Good morning from Washington, where conservative lawmakers call out Major League Baseball for moving the All-Star Game because of a Georgia election law that players and owners don’t understand. Our Fred Lucas reports. A parade of woke capitalists marches to the left’s drum on the issue, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, the Peach State’s attorney general plots a counterattack against President Biden’s war on fossil fuels. Plus: a U.S. grant to a Chinese coronavirus lab went unreviewed; what a real infrastructure package could do; and Hunter Biden’s shaky memory. Eighty years ago today, Germany begins bombing Yugoslavia’s capital, Belgrade, killing 17,000, even as 24 German divisions and 1,200 tanks roll into Greece.
Sen. Marco Rubio asks MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred whether the league would give up doing business in China or Cuba, both communist nations without free elections.
An oversight panel created to scrutinize just such research didn’t review a National Institutes of Health grant to a Chinese lab for modifying bat-based coronaviruses.
Chris Carr outlines two lawsuits that he and fellow state attorneys general have filed against the Biden administration to further energy independence.
The president gets a massive win if he agrees to target the bill on infrastructure we really need, add a few reforms to prevent waste, and pass a bipartisan bill.
“There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me, it could be that I was hacked, it could be that it was Russian intelligence,” the president’s son says.
