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.
You can’t draw a lot from a single poll. But today’s Quinnipiac poll showing Romney and Obama dead even in Virginia pushed it back into toss-up territory in the TPM Electoral Scoreboard. And I flag it now because for a while now I’ve thought that Virginia is the pivotal state in this year’s election. Read More
Obama and Biden having lunch shortly after the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare.
Through the last week of tax return follies, Mitt Romney has repeatedly stated that he’s released two years of tax returns and he’ll release no more. In fact, he’s yet to release even a single complete tax return. He filed for an extension for his 2011 returns and says he’ll release the final returns later this year when he files them. The 2010 return was actually incomplete. And what was left out points toward a question that a lot of reporters and tax experts have been wondering about but have been surprisingly reticent to discuss publicly. Read More