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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.
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 |
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 …
ABC News:
10 killed in Boulder shooting: Victims identified, suspect charged  —  The victims range in age from 20 to 65.  —  Boulder district attorney discusses investigation into mass shooting  —  The suspect is in custody after opening fire at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.
Andrew Mark Miller / Washington Examiner:
Liberals blame white man for mass shooting in Boulder  —  Several liberals on Twitter immediately blamed a recent mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, on a “white man” despite the shooter being identified as a man originally from the Middle East.  —  “Extremely tired of people's lives depending …
New York Times:
Boulder, Colo., Shooting Live Updates: Suspect Charged With 10 Counts of Murder
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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.
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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
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 …
Discussion: DCReport.org and HillReporter.com
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 …
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’
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
Max Ufberg / GEN:
Why Eleanor Holmes Norton Is Optimistic About D.C. Statehood  —  Thirty years after the congresswoman's statehood bill failed, she's seeing a light at the end of the tunnel  —  Monday, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing to discuss H.R. 51, the bill to give the District of Columbia statehood.
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Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
DC Not Having Car Dealership Is Latest GOP Argument Against Statehood
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?
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Insider and Gothamist
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: National Review and TheBlaze
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 …
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced to Sign ‘Biometric Consent’ Form or Lose Job  —  The new cameras, which are being implemented nationwide, use artificial intelligence to access drivers' location, movement, and biometric data.  —  Lauren Kaori Gurley  —  Amazon delivery drivers nationwide have to sign a …
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Is ‘All Gas No Brakes’ Over?  —  Andrew Callaghan, 23, built a following with his YouTube series “All Gas No Brakes.”  This month, he announced that he'd left the show.  Here's what happened.  —  Since 2019, Andrew Callaghan, 23, has been crisscrossing the country in a beat-up R.V …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
DHS looking at tracking travel of domestic extremists  —  The Department of Homeland Security is considering monitoring the travel of domestic extremists and expanding its use of the No Fly List, law enforcement sources told POLITICO.  —  The discussions are part of the Biden administration's strategy …
Discussion: Vox
Politico:
Judge warns DOJ that media interviews could taint Oath Keepers case  —  A federal judge lambasted the Justice Department on Tuesday, warning that top officials' comments in recent media interviews threatened to taint the prosecution of some of the most notorious participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
Discussion: NPR, BuzzFeed News, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin says he doesn't support House-passed background check bill  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he does not support House-passed legislation to expand background checks to all gun sales.  —  “What the House passed?  Not at all,” Manchin said, when asked if he supports the legislation.
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 …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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 …
Tony Marrero / Tampa Bay Times:
Students rally behind Black Tampa school cop fired for using racial slur  —  Chief Brian Dugan said he has to apply the rules to Black employees as well as whites.  Supporters of Officer Delvin White, who worked at Middleton High, disagree.  —  Published Earlier today
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.
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.
Discussion: RedState
Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
Yellen Pledges to Work With Congress on Ways to Ease SALT Cap  — Secretary says she wants to find ‘fair’ solution for the limit  — Some Democrats are seeking repeal of $10,000 limitation  —  U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pledged to work with Congress to ease the $10,000 cap …
 
 
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Curious Case of Florida's Pandemic Response
Barbara Ortutay / ABC News:
Report: Extremist groups thrive on Facebook despite bans
Discussion: Mercury News and The Root
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Clyburn: COVID relief bill will boost Dems in 2022 midterms
Discussion: The Hill
Religion News Service:
After year of isolation, 2021 Wilbur Award Winners paint story of resilience
Tim Scott / Washington Post:
Let's set the record straight on ‘woke supremacy’ and racism
Discussion: The Hill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A senator of a state created for partisan advantage laments the partisanship of adding D.C. as a state
Discussion: HuffPost
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Christopher Hahn / Occupy Democrats:
The NRA blocked an AR-15 ban and innocents immediately paid the price
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Republican Electoral College Contradiction
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The rush to replace Rush
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