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Monday 7 June 2021

Manchin's nope may doom Dem voting rights bill

By Liza Hearon

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Monday, June 7

DEMOCRATS BATTLE OVER ELECTIONS BILL Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) tore into Sen. Joe Manchin over an opinion piece in which the West Virginia Democrat wrote he would vote against a timely elections bill because it doesn't have the support of Republicans. "Sen. Manchin would rather preserve Jim Crow on some outdated theory of bipartisanship that frankly does not exist in the same way today as it did a generation ago," Jones said on MSNBC. [HuffPost]

REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATURES ARE WINNING THEIR WAR ON VOTING RIGHTS 2021 is on pace to be the worst year for U.S. voter suppression laws since 2011, and activists are worried that Democrats aren't responding aggressively enough, writes Travis Waldron. Fueled by lies that widespread voter fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election, Republicans have passed new voter suppression laws at the fastest pace in a decade. [HuffPost]

ENERGY SECRETARY: U.S. FOES CAN SHUT DOWN POWER GRID Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called for more public-private cooperation on cyber defenses and said U.S. adversaries already are capable of using cyber intrusions to shut down the U.S. power grid. Granholm noted, without naming the company, the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline Co. last month. [AP]

PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE WELCOME 2ND CHILD The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed a baby girl and named her Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, in a tribute to Queen Elizabeth ("Lilibet" is a family nickname) and Harry's mother, the late Princess of Wales. Both mother and child are healthy and well. [HuffPost ]

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DOZENS KILLED IN EXPRESS TRAIN COLLISION IN PAKISTAN Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan early Monday, killing at least 35 passengers, authorities said, as rescuers and villagers worked to pull injured people and more bodies from the wreckage. Authorities are unsure what caused the wreck. According to railway officials, about 1,100 passengers were on board the two trains. [AP]

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: CLIMATE CHANGE IS A 'CRIME' Famed naturalist David Attenborough said climate change is a "crime" humanity has committed against the planet in an interview that aired Sunday, asking why society should have the prerogative to continue "poisoning life on earth" when there is still time for redemption. Attenborough has concluded that the problem has grown so large as to be beyond the burden of any one nation. [HuffPost]

WHAT'S BREWING

31 MILLION PEOPLE NOW COVERED THROUGH 'OBAMACARE' More people than ever are getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, providing new proof of the law's value as its survival depends on a Supreme Court ruling that could come as soon as Monday. The figure reflects an increase of nearly 4 million people between 2020 and 2021. [HuffPost]

CAPITOL ATTACK IS RESHAPING COUNTERTERRORISM BUDGET The Biden administration has requested more than $100 million in new annual Justice Department spending to address "emerging domestic terrorism threats." Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said that Jan. 6 accelerated the course that the Biden administration was likely to pursue once the president took office. [HuffPost]

G-7 NATIONS SIGN PACT TO MAKE CORPORATIONS PAY FAIRER TAXES The Group of Seven wealthy democracies agreed to support a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% in order to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing profits in low-rate countries. International discussions on the tax issue gained momentum after U.S. President Joe Biden backed the idea of a global minimum of at least 15% on corporate profits. [AP]

GEORGIA REPUBLICANS BOO OVER 2020 ELECTION Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew jeers and boos at his state party's annual convention, laying bare the bitterness that remains among Republicans over his role in certifying Biden's victory in the presidential race. Kemp never mentioned Trump, who bashed him for months and who returned to the political area Saturday with a speech in North Carolina. [AP]

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: DISMISSING LAB THEORY WAS 'MISTAKE' Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she believes U.S. officials made a mistake in initially dismissing the idea that COVID-19 was the result of a laboratory. Rice, who served as national security adviser during the SARS outbreak in 2003, said one early red flag was that U.S. officials had previously called safety practices "substandard" at a lab studying coronaviruses in bats in Wuhan, China. [HuffPost]