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.

Migrant teens and children have challenged three administrations, but Biden faces rush with no precedent  —  The last three presidents have each had to grapple with a sudden arrival of thousands of unaccompanied migrant teenagers and children along the Mexico border, but the challenge facing President Biden …

USPS chief DeJoy said to cut post office hours, lengthen delivery times in 10-year-plan  —  The postmaster general is expected to announce his long-awaited strategic initiative, one that is expected to raise prices and diminish delivery standards.  —  Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will unveil …

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.

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” …

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 …

Biden first president in decades to have first-pick Cabinet secretaries confirmed  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden is the first president in more than 30 years to have all of his original Cabinet secretary nominees confirmed to their posts.  —  The Senate confirmed the final nominee …

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 …

Evanston, Ill., leads the country with first reparations program for Black residents  —  CHICAGO — The nation's first government reparations program for African Americans was approved Monday night in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, action that advocates say represents a critical step …

U.S. health body questions AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine trial data  —  (Reuters) - AstraZeneca may have used “outdated information” in the results of a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial, a U.S. health agency said on Tuesday, casting fresh doubt on the shot, its potential U.S. rollout …

Mo Brooks Compared Biden's Election to the Start of the Civil War.  Now He Wants a Senate Seat.  —  The Alabama Republican led the fight to overturn election results.  On Jan. 6, he spoke to the crowd that later stormed the Capitol, resulting in five deaths.  Brooks blamed antifa.

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.

The Secrets Philip Roth Didn't Keep  —  Roth revealed himself to his biographer as he once revealed himself on the page, reckoning with both the pure and the perverse.  —  “The Ghost Writer” was published in 1979.  It was the first of nine novels by Philip Roth narrated by Nathan Zuckerman.

White House yanks Interior nominee after Murkowski opposition  —  The White House has withdrawn its nomination of Elizabeth Klein to become the Interior Department's deputy secretary, as the Biden administration faced push back from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, sources familiar with the situation said Monday.

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.

Thanks to Trump-era covid relief bill, a UFO report may soon be public — and it'll be big, ex-official says  —  Last year's gargantuan $2.3 trillion appropriations bill did a couple very obvious things: it provided millions of Americans badly needed coronavirus relief aid and it averted an impending government shutdown.

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.

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 …

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 …

Trump officials hindered at least nine key oversight probes, watchdogs said.  Some may finally be released in coming months.  —  Almost as soon as she opened a politically charged investigation in 2019 into whether the Trump White House blocked hurricane relief to a devastated Puerto Rico …

Are Democrats really serious about passing a DREAM Act in 2021?  —  The Democrats have been introducing DREAM Acts for 20 years.  Some of them have passed in the House, and others have passed in the Senate, but none has passed both.  Their most recent attempt just passed in the House …

Biden administration frets J&J may miss vaccine goal  —  Biden administration officials are increasingly concerned Johnson & Johnson may not deliver the 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccine it promised would be available by the end of this month, according to three senior administration officials.

Sorry, Stacey Abrams, H.R. 1 Exemplifies the Need for the Filibuster  —  The entire nation's voting system could be changed, top to bottom, by 51 senators without even a debate.  —  Democratic Party folk hero and conspiracy theorist Stacey Abrams recently argued that the filibuster is a bigoted relic that should be abolished.