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7:05 PM ET, February 20, 2022

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U.S. Mission Russia / U.S. Embassy & Consulates …:
Security Alert  —  Event: According to media sources, there have been threats of attacks against shopping centers, railway and metro stations, and other public gathering places in major urban areas, including Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as in areas of heightened tension along the Russian border with 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.
New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Biden Warning on Russian Attack Was Prompted by New Intelligence  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Intelligence that the Kremlin ordered an invasion prompted the latest Biden warning, officials say.  —  U.S. intelligence learned last week that the Kremlin had given …
CNN:
New intel adds to US fears that Russia is readying for military action  —  Clarissa Ward on verifying info about Ukraine and Russia  —  (CNN)The US has intelligence indicating orders have been sent to Russian commanders to proceed with an attack on Ukraine, according to two US officials …
BBC:
Ukraine tensions: US sounds fresh alarm over Russia invasion fears  —  The US secretary of state has said the extension of Russian military drills in Belarus has made him more worried about an imminent invasion of Ukraine.  —  Antony Blinken said Moscow's decision to keep about 30,000 troops in Belarus …
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
U.S. has intel that Russian commanders have orders to proceed with Ukraine invasion
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden abruptly cancels Delaware trip after top level meeting on Ukraine crisis
Discussion: Washington Times
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘Joe Biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for Vladimir Putin’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Fox News
Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Russia-Ukraine outcome presents little upside for Biden, but ‘downside’ possible: Strategists
Discussion: Politico
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ukraine's president criticizes Western “appeasement” of Putin's aggression
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 …
Discussion: OCCRP
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The Guardian:
Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians  — Massive leak reveals secret owners of £80bn held in Swiss bank  — Whistleblower leaked bank's data to expose ‘immoral’ secrecy laws  — Clients included human trafficker and billionaire who ordered girlfriend's murder
Discussion: Associated Press
OCCRP:   Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients
Invitation / The Economist:
Alexander Gabuev writes from Moscow on why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war  —  Elites have hijacked Russia and conflated the country's interests with their own  —  ANYWHERE YOU turn in Moscow, it's easy to find members of the Russian elite who wonder why the West thinks that war …
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Washington Post:
Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward … He is the man with the very long table who seats world leaders and ministers at an almost comical distance.  He is a lone figure in a dark coat laying a wreath at a St. Petersburg cemetery or sitting solo in his Olympic viewing booth in Beijing.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Unreported Truths
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m  —  Ron DeSantis is backing a bill that would strip education funding from Democratic counties that retained Covid precautions  —  Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is backing a controversial proposal …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Harris declares ‘unity,’ while Zelenskyy accuses ‘appeasement’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  DIVISIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND UKRAINE — At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY delivered a speech peppered with criticism about the West's response …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senate cowards  —  It was exactly two years ago this month that a working single mom turned antipoverty activist from Wheeling, W.V., named Amy Jo Hutchison sat before a U.S. House committee on Capitol Hill …
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
Caitlin Byrd / The State:
Can Nancy Mace overcome the Trump factor in SC's GOP primary  —  Tonight Nancy Mace is not on TV.  —  The South Carolina congresswoman is back home, sitting on the gray plush sectional in her living room, sipping Trader Joe's sparkling red wine from a simple stemless glass.
 
 
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Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why the White House stopped telling the truth about inflation and corporate power
Discussion: Vox
Tim Graham / Newsbusters:
NY Times: CNN's PR Chief Was Helpfully Steering Andrew Cuomo Interviews
Discussion: Breitbart
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Spreading Selective Amnesia About January 6
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Democratic retirements imperil majority but make way for the left
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Blinken responds to Zelenskyy's plea: No sanctions until ‘bombs are actually dropping’
Discussion: RedState
ABC News:
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Discussion: RedState and The Hill
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CBC News:
No bail decision yet for Tamara Lich, convoy protest organizer
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