Boulder shooting: Gunman kills at least 6, including police officer, at King Soopers  —  A gunman opened fire inside a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder on Monday afternoon, killing at least six people, including a police officer, and sending shoppers fleeing for their lives.

Former Capitol riot prosecutor's comments on Trump alarm new no-drama Justice Department  —  (CNN)Attorney General Merrick Garland is quietly ushering in a change in tone at the Justice Department, making few public comments and staying out of sight — and unlike his predecessor — eschewing commentary about ongoing investigations.

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” …

Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy  —  A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's economic advisers …

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 …

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 …

Did CNN Air a Staged Migrant Crossing of the Rio Grande?  —  An unusual video has been flagged by activists as deliberately manufactured to present a story of a border crisis, possibly with the participation of the Border Patrol.  —  CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera gestures toward …

How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out  —  The origin story of the Senate's newest super villain.  —  In 2002, The Arizona Republic published a letter from Kyrsten Sinema, then a social worker preparing to run for a seat in the state House of Representatives, putting forth a critique of capitalism.

Mo Brooks Compared Biden's Election to the Start of the Civil War.  Now He Wants a Senate Seat.  —  The Alabama Republican led the fight to overturn election results.  On Jan. 6, he spoke to the crowd that later stormed the Capitol, resulting in five deaths.  Brooks blamed antifa.

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 …

The Secrets Philip Roth Didn't Keep  —  Roth revealed himself to his biographer as he once revealed himself on the page, reckoning with both the pure and the perverse.  —  “The Ghost Writer” was published in 1979.  It was the first of nine novels by Philip Roth narrated by Nathan Zuckerman.

It's All Just Displacement  —  Blue checkmarks are mourning bad careers in a broken industry … Media Twitter does not hate Substack because it's pretending to be a platform when it's a publisher; they don't hate it because it's filled with anti-woke white guys; they don't hate it because of harassment or any such thing.

Trump, My Dad and the Rightward Shift of Latino Men  —  Why are Latino men moving away from Democrats?  And how can liberals win them back?  For me, it's a topic that hits close to home.  —  In 2016, my dad, Charlie Garcia — a third-generation Mexican American and lifelong Republican …

Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong.  —  Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.

National trackers say D.C. is among the worst vaccinators in the U.S. The reality is more complicated.  —  When D.C. residents awaiting coronavirus vaccinations turn to trackers that show the state-by-state progress of inoculations, they see alarming numbers.

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 …

A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she was photographed with another man at the Capitol riot  — A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she took part in the January Capitol riot.  — The FBI said Jennifer Heinl was inside the Capitol rotunda and was photographed with another man.

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.

GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Supposed Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)  —  I should be able to keep this short because these are not difficult errors to correct.  In fact, anyone who has read my work at all wouldn't have made them.

Are Democrats really serious about passing a DREAM Act in 2021?  —  The Democrats have been introducing DREAM Acts for 20 years.  Some of them have passed in the House, and others have passed in the Senate, but none has passed both.  Their most recent attempt just passed in the House …

White House yanks Interior nominee after Murkowski opposition  —  The White House has withdrawn its nomination of Elizabeth Klein to become the Interior Department's deputy secretary, as the Biden administration faced push back from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, sources familiar with the situation said Monday.

Cops' posts to private Facebook group show hostility, hate  —  PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters …

Betsy DeVos made at least $225 million while education secretary … Betsy DeVos reported at least $225 million — and potentially well over $414 million — in outside income while working as Donald Trump's education secretary, according to an analysis of DeVos's financial disclosures by CREW.

Kim Janey Becomes First Black Woman To Lead Boston  —  Kim Janey shattered two historic barriers when she became acting mayor of Boston Monday evening: She is both the first woman and the first person of color to lead the city.  —  Janey, a Black woman, was elevated from city council president …

Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated  —  In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long.

Sorry, Stacey Abrams, H.R. 1 Exemplifies the Need for the Filibuster  —  The entire nation's voting system could be changed, top to bottom, by 51 senators without even a debate.  —  Democratic Party folk hero and conspiracy theorist Stacey Abrams recently argued that the filibuster is a bigoted relic that should be abolished.

The dumbing down of the D.C. statehood debate  —  There are valid, philosophical reasons to argue that Washington, D.C., should not be a state or have voting rights in Congress — chief among them being that it was created as a federal district.  —  But as the House held a hearing on the topic Monday …

Heritage Foundation President, Executive Vice President Announce Resignations … WASHINGTON — After serving as The Heritage Foundation's leadership team for the last three years, President Kay C. James and Executive Vice President Dr. Kim R. Holmes have announced their resignations.

Biden administration frets J&J may miss vaccine goal  —  Biden administration officials are increasingly concerned Johnson & Johnson may not deliver the 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccine it promised would be available by the end of this month, according to three senior administration officials.