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7:20 AM ET, February 26, 2022

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Peter Alexander / NBC News:
One of Russia's closest allies denies request for troops  —  Kazakhstan, one of Russia's closest allies and a southern neighbor, is denying a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine, officials said Friday.  —  Additionally, the former Soviet republic said it is not recognizing …
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Washington Post:
U.S. stands ready to evacuate Zelensky, Russia's ‘target No. 1’  —  The U.S. government is prepared to help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leave Kyiv to avoid being captured or killed by advancing Russian forces, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.  But so far, the president has refused to go.
Dasha Litvinova / Associated Press:
Protests resume as Russia seeks to quash invasion critics  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Protesters took to the streets in Moscow, St. Petersburg and across Russia on Friday to decry the invasion of Ukraine, even as authorities sought to suppress the spreading antiwar sentiment and project an image of strength and righteousness.
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president: poll  —  © Associated Press/Ross D. Franklin  —  A majority of American voters say that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had former President Trump been president, according to a new survey released on Friday.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
How did Tucker Carlson turn into a Putin apologist?  —  Back when Tucker Carlson practiced his punditry on MSNBC in the 2000s, he held Russia in low esteem.  “The bottom line here is that freedom of the press is disappearing in Russia,” Carlson said in August 2005, after Russia barred ABC News staffers …
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Putin calls for Ukrainian military coup against ‘neo-Nazis’ and ‘drug addicts’ in government  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin called upon the Ukrainian military to overthrow its government, chastising its leadership as a “band of drug addicts and neo-Nazis.”
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Ukrainian ambassador to U.S. accuses Russia of war crimes
Washington Post:
Ukrainians resist Russian onslaught as tanks and planes dig deeper toward Kyiv
Axios:
Zelensky says Russia to storm Kyiv tonight: “We have to stand our ground”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
COVID-19 by County  —  COVID-19 Community Levels are a new tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data.  Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by looking at hospital beds being used, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area.
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Ciara Linnane / MarketWatch:
CDC expected to loosen COVID face-mask advice on Friday, and Canada authorizes first plant-based vaccine
Discussion: Twitchy
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Vladimir Putin, Russia's resentful leader, takes the world to war  —  Pent-up anger with the west and a fixation on Ukraine make him more aggressive and unpredictable than ever  —  Growing up in a communal apartment in Leningrad, a young Vladimir Putin liked to chase rats across the stairwell with sticks.
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Newsmax Blasts Tucker Carlson For 'Supporting Putin and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine'
Discussion: Big League Politics
Wall Street Journal:
How the West Misread Vladimir Putin
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Decimate Voting Rights in Every State  —  In a late Friday afternoon filing as war raged in Ukraine and as President Joe Biden announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court …
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New York Times:
Biden Made a Historic Supreme Court Pick.  What Now?  —  Nominating the first Black woman is both bold and politically savvy, Democrats told us.  Republicans are divided over how much of a fight to put up.  —  When word first leaked Friday that President Biden had chosen Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson …
Jason Stanley / The Guardian:
The antisemitism animating Putin's claim to ‘denazify’ Ukraine  —  The Russian leader's pretext for invasion recasts Ukraine's Jewish president as a Nazi and Russian Christians as true victims of the Holocaust  —  hen Russian president Vladimir Putin announced Russia's invasion of Ukraine …
Discussion: Althouse
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Tess Owen / VICE:   US Extremists Have Picked a Side in Ukraine: ‘Lol Putin Is Brilliant’
Miami Herald:
‘That is fraud.’ GOP registered more than 100 voters as Republicans without their consent  —  At first, Nelia Estevez didn't believe that her voter registration could have been changed without her knowledge to reflect a new political party.  Voting was sacrosanct to the 69-year-old Cuban immigrant …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Georgia GOP chair tells January 6 committee that Trump campaign directed alternate elector effort  —  (CNN)The chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia on Friday told the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot that the Trump campaign had directed the party in 2020 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Judge calls Thomas Jefferson High admissions changes illegal … A federal judge ruled Friday that a new admissions system for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious magnet program in Fairfax, discriminates against Asian American applicants and must end.
Discussion: NBC4 Washington and New York Times
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Zelensky Prepares to Go Down with the Ship  —  Ukraine's president rebuffed US pleas to flee, an American associate tells SpyTalk  —  An American businessman with close ties to Volodymyr Zelensky says the Ukrainian president was “calm and businesslike” when they talked yesterday …
Discussion: Mediaite, New York Post and Axios
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Speaks At White Nationalist Conference  —  The congresswoman from Georgia spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, organized by white nationalist “groyper” leader Nick Fuentes.  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin keeps fact-checking her colleagues on Ukraine … Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin has been pulling double duty lately.  —  Much like her peers at other news outfits, the national security correspondent has reported live from the Pentagon …
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
CNN Probe Finds Allison Gollust Assisted Chris Cuomo in His Efforts to Help Andrew Cuomo  —  Spokeswoman for ex-CNN marketing chief says notion that messages to Chris Cuomo could be considered covert advice to Andrew Cuomo ‘is patently ridiculous’  —  CNN's parent company determined …
 
 
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