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3:35 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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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.
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
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
'Of course it's genocide': How Biden fulfilled a promise to Armenians that Obama wouldn't  —  It was the first year of Donald Trump's presidency when Aram Hamparian was headed out for lunch near Embassy Row and recognized a member of former President Barack Obama's national security team.
Discussion: CNN, USA Today and Al-Monitor
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
Why Biden's Armenian Genocide Declaration Really Is a Big Deal
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Mediaite
New York Times:
Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide
Discussion: Fox News, WHDH-TV and UPI
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden recognizes Armenian genocide
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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, Twitchy and OutKick
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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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
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 …
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
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
The fading GOP establishment moves to support Cheney as Trump attacks and McCarthy keeps his distance  —  Following her vote to impeach Donald Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney has received a groundswell of financial support from the most powerful figures in traditional GOP politics and the corporate world.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
After Testing the World's Limits, Putin Steps Back From the Brink  —  The Russian president pulled back troops from Ukraine's border and relented on medical treatment for his nemesis Aleksei A. Navalny, after a performance blending fear and force to affirm his power.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House's new $1.8 trillion ‘families plan’ reflects ambitions — and limits — of Biden presidency  —  Big spending increases and tax changes will test Democrats' majority and GOP's willingness to stand in the way  —  The White House is preparing to unveil a roughly $1.8 trillion spending …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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