| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, June 4TRUMP SPENDING CAMPAIGN CASH ON HIS OWN TOWER With commercial tenants fleeing Trump Tower, President Donald Trump is spending $37,500 a month of campaign money for office space there — with some of that cash destined for his own wallet ― as space goes unused at a new campaign office in northern Virginia. [HuffPost]TRUMP MEETS THE QUEEN ON UK STATE VISIT Trump arrived at Buckingham Palace Monday for the start of his three-day state visit to the U.K. The president was greeted by the queen on the West Terrace of Buckingham Palace, her official London residence, after he landed in his official helicopter on the palace grounds. [HuffPost]GOVERNMENT INCHES TOWARD TECH GIANT PROBE The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google misuse their massive market power, sources told Reuters, setting up what could be an unprecedented, wide-ranging probe. [Reuters]EX-GOVERNOR’S PHONE SEIZED IN FLINT WATER PROBE Authorities investigating Flint’s water crisis have used search warrants to seize from storage the state-owned mobile devices of former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current or former officials, The Associated Press has learned. [AP]EL PASO STILL WAITING ON TRUMP RALLY’S $470,000 TAB The city of El Paso, Texas, has sent Trump’s reelection campaign an arrears notice for a $470,000 rally bill, ABC News reports. Beto O’Rourke has already paid his tab to El Paso for an event there six weeks later to officially launch his Democratic campaign. [HuffPost]DEATHS OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN WAS ‘NATIONAL GENOCIDE’ The deaths in Canada of more than a thousand aboriginal women and girls in recent decades was a national genocide, a government inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women concluded. [Reuters]
 Help us tell more stories from real people, in their words. Become a member so we can deliver the voices you want to hear.  HOUSE TO VOTE ON HOLDING BARR IN CONTEMPT The full U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena seeking the full, unredacted report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. [HuffPost]MORE THAN 300 BOEING PLANES MAY HAVE FAULTY PARTS The Federal Aviation Administration said a joint investigation conducted with Boeing found over 300 planes worldwide may include parts that may have been improperly manufactured by a Boeing supplier. As many as 148 parts may be affected. [HuffPost]FOX NEWS HOST PROMOTES WHITE NATIONALIST THEORY Despite evidence to the contrary, Fox News host Tucker Carlson continues to tout a conspiracy theory popular with neo-Nazis about South Africa’s post-apartheid land reform plans and their links to an alleged ― and unproved — “genocide” against white farmers. [HuffPost]RUSSIA ORDERS TINDER TO HAND OVER USER DATA Dating app Tinder is now required to provide user data to Russian intelligence agencies, the country’s communications regulator said. The app was included on a new list of online services operating in Russia that are required to provide user data on demand to Russian authorities. [AP]STATES SUE OXYCONTIN MAKER Attorneys general in California, Maine, Hawaii and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, alleging it misled the public by downplaying the opioid’s addictive nature. [HuffPost]CONGRESS FINALLY PASSES $19 BILLION DISASTER RELIEF BILL Ending months of political infighting, Congress passed a disaster relief bill on Monday that will provide more than $19 billion to areas across the U.S. affected by natural disasters. [HuffPost]
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