What we know about the Boulder victims.
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TOP STORIES
Wednesday, March 24
BIDEN CALLS TO BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS President Joe Biden called for a nationwide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in his first remarks since a gunman armed with a military-style rifle and a semiautomatic pistol opened fire at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket on Monday, killing 10 people. The suspect, a 21-year-old man who stood out only for his explosive temper, bought the assault weapon six days before the attack at the King Soopers store. About four days earlier, a judge threw out a ban on assault rifles passed by the city of Boulder. [HuffPost]
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE VICTIMS The people who died in the Boulder shooting ranged in age from 20 to 65 years old. Among them was a Boulder police officer who responded to the shooting, and several King Soopers grocery store employees. We remember them here. [HuffPost]
CROWDED BUT ORDERLY AT MIGRANT CENTERS The Biden administration released its first photos and video from inside two migrant detention centers along the southern border following efforts to stop the public from seeing the conditions there. The Donna, Texas, facility holds families and unaccompanied children while they await transfer to other agencies. [HuffPost] |
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DEM. SENATORS BACK DOWN ON DIVERSITY AFTER PROMISES Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) backed down from their threat to block any "non-diversity" Biden nominees, after receiving assurances from the White House that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders would be elevated to high-level positions in the administration. [HuffPost]
STUCK IN THE SUEZ CANAL A giant container ship called Ever Given has gotten stuck lengthways in the Suez Canal, causing a massive traffic jam in one of the world's busiest waterways. The stuck ship is as long as the Empire State Building is tall. Oil prices are already rising. [HuffPost]
44 SENATE DEMS. BACK D.C. STATEHOOD Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) is the latest senator to endorse the admission of Washington, D.C., as the nation's 51st state. The House of Representatives held its first hearing on the issue on Monday. But the real fight over the D.C. statehood bill will come in the Senate. [HuffPost] |
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WHAT'S BREWING
GET READY TO PAY MORE FOR SLOWER MAIL Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced plans to slow mail delivery standards and cut hours at some post office locations as part of a 10-year strategy to stabilize the struggling agency. The plan also hinted at a postage rate increase. DeJoy has been mired in controversy since taking over the agency last June. [AP]
MONTANA GOV. VIOLATES RULE IN KILLING WOLF Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte was let off with a warning after he violated state hunting regulations in the trapping and killing of a wolf near Yellowstone National Park last month. The news comes as a raft of bills heads to Gianforte’s desk aimed at reducing the state’s wolf population by making it significantly easier to kill them. [HuffPost]
SENATE HOLDS HEARING ON GUN VIOLENCE Democrats called last week for a hearing on gun violence after a series of deadly shootings in the Atlanta area, not realizing that the hearing would come less than 24 hours after another gunman killed 10 people in a Colorado supermarket. “I can’t change and amend my opening statement to keep up with it,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) [HuffPost]
GEORGIA GOP BEGS BIDEN TO ACT ON BATTERY PLANT Biden seems uncertain about using a veto to keep a giant electric vehicle battery factory from shutting down in Georgia, with nearly 3,000 jobs at stake, writes HuffPost's Alexander C. Kaufman. Georgia Republicans have emerged as the project's most vocal defenders while Democrats have been largely silent. [HuffPost]
BIG BANKS 'FUEL CLIMATE CHAOS' Banks provided $3.8 trillion in financing to oil, gas and coal companies — more in 2020 than they did in 2016, the year countries signed the Paris climate agreement. The trajectory of the finance sector is heading “definitively in the wrong direction,” warned a new report published by several nonprofits. [HuffPost]
SHERIFF CALLS 911 ON BLACK DELIVERY DRIVER Activists are urging a Washington state sheriff to resign after he called 911 on a Black newspaper delivery driver, claiming the driver "threatened" to kill him. Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who is white, later recanted those details when speaking to police. [HuffPost] |
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