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John Futty / The Columbus Dispatch:
‘No opportunity’ to de-escalate: Use-of-force experts say Columbus officer obeyed training in shooting Ma'Khia Bryant — An Ohio criminal-justice professor who studies the fatal use of force by law-enforcement officers didn't hesitate to render an opinion after watching body-camera video …
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National Review, New York Post, Liberty Unyielding and Insider
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Washington Post:
Fatal police shooting of Black teenager in Columbus sparks new outcry
Fatal police shooting of Black teenager in Columbus sparks new outcry
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National Review, HotAir, Patterico's Pontifications, CBS News, The Daily Beast, The Root, Fox News, IJR and WHDH-TV
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Jen Psaki baselessly and disgracefully racialized the killing in Columbus
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Ted Cruz rips ‘grossly irresponsible’ LeBron James after NBA star tweets 'you're next' at Columbus cop
Ted Cruz rips ‘grossly irresponsible’ LeBron James after NBA star tweets 'you're next' at Columbus cop
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TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
We should soon stop catering to the vaccine holdouts — When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced a “pause” in the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of a tiny number of instances in which women developed blood clots after getting the shot, many recoiled in horror.
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NBC News, Poynter and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Washington Post:
Health officials lean toward resuming Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine — but with a warning — The action would mirror that of European regulators, who concluded the shot's benefits outweigh the risks — Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use …
Erica Pandey / Axios:
America scrambles for restaurant workers — Vaccinations keep climbing, and restaurants are ready to roar back this summer. But eateries from Miami to Martha's Vineyard to Los Angeles are facing the same problem: not enough workers. — The big picture: Millions of restaurants are hiring all at once and …
Washington Post:
Investigation suppressed by Trump administration reveals obstacles to hurricane aid for Puerto Rico — A watchdog report uncovers bureaucratic hurdles the Trump administration erected for the struggling island to receive aid after Hurricanes Irma and Maria — The Trump administration put …
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CNN, The Hill, Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Navalny Has a Lesson for the World — When Alexei Navalny boarded a plane to Moscow on January 17, he turned his life into a metaphor. He knew it, his wife knew it, and everybody else on the plane knew it. So did the millions of people who had watched his documentary videos …
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Associated Press and Hackwhackers
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Bloomberg:
Russia Orders Army Back From Ukraine Border, Easing Tensions
Russia Orders Army Back From Ukraine Border, Easing Tensions
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The Daily Beast, CBS News, Politico, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Joe.My.God., Radio Free Europe/Radio … and The National Interest
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Putin Warns of a Russian ‘Red Line’ the West Will Regret Crossing
Putin Warns of a Russian ‘Red Line’ the West Will Regret Crossing
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and CBS News
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Biden Preparing to Declare That Atrocities Against Armenia Were Genocide — The designation for the World War I-era killings would further fray U.S. relations with Turkey, but it is a risk the president appears willing to take to further human rights, officials said.
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The Hill, Associated Press, HotAir, Talking Points Memo, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Cyprus Mail, Turkish Minute, Al Jazeera, HuffPost, The Week, Mediaite, Insider and Political Wire
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William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Poised to Recognize Armenian Massacres as Genocide, Officials Say
Biden Poised to Recognize Armenian Massacres as Genocide, Officials Say
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Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, HotAir, ABC17NEWS and Turkish Minute
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Set to Raise Taxes on Rich to Fund Child Care and Education — The president's American Family Plan, which remains in flux, does not currently include an effort to expand health coverage, as administration officials had previously planned. — WASHINGTON — The next phase …
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Left-wing group dumps cow poop at White House entrance, demands Biden take climate action — Protesters yelled ‘Bull—,’ criticizing Biden's climate plan — Fox News Flash top headlines for April 22 — Climate activists dissatisfied with President Biden's climate plan are not-so-subtly expressing …
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IJR
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Activists dump ‘bulls—’ at White House ahead of Biden climate summit
Activists dump ‘bulls—’ at White House ahead of Biden climate summit
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Louder With Crowder
Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
The Postal Service is 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, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Washington Post, National Review, Breitbart, Daily Kos, The RFAngle, Raw Story, Human Events, Louder With Crowder, HotAir, BizPac Review, Townhall, The Sun, The Gateway Pundit, Occupy Democrats, Page Array, RedState, TheBlaze, The Federalist, Newsbusters, The National Pulse, Washington Examiner, Joe.My.God. and The Daily Caller
TMZ.com:
Brett Favre Believes Derek Chauvin Didn't Mean To Kill George Floyd, Went Too Far — Brett Favre is weighing in on the Derek Chauvin verdict ... saying he truly believes the ex-cop did NOT intentionally kill George Floyd, but his actions were downright inexcusable.
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Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, The Sun and Fox News
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Republican candidate for governor says Chauvin verdict makes her ‘sick’
Republican candidate for governor says Chauvin verdict makes her ‘sick’
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Insider, Crooks and Liars, VPM.org, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors and VA Scope
Hans Bader / Liberty Unyielding:
No sign that George Floyd was killed because of his race
No sign that George Floyd was killed because of his race
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Power Line
Tim Marchman / Popping Tins:
Welcome to Popping Tins — This is a newsletter about tinned seafood; in its inaugural issue, Bela-Olhão Lightly Smoked Sardines in Olive Oil are reviewed. — 5 hr ago — Long written off in the United States as a food of grim necessity when not actively reviled …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Pelosi offers equal subpoena power, even partisan split on Jan. 6 commission — Talks for the commission had stalled after disagreements over its makeup. — US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection — On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol …
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Washington Examiner, Politico, Fox News and Reuters
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Politico:
Pentagon investigated suspected Russian directed-energy attacks on U.S. troops — The Pentagon has briefed top lawmakers on intelligence surrounding suspected directed-energy attacks against U.S. troops, and officials identified Russia as a likely culprit, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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The Daily Caller and HotAir
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Liz Cheney vs. MAGA — The Wyoming congresswoman challenged Republicans to turn away from Trump after Jan. 6. Instead, they turned on her. — The regular conference meetings of the Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives, held most weeks behind closed doors in the Capitol Visitor Center …
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Washington Post, Raw Story, The Federalist and The Hill
BuzzFeed News:
“Hindsight Is 20/20”: An Internal Report Shows How Facebook Failed To Prevent The “Stop The Steal” Movement — Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of a House of Representatives committee that his company had done its part “to secure the integrity of the election.”
New York Times:
Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biographer Halt Shipping of His Roth Book — W.W. Norton, citing the accusations that the author, Blake Bailey, faces, said it would stop shipping and promoting his new best-selling book. — Earlier this month, the biographer Blake Bailey was approaching …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden Commits the U.S. to Halving Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030 — President Biden committed the United States to cutting emissions by half by the end of the decade at a virtual Earth Day summit. Some 40 world leaders, including from China and Russia, are attending the conference.
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NPR, The White House, American Prospect, CBS News, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, PolitiFact, Florida Politics and The Week
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
Biden Makes New Pledge For U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A 50% Cut
Biden Makes New Pledge For U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A 50% Cut
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Mother Jones, BuzzFeed News, ABC17NEWS and Associated Press
Politico:
Black Democrats urge party to shift its voting rights push — Democrats have spent months touting an expansive proposal that would reshape U.S. elections. But with the bill's Senate prospects growing more dire, key members of the Congressional Black Caucus are pushing to narrow their strategy.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
GOP Stands Up to ‘Cancel Culture’ by Criminalizing Dissent — In January, Ron DeSantis argued that combating the repression of political speech was “the most important legislative issue” of 2021. — During an appearance at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Florida governor delivered …
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Fox News, Daily Kos, The Week and Washington Post
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
US Capitol Police officer allegedly told units to only monitor for ‘anti-Trump’ protesters on January 6 — Washington (CNN)A US Capitol Police officer directed “all outside units” on the morning of January 6 to only monitor for anti-Trump agitators “who want to start a fight,” not any …
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Politico and Crooks and Liars
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
An unvaccinated worker set off an outbreak at a U.S. nursing home where most residents were immunized. — An unvaccinated health care worker set off a Covid-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections …
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Insight, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Centers for Disease Control …, ABC17NEWS, HotAir, The Verge, UPI and Fox News
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Checking in on Biden's Approval Rating as Hundred Days' Mark Nears — Steady on average, but individual pollsters vary greatly — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Joe Biden's approval rating has been steady and positive, though many other presidents had better early numbers.
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Washington Examiner
New York Post:
The Post says: Everyone get vaccinated! — Every New Yorker 16 and over is vaccine-eligible, but only about half have gotten even one jab. We all need to do better, so the greatest city in the world can get back to being great, with crowded streets and that familiar electricity in the air.
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
A Troubled Rule of Law — The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury's verdict was reached dispassionately. — Public safety — Politics and law — The Social Order — America's cities did not burn last night.
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Media Matters for America, Crime Prevention …, The Federalist, Fox News and Breitbart
John McCormack / National Review:
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly's Commitment to Keep SCOTUS at Nine Justices, Even if Roe Is Overturned — In the Capitol on Tuesday, I asked Arizona senator Mark Kelly about Massachusetts senator Ed Markey's bill to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court from nine to thirteen.