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8:45 PM ET, March 4, 2022

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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
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Bolton says Trump might have pulled the U.S. out of NATO if he had been reelected
Discussion: Fearful Symmetry
Jason Lange / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Americans broadly support Ukraine no-fly zone, Russia oil ban -poll
Discussion: Skyminder, Jacobin and Twitchy
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CNN
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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
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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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.
Discussion: Insider
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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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Financial Times:   Top shale oil boss warns US can't replace any Russia shortfall
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Telegraph
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.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Enraged Sleuth Outs D.C. Public Transit Worker as Alleged Capitol Rioter  —  THERE GOES ANOTHER  —  An employee of Washington, D.C.'s public transit system has been arrested and charged with four misdemeanors for allegedly participating in last year's Capitol riot.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: New York Post and The Federalist
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 …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve  —  Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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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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 …
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...
Discussion: Insider
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.
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.
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 …
Washington Post:
Russia not cooperating on proposed humanitarian corridor in Kherson, Ukrainian officials say  —  MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Local officials in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson said Friday that Russia is not living up to its side of the bargain on proposed “humanitarian corridors,” …
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 …
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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New York Times:
As Russia Pounds Ukraine, NATO Countries Rush In Javelins and Stingers
Washington Post:
A nonprofit says it collected over $1.5 million for a D.C.-region-bound truck convoy. Its director recently pleaded guilty to fraud.
Discussion: FreightWaves
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence to GOP: Stop 'fighting yesterday's battles'
Discussion: HotAir
Allahpundit / HotAir:
CDC chief scolds DeSantis: You should have respected those kids' choice to wear masks
Discussion: Power Line, PolitiFact and RedState
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Biden Says ‘Fund the Police.’ Well, They Aren't Exactly Hurting for Cash.
Discussion: The Political Insider
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham Backtracks: Let's Jail Putin Rather Than Assassinate Him
ftxpolicy.com:
Sanctions Compliance Tools for Crypto Market Operators
Jerusalem Demsas / Vox:
Tax the land  —  One radical idea to solve America's housing crisis.
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 Earlier Items: 
Charles Riley / CNN:
Russia's second biggest oil company calls for an end to Putin's war
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin misjudged his adversary and squandered his military advantages
Discussion: Fox News and Euro Weekly News
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
In a Run-Down Roman Villa, a Princess From Texas Awaits Her Next Act
Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:
Gun lobbyist wrote GOP lawmakers' ‘permitless carry’ speech, document data shows
Discussion: Raw Story
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Barbershop Confrontations, Profane Signs and Despair: Pro-Biden and Alone in Rural America
Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post:
Russia's business ties to the West took 30 years to build and one week to shatter
Discussion: Common Dreams and Raw Story
Manveen Rana / The Times:
Volodymyr Zelensky survives three assassination attempts in days
 

 
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