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4:45 PM ET, April 24, 2021

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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day … Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring.  Beginning on April 24, 1915 …
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
Why Biden's Armenian Genocide Declaration Really Is a Big Deal  —  President Joe Biden on Saturday issued the document Armenian Americans have pursued for decades: a declaration that the Ottoman Empire's slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian civilians was genocide.
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Mediaite
The Guardian:
Biden becomes first US president to recognise Armenian genocide  —  President called Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday to inform him US would make designation on 106th anniversary of the genocide  —  Joe Biden has become the first US president declare formal recognition of the Armenian genocide …
Discussion: CNN, POLITICUSUSA, TASS and Bloomberg
Ryan Gingeras / Washington Post:
The U.S. formally recognized the Armenian genocide.  Why now, a century later?  —  This move signals a shift in the U.S. relationship with Turkey.  —  On April 24, the Biden administration will formally recognize the Armenian genocide that took place a century ago.
New York Times:
Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide
Discussion: Fox News and WHDH-TV
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden recognizes Armenian genocide
Danielle Demetriou / Yahoo News:
Japanese man arrested after dating 35 women at the same time in bid to ‘get birthday presents’  —  A Japanese man has been arrested after reportedly dating more than 35 women at the same time.  —  Takashi Miyagawa, a part-time worker, is being investigated for allegedly defrauding dozens …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Tucker Carlson: US journalists are ‘cowards’ and ‘cringing animals’  —  Fox News host also tells Outkick ‘unrestrained mass immigration has put a huge strain on the natural world’  —  Mainstream US journalists are “cowards”, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Friday …
Discussion: Washington Post, OutKick and Twitchy
Washington Post:
Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life  —  After decades of not using a huge chunk of the Internet, the Pentagon has given control of millions of computer addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats
New York Times:
As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted  —  Fatalities have been overlooked or downplayed, understating the human toll of the country's outbreak, which accounts for nearly half of all new cases in a global surge.  —  NEW DELHI — India's coronavirus second wave is rapidly sliding …
Discussion: Forbes and Daily Kos
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Denise Lu / New York Times:
‘Excess Deaths’ in 2020 Surpassed Those of 1918 Flu Pandemic
Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
George W. Bush Can't Paint His Way Out of Hell The chilling spectacle of watching the political class redeem a criminal, again.  —  I am not an art critic, but I don't think George W. Bush's new portraits are very good.  They inspire nothing but malaise and communicate a dilettante energy.
Associated Press:
1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours  —  Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America's streets.
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
In NYC Jail System, Guards Often Lie About Excessive Force  —  More than half of the roughly 270 correction officers disciplined over a 20-month period lied to investigators or filed incomplete or inaccurate reports.  —  One New York City Correction officer struck a jailed person in the face for no legitimate reason.
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Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Right to Crash Cars Into People  —  Earlier this week, Florida Republicans enacted a law they claimed would prevent riots in the state.  Its real purpose, of course, was to discourage protesting and punish demonstrators.  One of the bill's provisions has received a fair amount of national attention …
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Wren / Insider:
This millennial GOP congressman voted to impeach Trump.  Now he's trying to save his party from going off a cliff. … The GOP freshman congressman who purchased a flak jacket following his “aye” vote for President Donald Trump's impeachment walked into what was once Grand Rapids' largest funeral home …
Franklin Leonard / New York Times:
Hollywood's Anti-Black Bias Costs It $10 Billion a Year  —  If the industry won't change on principle, it can at least change for the money.  Reform would enrich people of color, and everyone else.  —  Days after a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, suffocated George Floyd and the video went viral …
Igor Derysh / Salon:
Bills targeting local officials who resisted Trump could allow GOP to “overturn election results”  —  Republicans in at least 14 states are trying to seize power from local election offices in response to Trump's lies  —  Republicans in at least 14 states have introduced legislation …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Chocolate chip diplomacy: Biden courts Congress with gusto  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The pictures always make it look so presidential: Joe Biden sitting in a tall-back chair, surrounded by the arrayed members of Congress invited for a meeting at the White House.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and NPR
Washington Post:
As pandemic surges anew, global envy and anger over U.S. vaccine abundance  —  As India announced grim records — the highest daily coronavirus infection tallies in a single country — Americans were enjoying a spring of vaccine abundance.  —  In India, just 1.4 percent of the population …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Early front-runners like Andrew Yang usually win NYC mayoral primaries  —  (CNN)The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is now less than two months away, on June 22.  The polls indicate that businessman and former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang continues to hold a clear lead …
New York Times:
Volatile and Vengeful: How Scott Rudin Wielded Power in Show Business  —  For decades, the producer has cultivated and castigated people at all levels of entertainment.  Now his past is catching up with him.  —  Scott Rudin has long been one of the most celebrated and powerful producers in Hollywood and …
MSNBC:
Far right extremism is influencing state Republican parties  —  MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the rise in extremism affecting Republican parties at the state level with Melissa Ryan, author of the Ctrl Alt-Right Delete newsletter, who is an expert in disinformation and the dark corners of the internet.
 
 
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George Will / Washington Post:
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BBC:
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