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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:
Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook — Jay Baker incited outrage on Wednesday when he said the 21-year-old who admitted to murdering eight people at Asian massage parlors was having “a really bad day.” … A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office spokesperson …
Will Carless / USA Today:
Georgia spa shooting suspect attended rehab for sex addiction, felt ‘merciless remorse’ for engaging in sexual acts — Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old suspect charged with eight counts of murder after three shootings on Tuesday at Atlanta-area spas, had been in rehab for sex addiction …
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Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence — (CNN)Of the eight people who were killed when a White man attacked three metro Atlanta spas, six were Asian women. — Investigators said it was too early to say whether the crime was racially motivated …
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Asian Americans see shooting as a culmination of a year of racism
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
The Atlanta shootings can be both an anti-Asian hate crime and a sexist one
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Morgan Ome / The Atlantic:
Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Beyond the pandemic, Asian American leaders fear U.S. conflict with China will fan racist backlash
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Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
Many Iowans Are Uncomfortable With a New Voting Restriction, Poll Finds
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WTTG-TV:
DC police say Texas man arrested at VP's mansion had rifle, large capacity clip — Police: Armed man arrested near VP residence — WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - D.C. police say a man they arrested outside of the Vice President's residence on Wednesday afternoon had a rifle and a large capacity clip.
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CNBC:
Man wanted by police arrested near residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, gun and ammo found in car — A Texas man wanted by the police was stopped by the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Wednesday afternoon near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Washington Post:
12 Republicans opposed Congressional Gold Medals for police who protected them on Jan. 6 — A dozen House Republicans voted against a resolution to award three Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police, the D.C. police and the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of those who protected …
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Politico:
‘Behave like grown-ups’: Conservative rebellion boils over in House — A leading Republican hard-liner clashed behind closed doors with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, exposing a rift in the Republican conference and suggesting that a chamber-rattling floor protest by the far right isn't fading anytime soon.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans: End the Filibuster, and We'll Punish America By Enacting Our Agenda — A spectre is haunting the Republican party. And that spectre, oddly enough, is a future world in which Republicans control government and pass bills that they campaigned on.
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Jason Richwine / National Review:
To Preserve the Filibuster, Republicans Need Scarier Policy Threats
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
McConnell's filibuster threats are already backfiring: Biden signals support for major Senate reform
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Glenn Greenwald:
Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twitter — Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it. — 3 hr ago
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Politico:
Trump set to do at least 12 book interviews in the coming weeks — Get ready for the Donald Trump book barrage. — The former president is scheduled to sit for a dozen interviews in the coming weeks with authors examining his presidency, some of whom are penning sequels to books …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
DHS Sec. Mayorkas, in tense exchange, calls GOP congresswoman's question ‘extraordinarily disrespectful’ — Mayorkas in hot seat as Biden admin faces migrant surge at US-Mexico border — Rep. McCaul grills DHS Sec Mayorkas about characterization of border situation
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
‘Mistakes made’: DHS chief admits release of untested migrants into communities
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Neil W. McCabe / Tennessee Star:
Exclusive: Maskless Climate Envoy Kerry Endangers Passengers on Boston to DC Flight — John Forbes Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, while sitting in first-class, took off his mask today as he settled into his book moments before his American Airlines flight from Boston to Washington took off.
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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Oklahoma Diner Customers Tell CNN They Won't Get Vaccinated Even If Trump Told Them to: Why Listen to a ‘Liberal New Yorker’ Like Him? — The nation's battle to reach herd immunity against the Covid-19 virus could face an uphill challenge if one Oklahoma diner crowd's unanimous reluctance to get the shot is any indication.
Washington Post:
Postal Service finds no evidence of mail ballot fraud in Pa. case cited by top Republicans — Letter carrier Richard Hopkins told federal agents he “assumed” supervisors discussed backdating ballots and then recanted his claim, inspector general's report says
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Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Is the US at Risk of a Roman Republic-Style Collapse? This Historian Says Yes. — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — The January 6 Capitol insurrection was a tumultuous moment in American democracy—but how unusual was it, really, in the course of world events?
CNN:
US intelligence report says election fraud claims ‘will almost certainly’ spur more violence by domestic extremists — He warned about right-wing extremism in 2009. Hear his analysis now — (CNN)US intelligence agencies believe that “narratives of fraud in the recent general election” …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
New Report Warns of Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism
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Bloomberg:
Russian Backer Halts Funds in New Blow to U.S. Aluminum Project — Rusal suspends investments in Unity Aluminum project in U.S. — Company waiting for U.S. partners to raise more funds — The Russian company backing an aluminum project in Kentucky said it's suspending investments …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
How the WHO's Hunt for Covid's Origins Stumbled in China — A team of scientists hoped a mission to Wuhan would provide some clarity about the coronavirus's origins. New details about the team's constraints reveal how little power it had to conduct a thorough probe.
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Foreign Policy
Kelly Bauer / Block Club Chicago:
Chicago Hospital Executive Bragged About Vaccinating Eric Trump On Day His Hospital Vaccinated Workers At Trump Tower — Hospital officials said their doctor's relationship with Trump and his owning a condo in Trump Tower had nothing to do with the improper vaccine event.
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Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
Mars rover sends back grinding, squealing sounds of driving — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet — a grinding, clanking, banging affair that by Earth standards would be pretty worrisome.
New York Times:
Proud Boys Leaders in Four States Are Charged in Capitol Riot — Prosecutors accused prominent members of the far-right nationalist group of conspiring together in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. — WASHINGTON — F.B.I. agents have arrested two organizers for the Proud Boys in Philadelphia …
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Bloomberg:
IRS Delays U.S. Tax Deadline to May 17 After Disruptive Year — Tax law changes, late start contributed to filing-season chaos — The IRS also delayed the due date last year amid pandemic — The Internal Revenue Service is delaying the April 15 tax-filing deadline to May 17 …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Irish humor, Irish temper: How Biden's identity shapes his political image — He admits he can have an Irish temper. If he gets heated, he may explain that his Irish is up. When he displays affection, it's Irish warmth. A wry joke? It's Irish humor. If he's feeling down, it's a “black Irish” mood.
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality — On December 7, 2019, an American graduate student named Xiyue Wang was freed after 40 months in an Iranian prison. His captors roused him in his cell early that morning and put him on a plane to Zurich. The Swiss had offered to mediate a trade …
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Jonathan Kay / Quillette:
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters — One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren't especially conservative in their views. Rather, the victims tend to be heterodox liberals who simply offer …
Hen Mazzig / Newsweek:
The Grammys Proved You Can't Get Canceled for Anti-Semitism — , SENIOR FELLOW, THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTE — These days, one can get canceled for anything...except anti-Semitism. Food critic Allison Roman lost her job at The New York Times for saying she doesn't want a cookware line like Chrissy Teigen.
HuffPost:
Florida Man Charged For Attacking Cops During Capitol Riot While Wearing ‘Trump’ Flag Jacket — Robert Scott Palmer, known to online sleuths as #FloridaFlagJacket, was arrested by the FBI following a HuffPost investigation revealing his identity. — Federal authorities have charged …
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