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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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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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Insider, The Times of Israel and The Guardian
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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The Hill and Washington Post
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 …
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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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 …
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TASS and New York Post
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
A country on the brink: The situation inside Ukraine as Russian forces loom
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Washington Post, Straight Talk Info … and Streams of Crunchiness
Financial Times:
Biden and Putin agree ‘in principle’ to Ukraine summit
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Washington Post:
Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward
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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
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
How Putin took Europe to the brink of war
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New York Post, Washington Post, CBS News and Comment is Freed
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘Joe Biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for Vladimir Putin’
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Fox News, POLITICUSUSA and CBS News
John Harwood / CNN:
Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden
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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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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 …
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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WTOP News, New York Times and OCCRP
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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