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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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Politico:
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.
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Vladislav Davidzon / Tablet Magazine:
‘Russian Ship ... Go F**k Yourself!’ — Even in the face of certain death, Ukrainians are displaying heroism worthy of the darkest days of World War II — The Russian army continues to advance on Ukrainian positions all over the map, though in his characteristic and eternal lack …
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 …
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Antony J. Blinken / United States Department of State:
Additional Military Assistance for Ukraine — Ukraine is a sovereign, democratic, and peace-loving nation. The United States and Ukraine have been partners since Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union more than 30 years ago. After Russia invaded and partially occupied Ukraine in 2014 …
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The Dispatch
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Biden orders up to $350M to be released for military aid for Ukraine — President Biden late Friday ordered the release of up to $350 million for military aid for Ukraine. — Biden ordered for the money to be allocated from the Foreign Assistance Act “in defense articles and services …
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Michael D. Weiss / TIME:
Even If Russia Wins, It Won't Do So Easily
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Putin calls for Ukrainian military coup against ‘neo-Nazis’ and ‘drug addicts’ in government
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Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Ukrainian ambassador to U.S. accuses Russia of war crimes
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The Economist:
Russians greet Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine with dismay, not enthusiasm — It is very different from 2014, when the seizure of Crimea sparked jubilation — As the sun set over the Kremlin on the first day of Russia's war against Ukraine, Moscow felt tense.
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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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Dasha Litvinova / Associated Press:
Protests resume as Russia seeks to quash invasion critics
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Washington Post:
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.
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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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Wall Street Journal:
CDC Eases Mask Guidelines, Reflecting Covid-19's Retreat
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Ciara Linnane / MarketWatch:
CDC expected to loosen COVID face-mask advice on Friday, and Canada authorizes first plant-based vaccine
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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 …
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Raw Story
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?
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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 …
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Althouse
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.) …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
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 …
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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 …
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Raw Story
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
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.
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