| Another mass shooting has left 10 dead in Boulder, Colorado; Israelis are going to the polls for the fourth time in two years. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gabby Birenbaum. | | | | | | | 10 killed in Colorado mass shooting | | | | | Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images | | - Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in a mass shooting Monday afternoon at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Police have a suspect in custody. [The Associated Press / Patty Nieberg and Thomas Piepert]
- Much of the shooting was live-streamed by witnesses. As customers were shopping around 2:30 pm local time, shots rang out. Some customers ran through the back of the store and escaped, while others hid in closets. [The Denver Post / Joe Rubino, Noelle Phillips, Elizabeth Hernandez, Shelly Bradbury, and Erica Hunzinger]
- Police said the suspect used an AR-15, an automatic rifle that has been used to devastating effect in several American mass shootings. Other than police officer Eric Talley, none of the victims' names have been released yet. [BBC News]
- The Boulder shooting comes in the wake of a mass shooting in Atlanta last week. In 2021, there have already been seven mass killings after numbers had been down in 2020 due to quarantine and stay-at-home orders. [USA Today / Dennis Wagner and John Bacon]
- The broader murder rate, however, rose sharply last year. Preliminary data from the FBI released last week shows a 25 percent increase from 2019. [Jeff Asher / New York Times]
- Gun control groups denounced the shooting as yet another senseless, tragic act. Groups such as Colorado Moms Demand Action called on lawmakers to strengthen gun laws. [CBS News / Brian Dakss]
- Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO), who represents Boulder, called on President Joe Biden to appoint a national director of gun violence prevention. The House recently passed two gun control bills that would expand background checks, which now face long odds in the Senate. [Colorado Politics / Ernest Luning]
- Just 10 days before the shooting, a 2018 Boulder ordinance that placed a ban on assault weapons was blocked by a state district court. [The Washington Post / Teo Armus]
- A Denver Post analysis from 2019 found that Colorado has experienced more mass shootings per capita than all but four other states, underscoring fears from state legislators about collective mass trauma. Cities like Columbine and Aurora have become synonymous with the tragic mass shootings that have occurred there. [The Denver Post / Alex Burness]
| | | Netanyahu's political future at stake in Israeli elections | | - For the fourth time in under two years, Israelis voted Tuesday in elections that will determine if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — or Bibi, as he's been nicknamed — will stay on in the position he has held since 2009. [The Atlantic / Jeffrey Goldberg]
- To form a government, Netanyahu and his allies will need to win 61 of the 120 seats in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. He has partnered with anti-LGBTQ, religious, and ultranationalist parties, meaning a victory would create a hard-right Israeli governing coalition likely to expand West Bank settlements. [NPR / Daniel Estrin]
- Netanyahu has a reputation for having nine lives, politically. While he is currently on trial for corruption charges, many Israelis credit him with the country's highly successful vaccination campaign, which has inoculated a higher percentage of its citizens (not including Palestinians) than any other country in the world. [Reuters / Jeffrey Heller]
- The election is happening because an emergency unity government, formed as a response to the pandemic by Netanyahu and centrist opposition leader Benny Gantz, broke down over budget disagreements. Gantz's deal with Netanyahu lost his party a lot of support — he was supposed to serve as prime minister after Netanyahu, but the breakdown triggered elections instead. [The Associated Press / Laurie Kellman]
- Experts say the race is too early to call, although exit polls suggest Netanyahu's bloc may have just enough votes for a governing coalition. A stalemate is still possible; for the opposition to have a chance, it would need to come up with a power-sharing agreement that would bring together centrists, leftists, hardline religious groups, and Arab parties. [Haaretz]
| | | | | | | Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was confirmed Monday as President Biden's secretary of labor. Here's some background on Walsh and the rest of Biden's Cabinet. | | | [Vox / Ella Nilsen] - Evanston, Illinois, is believed to be the first municipality in the nation to approve spending on reparations to Black residents. [The Chicago Tribune / Genevieve Bookwalter]
- Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) is calling on the NCAA to investigate the disparities between its men's and women's basketball tournaments after the women were provided with lower-quality facilities, food, and merchandise. [BuzzFeed News / Salvador Hernandez]
- In a House hearing over potential statehood for Washington, DC, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) argued the city did not deserve statehood because it did not have, among other things, a car dealership — which is not true. [The Wall Street Journal / Eliza Collins]
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