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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US to evacuate Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion fears — WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is set to evacuate its embassy in Kyiv as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent. — U.S. officials said the State Department plans …
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Washington Post:
U.S. orders embassy in Kyiv to evacuate amid fears Russia will invade soon — KYIV, Ukraine — The U.S. State Department began evacuating staffers from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv Saturday, amid mounting warnings that Moscow could imminently launch an invasion of Ukraine, according …
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Kareem El Damanhoury / CNN:
US orders evacuation of most embassy staff in Ukraine as fears of a Russian invasion grow — (CNN)The United States has ordered the evacuation of most of its embassy staff in Ukraine as fears mount that a Russian invasion of the country could take place in the next few days.
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Reuters:
Biden and Putin to speak as Ukraine warnings mount … U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday as the United States and other Western nations warned a war in Ukraine could ignite at any moment. — Washington ordered some embassy staff …
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HotAir, The Times of Israel, New York Post, UPI and Agence France-Presse
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
US Embassy Employees Have Been Ordered To Evacuate Ukraine — US Embassy Employees will need to leave the country by Sunday, Feb. 13, two sources told BuzzFeed News. It's unclear whether some essential staff may remain in the country. — Copy — KYIV - The United States has taken …
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Jim Heintz / Associated Press:
Putin, Biden plan high-stakes phone call in Ukraine crisis
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Washington Post:
New intelligence suggests Russia plans a ‘false flag’ operation to trigger an invasion of Ukraine
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Terrell Jermaine Starr / Foreign Policy:
Why Progressives Should Help Defend Ukraine
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New York Times:
Police Set to Move In on Truckers Blocking Ontario Bridge: Canada Protest Updates — Officers began approaching the truckers, who have blocked traffic across the U.S. border at a critical juncture. In Paris, the authorities used tear gas on a copycat protest along the Champs-Élysées.
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BuzzFeed News:
A New Version Of The Mueller Report Reveals That Mueller Declined To Charge Donald Trump Jr. And Roger Stone With Computer Crimes — The Department of Justice released a new version of the Mueller report Friday afternoon that reveals for the first time that former special counsel Robert …
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The Daily Beast, emptywheel, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Vulnerable Democrats plan to run on kitchen-table issues, but some in party want voters focused on Trump, too — Democrats heading into turbulent reelection battles want to focus their campaigns on the bread-and-butter issues that appeal to swing voters, not Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Senate Dems left behind as party inches away from mask mandates — This week's Democratic memo that voters want a return to normalcy hasn't reached the party's Senate candidates. — Even as several blue-state governors dropped mask mandates — and the chair of the party's House campaign committee declared …
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Washington Post:
The TikTok buildup: Videos reveal Russian forces closing in on Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin and top Russian officials for months have been denying that Moscow is preparing to mount an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. But videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms tell another story.
CNN:
Archives threatened to go to Congress and Justice Department to get Trump to turn over records — (CNN)Worried that a trove of White House records that had been brought to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate contained classified material, a top official in the former President's orbit warned his aides last fall: Do not touch those boxes.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Slate, the Pioneering Web Magazine, Struggles to Find Identity and Profit — After high-profile departures, the publication is trying to find a new voice. — In early January, two days after an abrupt announcement that the top editor of Slate was stepping down, the publication's staff signed …
Ben Collins / NBC News:
As U.S. ‘trucker convoy’ picks up momentum, foreign meddling adds to fray — Facebook said Friday it removed trucker and convoy groups run by overseas actors. Many anti-vaccine and conspiracy-driven groups have moved to embrace convoy organizing. — There is growing momentum …
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Carol Anderson / The Guardian:
The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system — The court has approved or tolerated massive voter roll purges, extreme gerrymandering and election laws that have a disparate impact on minorities — he US supreme court, in a 5-4 decision …
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Portland mayor's top adviser proposed massive, militarized group shelters as step in ending homeless camping, records show — A top member of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's team has pitched creating as many as three massive, temporary homeless shelters staffed by Oregon National Guard members …
New York Times:
Selling Trump: A Profitable Post-Presidency Like No Other — Much as he did while in the White House, Donald Trump has thoroughly blurred the lines between his political ambitions and his business interests, with a wide-ranging set of moneymaking ventures. — In early December …
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine — After watching 100 hours of leaked video, we now fully grasp the danger of this ideology in schools. — Last spring we exposed how two elite independent schools in New York had become corrupted by a divisive obsession with race …
Washington Post:
Missile attacks fuel support for reversing U.S. stance and placing Yemen rebels back on terrorist blacklist — Expanded missile attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels have fueled support among some U.S. and Middle Eastern officials for placing them back on a U.S. terrorist blacklist …
Michael Weiss / New Lines Magazine:
In Kyiv, War is Both Remote and Ever-Present — As the West girds for an ‘imminent’ Russian offensive, Ukrainians are calm and resolved — Michael Weiss is news director at New Lines — “For a cyborg, you look remarkably human.” — Roman Kostenko smiles, realizing perhaps …
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U.S. Embassy Kyiv / U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Travel Advisory: Ukraine - Level 4: Do Not Travel
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Josh Hawley is being slammed as ‘grossly unfit’ for office — As international crises intensify, Josh Hawley is blocking Pentagon nominees. No wonder the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called him “grossly unfit” for office. — As 2021 got underway, Sen. Josh Hawley did not find himself in a good position.
New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: In Reversal, F.D.A. Delays Decision on Shots for Children Under 5 — The agency will wait for data on whether three doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid vaccine are effective in that age group before deciding whether to authorize a two-dose vaccine.
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Associated Press:
Utah senator blocks internment camp designation, draws ire — DENVER (AP) — On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onset of World War II, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting backlash for holding up the creation …
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