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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.
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
U.S. has intel that Russian commanders have orders to proceed with Ukraine invasion — Washington — The U.S. has intelligence that Russian commanders have received orders to proceed with an invasion of Ukraine, with commanders on the ground making specific plans for how they would maneuver …
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.
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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Fox News and POLITICUSUSA
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian State TV Is So Ridiculous Right Now It Looks Like a Farce — The TV propaganda has taken a farcical turn with Kremlin insiders begging President Biden not to start a vicious war in Ukraine. No mention of the Russian tanks. — Anyone who might be watching exclusively Russian state television …
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Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and TASS
Washington Post:
Zelensky rips the West for inaction as shellings make Russia-Ukraine war seem increasingly imminent
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The National Interest, HotAir, CNN, ABC13, The Moderate Voice, Politico, New York Times and CNBC
Washington Post:
Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward
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Agence France-Presse
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ukraine's president criticizes Western “appeasement” of Putin's aggression
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Morning Shots and RedState
Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Russia-Ukraine outcome presents little upside for Biden, but ‘downside’ possible: Strategists
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Politico
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
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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 …
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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The Gateway Pundit
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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OPB, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Insider, WTOP News and Associated Press
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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Insider, Progress Pond, Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and New York Times
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 Sacks / Common Sense:
A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada — Justin Trudeau just created a caste of economic untouchables. Can we stop this dystopian policy from taking hold in America? — Writes Bottom Up by David Sacks · Subscribe — Last summer, I warned readers of Common Sense …
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 2-20-22: Secretary Lloyd Austin — A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, February 20, 2022 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors.
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