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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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Raw Story
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
Fear of martial law sparks Russian exodus
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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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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, WAVY-TV, Twitchy, PBS NewsHour, The Liberal Patriot, Mediaite and Forbes
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Pence hits Trump: No room in GOP ‘for apologists for Putin’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will urge Republicans to move on from the 2020 election and will declare that “there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin” as he further cements his break from former President Donald Trump.
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Bloomberg:
White House Weighs Ban on Russian Oil Imports as Congress Fumes — The Biden administration is weighing a ban on U.S. imports of Russian crude oil as Congress races toward passing such a restriction to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine. — Conversations are taking place within …
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HotAir, Washington Post, The Hill, Washington Examiner and Florida Phoenix
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
Klain: White House may extend freeze on student loan payments again
Klain: White House may extend freeze on student loan payments again
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CNBC, The Hill, HuffPost, USA Today, Insider, Washington Examiner and Political Wire
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Senate GOP pushes domestic energy bills amid debate over blocking Russian imports
Senate GOP pushes domestic energy bills amid debate over blocking Russian imports
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Townhall and The Dan Adams Show
Stuart Ramsay / Sky News:
Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week — On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale …
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Washington Examiner and New York Times
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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Reto Gregori / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg to Temporarily Halt Work of Its Journalists in Russia — Bloomberg News will temporarily suspend the work of its journalists inside Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed legislation that criminalizes independent reporting in the country. — “We have with great regret decided …
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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, HillReporter.com, Raw Story, PolitiFact, First Draft and New Republic
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Associated Press:
Pulitzer winner Walter Mears, AP's ‘Boy on the Bus,’ dies — WASHINGTON (AP) — Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87.
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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New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, National Review, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart, CNN, Florida Politics and NBC News
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Special Forces Hold Off Russian Offensive on Kyiv's Front Lines — Weapons from the West make a big difference—as do the Russians' poor tactics, Ukrainian officers say — IRPIN, Ukraine—Every day for the past week, Russian forces have tried to fight their way through this suburb of Kyiv to reach the Ukrainian capital.
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New York Post and The Federalist
Jack Watling / The Guardian:
Russia's callousness towards its own soldiers is undermining its combat power — In past conflicts Russia could hide small scale casualties, but not any more — hen senior British officers visited Moscow in the days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the Russian general staff …
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Associated Press, New York Times and Telegraph
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, Daily Kos, spiked and The Daily Caller
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.
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Insider
CNN:
US officials say Biden administration is sharing intelligence with Ukraine at a ‘frenetic’ pace after Republicans criticize efforts — The US has multiple channels open and is sharing intelligence with Ukraine at a “frenetic” pace, US officials said Thursday, disputing criticism …
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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 …
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Jewish New Yorkers Unite to Raise Millions for Ukraine — New York City is home to some 300,000 Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. — Rabbi Labish Becker, the executive director of Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization of ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups …
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...
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Insider
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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Raw Story, Washingtonian and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
An Anti-Vax Judge Is Preventing the Navy From Deploying a Warship — Admirals are desperate to remove an insubordinate anti-vaxxer from command of a guided-missile destroyer. A judge won't let them. — At this moment, the United States Navy is preparing to deploy a 10,000-ton warship …