Germany still blocking arms supplies to Ukraine  —  Germany is still blocking EU and NATO allies from sending urgently needed weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, which is trying to defend itself from a multi-front Russian invasion, according to officials from two EU member countries.

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.

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine fights to hold Kyiv amid street battles, gunfire and explosions  —  At daybreak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of himself, unshaven, on the capital's streets — proof of his apparent commitment to remain in Kyiv.

‘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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.) …

GRIFT: Candace Owens loses defamation suit against FB fact-checkers, can keep funds raised  —  Right-wing columnist Candace Owens just lost a defamation lawsuit appeal against two major Facebook third-party fact-checkers in front of the Delaware Supreme Court.

As GOP looks ahead to 2024, DeSantis builds national profile  —  The Conservative Political Action Conference, an activist jamboree that has long been a hive of anti-political correctness, helped launch and sustain Donald Trump's political career.  But another Republican took the CPAC stage …

Putin Has Made Sure the World Will Never Be the Same  —  The seven most dangerous words in journalism are: “The world will never be the same.”  In over four decades of reporting, I have rarely dared use that phrase.  But I'm going there now in the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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.