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12:05 PM ET, March 23, 2021

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Joe Rubino / Denver Post:
Boulder shooting: Gunman kills 10, including police officer, at King Soopers  —  Boulder police say Officer Eric Talley was first on the scene when killed; investigation will take several days  — More-  —  jrubino@denverpost.com, NOELLE PHILLIPS |  nphillips@denverpost.com, ELIZABETH HERNANDEZ |
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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.
New York Times:
Live Updates: Suspect Charged With 10 Counts of Murder in Boulder, Colo., Shooting  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Suspect in Boulder shooting is charged with 10 counts of murder.  —  The Boulder Police chief said on Tuesday that a 21-year-old man from a Denver suburb had been charged …
Discussion: CBS News, Politico, CBS Denver and HuffPost
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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Andrew Joseph / STAT:
‘I was sort of stunned’: Fauci and U.S. officials say AstraZeneca released ‘outdated information’ from Covid-19 vaccine trial  —  U.S. health officials raised concerns early Tuesday that positive results that AstraZeneca announced Monday for its Covid-19 vaccine may have been based on …
Discussion: HotAir and Mercury News
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 …
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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ABC News:
Biden administration releases video from inside crowded migrant detention facilities  —  ABC News got an exclusive first look at videos, photos produced in recent days.  —  1st look inside crowded border facility holding migrants  —  Exclusive video obtained by ABC News and shot by U.S. Customs …
Shawna Chen / Axios:
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” …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Sidney Powell Tells Judge ‘No Reasonable Person’ Would Believe Her Dominion Conspiracy Theories Were ‘Statements of Fact’
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: Insider
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: Raw Story
Mark Guarino / Washington Post:
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 …
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WAFB-TV:
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 …
Politico:
Killing the filibuster becomes new ‘litmus test’ for Democratic candidates  —  Senate Democrats lack the votes right now to scrap the filibuster.  The midterms may change that.  —  In three of the most competitive Senate races, Democratic candidates are already campaigning on killing …
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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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Evan Perez / CNN:
Former Capitol riot prosecutor's comments on Trump alarm new no-drama Justice Department
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
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 …
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
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 …
German Lopez / Vox:
America's unique gun violence problem, explained in 16 maps and charts  —  In the developed world, these levels of gun violence are a uniquely American problem.  Here's why.  —  After a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, Americans are once again confronting the country's unique relationship with guns.
Discussion: ABC News
Anita Chabria / Los Angeles Times:
QAnon now pushes alarming conspiracy myths targeting China and Jewish people  —  Experts on extremism are warning about a troubling shift in the right-wing QAnon movement toward a new vein of conspiracy that blends anti-Chinese and anti-Jewish tropes with fears of vaccines and a global plot to take over the world.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Times
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 …
Discussion: Insider
NBC News:
Eric Greitens wants a comeback in Missouri.  It could scramble the GOP's Senate map  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump paid little to no political price for the sex scandals, investigations and legal jeopardy that always surrounded him — at least until the end, when his party lost the White House and control of the U.S. Senate.
Discussion: Daily Kos and KMBC
Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
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.
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.) …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Don Nickles / Politico:
Why Lockheed's acquisition of Aerojet will be a ‘boon for U.S. innovation’  —  Former senator advising Aerojet takes on the criticism that the marriage could damage competition.  —  The proposed acquisition by defense prime contractor Lockheed Martin of propulsion provider Aerojet Rocketdyne …
Discussion: The National Interest
 
 
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
As Israel votes again, Palestinians still wait their turn
Discussion: NPR and The Times of Israel
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
In South Dakota, Noem bends — partially — on transgender ban
Discussion: Fox News, Associated Press and IJR
Daniel Engber / The Atlantic:
America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Insurance Companies, Reaping Benefits from Protests, Get in Line with Black Lives Matter
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U.S. Satisfaction Continues to Improve in March
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RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Blinken Warns Germany Of Possible Sanctions Over Nord Stream 2
Reuters:
The ‘shadow docket’: How the U.S. Supreme Court quietly dispatches key rulings
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