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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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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.
Alyssa Choiniere / Heavy.com:
Ahmad Alissa, Boulder Shooting Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is a 21-year-old Colorado man who was identified as the suspect in the mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder that left 10 people dead, including Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley.
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Denver Post:
Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was short-tempered, violent, former teammates say — The 21-year-old Arvada man has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder — sbradbury@denverpost.com, CONRAD SWANSON, JOHN MEYER | jmeyer@denverpost.com and NOELLE PHILLIPS |
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 …
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CBS Denver, Twitchy, Mediaite, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Center for Security Policy and Boston Herald
Andrew Mark Miller / Washington Examiner:
Liberals blame white man for mass shooting in Boulder — Several liberals on Twitter immediately blamed a recent mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, on a “white man” despite the shooter being identified as a man originally from the Middle East. — “Extremely tired of people's lives depending …
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New York Times, Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart, RedState and The Daily Caller
ABC News:
10 killed in Boulder shooting: Victims identified, suspect charged
10 killed in Boulder shooting: Victims identified, suspect charged
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Washington Post, Denver Post, The National Pulse, The Daily Caller, Faithwire, Associated Press, New York Post, New York Times, Boston Herald, New York Daily News, The New Neo, FOX31 Denver, Al Jazeera, TheDenverChannel.com, Law & Crime, The Wrap, Mother Jones, NPR, Crime Online, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and The New Civil Rights Movement
Associated Press:
Officials: Gun in supermarket shooting bought 6 days earlier
Officials: Gun in supermarket shooting bought 6 days earlier
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boulderpdapp.com, The Hill, U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse, CNN, CBS Denver, The Root, Deadline, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Law & Crime
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin says he doesn't support House-passed background check bill — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he does not support House-passed legislation to expand background checks to all gun sales. — “What the House passed? Not at all,” Manchin said, when asked if he supports the legislation.
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CNN:
Senate GOP continues to resist push for expanded background checks in aftermath of recent mass shootings
Senate GOP continues to resist push for expanded background checks in aftermath of recent mass shootings
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Washington Post, Vanity Fair, RedState, Forbes, Courthouse News Service, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and IJR
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
In wake of shootings, Senate renews efforts to overhaul U.S. gun laws
In wake of shootings, Senate renews efforts to overhaul U.S. gun laws
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Fox News, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Vox, CBS Denver and Politico
Madison Hahamy / Yale Daily News:
Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz — Bandy Lee MED '94 DIV '95, a formerly Yale-affiliated faculty member in the School of Medicine and Yale Law School, filed a complaint against the University on Monday alleging “unlawful termination …
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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.) …
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Axios:
Scoop: Democrats confront White House over lack of AAPI Cabinet representation — Two Democratic senators of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage confronted a senior White House official Monday night over the absence of AAPI representation in President Biden's Cabinet, four Senate aides familiar with the call tell Axios.
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New York Times:
U.S. Health Officials Question AstraZeneca Vaccine Trial Results — According to federal officials, an independent panel of medical experts said the promising results announced by the company on Monday may have relied on “outdated information.” — Federal health officials …
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Associated Press, KTLA, STAT, HotAir, The Week and Washington Examiner
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NIH News Release:
NIAID Statement on AstraZeneca Vaccine
NIAID Statement on AstraZeneca Vaccine
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Politico:
Judge warns DOJ that media interviews could taint Oath Keepers case — A federal judge lambasted the Justice Department on Tuesday, warning that top officials' comments in recent media interviews threatened to taint the prosecution of some of the most notorious participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
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NPR, Raw Story and Big League Politics
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced to Sign ‘Biometric Consent’ Form or Lose Job — The new cameras, which are being implemented nationwide, use artificial intelligence to access drivers' location, movement, and biometric data. — Lauren Kaori Gurley — Amazon delivery drivers nationwide have to sign a …
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Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu clinches 61 majority on Right on way to victory - exit polls — Three polls give Netanyahu's bloc a 61 seat majority in the Knesset with Naftali Bennett's Yamina Party. — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to form a government for the seventh time in his three-decade …
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Associated Press, The Times of Israel, Al-Monitor, National Review and Political Wire
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
‘Netanyahu Is Playing With Fire With the Democrats’
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 …
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The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, Insider and Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
Fox News failed in its coverage of the Atlanta shootings … In the aftermath of last week's shootings at several Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead, including six Asian women, Fox News largely failed to include Asian voices and frequently ignored important context about the wave of anti-Asian sentiment in the country.
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Duckworth vows to oppose Biden nominees over lack of Asian American representation
Duckworth vows to oppose Biden nominees over lack of Asian American representation
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Washington Free Beacon, CNN, Bloomberg, Big League Politics and Associated Press
Roxanne Cooper / Raw Story:
MyPillow's Mike Lindell hires frequent Trump booster Alan Dershowitz to ‘countersue’ Dominion Voting Systems: report — Embattled pillow magnet, Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell has hired frequent cable network “legal expert” Alan Dershowitz to “countersue” …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sidney Powell's Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn't take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact
Sidney Powell's Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn't take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact
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CNBC, DeadState, Vox, POLITICUSUSA, The American Independent, The Guardian, NBC News, Vanity Fair, Hackwhackers, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors and Democracy Docket
Christopher Hahn / Occupy Democrats:
The NRA blocked an AR-15 ban and innocents immediately paid the price — This week's mass shooting in Colorado makes it clear the NRA's pro-death policies have gone from absurd political theatrics to clear and present danger. Just last week, the NRA celebrated a big victory over the city of Boulder …
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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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HotAir, The Daily Beast, ABC News, BizPac Review, One America News Network, IJR, Washington Examiner, NPR, The National Pulse and New York Times
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 …
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
The Strongest House Candidates In 2020 Were (Mostly) Moderate — Moderate politicians are becoming an endangered species. The most liberal Republican in Congress nowadays is still ideologically to the right of the most conservative Democrat, reflecting the fact that the median voters …
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Bloomberg, Vox, New York Post and New Republic
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 …
Danielle / Epicenter NYC:
What we learned registering thousands of our neighbors for vaccines — By S. Mitra Kalita, with contributions from Epicenter volunteers Sree Bhagavan, Kris Brewer, Eric Garcia, Abby Gewanter, Devi Gupta, George Hagstrom, Julia Kopelson, Kenisha McFadden, Sarah Kulkarni, John O'Neil …
Zaid Jilani / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
White People Don't Have a Monopoly on Hatred — I know. I once held bigoted beliefs myself. … Middle school is terrible for everyone, but you're going to have to trust me that it was rougher on me than many. I was short, funny-looking, and a practicing Muslim in a town called Kennesaw …
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Is ‘All Gas No Brakes’ Over? — Andrew Callaghan, 23, built a following with his YouTube series “All Gas No Brakes.” This month, he announced that he'd left the show. Here's what happened. — Since 2019, Andrew Callaghan, 23, has been crisscrossing the country in a beat-up R.V …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
DHS looking at tracking travel of domestic extremists — The Department of Homeland Security is considering monitoring the travel of domestic extremists and expanding its use of the No Fly List, law enforcement sources told POLITICO. — The discussions are part of the Biden administration's strategy …
Rachel Roubein / Politico:
Biden extending Obamacare's pandemic enrollment season — The three-month extension was announced as Biden marked the health care law's 11th anniversary. — President Joe Biden speaks during a tour of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute on the campus …
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Washington Examiner
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 …
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New York Times:
G.O.P. and Allies Draft ‘Best Practices’ for Restricting Voting — As Republican legislatures seek to usher in a raft of new voting restrictions, they are being prodded by an array of party leaders and outside groups working to coordinate the efforts. — In late January …
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Washington Examiner, PBS NewsHour and CBS News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News would be in trouble without ‘actual malice’ standard — Media critic — D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence H. Silberman is worried about media homogeneity in the United States. Mainstream press organizations, he wrote in a much-discussed tract published on Friday, err in the leftward direction.
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