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New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: France Pushes for Biden-Putin Meeting — President Biden has “agreed in principle” to meet the Russian leader if there is no invasion. Mr. Biden has stepped up his warnings about Moscow's plans after seeing evidence that an attack on Ukraine was imminent.
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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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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
There Are No Chamberlains in This Story — In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived home from a conference in Munich. He and other leaders had met with Hitler; they had agreed to allow the German army to annex a slice of Czechoslovakia; in exchange, Hitler offered more dialogue …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Blitzkrieg or Minor Incursion? Putin's Choice Could Determine World Reaction — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may be looking for fissures in the Western alliance, which so far has been united against him. — MUNICH — When President Biden declared on Friday he was convinced …
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Alexander Gabuev / 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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New York Times
John Harwood / CNN:
Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
A country on the brink: The situation inside Ukraine as Russian forces loom
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Washington Post:
Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden abruptly cancels Delaware trip after top level meeting on Ukraine crisis
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
U.S. has intel that Russian commanders have orders to proceed with Ukraine invasion
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘Joe Biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for Vladimir Putin’
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
How Putin took Europe to the brink of war
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Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian forces stay in Belarus; Biden to convene NSC about invasion threat
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Jessica Brandt / Brookings:
Preempting Putin: Washington's campaign of intelligence disclosures is complicating Moscow's plans for Ukraine
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Blinken responds to Zelenskyy's plea: No sanctions until ‘bombs are actually dropping’
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RedState
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
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 …
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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.
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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
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Alyssa Lukpat / New York Times:
Hank the Tank, a 500-Pound Bear, Ransacks a California Community — Paintballs, bean bags, sirens and Tasers cannot keep the “exceptionally large bear” from seeking leftover pizza and other food. Officials say he has broken into at least 28 homes since July.
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Insider
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
Inside NYC's skyrocketing anti-Asian violence: How hate speech led to hate crimes — Three days after US officials first used the term “China Virus” on a national news broadcast, a barrage of anti-Asian attacks began in New York City. — Within hours, two Asian Americans were separately assaulted …
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 …
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Mother Jones
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 …
Adam Johnson / The Column:
The Atlantic published 10X more articles lamenting school Covid protocols than it did on the sunsetting of a Tax Credit that threw 3.7M children back into poverty. — Despite their constant consternation over covid protocols and their effects on “the children”, The Atlantic has a limited framework for what harms to children matter.
Jerusalem Post:
Russian generals pray for peace at burial sites of Chabad rebbes — 15 Russian military men arrived to pray after hearing all prayers are answered at a Jewish cemetery in the small town of Lyubavichi. — Some 15 Russian generals prayed for peace last week at the Jewish cemetery in Lyubavichi …
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 …
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