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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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Pence: No room in GOP for ‘apologists for Putin’ — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday will rebuke those in the Republican Party who have praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent weeks, including most prominently former President Trump. — “There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin.
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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.
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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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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 … Former national security adviser John Bolton told The Washington Post Friday that he thinks former president Donald Trump would have pulled the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had he been reelected in 2020.
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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 …
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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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.
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.
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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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Is this the beginning of a Joe Biden comeback?
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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.
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Heather Cox Richardson / YouTube:
Historian Heather Cox Richardson interviews President Joe Biden February 25, 2022
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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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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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Washington Post:
As war loomed, U.S. armed Ukraine to hit Russian aircraft, tanks and prep for urban combat, declassified shipment list shows — The United States drastically enhanced its shipments of lethal military aid and protective equipment to Ukraine as the prospect of a Russian invasion became …
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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,” …
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Republicans want to gaslight you into thinking they're looking out for you — Forgive my tardiness in responding to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds's (R) rebuttal Tuesday to President Biden's State of the Union address. It has taken me this long to recover from her stunning exercise in gaslighting.
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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