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2:15 PM ET, April 21, 2021

Top Items:

Columbus police shooting updates: Aunt says teen girl killed; crowd protests — An angry crowd protested near a home on the Southeast Side where a Columbus police officer fatally shot someone while responding to an attempted stabbing call. — The shooting happened just minutes …

Vanessa Romo / NPR:

Columbus Police Shoot And Kill Black, Teenage Girl — A 16-year-old Black girl was fatally shot by an officer outside of her home after she called the police for help on Tuesday afternoon, according to her family. — The girl has been identified as Ma'Khia Bryant by her aunt, Hazel Bryant.

Discussion: WBNS-TV, The Hill, Newsweek, National Review, The Root, HotAir, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, WHDH-TV and TheBlaze

New York Times:

G.O.P. Anti-Protester Bills Include Immunity for Hitting Them With Cars — As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests.

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Hill, Insider, Washington Post, HotAir, NBC News, McSweeney's, The Philadelphia Inquirer, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, The Week and CNN

Associated Press:

AP source: Garland to announce Minneapolis police probe — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis a day after a former officer was convicted in the killing of George Floyd.

Discussion: Politico, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, NBC News, BuzzFeed News, The White House, HotAir, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, TheBlaze, Forbes, WTTV CBS4Indy, POLITICUSUSA, Crooks and Liars and The Guardian

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

Tucker Carlson: Public support for George Floyd is an ‘attack on civilization’ — On Fox News Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson did not appear to be pleased with the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. — Indeed, according to Carlson …

Discussion: RedState, Insider and New York Times

Tucker Carlson / Fox News:

Jury verdict in Derek Chauvin trial a cry of 'please don't hurt us' — Can we really trust the way by which the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty? — Tucker: No politician, media figure has the right to intimidate a jury — The jury in the Derek Chauvin trial came …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill, Washington Post, NOQ Report, RedState and Human Events

Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:

Anti-Anti-Chauvinism — Conservative trolls are the REAL victims! — We all saw it. It was captured on video. It lasted nine interminable minutes. It ignited our righteous indignation—an oil fire floating on an ocean of grief. — Most people felt this way about the video of the murder …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Post, Power Line, National Review, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, WISH-TV, The Moderate Voice, ABC17NEWS, CNN, BizPac Review, Media Matters for America and Twitchy

Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson says protests intimidated Derek Chauvin jury into guilty verdict: 'Please don't hurt us'

Discussion: Roy Edroso Breaks It Down, Reuters, Daily Mail, Beacon, The Moderate Voice, alicublog, Raw Story and spiked

Associated Press:
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife

Discussion: ARLnow.com, Crime Online, Poynter, NBC Los Angeles and Townhall

Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
How a teenager's video upended the police department's initial tale.

Discussion: Forbes, TMZ.com, Real Clear Politics, Balloon Juice, SPD Blotter and The Week

New York Times:
Teenage Girl Is Fatally Shot by Police in Columbus, Officials Say

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, National Review, Twitchy, The Columbus Dispatch, HotAir, Insider, The Sun, Mediaite, Townhall and Breitbart

Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal

Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post

The Daily Beast:
Columbus Police Release Body-Camera Footage of Fatal Shooting of Black Teen

Discussion: Fox News, New York Daily News, WCMH-TV, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Sun, BizPac Review, ABC17NEWS, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, Summit News, Townhall, IJR, UPI, Breitbart, Twitchy, WTTE and Washington Examiner

Washington Post:
Ohio police fatally shoot Black teenage girl just before Chauvin verdict

Discussion: Tangle, Star Tribune, Patterico's Pontifications, The Nation, Law & Crime, Slate, National Review, Twitchy, eVille Times, The Root, The Week and ABC17NEWS

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Scoop: Chris Christie friends believe he's running in 2024 — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is seriously considering running for president in 2024, three people familiar with his thinking tell Axios. — Driving the news: While Christie isn't saying anything publicly about his thinking …

Discussion: Insider, TheBlaze, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God., IJR, Mediaite, The Week, Mock Paper Scissors, Twitchy and Fox News

Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift — The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., moved to dismiss thousands of cases dating back decades, amid a growing movement to change the criminal justice system's approach to prostitution.

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Meet Cy Vance / Manhattan District Attorney's Office:
D.A. Vance Ends Prosecution of Prostitution and Unlicensed Massage, A First in New York State

Discussion: Insider, The Hill, Reason and The Daily Caller

Jana Winter / Yahoo News:

The Postal Service is running a running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans' social media posts — The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans' social media posts, including those about planned protests …

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin, Addressing Russia, Warns West Not to Cross Red Line: Live Updates

Discussion: Insider, Associated Press and MyNorthwest.com

Wall Street Journal:

Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Advance as U.S. Offers Sanctions Relief — Biden administration signals openness to easing measures against oil, finance and other sectors, but Tehran wants to see specifics — The Biden administration has signaled it is open to easing sanctions against critical elements …

Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S.-Israel tensions build as Iran talks progress

Discussion: Informed Comment

Reuters:

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump — Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and The Intellectualist

Washington Post:

After half a century in public life, Kerry gets one more shot — John F. Kerry was on a 757 government plane in November 2016, en route to Antarctica to observe scientists studying the impact of climate change, when he learned that Donald Trump would be the next president.

Discussion: Reuters, Power Line, New York Times and New York Post

Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
John Kerry in Earth Day wonderland

Discussion: ABC News

Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Biden's climate all-stars: ‘The ambition is breathtaking’ - but so are the expectations

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

ProPublica:

How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers — Politicians get the veneer of grassroots support, while shadowy consultants get rich. … Two of the leading Republican firebrands in Congress touted big fundraising hauls as a show of grassroots support …

Discussion: The American Independent

Financial Times:

‘It is much worse this time’: India's devastating second wave … Every night funeral pyres blaze on the banks of the Ganges, a grim symbol of the ferocious Covid-19 wave sparking a health crisis and human tragedy in India that is far surpassing anything seen last year.

Discussion: HotAir, CNN, New York Times and Bloomberg

Alison Flood / The Guardian:

Mike Pence's publisher refuses to cancel memoir after staff protest — Simon & Schuster president Jonathan Karp says seven-figure book deal will go ahead, after open letter from employees accuses publisher of being ‘on the wrong side of justice’ — Simon & Schuster has said it will not pull …

Discussion: HotAir and POLITICUSUSA, more at Mediagazer »

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Simon & Schuster Says Mike Pence Book Will Proceed, Despite Employee Petitions

Discussion: Insider, The Week, New York Post, The Hill, National Review and The Wrap

Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:

Fox News Thinks Tucker Carlson Is Still Good for Business — Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, asked advertisers gathered Tuesday for Global Marketer Week to press Fox Corp. to fire its resident flamethrower and ratings-magnet, Tucker Carlson.

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost, Mediaite and The Rational Optimist

Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:

New Docs Show Matt Gaetz Campaign in Full Damage-Control Mode — Rep. Matt Gaetz's campaign is spending money on lawyers, a TV ad blitz, direct mail, and donations to local Florida Republicans. — As Rep. Matt Gaetz combats allegations that he was involved in a sex ring …

Discussion: Raw Story and Politico

Brian Schwartz / CNBC:

The brother of a top Biden advisor lobbied the White House this year on behalf of big health-care companies — Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of longtime Biden advisor and White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, started lobbying the Executive Office of the President in the first quarter, according to new disclosure reports.

Discussion: OpenSecrets.org

Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:

What Facebook Did for Chauvin's Trial Should Happen All the Time — On Monday, Facebook vowed that its staff was “working around the clock” to identify and restrict posts that could lead to unrest or violence after a verdict was announced in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Discussion: Tech Xplore, Newsbusters, Missoula Current and CNN, more at Techmeme »

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

Welcome to the YOLO Economy — Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting stable jobs in search of postpandemic adventure. — Something strange is happening to the exhausted, type-A millennial workers of America. After a year spent hunched over their MacBooks …

United States Department of State:

Schedule — All times EDT and approximate Speakers not listed in speaking order Day 1-April 22 8:00 a.m.-Session 1 Raising Our Climate Ambition President Biden and Vice President Harris will open the inaugural session of the Summit. This session will underscore the urgent need …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Bloomberg

Hisham Melhem / Newlines Magazine:

America's Middle East Allies Are Free Riders No More — Wary of U.S. intentions and ambivalence, an alliance of like-minded regimes is striking out on its own — Hisham Melhem is a columnist for Annahar Al Arabi, Beirut, Lebanon. — For 75 years, the peoples of the Middle East watched …

Discussion: The National Interest

Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:

Baltimore plant with contaminated Johnson & Johnson vaccines had multiple failures, unsanitary conditions, FDA says — Inspection report finds serious problems at Emergent BioSolutions, which has been told to stop manufacturing vaccine pending reviews — The Food and Drug Administration …