‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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?

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 …

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 …

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.) …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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” …

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.

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 …

Blinken Warns Germany Of Possible Sanctions Over Nord Stream 2  —  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Nord Stream 2 pipeline being built from Russia to Germany is against the European Union's own interests and warned Berlin of possible sanctions over the project.

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.

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.

Why Democrats In Congress Need Biden's Approval Rating To Stay In The Mid-50s  —  A majority of Americans, about 55 percent, approve of President Biden's job performance so far, whereas about 39 percent disapprove.  Those are pretty good numbers for a president in this polarized era.