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The Daily Beast:
‘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 …
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Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Boulder's assault weapons ban, meant to stop mass shootings, was blocked 10 days before grocery store attack — The city of Boulder, Colo., barred assault weapons in 2018, as a way to prevent mass shootings like the one that killed 17 at a high school in Parkland., Fla., earlier that year.
Alyssa Choiniere / Heavy.com:
Ahmad Alissa, Boulder Shooting Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is a 21-year-old Colorado man who was identified as the suspect in the mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder that left 10 people dead, including Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley.
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Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Police identify 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa as suspect in Boulder shooting — The suspect in the Boulder King Soopers shooting has been as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, of Arvada, authorities revealed Tuesday. — He has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder …
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Associated Press:
Officials: Gun in supermarket shooting bought 6 days earlier — BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect who opened fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket, and court documents showed that he purchased an assault rifle less than a week …
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Denver Post:
Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was short-tempered, violent, former teammates say — The 21-year-old Arvada man has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder — sbradbury@denverpost.com, CONRAD SWANSON, JOHN MEYER | jmeyer@denverpost.com and NOELLE PHILLIPS |
Elise Schmelzer / Denver Post:
Boulder shooting: Suspect bought gun 6 days earlier; 10 victims range from 20 to 65 years old
Boulder shooting: Suspect bought gun 6 days earlier; 10 victims range from 20 to 65 years old
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Andrew Mark Miller / Washington Examiner:
Liberals blame white man for mass shooting in Boulder
Liberals blame white man for mass shooting in Boulder
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Josh Berlinger / CNN:
The Colorado attack is the 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US
The Colorado attack is the 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US
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New York Times:
U.S. Health Officials Question AstraZeneca Vaccine Trial Results — According to federal officials, an independent panel of medical experts said the promising results announced by the company on Monday may have relied on “outdated information.” — Federal health officials …
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NIH News Release:
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 …
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Christopher Hahn / Occupy Democrats:
The NRA blocked an AR-15 ban and innocents immediately paid the price — This week's mass shooting in Colorado makes it clear the NRA's pro-death policies have gone from absurd political theatrics to clear and present danger. Just last week, the NRA celebrated a big victory over the city of Boulder …
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Griffin Dix / The Hill:
Two gun bills for law and order go to the Senate
Two gun bills for law and order go to the Senate
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin says he doesn't support House-passed background check bill
Manchin says he doesn't support House-passed background check bill
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
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?
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
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 …
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Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu clinches 61 majority on Right on way to victory - exit polls — Three polls give Netanyahu's bloc a 61 seat majority in the Knesset with Naftali Bennett's Yamina Party. — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to form a government for the seventh time in his three-decade …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
‘Netanyahu Is Playing With Fire With the Democrats’
Madison Hahamy / Yale Daily News:
Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz — Bandy Lee MED '94 DIV '95, a formerly Yale-affiliated faculty member in the School of Medicine and Yale Law School, filed a complaint against the University on Monday alleging “unlawful termination …
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Washington Post:
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.) …
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Axios:
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.
Roxanne Cooper / Raw Story:
MyPillow's Mike Lindell hires frequent Trump booster Alan Dershowitz to ‘countersue’ Dominion Voting Systems: report — Embattled pillow magnet, Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell has hired frequent cable network “legal expert” Alan Dershowitz to “countersue” …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sidney Powell's Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn't take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact
Sidney Powell's Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn't take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact
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Washington Post:
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 …
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
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 …
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Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
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 …
Zaid Jilani / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
White People Don't Have a Monopoly on Hatred — I know. I once held bigoted beliefs myself. … Middle school is terrible for everyone, but you're going to have to trust me that it was rougher on me than many. I was short, funny-looking, and a practicing Muslim in a town called Kennesaw …
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
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 …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News would be in trouble without ‘actual malice’ standard — Media critic — D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence H. Silberman is worried about media homogeneity in the United States. Mainstream press organizations, he wrote in a much-discussed tract published on Friday, err in the leftward direction.
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Media Matters for America:
Fox News failed in its coverage of the Atlanta shootings … In the aftermath of last week's shootings at several Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead, including six Asian women, Fox News largely failed to include Asian voices and frequently ignored important context about the wave of anti-Asian sentiment in the country.
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
The Strongest House Candidates In 2020 Were (Mostly) Moderate — Moderate politicians are becoming an endangered species. The most liberal Republican in Congress nowadays is still ideologically to the right of the most conservative Democrat, reflecting the fact that the median voters …
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Danielle / Epicenter NYC:
What we learned registering thousands of our neighbors for vaccines — In early January, Epicenter-NYC, a newsletter launched for New Yorkers to get through the pandemic, began registering members of our community for vaccines. — As of this writing, we have booked more than 2,600 appointments.
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Democrats In Congress Need Biden's Approval Rating To Stay In The Mid-50s — A majority of Americans, about 55 percent, approve of President Biden's job performance so far, whereas about 39 percent disapprove. Those are pretty good numbers for a president in this polarized era.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A senator of a state created for partisan advantage laments the partisanship of adding D.C. as a state — Sen. Mike Rounds represents the 885,000 people of South Dakota. A Republican, he expressed his opposition to the idea that D.C. might become a state by appealing to the most obvious political effect of such a change.
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