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Sen. Rand Paul came to Louisville Friday to again discuss gun violence in the city and to present community activist Christopher 2X with an official copy of an entry he made in the Congressional Record featuring areport from 2X's Game Changers group.

Thereport detailshow gun violence impacts children.

Paul entered Game Changers' report into the Congressional Record a year ago, in March 2020, and originally wanted to publicly give 2X a framed copy of it last year. The pandemic delayed those plans, but they finally came together Friday morning at the Galt House Hotel.

"I'm a 'glass is half-full' kind of guy," Kentucky's junior senator said. "I know this hasn't been an easy year in Louisville and there continue to be problems, but as we look at the problems, you know, I want to see the glass half-full. I want to see how we fix problems.

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"The answers aren't always easy," Paul continued. "How do you fix violence in Louisville? How do you fix violence in America? ... This is an ongoing problem. But I think we need people with optimism, and I think Chris has that optimism."

Christopher 2X speaks during an appearance with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on March 19, 2021. Both were on hand at the Galt House East in Louisville to talk about gun violence and its effects on youth.(Photo: Pat McDonogh / Courier Journal)

2X thanked Paul and also announced an academic group wants to use Game Changers' report for a curriculum for grade-school kids concerning this public health crisis and the need for early intervention with children instead of waiting until they hit high school.

"So, not only has this report been entered into the U.S. Congressional Record, but it's still got legs to it," 2X said.

After presenting 2X with a copy of the Congressional Record entry Friday, Paul also joined a private conversation with local community advocates to learn more about GroupViolence Intervention, a policy approach aimed at reducing such violence.

Russell Coleman, a Game Changers board member and former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, led that discussion Friday and also spoke at that morning's press conference about how the nonprofit's report on violence's impact on childrenis about listening.

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"This report is about listening to voices that oftentimes are not heard," he said."It's about listening to what the impact is to those numbers that tend to wash over us."

"Listening it's not about R's or D's.It's going to neighborhoods where we have not listened," he said."It's about humbling ourselves and saying,'We have to do a better job.'"

Before Paul sat down for a private talk with Coleman and others about gun violence,hetook questions from journalists about various issues, includinghis tense exchange Thursday with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government's top infectious diseases expert.

Paul said he has lost friends toCOVID-19 and recognizes it's a serious disease. He wants to encourage people to get the coronavirus vaccine, because it's effective, but argued they shouldn't have to wear a mask once they've been immunized.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people who've previously been infected with COVID-19, as well as those who've been vaccinated against the virus, still should wear masks in public for now.

Paul, who caught the coronavirus last year, has not worn a mask on the Senate floor or at other public events, including his appearance in Louisville this week.

"If Dr. Fauci comesup with evidence that shows me that some new variant is here and thousands of people are dying and ... our hospitals are overrun with people who have already had it (COVID-19) or been vaccinated, then we should listen to him," Paul said Friday.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., answers questions from he media following a press conference in Louisville on March 19, 2021.(Photo: Pat McDonogh / Courier Journal)

"...But until that day happens, I think we really shouldn't live in fear," he told reporters.

Kentucky officials announced this week that someone who'd been vaccinated was hospitalized in the state after an outbreak of a new COVID-19 variant at a nursing home.

When The Courier Journal asked him about that Friday, Paul said: "I think there are exceptions to every rule, and what I'm looking for is something that is a public health concern."

Paul also said Friday: "And I think Dr. Fauci is probably well-intended, but he is I think he's overkill. I mean, he needs to dial it back a little bit."

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Symone Arends, a senior forensic science major from Lincoln, shines an ultraviolet light onto the floor, searching for body fluids and fibers that glow when viewed through an orange filter.

Arends is working a mock crime scene in a basement room in Filley Hall as part of a Forensic Science 485 capstone project. The course is divided into two options for students: a crime scene investigation track that works the mock crime scene, and a biochemistry track that processes samples and evidence collected. The class concludes with a mock trial.

The forensic science program is offered through the University of NebraskaLincoln's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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TOMS RIVER, NJ An Atlantic County man sought in a stabbing at the Howard Johnson motel on Hooper Avenue has been arrested in Atlantic City, authorities said Friday.

Carles Bryant, 34, of Millville, is being held at the Ocean County Jail on an attempted murder charge in the stabbing of a woman on March 3 at the motel, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Toms River Police Chief Mitchell Little said Friday.

Bryant had been a fugitive since the stabbing; he was arrested Friday by the United States Marshals Service without incident, authorities said. He is being held at the jail pending a detention hearing.

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The woman was stabbed during a fight in the lobby at the motel about 10:30 p.m. on March 3, authorities said. Toms River police found the woman unresponsive with multiple stab wounds to the head, face, and body; she was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where she was treated for her injuries. She has since been released from the hospital, authorities said.

Detectives from the prosecutor's office and the Toms River police department were able to identify Bryant as the assailant, officials said, and an arrest warrant was issued. He has been charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, unlawful possession of a weapon, and contempt.

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Billhimer and Little acknowledged the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office Major Crime Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor's Office High Tech Crime Unit, Toms River Township Police Department Detective Bureau, Toms River Township Police Department, United States Marshals Service, New Jersey State Police, and Ocean County Sheriff's Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, "for their collective perseverance in connection with this investigation leading to Carles' apprehension."

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Over the past five years, ideas from the left particularly on race, gender and the economy have become increasingly influential within the broader Democratic Party. But there has also been a growing backlash on the right against what some Republicans refer to as woke ideology and cancel culture.

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with senior writer Perry Bacon Jr. about his recent reporting on the ideas that have gained currency on the left and how the right has responded to them.

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To millions of Americans, how much meat one does or doesn't consume is merely a dietary choice; to some far-right culture warriors, meat consumption is a political statement. And Colorado, according to Politico contributor Nick Bowlin, has becomeGround Zero in the meat battleas right-wingers rail against Democratic Gov. Jared Polis for declaring March 20MeatOut Dayin the western state.

Polis isn't demanding that Colorado residents give up meat entirely or even for a week. Rather, he is urging them to refrain from eating it for one day, and even that is a request not a command. Restaurants in Colorado will still be free to sell beef, pork or chicken on March 20.

But to far-right Colorado talk radio hosts like Dan Caplis and Ross Kaminsky (both on Denver's KHOW-AM 630), Polis isn't merely making a request he is assaulting Colorado's core values. Caplis, Bowlin notes in an article published by Politico on March 17, has described the governor's request as a "traitorous attack" that is "vicious and callous."

Republican politicians are throwing a hissy fit as well.Colorado State Sen. Jerry Sonnenbergsaid of Polis, "We can't have leadership in this state throw the number two industry in this state under the bus." And U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a QAnon supporter who was elected via Colorado's 3rdCongressional District in 2020, is calling for a "statewide BBQ on March 20."

Bowlin explains, "Food has long been a front in the culture wars, and no option on the menu has been more fraught over the past several decades than beef which holds a singular spot in the iconography of the American diet and even the myth of frontier expansion. But a long-term slide in beef consumption has put the industry on the defensive. In Colorado, that perceived threat to one of its dominant economic sectors has been exacerbated by a rapidly shifting political landscape that features a widening divide between the rural, often red parts of the state and the bluer, booming metro areas on the Front Range of the Rockies, where economic and political power is increasingly concentrated."

Despite his support for MeatOut Day, Polis is not a militant vegan. In fact, Polis himselfeats meat, although his partner, Marlon Reis, is a vegan and an animal rights activist.

And Bowlin points out that that Colorado governor "has largely tried to move on from the Meatless Day ruckus, which he has framed as blown out of proportion."

But Colorado's right, according to Bowlin, will latch onto any Culture War issues it can find as the state continues to trend Democratic.

Kenneth Bickers, who teaches political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, told Politico, "Colorado is increasingly a blue state.. The state as a whole has been trending in a blue direction for more than ten years."

Bickers cited the MeatOut Day controversy as an example of Colorado Republicans turning to Culture War issues to rally their base.

"It's a cultural symbol," Bickers told Politico. "Both parties have symbols. Symbols are powerful."

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