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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 …
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ukraine@war, Bloomberg and Politico
New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Russia's Top Diplomat Says Talks Are ‘Far From Exhausted’ as U.S. Warns of Continued Military Buildup
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin's impending ‘march of folly’ in Ukraine
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David K. Shipler / Washington Monthly:
How America's Broken Promises May Lead to a New Cold War
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Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Ukraine-Russia crisis: What to know as diplomacy steps up
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Ukraine's President Tries to Avert Panic as Pressure Mounts
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Buildup Near Ukraine Features Potent Weapons Systems, Well-Trained Troops
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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.
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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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
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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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trevor Noah to entertain at first White House Correspondents' Association dinner since 2019 — Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, will be the featured entertainer when the White House Correspondents' Association hosts its first annual dinner since 2019 on April 30, the association announced Monday.
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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.
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 …
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