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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Lee Ann Colacioppo, the editor of The Denver Post, was on an afternoon planning call with her staff when news broke that that newspaper would have to cover yet another mass shooting. Matt Sebastian, the

Connecticut officials are expressing their outrage after a state representative downplayed racism against Asian Americans during a General Assembly committee meeting. Democratic Rep. Michael Winkler made his comments during a Planning and Development Committee meeting Monday. In an exchange with Greenwich Housing Authority board chairman Sam Romeo about why Greenwich doesn’t have a larger Black

A trip to the grocery store turned into a fight for survival at a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado. The shooter entered the store Monday afternoon and opened fire, killing 10 people — including the first Boulder police officer to arrive on the scene. While families agonized for hours waiting to learn the fate of

A residential assisted living center in New York caught fire and partially collapsed early Tuesday, leaving one resident dead and a firefighter missing in the rubble, officials said. The fire at the Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley, a suburb of New York City, began overnight and sent Rockland County firefighters streaming inside

Americans have been saying for a year they want to get back to normal. Tragically, they’re getting their wish. With the gradual return to public places comes a specter the country was all too willing to set aside as it grappled with a pandemic capable of killing thousands of Americans a day. Mass shootings are

Once again Americans are grieving over lives lost to another mass shooting. On Monday, 10 people, including a police officer, were killed at a Boulder, Colorado, King Soopers grocery store. Just six days ago, we began mourning the deaths of the eight people killed in Atlanta. Sadly, my family and I are no strangers to

After a year of living in a camper and caring for Covid-19 patients at a hospital, one doctor is finally home. Dr. Tiffany Osborn moved back in with her husband and two children in St. Louis, thanks to the Covid-19 vaccine. Osborn is a professor of surgery and emergency medicine at Washington University and she

From her home in Toronto, Vina Nadjibulla fields hundreds of emails, texts, and phone calls, all about the only person she really wants to hear from. Nadjibulla’s husband, Michael Kovrig, has been detained in China for more than two years, on espionage charges the Chinese government refuses to explain and Canada’s Prime Minister says are

Click here for updates on this story     COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KETV) — Velma McElderry has now lived through two pandemics. When she was just a toddler at 2 years old in 1918, she and her family made it through the global flu pandemic. Now at 104 years old, the Council Bluffs woman received her first

Exit polls following Israel’s fourth general election in under two years are pointing to another very close result, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comfortably on track to lead the largest party in parliament, but facing an anxious wait to see if his preferred coalition allies secure enough support to make building a new government straightforward.

In 2018, the city of Boulder, Colorado, passed a ban on the sale and possession of assault weapons and large capacity magazines. Earlier this month, a state district court judge blocked the city from enforcing its ban. On Monday, tragedy struck Boulder when a gunman opened fire in a supermarket, killing 10 people. Authorities have

When the call came in about someone at a grocery store possibly armed with “a patrol rifle,” Officer Eric Talley headed straight toward the danger. He was the first Boulder police officer to arrive at the King Soopers store Monday afternoon. The 51-year-old quickly lost his life trying to save others. As Colorado and the

Exit polls following Israel’s fourth general election in under two years are pointing to another very close result, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comfortably on track to lead the largest party in parliament, but facing an anxious wait to see if his preferred coalition allies secure enough support to make building a new government straightforward.