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Denver Post:
Boulder shooting: Gunman kills at least 6, including police officer, at King Soopers  —  A gunman opened fire inside a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder on Monday afternoon, killing at least six people, including a police officer, and sending shoppers fleeing for their lives.
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Wall Street Journal:
Boulder Shooting Leaves Six Dead, Including Police Officer  —  Law enforcement had reported an active shooter at a Colorado King Soopers grocery store Monday afternoon  —  A gunman killed at least six people, including a police officer, Monday afternoon at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo. …
KUSA-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Boulder Police responding to active shooter situation at King Soopers  —  The King Soopers is located at 3600 Table Mesa Drive, the Boulder Police Department (BPD) said.  —  BOULDER, Colo. — Emergency crews are responding to an active shooter situation Monday afternoon at a King Soopers in Boulder.
Associated Press:
Police: Multiple people killed at Colorado supermarket  —  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed multiple people Monday, including a police officer, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said.  —  Boulder police Cmdr.  Kerry Yamaguchi said at a news conference …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy  —  A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's economic advisers …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:   A Year After Ending Her Presidential Bid, Warren Wields Soft Power in Washington
Marcia Brown / American Prospect:
Did CNN Air a Staged Migrant Crossing of the Rio Grande?  —  An unusual video has been flagged by activists as deliberately manufactured to present a story of a border crisis, possibly with the participation of the Border Patrol.  —  CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera gestures toward …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas  —  Exclusive photos from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas, reveal the crowded, makeshift conditions at the border as the government's longer-term child shelters and family detention centers fill up.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Rep. Filemon Vela to retire from House ahead of Texas redistricting
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:   Hundreds of migrants cross the Rio Grande nightly: ‘We all came with dreams’
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Sidney Powell moves to dismiss Dominion lawsuit  —  Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump lawyer who spread baseless claims of election fraud, moved Monday to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against her.  —  What she's saying: Powell argues in her motion that “no reasonable person” …
Evan Perez / CNN:
Former Capitol riot prosecutor's comments on Trump alarm new no-drama Justice Department  —  (CNN)Attorney General Merrick Garland is quietly ushering in a change in tone at the Justice Department, making few public comments and staying out of sight — and unlike his predecessor — eschewing commentary about ongoing investigations.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. prepares to engage in plea talks with many Capitol riot defendants
Discussion: Daily Kos
Freddie deBoer:
It's All Just Displacement  —  Blue checkmarks are mourning bad careers in a broken industry … Media Twitter does not hate Substack because it's pretending to be a platform when it's a publisher; they don't hate it because it's filled with anti-woke white guys; they don't hate it because of harassment or any such thing.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Sovereign Writers and Substack
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong.  —  Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.
Aída Chávez / The Nation:
How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out  —  The origin story of the Senate's newest super villain.  —  In 2002, The Arizona Republic published a letter from Kyrsten Sinema, then a social worker preparing to run for a seat in the state House of Representatives, putting forth a critique of capitalism.
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Kos
Jesse Singal / Singal-Minded:
GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)  —  This is infuriating  —  I should be able to keep this short because these are not difficult errors to correct.  In fact, anyone who has read my work at all wouldn't have made them.
Discussion: HotAir
Eric Garcia / Washington Post:
Trump, My Dad and the Rightward Shift of Latino Men  —  Why are Latino men moving away from Democrats?  And how can liberals win them back?  For me, it's a topic that hits close to home.  —  In 2016, my dad, Charlie Garcia — a third-generation Mexican American and lifelong Republican …
Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Foundation President, Executive Vice President Announce Resignations … WASHINGTON — After serving as The Heritage Foundation's leadership team for the last three years, President Kay C. James and Executive Vice President Dr. Kim R. Holmes have announced their resignations.
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Holly Brewer / Backbencher:   The divine right of wingnuts
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated  —  In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long.
Associated Press:
Cops' posts to private Facebook group show hostility, hate  —  PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters …
WAFB-TV:
11 National Guard Soldiers transporting vaccines held at gunpoint in West Texas, suspect arrested  —  Idalou Police responded to the scene  —  LUBBOCK COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - An Arizona man has been arrested after he cut off and held at gunpoint a caravan of National Guardsmen transporting COVID-19 vaccines …
Discussion: Salon and POLITICUSUSA
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she was photographed with another man at the Capitol riot  — A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she took part in the January Capitol riot.  — The FBI said Jennifer Heinl was inside the Capitol rotunda and was photographed with another man.
Adrian Kemp / AstraZeneca:
AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis  —  79% vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19  —  100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation  —  Comparable efficacy result across ethnicity and age,
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New York Times:
AstraZeneca's Covid-19 Vaccine Is Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study
CREW:
Betsy DeVos made at least $225 million while education secretary … Betsy DeVos reported at least $225 million — and potentially well over $414 million — in outside income while working as Donald Trump's education secretary, according to an analysis of DeVos's financial disclosures by CREW.
Discussion: Forbes
Callum Borchers / WBUR:
Kim Janey Becomes First Black Woman To Lead Boston  —  Kim Janey shattered two historic barriers when she became acting mayor of Boston Monday evening: She is both the first woman and the first person of color to lead the city.  —  Janey, a Black woman, was elevated from city council president …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Mo Brooks launches Senate bid in Alabama  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) is jumping into the race to replace retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).  —  Brooks, a six-term congressman, made the announcement at an event in his hometown of Huntsville, Ala., on Monday evening alongside Stephen Miller …
Tom LoBianco / Insider:
Trump advisors expect ex-president's Twitter alternative to run on a new platform built by Brad Parscale  — Trump may use Parscale platform for social media effort, two Republicans close to the former president say.  — Trump has been teasing his new social media effort.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The dumbing down of the D.C. statehood debate  —  There are valid, philosophical reasons to argue that Washington, D.C., should not be a state or have voting rights in Congress — chief among them being that it was created as a federal district.  —  But as the House held a hearing on the topic Monday …
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
National trackers say D.C. is among the worst vaccinators in the U.S. The reality is more complicated.  —  When D.C. residents awaiting coronavirus vaccinations turn to trackers that show the state-by-state progress of inoculations, they see alarming numbers.
Discussion: Politico and Washington Monthly
Mitch McConnell / Courier-Journal:
The filibuster is Kentucky's veto.  It stops radical ambitions like Yarmuth's  —  Congressman John Yarmuth likes to pretend he knows me.  He talks to reporters and writes in these pages as if he's some sort of “McConnell-whisperer.”  That's a full day's drive from reality.
Wall Street Journal:
Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results  —  Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows  —  Hospitals that have published their previously confidential prices to comply with a new federal rule …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Coverage of the migrant surge at the border shows how easily the media can be trolled by Republicans  —  Media can educate the public without ratcheting up the hysteria by calmly providing the historical context  —  It was inevitable that a crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico would refocus …
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Federal Judge: ‘One-Party Control Of The Press And Media Is A Threat To A Viable Democracy’  —  In a blistering dissent, Judge Laurence Silberman said The New York Times and Washington Post are ‘Democratic Party broadsheets.’
Zachary Evans / National Review:
Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens Announces Run for Senate  —  Former Missouri governor Eric Greitens announced on Monday that he will run for Senate, in an interview on Fox News's Special Report.  —  Greitens will run for the seat of Senator Roy Blunt, a Republican who announced earlier …
Rebecca Rainey / Politico:
Senate confirms Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to lead Labor Department  —  The Senate on Monday confirmed Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor, clearing him to take the helm of the agency amid historic unemployment and economic uncertainty.  —  “I'm deeply grateful to President Biden …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
The missing students of the pandemic  —  A California school official searches his district for the hundreds left behind by covid-19  —  INDIO, Calif. — Rich Pimentel had already tried searching in a trailer park and a migrant camp when he started driving toward the third and final address listed in the student's school file.
Eliza Relman / Insider:
Trump didn't include Mike Pence in his list of ‘very good’ Republicans and possible 2024 presidential candidates  — Donald Trump didn't include Mike Pence in his list of “very good” GOP leaders and potential 2024 presidential candidates.  — Trump named Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley …
 
 
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Thomas Novelly / Post and Courier:
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
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