 THE BIG STORY
The latest updates on the supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado
On Monday, a shooter opened fire inside a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people.
The victims ranged in age from 20 to 65. They include a man who had only recently walked his daughter down the aisle at her wedding, an owner of a clothing store, a police officer and father of seven children, three supermarket employees working a Monday afternoon shift. Here is what we know about the victims.
Police have charged a 21-year-old man with 10 counts of murder. The suspect, identified as Ahmad Alissa of Arvada, a city 30 minutes from Boulder, was booked into Boulder County Jail after being held in a hospital undergoing treatment for a leg wound he sustained during a shootout with police.
Authorities said the suspect had spent much of his life in the US but did not say when he had arrived. The suspect’s older brother told the Daily Beast that he believed his brother has a mental illness. Here’s everything we know about the suspect.
President Joe Biden demanded that the Senate act on gun control following the Boulder shooting and last week’s shooting in Atlanta-area spas. Meanwhile, Republicans offered a new argument against stronger gun control: it’s racist. GOP senators framed gun control as part of a long and racist history of restricting the rights of minority groups.  A mourner visits the King Soopers grocery store where a gunman opened fire in Boulder, Colorado. Chet Strange / Getty Images STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
David Dobrik said he’ll “take a break” from social media in his second video addressing Vlog Squad sexual assault allegations
David Dobrik is one of the biggest YouTubers on the planet, and a key member of the content collective the Vlog Squad. Last week, Business Insider published an investigation alleging that former Vlog Squad member Dom Zeglaitis had raped a woman during filming for one of Dobrik’s vlogs.
Initially, in a video posted to his less popular podcast channel, Dobrik said he had “distanced himself” from several friends who had “disappointed” him, and swore he “doesn’t stand for any kind of misconduct.”
But after brands like HelloFresh and EA Sports severed their relationships with Dobrik and the Vlog Squad, Dobrik addressed the allegations more explicitly in a new apology video, admitting to being “completely disconnected” from the unfair power dynamic his channel created for those involved in its videos.  David Dobrik's first apology video. YouTube SNAPSHOTS
What the jurors in Derek Chauvin’s trial think about Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and the protests for George Floyd. A retired Black grandmother in her sixties. A white nurse in her fifties. Two Black men who immigrated to the US. Two single white mothers in their fifties. The 14 jurors in George Floyd’s murder trial were asked about some of the biggest issues in the US.
The Justice Department is investigating officials who talked to the press about the Capitol riot investigation. The department launched internal probes into a recent spate of apparently unauthorized comments to the media about the status of the investigation.
Taylor Swift and her mom donated $50,000 to a GoFundMe for a family whose father died of COVID-19. The GoFundMe was set up by a friend of the family of Theodis Ray Quarles, a Memphis man and father of five daughters, who died on Dec. 18 after falling ill with COVID-19. On Tuesday, a donation of $50,000 appeared on the fundraising page credited to Taylor and her mom. THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
I didn’t expect this book about a 1964 earthquake to help me through the pandemic
In March 1964, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake decimated Anchorage, Alaska. It led to over 100 deaths, and it remains the most powerful earthquake in US history. On that day, for those living in Anchorage, reality was upended.
Our books editor Arianna Rebolini wrote about This is Chance!, a 2020 book about the 1964 earthquake, told through the extraordinary story of Genie Chance, a broadcast journalist and mom who experienced what’s now known as the Great Alaskan earthquake while driving with her son.
Chance dropped her son off at home and immediately ran back out to investigate. Using her transistor radio, Chance started broadcasting from her car, and then set up a station at the Public Safety Building, which became an impromptu command center. She began not even an hour after that first quake, and continued for the next thirty.
Rebolini pulls the book’s threads together to reveal the lessons for living through the coronavirus pandemic.  Downtown Anchorage is seen minutes after a powerful earthquake in this image by Genie Chance. Courtesy of Jan Blankenship TAKING A STANCE
Asian celebrities are speaking out about their experiences and calling out anti-Asian hate
Last week, eight people were killed — six of whom were Asian women — after a shooter opened fire at multiple Atlanta-area spas.
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