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Washington Post:
The Roger Stone tapes — Previously unseen documentary footage shows the longtime Trump adviser working to overturn the 2020 election and, after the Jan. 6 riot, secure pardons for the former president's supporters — As a mob ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Roger Stone …
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Lindsay Beyerstein / The Editorial Board:
The J6 committee says Trump did some criming. A new video suggests Roger Stone knew it — If ordinary goons are guilty of disrupting an official proceeding, then the ringleaders who incited them are guilty as well. … We learned this week the J6 committee is investigating Donald Trump …
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BBC:
Global outcry after Russia seizes nuclear plant — Updates from BBC correspondents in Ukraine and the region: Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Sarah Rainsford in Dnipro, Fergal Keane and Joel Gunter in Lviv, and teams on Ukraine's western border — Summary
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Fear of martial law sparks Russian exodus — Thousands of Russians are rushing to flee the country ahead of this weekend, as rumors swirl that Vladimir Putin could soon declare martial law, close the borders and crack down even harder on domestic dissent.
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russia Steps Up Censorship With Law Against ‘False Information’
Russia Steps Up Censorship With Law Against ‘False Information’
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Commentary Magazine and Fox News
Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
Russian troops aiming to ‘mine’ nuclear plant to ‘blackmail the whole of Europe:’ Zaporizhzhia employees
Russian troops aiming to ‘mine’ nuclear plant to ‘blackmail the whole of Europe:’ Zaporizhzhia employees
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RedState, KTLA, The National Interest, iaea.org and HotAir
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the 2013 attack that killed three people and left hundreds injured.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Restores Death Sentence for Boston Marathon Bomber
Supreme Court Restores Death Sentence for Boston Marathon Bomber
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Insider, BizPac Review, Human Events, Forbes, CBS Boston, Nsbb, Althouse and Deseret
CNBC:
Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Voice of America, The Gateway Pundit and Bloomberg
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman urges delay in Jan. 6 committee's push for his emails — Attorney John Eastman, the architect of Donald Trump's legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election, urged a federal judge Friday to slow down the Jan. 6 select committee's push to obtain documents they say could show …
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Bloomberg, PolitiFact, First Draft, Raw Story and New Republic
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The Jan. 6 Committee Is Racing Against the Clock
The Jan. 6 Committee Is Racing Against the Clock
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Raw Story, Truthout, The Atlantic, CNN and Nsbb
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Barr says Trump was ‘responsible in the broad sense’ for Jan. 6 riot
Barr says Trump was ‘responsible in the broad sense’ for Jan. 6 riot
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New York Post, Forbes, The Hill and Mediaite
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden gets a bounce after the State of the Union, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows — After what's been a bleak several months politically for President Biden, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds he is seeing a significant boost in his approval ratings across the board following …
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Marist Poll:
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Bounce for Biden Following State of the Union, March 2022 — Biden Enjoys Boost in His Job Approval Ratings Following the State of the Union... A Majority Approve of Biden's Handling of Conflict in Ukraine... Overwhelming Support Exists for Economic Sanctions
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HotAir, Washington Post, The Hill, Twitchy, CW39 Houston, Mediaite, Forbes, PBS NewsHour and The Liberal Patriot
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Lindsey Graham calls for Putin's assassination — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham sent a stunning message to the people of Russia, calling for someone in the country to rise up and assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end to Moscow's war against Ukraine. — “Is there a Brutus in Russia?
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham Backtracks: Let's Jail Putin Rather Than Assassinate Him
Lindsey Graham Backtracks: Let's Jail Putin Rather Than Assassinate Him
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, IJR, The Daily Caller, TMZ.com, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin misjudged his adversary and squandered his military advantages
Putin misjudged his adversary and squandered his military advantages
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Fox News and Euro Weekly News
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Steve Bannon podcast claims ‘Soros and Hannity’ working together in conspiracy against Putin
Steve Bannon podcast claims ‘Soros and Hannity’ working together in conspiracy against Putin
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HillReporter.com and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham defends calling for Russians to assassinate Putin
Sen. Lindsey Graham defends calling for Russians to assassinate Putin
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Politico, HuffPost, Mother Jones, The Hill, Rolling Stone and IJR
Manveen Rana / The Times:
Volodymyr Zelensky survives three assassination attempts in days … President Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times has learnt. — Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Ukrainian president — mercenaries of the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces.
New York Times:
Washington's Newest Worry: The Dangers of Cornering Putin — Surprised by the speed at which sanctions have been poured on Russia, Biden's top aides suspect that Putin's reaction will be to double down and lash out — and perhaps expand the war. — WASHINGTON — Senior White House officials designing …
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HotAir, Washington Post, Work from home for justice, Japan Times and The Daily Register
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BBC:
'My city is being shelled, but my mum in Russia won't believe me' — Oleksandra and her four rescue dogs have been sheltering in the bathroom of her flat in Kharkiv since the shelling began. — “When I heard the first explosions, I ran out of the house to get my dogs from their enclosures outside.
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HotAir, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, spiked and Financial Times
Financial Times:
Top shale oil boss warns US can't replace any Russia shortfall — Pioneer's Scott Sheffield warns crude could hit $200 in event of western energy embargo — The head of the US's biggest shale oil operator said the country would be unable to replace crude supplies from Russia this year …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
When the public thinks up is down, it's time to rethink coverage — Imagine you're the editor of a major national news organization and you learn that the general public is terribly misinformed about an important issue that your reporters cover intensely — say you see poll results showing …
Rick Scott / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Defying Beltway Cowardice — Republicans don't deserve to govern unless we're willing to take on the real problems America faces. — I have committed heresy in Washington. I've been in the Senate for only three years, and I have released an 11-point plan with 128 ideas …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Convoy picks up cars and anti-Ukraine talking points ahead of Washington arrival — The American offshoot of the “Freedom Convoy” that brought chaos to Canada's capital is promising to stop traffic outside of Washington, D.C., on Saturday, but exact plans remained vague Friday as the group hit its last pit stop in Maryland.
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Washingtonian and The Gateway Pundit
YouTube:
Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton on U.S.-Russian relations (Full Stream 3/4) — Russia has invaded Ukraine, and the West is exploring military and economic options to punish that aggression. On Friday, March 4 at 11:00 a.m. ET, former na...
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Interview with President Biden — Every day, people write to me and say they feel helpless to change the direction of our future. — I always answer that we change the future by changing the way people think, and that we change the way people think by changing the way we talk about things.
Bloomberg:
Wall Street Is Pouncing on Russia's Cheap Corporate Debt — As the U.S. and allies tighten sanctions on Russia and choke off investor demand for its assets, parts of Wall Street are jumping on the buying opportunity that it's creating. — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co …
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ftxpolicy.com:
Sanctions Compliance Tools for Crypto Market Operators — By: Brett Harrison (President, FTX US) & Sam Bankman-Fried (CEO, FTX and FTX US) — As FTX has stressed across all of its regulatory and policy efforts, active coordination and communication with regulators and policymakers is crucial …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's McConnell obsession leads him toward Eric Greitens — Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens is rising in former President Donald Trump's eyes — and an episode at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference shows why. — The controversial former governor ran into a Trump ally …