Condo Collapse: As many as 99 people are missing or unaccounted for after yesterday’s condominium collapse on a barrier island in Surfside Beach just north of Miami Beach. About half the right-angle building with 136 units dropped into a heap of rubble.

  Apartments were ripped open exposing the stuff of everyday life; chairs, lamps, beds, and linens flapping in the wind.

   One person is confirmed dead and 53 residents have been accounted for. Rescuers say they made contact with some survivors inside the pile as teams picked through the wreckage, some of which broke out in fire during the day.

  While the cause of the collapse is indetermined, the building was about to undergo extensive repairs for rusted steel and damaged concrete. Ocean front buildings exposed to salt air are often subject to rust in girders and deterioration of concrete.

Big Deal: President Biden struck an agreement with senators of both parties to spend about $579 billion on roads, broadband internet, and electric utilities. It’s a fraction of the $4 trillion he had originally sought.

  “We have a deal,” Mr. Biden said outside the White House. “I think it’s really important we’ve all agreed that none of us got all that we wanted.”

  A caution here. The deal can only move along with a much larger package of spending and tax increases that Democrats are pushing over the opposition of Republicans. “If this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it,” Biden said during remarks in the East Room of the White House. “It’s in tandem.”

Viral News: Nearly all Covid-19 deaths in the United States now are among the unvaccinated, the Associated Press reports. The news service says that according to its own analysis, only 0.8 percent of deaths are people who have been fully vaccinated.

  About 63 percent of all vaccine-eligible Americans — those 12 and older — have received at least one dose, and 53% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. While vaccine remains scarce in much of the world, the U.S. supply is so abundant and demand has slumped so dramatically that shots are going unused.

Rudy Oh Rudy: Former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani has been suspended from practicing law in New York for spreading false claims about election fraud.

  A New York appellate court found that “there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020.”

  The order notes that Giuliani repeatedly said that there were more Pennsylvania absentee ballots returned with votes than were sent out, which was not true. The decision said, “We conclude that respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest.” 

Buried Past: Leaders of a First Nation in Canada say they found evidence of at least 751 unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. It’s the second such find in less than a month as Canadians dig up a dark past.  Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme said the discovery was made near the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in the southeastern corner of the prairie province. Talk of the burial ground for years had been a part of local lore.

  Less than a month ago  traces of unmarked graves with remains of 215 indigenous children were found on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.

  Nearly 150,000 native children were sent to government-funded and church-run boarding schools, established in the 19th century to assimilate them into white culture. Many children were forcibly separated from their families. 

  Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in a 2015 report that many of the students were subjected to physical and sexual abuse. It said the schools carried out “cultural genocide” and effectively institutionalized child neglect.

The Obit Page: Leonard Crow Dog, a Native American spiritual leader who was a leader in 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, died on June 5th in Rapid City, South Dakota. He was 78.

  The 1973 occupation took place where federal troops 1890 killed hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux. In February 1973 hundreds of activists returned to the site on the Pine Ridge Reservation bearing a list of grievances and demanding that broken treaties be honored.

  Chief Crow Dog tended injured protesters and negotiated with federal officers during the 71 day occupation. He also held a traditional ghost dance ceremony to honor victims of the massacre.

The Spin Rack: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her intention to create a select committee to investigate the January 6^th Capitol insurrection. Senate Republicans blocked appointment of a bipartisan commission. — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin faces sentencing today for murdering George Floyd. He could get up to 40 years. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extended a moratorium on evictions until the end of July. The ban had been set to expire next week. — The statue of Theodore Roosevelt on horseback flanked by an American Indian man on one side and an African on the other that stands in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York is being removed. It has stood long enough to finally be deemed offensive. — The winter coat company Canada Goose says it will stop making its parkas with a fur ruff on the hood by the end of next year. They’re still going to use real feathers for insulation.

Social Distance: Former Vice President Mike Pence in a speech last night at the Ronald Reagan Library distanced himself from Donald Trump and the notion that he could have overturned the election 

  Pence said, “The truth is, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”

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