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12:10 PM 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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New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Russia's Top Diplomat Says Talks Are ‘Far From Exhausted’ as U.S. Warns of Continued Military Buildup
David K. Shipler / Washington Monthly:
How America's Broken Promises May Lead to a New Cold War
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Why a Russian invasion of Ukraine would hurt Americans too
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
David Gilbert / VICE:
Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors  —  GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night.  —  DG  —  The Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax …
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 …
Discussion: CNN
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J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:   The Conservative Case for Reforming the Electoral Count Act
Abraham Riesman / Vulture:
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses  —  As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his spectacles.  —  Okay, so here's the thing," Art Spiegelman says into the phone as he paces his cavernous Soho studio, humming with anxiety. “  I don't know what happened.
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.
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 …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump pushes back at those saying he's lost grip on GOP  —  Former President Trump is asserting his role as a Republican kingmaker, pushing back against claims from some corners of the GOP that his influence within the party is waning.  —  In a statement on Sunday, Trump insisted that the 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 …
Discussion: HotAir
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Bloomberg:
Trudeau to Invoke Emergency Powers in Response to Protests  —  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke emergency powers in response to protests in Canada's capital city that have entered their 18th day, according to the nation's public broadcaster.  —  Trudeau will inform provincial premiers …
Discussion: CBC News
Washington Post:
‘Larry and I will always be together’: Joe Manchin's closest political ally cashes in on senator's rise  —  A longtime friend of the West Virginia senator has a growing lobbying business in Washington as companies seek to understand and influence the key lawmaker
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Washington Post:   Meet Joe Manchin's right-hand man turned lobbyist
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
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Scooby Axson / USA Today:
Sha'Carri Richardson: Difference between her and Kamila Valieva's cases 'is I'm a black young lady'  —  Russia's Kamila Valieva allowed to continue competing at the Games  —  U.S. track and field star Sha'Carri Richardson questioned why a Russian figure skater was allowed to compete …
 
 
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
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Wall Street Journal:
Manchin Pushes Democrats to Revisit Tax-Rate Hikes, Sinema Could Present a Roadblock
Discussion: Insider
New York Times:
The Quiet Flight of Muslims From France
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Why Progressives Can't Quit Their Masks
Discussion: HotAir
Stanley B. Greenberg / American Prospect:
Democrats, Speak to Working-Class Discontent
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New York Times:
Woman Followed and Fatally Stabbed in Her Chinatown Apartment
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Dr. Deborah Birx, COVID adviser under Trump, has a book deal
Discussion: Washington Examiner
ABC News:
Pelosi seeks to bury ‘defund the police’: The Note
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Tina Reed / Axios:
The U.S. needs a COVID forecast
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No One Is Taking a Knee on Sunday
Washington Post:
U.S.-Canada border crossing reopens after six-day blockade by ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters
 

 
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Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

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