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8:40 AM ET, March 5, 2022

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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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New York Times:
Republicans Sharpen Their Message on Ukraine  —  Party leaders think that tying President Biden's handling of the war to his domestic woes could be a potent argument with voters in the fall.  —  Immediately after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the political debate in the U.S. was a free-for-all.
Discussion: New Republic and Salon
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Pence: No room in GOP for ‘apologists for Putin’
Discussion: NBC News, CNN and HotAir
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:   Pence to GOP: Stop 'fighting yesterday's battles'
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
What it's like at the border, delivering Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine  —  NEAR THE UKRAINE BORDER — Javelin antitank missiles, the American-made weapons that can destroy Russian tanks, are stacked in steel racks awaiting quick shipment into Ukraine.  A giant C-17 transport is parked on a nearby runway.
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New York Times:   As Russia Pounds Ukraine, NATO Countries Rush In Javelins and Stingers
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: HuffPost and Raw Story
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 …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Americans broadly support Ukraine no-fly zone, Russia oil ban -poll … A broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the United States should stop buying Russian oil and gas and work with NATO to set up “no-fly zones” to protect Ukraine from Russian air strikes, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Friday.
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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
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 …
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.
New York Times:
How the West Marshaled a Stunning Show of Unity Against Russia  —  In a few frantic days, the West threw out the playbook it used for decades against the Kremlin and isolated Russia with unparalleled sanctions and penalties.  —  LONDON — The day after Russian tanks and troops poured across …
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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New York Times:
Several Western news organizations suspended operations in Russia.
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: Daily Mail and Insider
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Is this the beginning of a Joe Biden comeback?  —  It's been a rough month - and, really, year - for President Joe Biden.  —  Beset by the Omicron variant, high inflation and the uncertainty in Ukraine, Biden's poll numbers have lagged badly, with his approval ratings stuck in the low 40s.
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:   Biden gets a bounce after the State of the Union, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows
Marist Poll:
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Bounce for Biden Following State of the Union, March 2022
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
'People's Convoy' Truckers Are Still Very Confused About Their D.C. Plans  —  Some truckers told The Daily Beast they're dead set on driving into D.C. on Saturday.  Others insisted they don't want to wreak havoc in the U.S. capital.  —  HAGERSTOWN, M.D.—Hundreds of truckers and thousands …
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BBC:
French designer giants suspend sales in Russia  —  French luxury giants have joined other firms in announcing they will suspend sales in Russia amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.  —  LVMH, Hermes, Kering and Chanel have decided to temporarily shut their shops in Russia, the firms said on Friday.
Chris Spargo / Law & Crime:
Judge Allows Former Deputy Accused of Raping 14-Year-Old Girl to Avoid Prison and Sex Offender Status  —  After striking a plea deal with prosecutors, a onetime Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was accused of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl over a period of 20 months will serve no time in prison …
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,” …
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The War That Russians Do Not See  —  A majority of people in Russia get their news from state television, which depicts their country not as the aggressor in Ukraine but as a victim of the West.  —  Pushkin Square, in the center of Moscow, is a traditional site of protest.
Yossi Verter / Haaretz:
Israel Has Failed This Week's Test of Humanity and Enlightenment  —  In the Ukraine crisis, Israel had to be dragged to the side of the righteous ■ Netanyahu, the human air raid siren, again chose to pander to his base ■ Why Lapid pulled Erdan from the UN stage  —  Bennett's juggling actCredit: Amos Harel
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
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Peril Stirs the West's Humanity
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Enraged Sleuth Outs D.C. Public Transit Worker as Alleged Capitol Rioter
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Jewish New Yorkers Unite to Raise Millions for Ukraine
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Special Forces Hold Off Russian Offensive on Kyiv's Front Lines
Discussion: New York Post and The Federalist
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Biden Says ‘Fund the Police.’ Well, They Aren't Exactly Hurting for Cash.
Jack Watling / The Guardian:
Russia's callousness towards its own soldiers is undermining its combat power
Discussion: Telegraph, New York Times and Daily Kos
Jerusalem Demsas / Vox:
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Discussion: Kevin Drum
Charles Riley / CNN:
Russia's second biggest oil company calls for an end to Putin's war
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