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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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
‘Not racially motivated’?: The Atlanta spa shootings show why the media should be wary of initial police statements
‘Not racially motivated’?: The Atlanta spa shootings show why the media should be wary of initial police statements
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ABC News, New York Times and Poynter
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 Cop Who Said The Spa Shooter Had “A Bad Day” Previously Posted A Racist Shirt Blaming China For The Pandemic
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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
Will Carless / USA Today:
Georgia spa shooting suspect attended rehab for sex addiction, felt ‘merciless remorse’ for engaging in sexual acts
Georgia spa shooting suspect attended rehab for sex addiction, felt ‘merciless remorse’ for engaging in sexual acts
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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Insider, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, The Week and Mediaite
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
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NPR, Mashable, Fox News, Twitchy, BizPac Review, The First TV, New York Times, Indian Country Today, Althouse and The American Independent
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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Washington Examiner, Washington Post, The Hill, NBC News, NPR, CBS News, The Daily Caller, Poynter, New York Post and Washington Times
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Extols Lynchings During Hearing on Anti-Asian American Violence
GOP Rep. Extols Lynchings During Hearing on Anti-Asian American Violence
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National Review, Raw Story, The Intellectualist and The American Independent
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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CBS News, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Daily Caller, TASS and Associated Press
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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ABC News, USA Today, Washington Examiner, The Hill, NPR, Conservative News Daily, The Sun, UPI, KFOR-TV, Raw Story, KNSD-TV and New York Post
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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HillReporter.com, NBC News and Raw Story
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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
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets — The hiring of Alexi McCammond, who was supposed to start at the Condé Nast publication next week, drew complaints because of racist and homophobic tweets she had posted a decade ago. — Alexi McCammond, who made her name …
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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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WhatWouldJackDo
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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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Washington Examiner, The Moscow Times, Associated Press, Breitbart, HotAir, Sputnik News, NBC News, TASS and The Week
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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HotAir, Conservative News Daily, Progress Pond, CNN, Washington Post and CBS News
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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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Raw Story and Political Wire
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
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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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, FiveThirtyEight, HotAir, IJR, Bangor Daily News and Associated Press
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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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.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Move Fast and Fix Things — Joe Biden isn't going to have an “FDR-size presidency.” — Or, at least, the odds that Biden will fundamentally transform the role of the state in the U.S. economy, more than double America's union membership rate, lead the U.S. to victory in a world war …
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Al Jazeera, Politico and Daily Kos
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Santi Ruiz / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Taps Controversial Ex-Senator to Be NASA Administrator — Bill Nelson under fire for backing rocket program plagued by delays, cost overruns — President Joe Biden will nominate former Democratic senator Bill Nelson to be NASA administrator, a choice that is likely to face pushback …
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Joey Roulette / The Verge:
Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief
Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief
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Florida Phoenix and Florida Politics
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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Washington Examiner and Washington Post
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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The Message Box, Roll Call, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Mock Paper Scissors
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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Twitchy, HotAir, The Sun, The Daily Caller, The National Pulse and Conservative News Daily
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'.”
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 …
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 …
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
A Private Jet of Rich Trumpers Wanted to “Stop the Steal”—But They Don't Want You to Read This — These powerful Memphis figures reveal the rift in a segregated society. — At 12:11 p.m. on January 5, an eight-seat Bombardier Challenger 300 jet took off from Memphis International Airport.
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Senate narrowly confirms Xavier Becerra as Health and Human Services secretary — Biden's HHS secretary pick defends vaccine plan as ‘ambitious’ — (CNN)The Senate narrowly confirmed Xavier Becerra to be the Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday, giving the former California attorney general …
Audrey Conklin / Fox News:
Biden defense secretary warns US forces ready to ‘fight tonight’ after North Korea warning — Kim Jong Un's sister criticized drills, viewed as an invasion rehearsal — Biden administration address N. Korea and China concerns in Tokyo — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday warned North Korea …
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Washington Examiner and ABC News
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.