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10:30 AM ET, February 14, 2022

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Washington Post:
Putin leaves a door to diplomacy open, as European, U.S. leaders race to defuse Ukraine crisis  —  MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday left the door open to further talks with Western leaders on his efforts to end NATO's open door policy, when his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov …
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Financial Times:
Putin leaves the west guessing as Ukraine crisis intensifies … A comically large table separated Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron last week after the French president flew to Moscow for crisis talks aimed at averting a war in Ukraine.  —  The official explanation for the yawning distance …
Discussion: ukraine@war, Bloomberg and Politico
David K. Shipler / Washington Monthly:
How America's Broken Promises May Lead to a New Cold War
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Ukraine-Russia crisis: What to know as diplomacy steps up
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Ukraine's President Tries to Avert Panic as Pressure Mounts
Discussion: KyivPost
Wall Street Journal:
Why Russian Invasion Peril Is Driving Oil Prices Near $100
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's latest political obsession: The baseball team owner not toeing his line  —  Donald Trump has a new fixation: a Major League Baseball scion who hails from one of the country's richest families — and who, unlike most other Republican Senate candidates, isn't bowing to the former president.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
The Right's Would-Be Kingmaker  —  Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump's biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.  —  Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles, covers the intersection of technology and power.
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle  —  Two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, it's easy to lament all that has come to pass.  The devastating losses.  The upending of what we regarded as normal ways of life.  The sheer relentlessness of it all.  —  But let's stop for a moment …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A staunch conservative's urgent warning to the GOP about Trump and 2024  —  Donald Trump is telling us exactly how he intends to rerun his coup attempt, should the conditions align for it in 2024.  He regularly flaunts his view that attempting to overturn his 2020 loss was the correct thing to do …
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J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:   The Conservative Case for Reforming the Electoral Count Act
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The MAGA fixation with chaos overrides ‘America First’  —  Once upon a time, the Republican Party stressed social order, the rule of law and capitalism as a vehicle to deliver widespread prosperity.  More recently, the MAGA crowd insisted it wanted an “America First” policy.  Forget all that.
Melissa Weiss / Jewish Insider:
AOC bemoans ‘cancel culture’ that fired Marc Lamont Hill for ‘from the river to the sea’ comments  —  The commentator was let go from CNN following comments made at a United Nations event in 2018  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
John Eastman claims attorney-client privilege over thousands of pages sought by Jan. 6 investigators  —  Attorney John Eastman, a close ally of Donald Trump amid his effort to subvert the 2020 election, has attempted to shield more than 10,000 pages of emails and counting from congressional investigators …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Most Democrats want Hillary Clinton investigated for any role in Russiagate scandal: poll  —  A surprisingly large share of Democrats wants to see Hillary Clinton investigated over her possible role in manufacturing dirt to try to tie Donald Trump to the Kremlin, a new poll shows.
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Jennifer Sey / Common Sense:
Yesterday I Was Levi's Brand President.  I Quit So I Could Be Free.  —  I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.  —  When I traveled to Moscow in 1986, I brought 10 pairs of Levi's 501s in my bag.  I was a 17-year-old gymnast, the reigning national champion …
Discussion: New York Post
New York Times:
Woman Followed and Fatally Stabbed in Her Chinatown Apartment  —  Christina Yuna Lee was a creative producer at a digital music platform.  The 25-year-old man arrested in her killing had a record of misdemeanor arrests.  —  A 35-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside …
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
Washington Post:
U.S.-Canada border crossing reopens after six-day blockade by ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters  —  The Ambassador Bridge is the countries' busiest land border crossing and a key supply route  —  A subheadline in an earlier version of this article incorrectly said Ottawa is Ontario's capital.
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David Pugliese / Ottawa Citizen:
Two members of military counter-terrorism unit under investigation for allegedly taking part in convoy protests
Discussion: Reuters and HuffPost
Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press:
Ivan Reitman, producer, ‘Ghostbusters’ director, dies at 75  —  Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the late 20th century, from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died.  He was 75.  —  Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Dr. Deborah Birx, COVID adviser under Trump, has a book deal  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Deborah Birx has a memoir coming out this spring that will focus on her contentious time as White House coronavirus task force coordinator in the administration of President Donald Trump.
 
 
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
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Stanley B. Greenberg / American Prospect:
Democrats, Speak to Working-Class Discontent
Discussion: Salon
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
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Discussion: WTOP News
ABC News:
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Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Tina Reed / Axios:
The U.S. needs a COVID forecast
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
‘Survival mode’: Inflation falls hardest on low-income Americans
Alan Suderman / Associated Press:
Ransomware gang says it has hacked 49ers football team
Discussion: UPI, The Hill, Washington Examiner and ZDNet
Eriq Gardner / Puck:
No One Is Taking a Knee on Sunday
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Pennsylvania Senate race: Dave McCormick to air 'Let's Go Brandon' ad during Super Bowl
Charles Robinson / Yahoo Sports:
Book: Donald Trump said Bill Belichick ‘chickened out’ in rejecting Freedom medal and they later made up at a golf course
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and New York Post
Billings Gazette:
Guest opinion: A letter from Marc Racicot to current GOP chair
Robert H. Lande / Insider:
America's richest companies are using the pandemic as an excuse to jack up prices
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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