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9:40 AM ET, February 21, 2022

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Washington Post:
U.S. claims Russia has list of Ukrainians ‘to be killed or sent to camps’ following a military occupation  —  The United States has informed the United Nations it has credible information showing that Moscow is compiling lists of Ukrainians “to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation …
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans to cut ties with targeted Russian banks if Ukraine is invaded - sources … President Joe Biden's administration has prepared an initial package of sanctions against Russia that includes barring U.S. financial institutions from processing transactions for major Russian banks …
Discussion: Insider and TASS
The Moscow Times:
Kremlin Says Talk of Putin-Biden Summit ‘Premature’  —  The Kremlin said Monday that it was “premature” to discuss a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. counterpart Joe Biden amid intensifying clashes in eastern Ukraine.  —  French President Emmanuel Macron's office …
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Speaks as He Holds Meeting With National Security Officials
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden abruptly cancels Delaware trip after top level meeting on Ukraine crisis
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why the White House stopped telling the truth about inflation and corporate power
Discussion: Vox
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Havana Syndrome: High-level national security officials stricken with unexplained illness on White House grounds  —  Since 2016, U.S. government officials overseas and their families have reported sudden, unexplained, brain injuries with symptoms of vertigo, confusion and memory loss.
Discussion: Insider, Bob's Newsletter and HuffPost
Mary Kekatos / ABC News:
Who is dying of COVID?  It's still mainly the unvaccinated  —  Recent CDC data shows unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die.  —  When the recent COVID-19 wave fueled by the omicron variant hit the U.S., no one expected it would lead to the number of deaths it did.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
The C.D.C. Isn't Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
How Donald Trump Played Himself  —  Donald Trump has survived multiple investigations by following the same playbook: blasting them as “witch hunts” and refusing to testify under oath.  His strategy backfired last week, as a New York state judge ordered him and two of his children to sit for depositions in 21 days.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Associated Press:
Mexico to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: At least our presidential candidates accept defeat  —  Mexico's president and U.S. ambassador needle Texas senator over Donald Trump's ongoing lies about 2020 election after Cruz claims ‘deepening civil unrest in Mexico.’  —  MEXICO CITY — Sen. Ted Cruz …
Discussion: HuffPost, Townhall and The Hill
Alexander Zaitchik / New York Magazine:
This Is How Big Pharma Wins  —  Two years into the pandemic, the industry has evaded reforms a supermajority of voters want.  —  On September 19, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Elijah Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act.  The bill, known as H.R. 3, was a shot across the bow …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats are engaged in a ‘new politics of evasion’ that could cost them in 2024, new study says … Three decades ago, Democratic policy analysts William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck published a bracing critique of their party, warning against a “politics of evasion” that they said ignored electoral reality …
Discussion: Althouse
Christopher Newport University:
Voters would cut grocery tax; require vaccines for first responders, teachers, medical pros but not for students; keep teaching impact of racism on society, not ban CRT  —  Summary of Key Findings  — A majority of Virginia voters prefer spending the state budget surplus …
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
This ‘Could Kill Far More Afghans Than the Past 20 Years of War’  —  Ninety-five percent of Afghans don't have enough to eat.  Nearly nine million are at risk of starvation.  The U.N.'s emergency aid request, at more than $5 billion, is the largest it has ever made for a single country.
Melissa Holzberg DePalo / CNN:
The money race in two incumbent vs. incumbent primaries is heating up — and Trump's endorsements haven't helped  —  (CNN)Republican candidates across the country are vying for former President Donald Trump's endorsement to help shore up campaign funds and excite the GOP base.
Washington Post:
Education, traditionally a strength, has Democrats on their heels  —  Minutes after Democrat Stacey Abrams announced her candidacy for Georgia governor, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp made clear he would put education at the center of his campaign to keep his job.
Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive  —  In Spokane, Wash., home prices jumped 60 percent in the past two years.  The increase is fueled by buyers fleeing the boom in cities like Austin.  Who will have to flee next?  —  Maybe it was the date night when he and his wife spent …
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
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OCCRP:   Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen  —  Lawsuits from white farmers have blocked $4 billion of pandemic aid that was allocated to Black farmers in the American Rescue Plan.  —  Alan Rappeport covers economic policy issues for The Times.
 
 
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Jon King / Michigan Advance:
GOP attorney general hopefuls seek to overturn landmark contraception law, want election ‘audit’
Samy Magdy / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Breitbart
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Munich: The Edge of Nonsense
Discussion: Power Line
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden Administration Halts New Drilling in Legal Fight Over Climate Costs
Discussion: HuffPost
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
Inside NYC's skyrocketing anti-Asian violence: How hate speech led to hate crimes
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Jerusalem Post:
Russian generals pray for peace at burial sites of Chabad rebbes
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Spreading Selective Amnesia About January 6
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Democratic retirements imperil majority but make way for the left
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m
Discussion: Mother Jones
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senate cowards
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

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

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
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