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- Washington Post, Buffalo shooting suspect wrote of plans months ago, online messages show
- New York Times, Buffalo Live Updates: Accused Gunman in Buffalo Planned to Attack Second Target
- New York Times, F.D.A. and Abbott Reach Agreement on Baby Formula to Try to Ease Shortage
- Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Ukraine ends bloody battle for Mariupol, evacuates fighters in steel plant
- New York Times, Among President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, only Belarus supports him on Ukraine
Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Sweden to make NATO bid as military exercises begin- Politico, NATO officials ‘confident’ on Swedish, Finnish membership bids despite Turkish reservations
- New York Times, Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Hundreds of Ground Forces Into Somalia
More On U.S. Media, Race, Shootings
Washington Post, Biden to head to Buffalo, in mourning, after gunman kills 10- Washington Post, Racist ‘great replacement’ theory a popular refrain among Carlson, Ingraham and Coulter, Paul Farhi
- New York Times, Representative Liz Cheney said Republican leaders have “enabled white nationalism”
- Washington Post, Opinion: How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness, Greg Sargent
- Associated Press via Politico, Authorities: Hate against Taiwanese led to church attack
- CNN, Karine Jean-Pierre holds first briefing as White House press secretary
More On Ukraine War
New York Times, Growing evidence of a military disaster on the Donets pierces a pro-Russian bubble- New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Setbacks in Ukraine’s East Force Russia to Shift Its Ambitions
- New York Times, Estonia’s Tough Voice on Ukraine Urges No Compromise With Vladimir Putin
Washington Post, McDonald’s seeks to sell Russian business that is ‘no longer tenable’- Politico, Sweden’s governing party backs NATO membership
- Washington Post, Ukraine Updates: Blinken discusses Ukraine military aid; Finland confirms NATO bid
U.S. Law, Courts, Security
- Politico Magazine, Landmark law for California women gets shut down in court
- Washington Post, Women settle lawsuit against Liberty University
- Sinclair Broadcasting via WKRC-TV (Cincinnati), Former Clinton campaign lawyer in court for special counsel John Durham's probe
- Fox News, Jury selected in Durham-Sussmann trial: Opening arguments, testimony from Democratic lawyer Marc Elias to come
- New York Times, Trump-Era Prosecutor’s Case Against Democratic-Linked Lawyer Goes to Trial
- CNN, Who's who in the Michael Sussmann trial, Marshall Cohen
- Politico, Opinion: John Durham Has Already Won, Ankush Khardori
- Washington Post, State constitutions loom as the next front in abortion battle
U.S. Politics, Governance, Economy
- New York Times, Jeff Bezos Battles With President Biden Online Over Taxes
- Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Democrats on campaign trails must be wary of what they eat or drink at public events, Wayne Madsen
- New York Times, G.O.P. Senate Candidate in North Carolina Thrives as 2 Key Backers Squabble
Pro-Trump Capitol Insurrection, Elections Claims
- Washington Post, Leading GOP candidates in Pennsylvania were in Washington on Jan. 6
- Daily Beast, GOP Senate Candidate Kathy Barnette Spotted Marching With Proud Boys on Jan. 6
World News, Human Rights, Disasters
New York Times, Taking Aim at Left-Leaning Voters, Macron Names a Woman Prime Minister- Washington Post, Opinion: The tragedy of ISIS fighters’ families left behind in Syria, David Ignatius
Virus Victims, Responses- New York Times, How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 1,026,899- Washington Post, 220.6 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated
Climate, Environment, Disasters
- New York Times, Here Are the Wildfire Risks to Homes Across the Lower 48 States
More On Media, Sports
- Washington Post, Opinion: Democracy is at stake in the midterms. The media must convey that, Margaret Sullivan
- Mediaite, WHCA Threatens Reporter Who Interrupted Psaki Briefing With Possible Expulsion in Scathing Email
Top Stories
Law enforcement authorities said Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old White man, approached the store in a predominantly Black neighborhood and opened fire on shoppers and employees, shooting 13 people including a security guard, Aaron Salter Jr., shown above in a file photo. Authorities gave this account: The gunman, who was heavily armed and wearing tactical gear, used a camera to live-stream the attack and shot several victims in the parking lot before entering the store. The grocery’s longtime security guard, a retired policeman, fired back, but the gunman’s body armor blocked the shot and the guard was killed.
Washington Post, Buffalo shooting suspect wrote of plans months ago, online messages show, Jon Swaine and Dalton Bennett, May 17, 2022 (print ed.). A review of more than 600 pages of messages by The Washington Post found that Payton Gendron decided in February to target Buffalo’s Tops grocery store based on its local African American population.
Payton Gendron, right, the 18-year-old accused of killing 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday, wrote in increasing detail of his plans to murder dozens of Black people in statements posted online over the past five months, according to a compilation of messages by a writer who identified himself as Gendron.A review of more than 600 pages of messages by The Washington Post found that Gendron resolved in December to kill those he slurred as “replacers,” and decided in February to target Buffalo’s Tops grocery store based on its local African American population. In March, he performed a reconnaissance-style trip to monitor the store’s security and map out its aisles, the messages show. When a store guard confronted him about why he had repeatedly entered that day, Gendron made excuses and fled in what he described as “a close call,” the messages state.
Having identified the supermarket as “attack area 1,” Gendron detailed two additional Buffalo locations as areas at which to “shoot all blacks,” according to the messages, which showed that he had charted routes to each location, worked out the times needed for each shootout and assessed that more than three dozen people in all could be fatally shot.
New York Times, Buffalo Updates: Accused Gunman in Buffalo Planned to Attack Second Target, Jesse McKinley, May 17, 2022 (print ed.). The city’s police commissioner said the man who killed 10 people in Saturday’s supermarket massacre intended to continue his shooting spree. The accused gunman in the mass shooting in Buffalo had planned a prolonged massacre after attacking a Tops supermarket Saturday, according to the Buffalo police commissioner, who said that the attacker wanted “to continue his rampage.”The commissioner, Joseph A. Gramaglia, told CNN on Monday morning that the suspect had spoken “about possibly going to another store,” after Tops, potentially turning his fire on “another large superstore.”
New York Times, F.D.A. and Abbott Reach Agreement on Baby Formula to Try to Ease Shortage, Christina Jewett, May 17, 2022 (print ed.). The company said if the agency approved reopening the plant, production could resume and store shelves would be restocked within several weeks.The Food and Drug Administration on Monday reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories on the steps needed to reopen the company’s shuttered baby formula plant, which could begin to ease the shortage of infant formula that has frightened and exasperated parents nationwide.
The F.D.A. said it expected Abbott to restart production in about two weeks, and was poised to review progress at the plant in Sturgis, Mich. It has been shut down since February after several babies who had consumed formula that had been produced there fell ill and two died.
The agreement stems from a U.S. Department of Justice complaint and consent decree with the company and three of its executives. Those court records say the F.D.A. found a deadly bacteria, called cronobacter, in the plant in February and the company found more tranches of the bacteria later that month.
According to the complaint, the same Sturgis factory had also produced two batches of formula in the summer of 2019 and 2020 on different production equipment that tested positive for the bacteria.
Abbott staff “have been unwilling or unable to implement sustainable corrective actions to ensure the safety and quality of food manufactured for infants,” leading to the need for legal action, the documents state.
In a release, Abbott said “there is no conclusive evidence to link Abbott’s formulas to these infant illnesses.”
The company said on Monday that production could begin within about two weeks and could translate to more formula on shelves in six to eight weeks. The company said it will continue flying formula in from a plant in Ireland.
As frustration at the crib side and in grocery aisles grew, the agency has been in a race to replenish depleted supplies that have become political fodder for Republicans against the Biden administration.
Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Ukraine ends bloody battle for Mariupol, evacuates fighters in steel plant, Rachel Pannett and Reis Thebault, May 17, 2022. Hundreds of fighters sheltering in Mariupol’s Azovstal plant (shown above) were evacuated to Russian-held territory ...
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