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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.
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 |
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.
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 …
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Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Police identify 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa as suspect in Boulder shooting
Police identify 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa as suspect in Boulder shooting
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ABC News:
10 killed in Boulder shooting: Victims identified, suspect charged
10 killed in Boulder shooting: Victims identified, suspect charged
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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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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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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.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
In wake of shootings, Senate renews efforts to overhaul U.S. gun laws … WASHINGTON — On the heels of two mass shootings that have shocked the country, the Senate is, once again, weighing an overhaul of the nation's gun laws — with a murky path ahead. — Despite President Joe Biden's pleas …
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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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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
House GOP lawmakers join Senate call for GAO opinion on Biden's border wall freeze
House GOP lawmakers join Senate call for GAO opinion on Biden's border wall freeze
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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.
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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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Benjamin Din / Politico:
HHS seeking use of two Texas military posts to house unaccompanied minors, Pentagon says
HHS seeking use of two Texas military posts to house unaccompanied minors, Pentagon says
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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 …
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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’
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
He worked in Russian media. He recognizes the same tactics at Fox News. — In a newly released report, U.S. intelligence agencies outline how Russia yet again sought to subvert American democracy. The findings confirm that the Kremlin tried to plant damaging disinformation …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News would be in trouble without ‘actual malice’ standard
Fox News would be in trouble without ‘actual malice’ standard
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Washington Post:
North Korea fires short-range missiles in direct challenge to Biden administration — North Korea fired off multiple short range missiles last weekend after denouncing Washington for going forward with joint military exercises with South Korea, according to people familiar with the situation.
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New York Post:
Ana Liss becomes second Cuomo accuser who won't cooperate with impeachment probe — The revelation Tuesday that the impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo would likely take months led another former aide to say she won't cooperate with state Assembly's Judiciary Committee.
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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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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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Danielle / Epicenter NYC:
What we learned registering thousands of our neighbors for vaccines — By S. Mitra Kalita, with contributions from Epicenter volunteers Sree Bhagavan, Kris Brewer, Eric Garcia, Abby Gewanter, Devi Gupta, George Hagstrom, Julia Kopelson, Kenisha McFadden, Sarah Kulkarni, John O'Neil …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Want to run for Congress but can't afford to pay your own rent or bills? This former House candidate has an idea. — Nabilah Islam wants the Federal Election Commission to let federal candidates use donor money for expanded salaries and health insurance.
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” …
Bloomberg Law:
Biden Can Make Mark on Judiciary with Trial Court Appointments — Listen — President Joe Biden soon is expected to announce his first judicial nominations, and much attention is focused on the potential elevation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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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 …
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Tim Scott / Washington Post:
Let's set the record straight on ‘woke supremacy’ and racism — Opinion by Tim Scott — Tim Scott, a Republican, represents South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. — I was criticized in this newspaper last week for saying that “woke supremacy” is as bad as white supremacy.
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