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7:25 PM ET, March 2, 2022

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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid  —  Two-term Plano Republican concedes runoff to Keith Self after admitting ‘horrible mistake’  —  Update: Updated at 3:30 p.m. with Taylor dropping out and apologizing.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Van Taylor ends reelection campaign after he admits to affair  —  Taylor made the stunning announcement hours after he finished his five-way primary with 49% of the vote.  Former Collin County Judge Keith Self, who finished second, is now likely to become the next congressman for the 3rd District.
Giacomo Tognini / Forbes:
Germans Seize Russian Billionaire Alisher Usmanov's Mega-Yacht  —  Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov was sanctioned by the European Union on Monday.  Two days later, Forbes has learned from three sources in the yacht industry that one of his prized possessions—the 512-foot yacht Dilbar …
Discussion: New York Post and Rolling Stone
Athina Morris / WFLA-TV:
‘This is ridiculous’: DeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks during USF visit  —  You have been added to Daily News Newsletter  —  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis made his frustration with face masks known when he visited Tampa for a press conference Wednesday morning.
New York Times:
Bombing of Civilian Targets in Ukraine Intensifies  —  Russian troops seized the strategically important city of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said, in a significant moment in the battle for the country's south.  Explosions struck the capital, Kyiv, and Russian troops continued to lay siege to Kharkiv.
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Lawrence Freedman / Comment is Freed:
Russia's Plan C  —  And Plan D...  As the Russo-Ukrainian War takes a darker turn it is important to emphasise this essential point.  This is a war that Vladimir Putin cannot win, however long it lasts and however cruel his methods.  —  From the start the Russian campaign has been hampered …
New York Times:
Maps: Tracking the Russian Invasion of Ukraine  —  See Russia's shifting strategy over six days of attacks on Kyiv  —  In six days of fighting in Ukraine, Russian forces have seized territory in the county's south and east but remain shut out of some major cities and the capital, Kyiv …
CNN:
Trump adviser Peter Navarro skips scheduled deposition with January 6 committee  —  Former President Donald Trump's onetime trade adviser Peter Navarro did not appear for his scheduled deposition on Wednesday with the House select committee investigating January 6, Navarro tells CNN.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:   Jan. 6 committee expected to release new details about effort to pressure Pence to reject electors, overturn election results
Politico:
Jan. 6 probe points lawmakers more and more toward GOP colleagues
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Times
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
5 Takeaways from Biden's First State of the Union Address  —  Mr. Biden said Vladimir Putin would “pay a price” for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  Of his economic plans, he said, “I have another way to fight inflation: Lower your costs, not your wages.”
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
A Tale of Two Speeches  —  Biden's SOTU and Trump's CPAC speeches lay out entirely different visions for America.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elon Musk takes aim at President Biden after he fails to mention Tesla during State of the Union  — “Nobody is watching the State of the Union,” Musk said in an email to CNBC.  — The lack of a mention by Biden leading into Musk's latest comments comes after CNBC reported …
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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Rep. Lauren Boebert heckles Biden as he talks about his late son during the State of the Union
Justin Vallejo / The Independent:
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert heckle Biden after turning their backs during State of the Union
Financial Times:
UK eyes seizing the property of oligarchs hit with sanctions  —  Ministers discuss plans to take residences off business tycoons without paying compensation  —  UK cabinet minister Michael Gove is drawing up plans to seize British property owned by Russian oligarchs with links to President Vladimir Putin …
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The Daily Beast:
Holocaust Museum Begs U.S.: Leave Our Shady Russian Oligarch Donor Off Your Sanctions List
Discussion: Raw Story
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
California law students shout down Georgetown scholar, viral video shows  —  UC Hastings says, ‘The act of silencing a speaker is fundamentally contrary to the values of this school’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 2  —  Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional scholar who recently found himself …
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Sherrilyn A. Ifill / New York Times:
Who's Afraid of Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Politico:
Dems agonize over Manchin's wish list: Taxes, prescription drugs, climate cash  —  Joe Manchin is once again setting the agenda for Democrats and says he's willing to make a deal.  They're listening — cautiously.  —  Hours after President Joe Biden laid out what he hoped to salvage from Democrats' defunct …
Chicago Tribune:
Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan indicted on federal racketeering charges alleging array of bribery schemes  —  Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, for decades the most powerful politician in the state, was indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges alleging …
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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun-Times:
Former House Speaker Michael Madigan indicted in political corruption probe
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Aubrie Spady / Fox News:
Sen. Ron Johnson accuses CDC of making ‘false statement’ on mask mandate study, demands information  —  Johnson is requesting the CDC information on a reportedly inaccurate study  —  Sen. Ron Johnson: Putin wouldn't have moved on Ukraine if not for weakness displayed by Biden admin
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Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:
Ron Johnson blasts CDC for withholding COVID-19 hospitalization data from public
Discussion: Fox News and Unpacking Truth
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump's border wall has been breached more than 3,000 times by smugglers, CBP records show  —  NACO, Arizona — Mexican smuggling gangs have sawed through new segments of border wall 3,272 times over the past three years, according to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection maintenance records obtained …
Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity proposes NATO fighter jets bomb Russian convoy “and then nobody takes credit for it, so then Putin won't know who to hit”  —  Sean Hannity calls on Joe Biden to ignore the law and assassinate Vladimir Putin  —  Fox hosts advocate appeasing Putin: “Maybe carve out the eastern provinces, recognize Crimea, something”
Erik Crouch / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Ukrainian camera operator Yevhenii Sakun killed in Russian shelling of Kyiv TV tower  —  New York, March 2, 2022 - In response to reports that Ukrainian journalist Yevhenii Sakun was killed on Tuesday, March 1, when Russian forces shelled a television tower in Kyiv, the Committee …
New York Times:
China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say  —  A Western intelligence report indicates that Chinese officials had some level of direct knowledge about President Vladimir V. Putin's war plans or intentions.  —  WASHINGTON — A Western intelligence report …
Lauren Lewis / Daily Mail:
'We were sent as cannon fodder.  We're killing peaceful people': Weeping Russian POWs say they had no idea they were being sent to war and were made ‘to attack people defending their territory’  — Russian troops captured by Ukrainian forces in opening days of war described themselves as ‘cannon fodder’
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: The post-SOTU blitz begins  —  It's the day after SOTU.  And while Washington is dragging with a SOTU hangover, the news sure as hell hasn't slowed down.  Judge KETANJI BROWN JACKSON is on the Hill meeting with senators.  Tragic news of civilian casualties continues to pour out of Ukraine.
Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds inflation fears up, pandemic fears down; marijuana legalization up, optimism about Wisconsin down; primary candidates not yet well known.  —  MILWAUKEE — With just more than five months until Wisconsin's Aug. 9 primary election, a new Marquette Law School Poll survey …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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New York Times:
Trump Hotel Chief, Hired With Big Ambitions, Leaves a Shrinking Brand
Discussion: Raw Story
Simeon Kerr / Financial Times:
UAE suspends visa-free travel for Ukrainians
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukrainian Jews, Under Putin's Bombs, Seethe at His Attempt to Smear Ukraine as Neo-Nazi
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin TV Tells Ukraine to Listen to Fox News Guest and Kneel to Putin
Dr. David Taylor / Roanoke College:
Roanoke College Poll looks at new administration in Virginia
Discussion: Townhall
Sharon Werning Rivera / Washington Post:
Can Putin keep the oligarchs and Russian elites on his side?
 Earlier Items: 
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
REVEALED: Charter school program favored by Tennessee governor rewrites civil rights history
Javier Blas / Bloomberg:
How Do You Replace Millions of Barrels of Russian Oil a Day?
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. private payrolls rise solidly; January revised sharply higher
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Where it mattered most, Trump's Texas endorsement didn't get the job done
Discussion: Vox and Politico
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Marco Rubio is tweeting through the Russia-Ukraine war — for a reason