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2:00 PM ET, March 23, 2021

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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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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 |
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.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Boulder Shooting Leaves Six Dead, Including Police Officer
Sarah Kolinovsky / ABC News:
For 2nd time in a week, a mass shooting overshadows Biden's COVID relief tour
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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‘I was sort of stunned’: Fauci and U.S. officials say AstraZeneca released ‘outdated information’ from Covid-19 vaccine trial  —  U.S. health officials raised concerns early Tuesday that positive results that AstraZeneca announced Monday for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, Mercury News and The Week
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 …
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 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: Raw Story
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, Al Jazeera and Raw Story
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?
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
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 …
Discussion: Esquire and National Review
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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 …
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 …
Claudia Sahm / New York Times:
The Years of Work Behind Washington's Best-Liked Man  —  The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, has become a popular Main Street champion.  Here's a history of the advocacy that made this possible.  —  In 2015, I was working as an economist at the Federal Reserve.
Discussion: Eschaton and Bloomberg
Alexandria Misch / Grub Street:
Inside the Fight to Unionize Tate's A labor dispute has taken hold at the cookie company's Long Island bakery.  —  Every 30 minutes, roughly 7,560 thin-and-crisp cookies pass through the hands of packers inside the Tate's Bake Shop manufacturing facility, tucked away in East Moriches, on the south shore of Long Island.
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
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Texas Department of State Health Services:
Texas to Open COVID-19 Vaccination to All Adults on March 29 … News Release  —  All adults will be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Texas beginning Monday, March 29.  The Texas Department of State Health Services expects vaccine supplies to increase next week …
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 …
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.
Bo Erickson / CBS News:
Teachers union “not convinced” social distancing can safely be cut to 3 feet  —  The nation's second-largest teachers union sent a two-page letter to the Biden administration on Tuesday questioning the decision to reduce the recommended social distancing in schools to three feet between students.
Discussion: GovExec.com, National Review and HotAir
 
 
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Haaretz:
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘A conversation that needs to happen’: Democrats agonize over ‘defund the police’ fallout
Don Nickles / Politico:
Why Lockheed's acquisition of Aerojet will be a ‘boon for U.S. innovation’
Discussion: The National Interest
Daniel Engber / The Atlantic:
America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
U.S. Satisfaction Continues to Improve in March
Discussion: The Hill
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
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Sidney Powell moves to dismiss Dominion lawsuit
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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New York Times:
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