Federal flags to return to half staff in honor of Boulder victims just hours after Atlanta commemoration ends
President Biden on Tuesday ordered flags on federal property to once again be flown at half staff to honor the victims of a mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday.
Soberingly, flags had been raised just hours before the news of Biden's order after flying at half staff to commemorate the victims of a series of shootings in the Atlanta area last week, for which a suspect has been charged with killing eight people at two spas and a massage parlor.
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talking pointsLivestreaming an execution: cruelty or added deterrent?
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QUOTE OF THE DAY‘You don’t get to take a man from his family. You don’t get to take his very life, his whole future from him, and just walk away from it. Especially when that man is Tupac Shakur.’
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today’s big questionCan a Democrat win the Texas governor’s race?
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