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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
'It's race, class and gender together': Why the Atlanta murders aren't just about one thing — Here is how local law enforcement on Tuesday bafflingly explained its thinking about the Atlanta-area shooting suspect who had confessed to killing eight people, including six Asian women …
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Can you care about Asian Americans if white supremacy isn't the issue?
Can you care about Asian Americans if white supremacy isn't the issue?
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Politico, CNN, Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid's Partisan Errors
Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence
Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence
Adia Robinson / ABC News:
Anti-Asian hate hearing gets emotional: ‘Congress sees you, we stand with you’
Anti-Asian hate hearing gets emotional: ‘Congress sees you, we stand with you’
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Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times and NBC News
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Biden, Harris to meet with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta during Friday's visit
Biden, Harris to meet with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta during Friday's visit
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New York Times:
Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?
Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?
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The American Independent
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S.
The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S.
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The Hill
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russia Erupts in Fury Over Biden's Calling Putin a Killer — The Kremlin described the U.S. president's response to an interview question as “very bad,” and recalled its ambassador to “analyze what needs to be done” about the countries' relations. — MOSCOW — Russia recalled its ambassador …
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Reuters:
‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer — MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin retorted on Thursday that it takes one to know one after U.S. President Joe Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and already poor relations between Moscow …
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
Putin responds to Biden comment that he's a killer: ‘I know you are, but what am I?’
Putin responds to Biden comment that he's a killer: ‘I know you are, but what am I?’
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases Videos of Assaults on Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help to Identify Suspects — The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal officers during the riots …
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Washington Post:
Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida — The district attorney is sifting through millions of pages of his tax records. The state attorney general has subpoenaed his lawyers, his bankers, his chief financial officer — even one of his sons.
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Associated Press:
Trump's taxes in hand, Manhattan DA's probe heats up — NEW YORK (AP) — With former President Donald Trump's tax returns finally in hand, a team of New York prosecutors led by a newly hired former mob-buster is sending out fresh subpoenas and meeting face-to-face with key witnesses …
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Yahoo News, Politico, Raw Story and Fox News
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Zeldin gets testy when asked if Biden won election — “If you would like to give my answer for me, you can go ahead and do that. But I thought I was going to be here to answer my own questions,” Zeldin said. — Rep. Lee Zeldin got testy with POLITICO Playbook authors Ryan Lizza …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
On the novelty of calling a killer a killer
On the novelty of calling a killer a killer
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Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
The Cop Who Said The Spa Shooter Had “A Bad Day” Previously Posted A Racist Shirt Blaming China For The Pandemic — The Georgia sheriff's official who said the man accused of killing six Asian women and two others in shootings at spas in the Atlanta area had “a bad day” previously shared a photo of racist T-shirts on social media.
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The Daily Beast:
Apparel Company Behind Georgia Cop's Racist T-Shirts Got PPP Loan
Apparel Company Behind Georgia Cop's Racist T-Shirts Got PPP Loan
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The Daily Beast:
Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook
Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook
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New York Times:
U.S. to Send Millions of Vaccine Doses to Mexico and Canada — The Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to ramp up its efforts to limit the flow of migrants, clinging to a Trump policy of relying on southern neighbors to enforce America's immigration agenda.
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Politico:
Latest bipartisan gang tries to save Senate from itself — As progressives push the Senate into a brawl over nixing the legislative filibuster, a group of senators is setting out to do the impossible: prove that the moribund chamber can still function. — A group of 20 senators …
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Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis:
Here's why Substack's scam worked so well — They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative — I think of myself as having decent critical faculties, but somehow I got suckered again by a bog-standard publishing venture masquerading as a useful communications tool.
Kyle Horan / WTVF-TV:
Bill would remove all members of the historical commission — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Not even two weeks after the historical commission voted to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol, state senators are trying to vote to remove all members from the commission.
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David Bixenspan / MEL Magazine:
The Strange Saga of Lauren Boebert's Pro Wrestler Paternity Case — The gun-toting Colorado congresswoman rarely mentions her father, but in a trail of YouTube comments, she and her mother have singled out one man: 1980s journeyman tag-team specialist ‘Sweet’ Stan Lane
CBS San Francisco:
Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Beats Up Man Attacking Her In San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An elderly woman being attacked on Market St. in San Francisco Wednesday - the latest victim in a wave of attacks on Asians in the Bay Area - spoke to KPIX 5 about turning the tables on her assailant …
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CNN:
House Democrats weigh ejecting GOP winner of contested Iowa race, dismissing comparisons to Trump's efforts to overturn election — (CNN)House Democrats are undeterred by the mounting GOP criticism over their review of a contested congressional race that could potentially overturn …
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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open. — In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images.
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The GOP's Political Nightmare: Running Against a Recovery — President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus bill may have helped avoid a second Great Depression, but it was a political fiasco. As then-congressman Barney Frank liked to say: “Things Would've Sucked Even Worse Without Us” …
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Science:
'It's a very special picture.' Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine — Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. — The decision this week by more than 20 European countries to temporarily stop using AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine …
Cassandra Fairbanks / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Former President of Drag Queen Story Hour Foundation and Children's Court Judge Arrested on Seven Counts of Child Porn — A Milwaukee County Children's Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city's drag queen story hour program …
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The Sun, The National Pulse, Twitchy, Conservative News Daily, Big League Politics and The Daily Caller
Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:
Conservative Fanboys — Fans of big fictional universes — Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Simpsons — often speak to each other in references. “I've got a bad feeling about this.” “Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” “BortaSnIvqu' 'oH bortaS'e'.”
J.D. Vance / Newsweek:
True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration — In June 2015, Donald Trump rode down the infamous escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential bid. Like a lot of people, I didn't know what to think. From the start, I appreciated his populist instincts …
The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue's New Top Editor Out After Backlash Over Old Racist Tweets — The Condé-owned outlet's new editor has exited the job just days before she was set to take on the gig. … Just days before she was set to begin the job, Teen Vogue's new editor-in-chief is out at the publication …
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
We Need Buses, Buses Everywhere — Better service would improve millions of Americans' lives. — In America, nobody loves the bus. Lots of people ride the bus — we took about 4.6 billion trips by bus in 2019, more than by any other mode of public transportation.
American Prospect:
John Kerry Must Choose: Wall Street or the Planet — Biden's global climate change envoy shouldn't count on the banks to end their investments in fossil fuels. — Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a press briefing at the White House, January 27, 2021, in Washington.
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June Kreml / Vox:
What Biden's new child benefit would have meant for me growing up — I grew up in a “nonworking” family. Biden's child benefit would've been a godsend. — SHARE All sharing options — This story is part of a group of stories called — Shortly after I turned 8, my father died, leaving my mother a widow.
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Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Top retired Israeli security officials back Colin Kahl, a Biden nominee on ice for his Israel positions — WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three leading Israeli generals who worked with President Joe Biden's nominee for the undersecretary of defense, Colin Kahl, are backing him amid a Republican campaign …
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The Forward
Hannah Gais / Southern Poverty Law Center:
White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature — A white nationalist propagandist who met with billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been deeply embedded in the movement for well over a decade, and has provided an ideological bridge between suit-and-tie white nationalism …
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
As 4th Election Looms, Some Ask: Is Israel's Democracy Broken? — Voters are heading to the polls in Israel for the fourth time in two years. And with few signs that this vote will break the cycle, many are already bracing for a fifth. — JERUSALEM — When an Israeli prime minister …
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Al Jazeera
Seth Ackerman / Informer:
“You Furnish the Poverty Statistics, I'll Furnish the War” — Joe Biden has declared a historic one-year war on poverty. Now comes the hard part: filling for time. — 23 hr ago — “Barack was so modest,” Joe Biden told a recent gathering of House Democrats. “He didn't want to take, as he said, a ‘victory lap.’”
Brad Bannon / The Hill:
The GOP bets against American recovery — The starkly different policy priorities of the two parties are dramatically on display this week. — The focus of President Biden and the Democratic Party is on pandemic recovery and economic revitalization, while the GOP falls …