Everyone knows that New York is a solidly Democratic state. And no one expects Mitt Romney to contest let alone win it. But I noticed something kind of odd when I was looking at the PollTracker averages this evening on TPM’s Electoral Scoreboard. New York is not only the strongest state for Obama. It appears to be far and away the strongest state for any candidate, with the exceptions of Utah, Vermont and West Virginia. Read More
The picture of James Eagan Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people and wounding another 59 in a Colorado movie theater massacre, is only starting to emerge.
Here’s what we know now.
Still piecing together the background of the alleged gunman in Denver.
Police continue to disarm the alleged shooter’s booby-trapped apartment: “We could be here for hours. We could be here for days… The pictures are pretty disturbing. It looks pretty sophisticated in terms of how it’s been booby trapped.”
Police have lowered the death toll from 14 to 12 and identified the alleged gunman in the overnight shooting in Denver. Those and other ongoing developments here.
A total of 14 people were killed overnight in a shooting at the premiere of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, in Aurora, Colo., which is suburban Denver. The movie opens in theaters nationwide today, and the Century Aurora 16 theater was showing it on four screens just after midnight when the shooting occurred. A suspect was immediately apprehended. Another 50 people were injured. Get the latest.