

• OECD

  • OECD launches COVID travel blueprint
  • Mathias Cormann starts term at OECD
  • Economic recovery in view – but will be uneven
  • A landmark step forward on tax