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10:05 AM ET, April 21, 2021

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Mark Ferenchik / The Columbus Dispatch:
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 …
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The Daily Beast:
Columbus Police Release Body Camera Footage of Fatal Shooting of Black Teen  —  The footage shows an officer fire his weapon within seconds of arriving at the scene of a brawl where a girl appeared to lunge at someone with a knife.  —  COLUMBUS—A Columbus police officer shot and killed …
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.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
By bearing witness — and hitting ‘record’ — 17-year-old Darnella Frazier may have changed the world
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Chauvin verdicts reduce pressure for police reform
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in death of George Floyd
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.
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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: Insider
Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
How a teenager's video upended the police department's initial tale.  —  The Minneapolis Police Department's initial inaccurate and misleading description of George Floyd's death last May “might have become the official account” of what took place, had it not been for video taken by a teenage bystander …
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 …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal  —  Remember when the Left used to go ballistic over President Trump's propensity to lob rhetorical bombs into pending investigations and prosecutions?  —  Good times, good times.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
It's time to ‘be mindful’ of the police reaction now Chauvin has been convicted: Professor Eddie Glaude
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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: Mediaite, The Week, Joe.My.God. and Twitchy
Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
John Kerry in Earth Day wonderland  —  It is not encouraging to see John Kerry returning from talks in China and suggesting he's achieved some sort of climate change breakthrough.  The last time he trumpeted success on an allied diplomatic mission, he was touting the 2016 Paris Agreement …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Propose Cutting U.S. Emissions in Half by 2030
Discussion: New York Times
Michael Grunwald / Politico:   Biden assembled an all-star climate team. Now he has to deliver.
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.
Washington Post:
‘The wheels fell off’: How Biden's misgivings on border surge upended plan on refugees  —  President Biden overruled his top foreign policy and national security aides, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, when he kept in place the Trump administration's record low cap on the number …
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Townhall
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Bill Press / The Hill:
GOP making big mistake on infrastructure  —  Please!  Will somebody explain to me how Republicans, who always boasted about their support for infrastructure, are now suddenly against it — and think this is good politics?  —  Infrastructure's a magic word.
Leana Wen / Washington Post:
The covid-19 vaccines are an extraordinary success story.  The media should tell it that way.  —  Recent news coverage is fueling a pernicious narrative: What's the point of getting a covid-19 vaccine if the vaccinated might still get infected, if protection doesn't last that long …
Discussion: HotAir
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
'I'm still a zero': Vaccine-resistant Republicans warn that their skepticism is worsening
Discussion: eVille Times
New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Is Creating Harsher Penalties for Protesters  —  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.  —  Republican legislators in Oklahoma …
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Pompeo returns to Capitol Hill to push Iran sanctions bill  —  Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will return to the Capitol on Wednesday to help announce an Iranian sanctions bill.  —  The Republican Study Committee, chaired by Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, is revealing the Maximum Pressure Act.
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Washington Post:   Now we know what Pompeo's ‘swagger’ at the State Department was really about
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.”
Wall Street Journal:
Pfizer Identifies Fake Covid-19 Shots Abroad as Criminals Exploit Vaccine Demand  —  In Mexico, about 80 people received fraudulent doses, and in Poland authorities recovered vials likely containing an anti-wrinkle treatment  —  Pfizer Inc. says it has identified in Mexico and Poland …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mark McCloskey, gun-toting St. Louis lawyer, considering Senate bid  —  Mark McCloskey — the gun-toting St. Louis attorney who drew headlines last year for brandishing an assault rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters — says he's looking at running for Missouri's open Senate seat.
Los Angeles Times:
Judge orders L.A. city and county to provide shelter for everyone on skid row by fall  —  A federal judge overseeing a sprawling lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles ordered the city and county on Tuesday to offer some form of shelter to the entire homeless population of skid row by October.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Feds Track Down Capitol Rioter With Facial Recognition Hit On His Girlfriend's Instagram  —  Stephen Chase Randolph was arrested in Kentucky.  Federal authorities say he told undercover agents it was “f**king fun” to be in the Capitol mob.  —  Federal authorities arrested a suspect …
Discussion: The Verge and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP crafts outlines for infrastructure counter proposal
Discussion: CNN and HotAir
Adam Schuster / RealClearPolicy:
Illinois' Pension Bomb Has a Short Fuse
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Stuck At 435 Representatives? Why The U.S. House Hasn't Grown With Census Counts
Wall Street Journal:
Brazil's Climate Overture to Biden: Pay Us Not to Raze Amazon
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Kamala Harris has gone 28 days without a news conference since being tapped for border crisis role
Discussion: Fox Business
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korean Leader Urges Biden to Negotiate With North Korea
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Yablon / NBC News:
New York mayoral race polls put Andrew Yang ahead. His policies would put NYC behind.
Discussion: New York Times
Melissa Ryan / Magazine:
The Enemy Within  —  State and local Republican parties have been taken over by white supremacists …
Discussion: CNN and New York Times
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
As network news leadership shuffles, doubts about future loom
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans have made their hostility to civil rights clear
Politico:
GOP senators float $600-800 billion infrastructure counteroffer