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BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting — Monday night, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Sunday. — The BCA identified the long-time veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department as Officer Kim Potter.
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Tim Harlow / Star Tribune:
Brooklyn Center mayor takes on oversight of police department, fires city manager — City leaders appeared poised to fire the police chief after the police killing of a 20-year-old Black man Sunday. — Video (02:52) : Community leaders held a press conference outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters …
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
How did it become normal for every police shooting to bring ruinous rioting? — By now, it's a ritual of contemporary American life — a police-involved shooting followed by a riot. — Police in Brooklyn Center, Minn., shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last weekend …
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Bruce Gordon / Minnesota Department of Public Safety:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — BCA Identifies Officer in Brooklyn Center Shooting Incident — ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has identified the officer who discharged her firearm during an officer involved shooting incident that occurred on Sunday, April 11, in Brooklyn Center.
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Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Brooklyn Center fires city manager, gives mayor control of the police department following fatal shooting — In the span of just a couple of hours Monday evening, a Minneapolis suburb appears to have fundamentally refashioned its leadership after a local police officer shot and killed …
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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Daunte Wright shooting: Brooklyn Center city manager fired after call for due process for police officer
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Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
The response to Daunte Wright's death is only compounding the injustice
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Star Tribune:
Protesters, police clash at Brooklyn Center police station
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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Daunte Wright was stopped for expired plates, but driving while Black may have been his ‘crime’
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New York Times:
U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases — The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control will stop using the vaccine at federal sites and urge states to do so as well while they examine the safety issues.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Federal health agencies call to pause Johnson & Johnson vaccine after clotting cases — Federal health agencies requested an abrupt pause in use of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose coronavirus vaccine after six U.S. recipients developed a rare disorder involving blood clots within nearly …
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
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Lissandra Villa / TIME:
John Boehner on His New Book, the Rise of Donald Trump and the Future of the GOP — John Boehner left office months before the biggest political story of the decade played out: Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, became President, and redefined the Republican Party.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's private, revisionist, grievance-laden speech to the RNC — The Trump Show was rekindled privately Saturday night at a Republican National Committee event at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., with Donald Trump delivering a speech heavy …
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Politico:
Republicans pray for truce after Trump attacks on McConnell
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Dem pollsters acknowledge ‘major errors’ in 2020 polling — A group of top Democratic Party pollsters are set to release a public statement Tuesday acknowledging “major errors” in their 2020 polling — errors that left party officials stunned by election results that failed to come close to expectations in November.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Lachlan Murdoch dismisses ADL complaint, says Fox sees no problem with Tucker Carlson's ‘replacement theory’ remarks — New York (CNN Business)Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch dismissed the Anti-Defamation League's demand that the company f ire host Tucker Carlson …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans bear some responsibility for right-wing terrorism — Republicans in Congress do not want to explore the ideology behind the violent insurrection that took place on Jan. 6. But just because it makes them uncomfortable to crack down on people often self-identifying as MAGA followers …
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Paul Rossi / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated — Children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school. That's why I am. — I am a teacher at Grace Church High School in Manhattan. Ten years ago, I changed careers when I discovered how rewarding …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump knocks CNN for ‘completely false’ report Gaetz was denied meeting — Former President Trump is lashing out at a CNN report this week that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was denied a meeting with him at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida following accusations of sex trafficking against the congressman.
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Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
The Absentee Vote Logic of the New York Times — By making accusations of vote fraud he was not able to prove, both before and after the election, Donald Trump made it easy for his critics to dismiss as dishonest any and all concerns about election integrity.
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Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
Biden is thinking about building that wall — and that's a good thing — When Congress wouldn't give former President Donald Trump the funds he needed to construct more walls on the southern border, he issued a proclamation declaring that the situation at the southern border presented …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The most anti-refugee president in modern history might not be Donald Trump
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The Daily Beast:
Former Navy SEAL Admits He Marched on Capitol on Jan. 6 — He used to serve his country. Then he stood side by side with the Proud Boys as they stormed the the U.S. Capitol grounds. … He's a veteran of SEAL Team 4, a motivational speaker, and a fan of the Proud Boys.
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Donna Ladd / Mississippi Free Press:
‘Darn’ Tootin' It Is!': Gov. Tate Reeves Again Declares Confederate Heritage Month, SCV Says — Despite asking Gov. Tate Reeves' office since late March if he planned to again declare April as Confederate Heritage Month with no response, this publication just found what appears to be this year's proclamation.
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Washington Post:
117th Congress: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) — Florida Sen. Rick Scott is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). With a 50-50 tie in the Senate, Scott is leading the charge to flip the Senate in 2022 and take back the White House in 2024.
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Democrats, led by Biden, are aiming big on health care — Democrats are exploring adding a huge array of health policies to upcoming spending legislation, ranging from further enhancing Affordable Care Act subsidies to allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.
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National Review:
Anthony Fauci Has Worn Out His Welcome — More than a year ago, Americans welcomed Anthony Fauci into their homes as a sober scientist who was helping them make sense of a deadly new virus. But he has worn out that welcome. — It's true that Fauci has enjoyed an illustrious career …
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Thomas Novelly / Post and Courier:
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood makes chaotic appearance in Charleston ahead of SC GOP chair bid — NORTH CHARLESTON — Chaos erupted at the Charleston County GOP meeting when attorney Lin Wood pushed conspiracy theories that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
Bloomberg:
Secrecy and Abuse Claims Haunt China's Solar Factories in Xinjiang … In the wilderness of the Gobi Desert sit two factories that churn out vast quantities of polysilicon, the raw material in billions of solar panels all over the world. It's a four-hour drive from Urumqi …
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Why has climate economics failed us? — Economists could have helped in the fight against climate change. So far, they haven't. — 7 hr ago — Ezra Klein has an excellent post at the New York Times on the politics of Bidenomics. This part really caught my eye:
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Austin: US adds 500 troops in Germany, despite Trump pledge — BERLIN (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday that he is expanding the U.S. military presence in Germany by 500 troops, suggesting he will not carry out a Trump administration order to withdraw thousands of them.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Prosecutors: Oath Keepers appeared to stash Jan. 6 firearms at suburban Comfort Inn — Members of the Oath Keepers, the paramilitary extremists who played a central role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, appeared to stash firearms at a Comfort Inn in Arlington, Va., prosecutors indicated in a late Monday court filing.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Television's Trumpiest New Show — Almost nobody tuned into the first episode of Dr. Sebastian Gorka's new talk show on Newsmax, The Gorka Reality Check, with high expectations. — Since Donald Trump's defeat, there's been a TV land rush to capture as much of the Trump base as possible …
Mark Fischetti / Scientific American:
We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We're Going to Say So — It's time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed — An emergency is a serious situation that requires immediate action. When someone calls 911 because they can't breathe, that's an emergency.
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