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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Biden is still willing to talk to Putin, Blinken says. — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Sunday that President Biden was still willing to talk to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia despite the U.S. government's assessment that Mr. Putin has already decided to invade Ukraine.
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John Harwood / CNN:
Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden — Fiona Hill doesn't know whether President Joe Biden can lead Western allies to ward off Russia's threat to Ukraine. But unlike his predecessor, he's trying.
Washington Post:
Zelensky rips the West for inaction as shellings make Russia-Ukraine war seem increasingly imminent — MUNICH — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky forcefully demanded stronger actions from world leaders as the threat of full-scale attack by Russia intensifies amid increased shelling …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘Joe Biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for Vladimir Putin’ — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted President Biden on Sunday for what he described as his enabling of Russia's aggression towards Ukraine, saying Biden's presidency was the “best thing” …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian State TV Is So Ridiculous Right Now It Looks Like a Farce
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Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and TASS
Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Russia-Ukraine outcome presents little upside for Biden, but ‘downside’ possible: Strategists
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New York Times:
Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies — Leaked data on more than 18,000 accounts shows that the Swiss bank missed or ignored red flags. — The client rosters of Swiss banks are among the world's most closely guarded secrets, protecting the identities …
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OCCRP:
Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients — Despite two decades of pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, data leaked from the bank reveals that it catered to dozens of criminals, dictators, intelligence officials, sanctioned parties and political actors with outsized wealth.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
The C.D.C. Isn't Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects — The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses. — For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations …
New York Times:
Mass Shooting at a Portland Protest Against Police Violence Leaves 1 Dead — Five other people were wounded, the police said. Few details about the shooting were immediately released. — PORTLAND, Ore. — One person was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting on Saturday night during …
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New York Times:
A Press Tour Turns Frantic in Ukraine As Russia-Backed Shelling Intensifies — As shelling intensified in eastern Ukraine, a seemingly routine press tour turned into a frantic rush to safety. — NOVOLUHANSKE, Ukraine — “Be calm,” Denis, the 28-year-old driver said, after several mortar shells landed on the road behind us.
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Luc Chenier / KyivPost:
Ukrainian President Makes Historic Speech in Munich (English Translation) — President Zelensky delivered an impassioned and forthright speech at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 19 - one of the most important of his political career and in Ukraine's history as an independent state.
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Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian forces stay in Belarus; Biden to convene NSC about invasion threat — The threat of full-scale invasion intensified Saturday amid shelling in Ukraine's eastern separatist regions, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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CBC News:
No bail decision yet for Tamara Lich, convoy protest organizer — Lich told court she has few assets and her bank accounts have been frozen — A second major organizer of the so-called Freedom Convoy will have to wait a few more days before an Ontario Court of Justice judge decides whether to grant her bail.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
PG INVESTIGATION | Shadowy money built steel empire — with bank's help — Months after Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partners abandoned an Ohio steel plant and left scores of workers without jobs, financial crime experts at Deutsche Bank shot up a troubling alert.
David Siders / Politico:
Republicans wince at Wisconsin GOP crack-up — MILWAUKEE — Timothy Ramthun's entry into Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary last weekend was the car wreck no one could look away from. — His campaign is built around the preposterous idea the 2020 election could still be overturned …
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Janon Fisher / Daily Mail:
Black female high school student is identified as vandal behind racist graffiti that saw Sacramento high school's water fountains scrawled with ‘white’ and ‘colored’ — The McClatchy High School student who scrawled the Jim Crow-era graffiti was not identified
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Trump's Truth Social app set for release Monday in Apple App Store, per executive … Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters …
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Miami Herald:
Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel, ex-Miami modeling agent, found dead in Paris jail — Jeffrey Epstein's former business partner and alleged accomplice in trafficking and sexually abusing girls, Jean-Luc Brunel, was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell, according to French authorities.
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Angela Charlton / Associated Press:
Modeling agent close to Epstein found dead in French jail
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