‘Very Anti-Social’: Suspect in Boulder Supermarket Massacre Was Paranoid, Brother Says  —  Police also identified the ten people who lost their lives when the 21-year-old gunman allegedly opened fire on Monday afternoon.  —  Authorities on Tuesday identified the suspect in the shooting deaths …

NIAID Statement on AstraZeneca Vaccine  —  Late Monday, the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) notified NIAID, BARDA, and AstraZeneca that it was concerned by information released by AstraZeneca on initial data from its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.  The DSMB expressed concern …

There is no immigration crisis  —  If you've been reading or watching mainstream media over the past week or so, you've undoubtedly heard a lot about a supposed screaming emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border.  More migrants are trying to cross the border, which all three network Sunday shows …

Schumer vows Senate will take on gun control measures  —  Majority Leader pledges debate on gun background checks after Boulder mass shooting  —  Eric Talley identified as officer killed in Boulder shooting  —  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pledged the Senate will take on gun control measures …

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 …

Mayor Ends Remote Work for 80,000 in Signal to Rest of New York City  —  Office workers will return starting May 3 in a move that is intended to broadcast a message that New York is reopening for business.  —  For the last year, New York City has been running in the shadow of a deadly pandemic …

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 …

Evanston, Illinois, becomes first U.S. city to pay reparations to Black residents … EVANSTON, Ill. — Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.

Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator  —  Senior official twice threatened to have Agnès Callamard ‘taken care of’ in meeting with UN colleagues in Geneva in January 2020  —  A senior Saudi official issued what was perceived to be a death threat …

Biden's first news conference is a test for him.  But it's a bigger test for White House reporters.  —  The first news conference of a new administration is always a high-stakes affair for the White House.  —  How will the new president do under the glare of direct questioning from a crowd of correspondents?

There's no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border.  Here's the data.  —  Evidence reveals the usual seasonal bump — plus some of the people who waited during the pandemic  —  Last week, at the U.S. border with Mexico, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …

The rush to replace Rush  —  Conservative commentator and longtime talk radio host Dana Loesch has signed a new three-year deal with Radio America, a conservative talk radio network, Loesch tells Axios.  —  Details: Loesch's new contract will keep the ‘The Dana Show’ at the 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. time-slot …

Scoop: Democrats confront White House over lack of AAPI Cabinet representation  —  Two Democratic senators of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage confronted a senior White House official Monday night over the absence of AAPI representation in President Biden's Cabinet, four Senate aides familiar with the call tell Axios.

A Colorado massacre, a GOP leader's panic, and end times for our immoral filibuster  —  The $1,400 check had barely cleared when the honeymoon ended for President Biden, at least according to GOP leaders desperate to talk about something else, followed in lockstep by the type of Beltway pundit …

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 …

Inside the Fight to Unionize Tate's A labor dispute has taken hold at the cookie company's Long Island bakery.  —  Every 30 minutes, roughly 7,560 thin-and-crisp cookies pass through the hands of packers inside the Tate's Bake Shop manufacturing facility, tucked away in East Moriches, on the south shore of Long Island.

Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  ROCK ME ON THE WATER  —  1974 — The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics

The Years of Work Behind Washington's Best-Liked Man  —  The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, has become a popular Main Street champion.  Here's a history of the advocacy that made this possible.  —  In 2015, I was working as an economist at the Federal Reserve.

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger backs Michael Wood for Congress, brings anti-Trump crusade to Texas  —  The Illinois Republican hopes Wood can convince North Texas Republicans to move away from former President Donald Trump.  —  Armed with the backing of Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger …

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.

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 …