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9:50 AM 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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Wall Street Journal:
Boulder Shooting Leaves Six Dead, Including Police Officer  —  Law enforcement had reported an active shooter at a Colorado King Soopers grocery store Monday afternoon  —  A gunman killed at least six people, including a police officer, Monday afternoon at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo. …
Alex Burness / Denver Post:
Analyzing Colorado's high rate of mass shootings following the King Soopers killings  —  Tom Sullivan last week took to the lectern on the floor of the Colorado House of Representatives and noted that it was the 452nd Friday since his son, Alex, was murdered at the Aurora movie theater shooting.
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
10 people dead, including police officer, after shooting at Colorado grocery store
Discussion: The Daily Caller
KUSA-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Boulder Police responding to active shooter situation at King Soopers
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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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
U.S. health body questions AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine trial data  —  (Reuters) - AstraZeneca may have used “outdated information” in the results of a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial, a U.S. health agency said on Tuesday, casting fresh doubt on the shot, its potential U.S. rollout …
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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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
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’  —  Facing more than $1.3 billion in liabilities over her post-election conspiracy theories, lawyer Sidney Powell told a judge that the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Sidney Powell argues in new court filing that no reasonable people would believe her election fraud claims
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Politico:
Killing the filibuster becomes new ‘litmus test’ for Democratic candidates  —  But that framing of the issue also hands Republicans a potent weapon next fall.  —  Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta is one of the 2022 U.S. Senate candidates who is in favor of eliminating the filibuster.
Discussion: Esquire and The Guardian
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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 …
Discussion: Salon and POLITICUSUSA
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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.
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 …
Reuters:
The ‘shadow docket’: How the U.S. Supreme Court quietly dispatches key rulings  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the months before former President Donald Trump left office in January, the U.S. Supreme Court briskly paved the way for the lethal injection of 13 federal inmates, the first federal executions in 17 years.
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 …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
U.S. Satisfaction Continues to Improve in March  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. continued to improve in March, as 32% say they are satisfied with the direction of the country.  This is the second monthly increase Gallup has recorded …
Discussion: The Hill
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: CNN, Daily Kos and KMBC
Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
AOC silent as Ilhan Omar, House Dems plan trip to border amid migrant surge  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar will travel to the southern border on Friday amid continued silence on the record surge of immigrants from fellow “squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who accused the previous administration …
Discussion: HotAir
Tom LoBianco / Insider:
Trump advisors expect ex-president's Twitter alternative to run on a new platform built by Brad Parscale  — Trump may use Parscale platform for social media effort, two Republicans close to the former president say.  — Trump has been teasing his new social media effort.
 
 
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Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
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Western Culture Elites Are Giving Away Lenin's Rope
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
After Capitol Riot, Senate Taps Intelligence Official to Lead Security
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Nicole Chung / TIME:
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Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
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