- NYT Obit: Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey Senator in his 5th term, dies at 89
- Democrats’ 2014 strategy: own Obamacare
- UN finds war crimes on both sides of the Syrian conflict
- The Eurozone’s aggregate youth unemployment for March is 23.3%.
- After three years, 38.4% of the sweeping financial reform measure Dodd-Frank has been finalized into law.
- Talk of recovery in Greece is premature.
- GM’s Cadillac posts biggest 5-month gain since disco era.
- The White House on Tuesday plans to announce a set of executive actions President Barack Obama will take that are aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as “patent trolls,” amid concerns that the firms are abusing the patent system and disrupting competition.
- U.S. manufacturing output unexpectedly shrank to its lowest level in four years in May.
- Abstract immigrants
- Top political appointees are using secret email accounts.
Morning Must Reads: June 4
In the news: patent trolls, Cadillac, Lautenberg, Greece, Dodd-Frank, abstract immigrants, and secret email accounts.