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7:05 AM ET, April 25, 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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Los Angeles Times:
Armenian American activists welcome U.S. recognition of genocide but say fight isn't over  —  Sophia Armen spent Friday night refreshing Twitter and Google, waiting to see when the alert would pop up announcing that President Biden had officially recognized the Armenian genocide.  There was little sleep.
New York Times:
Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide  —  The Turkish government, as well as human rights activists and ethnic Armenians, had a muted response to the news, describing the move as largely symbolic.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday recognized …
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
Why Biden's Armenian Genocide Declaration Really Is a Big Deal
Discussion: TASS, Lawyers, Guns & Money and KTLA
Daniel Fried / Politico:
Inside America's Long Handwringing Over the Armenian Genocide
Ryan Gingeras / Washington Post:
The U.S. formally recognized the Armenian genocide. Why now, a century later?
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
The Slander Industry  —  I wanted to slander someone.  —  My colleague Kashmir Hill and I were trying to learn who is responsible for — and profiting from — the growing ecosystem of websites whose primary purpose is destroying reputations.  —  So I wrote a nasty post.  About myself.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Anti-vaxxers are wearing Yellow Stars of David to protest coronavirus vaccines: report  —  Anti-vaccine protesters likening themselves to Jews during the holocaust were harshly criticized on Saturday.  —  Nazis required Jews to wear yellow Jewish stars and other holocaust badges to the lands they controlled during World War II.
Ashish K. Jha / Washington Post:
India's coronavirus surge could collapse its health system.  The U.S. can help.  —  Ashish K. Jha is dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.  —  India, the world's largest democracy, is now the epicenter of the pandemic and on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Discussion: Carnegie India
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
After death of baby, S.F. domestic violence victim advocates ask whether Chesa Boudin is doing enough  —  The news itself was crushing.  A 7-month-old baby boy named Synciere Williams died Tuesday.  The man charged with taking care of him that day, Joseph Williams, 26, was booked by police for allegedly murdering the child.
Ray Brescia / The Hill:
Corporations can - and must - fight for voting rights  —  One of the driving forces of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s was what the late Derrick Bell dubbed “interest convergence.”  African Americans and white elites saw value in ending Jim Crow.
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
The difficult realities of lethal force  —  The shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has produced a torrent of objections to how police respond to armed suspects.  Some, like MSNBC host Joy Reid, simply declare that the use of lethal force to stop a knife attack is “murder.”
Discussion: The Western Journal
Ian Birrell / Daily Mail:
Worrying new clues about the origins of Covid: How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses, writes IAN BIRRELL  — Scientists at Wuhan lab were on massive project investigating animal viruses  — Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday have revealed a nationwide scheme
New York Times:
The World Needs Many More Coronavirus Vaccines  —  Wealthy nations have to step up.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.
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Washington Post:
As pandemic surges anew, global envy and anger over U.S. vaccine abundance
Discussion: The Guardian, Forbes and HotAir
Matthew Stolle / Bemidji Pioneer:
Minnesota county's GOP event featured far-right conspiracy theorist  —  Loudon's hour-long talk was rife with communist and Marxist conspiracy theories.  —  Screen capture from a YouTube post entitled “Trevor Loudon's New Book: WHITE HOUSE REDS.  LIVE in MINNESOTA, March 27, 2021.  TRIUMPHAL RETURN!!!”
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Twitter censored tweets critical of India's handling of the pandemic at its government's request  —  Tweets from government officials and other high-profile people were among those removed  —  Twitter has removed more than 50 tweets critical of the Indian government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Troy Carter wins Louisiana special election in blow to progressives  —  Progressives suffered a disappointing setback on Saturday, after their favored candidate lost to a more establishment-aligned opponent in a special congressional election in Louisiana.  —  State Sen. Troy Carter …
CNN:
Trump supporters could be incited to future violence by his continued promotion of 2020 election lies, DOJ and judges say  —  (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's continued promotion of the “big lie” about the 2020 election could still incite his followers to violence, the Justice Department …
Discussion: 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
Zachary D. Carter / New York Times:
The Woman Who Shattered the Myth of the Free Market  —  Joan Robinson upended the misogynistic good-old-boys' network of economists and devised theories around competition and labor vital to the antitrust debates of today.  —  Mr. Carter is the author of “The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.”
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 …
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas
 
 
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Esteban Castellanos / Air Force Times:
Enough about ‘not picking sides.’ The only right position is against white supremacy and extremism
Discussion: Raw Story
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Mayor Ted Wheeler asks public to help ‘unmask’ violent demonstrators, extends state of emergency
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
Montgomery County Police Reporter:
STATE REPRESENTATIVE BUSTED ON SUSPICION OF DWI FOLLOWING CRASH
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
Harry Enten / CNN:
Early front-runners like Andrew Yang usually win NYC mayoral primaries
Associated Press:
1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours
Discussion: Slate
Baltimore Sun:
In-custody death reports under former Maryland medical examiner to be reviewed after he testified Chauvin did not kill George Floyd
 Earlier Items: 
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Tucker Carlson: US journalists are ‘cowards’ and ‘cringing animals’
Discussion: HuffPost
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
In NYC Jail System, Guards Often Lie About Excessive Force
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Chocolate chip diplomacy: Biden courts Congress with gusto
Discussion: HotAir, POLITICUSUSA and NBC News
Danielle Demetriou / Yahoo News:
Japanese man arrested after dating 35 women at the same time in bid to ‘get birthday presents’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
New York Times:
As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and Forbes
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Right to Crash Cars Into People
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google plans to test search and shopping ads in its AI Overviews, drawing from advertisers' existing campaigns; AI Overviews rolled out to US users last week

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast says StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, will be available starting next week to Comcast TV or broadband customers at $15/month

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Google is warning nonprofit newsrooms that passage of a new California ad tax bill would threaten to pause Google News Initiative funding in US

 
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