*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

+ The Olympian via MSN: Olympia area Sunday downpour sets new rainfall record – The previous record was set in 1946.

+ Timberland Regional Library: StoryTrail at Cochrane Memorial Park, Yelm

+ NVN: Yelm Prairie Historical Museum Seeks Volunteers to Keep its Doors Open

+ South Sound Business: Olympia’s Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom to be Held June 19

+ Airliner Watch: U.S. and EU put a hold on the 17-year dispute over aircraft subsidies…suspending for five years one set of Trump-era tariffs which had soured relations between them.

+ NVN: City of Yelm Rejects Current L&I Guidance on Vaccinations

*** SELECT NATIONAL NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

KING-5 TV: US COVID-19 deaths hit 600,000, equal to yearly cancer toll

FOX News: Senate approves Juneteenth as federal holiday after Sen. Johnson drops objection

Freedom of the Press Foundation: Major news outlets must push Biden DOJ to drop Assange charges — their press freedom rights are at stake

The Daily Beast: Jon Stewart goes all-in on the lab leak theory

The Markup: Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t [Ed. Note: Is this a surprise? heck no!]

U. of Colorado (Boulder): Waking just one hour earlier cuts depression risk by double digits

McClatchy News via MSN: Cars on US roads set new record — for being old, report finds. How COVID played a role

Common Dreams: Reality Winner’s Release From Federal Prison Met With Calls for Full Pardon