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4:55 PM ET, March 6, 2022

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Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside?  —  In September, 2020, Donald Trump's then chief of staff claimed to live in a mobile home in North Carolina.  —  Mark Meadows, who grew up in Florida, moved to North Carolina in the nineteen-eighties and opened Aunt D's, a sandwich shop in Highlands.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un … NEW ORLEANS — Former president Donald Trump mused Saturday to the GOP's top donors that the United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag and “bomb the s — t out of Russia.”  —  He also praised North Korean …
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CBS News:
Trump renews NATO criticism after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and also says “vote counter” can be more important than candidate  —  Former President Donald Trump, in remarks to top Republican National Committee donors Saturday evening, renewed his criticism of NATO, hinted again at another run …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Putin's full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump and right-wing media … The former presidential adviser and Russia expert Fiona Hill made headlines last week when she stated bluntly in a Politico interview that Vladimir Putin would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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John Harwood / CNN:
Trump has been on Putin's side in Ukraine's long struggle against Russian aggression  —  (CNN)Americans rarely pay much attention to international events.  Busy lives leave little time for distant events with unfamiliar protagonists.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Have Zelensky (and Putin) created a come-to-democracy moment? That's up to us.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Artillery Kills Ukrainian Civilians Fleeing Kyiv Suburb  —  In Irpin, Russian shells kill a family as thousands try to escape fighting north of the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine—A line of yellow school buses pulled up on a forested roadside in this once-prosperous suburb of Kyiv on Sunday, ready to evacuate Ukrainian civilians.
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Lynsey Addario / New York Times:
At Least 3 Civilians Killed in Shelling by Russian Forces Near Kyiv  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — A Russian force advancing on Kyiv fired mortar shells on Sunday at a battered bridge used by evacuees fleeing the fighting, sending panicked civilians running, kicking up a cloud of dust and leaving three members of a family dead on the pavement.
Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia Don't Believe It's a War  —  Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the official Kremlin messaging.  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Four days after Russia began dropping artillery shells …
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russian Prisoners and Ukrainian Soldiers Describe Two Sides of the Conflict  —  The accounts painted a picture of a conflict consisting largely of ambushes, at least in northern Ukraine where the Russian forces are striving to encircle and capture the capital, Kyiv.
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Police Arrest More Than 3,000 People As Protests Grow Across Russia  —  Despite the threat of yearslong prison terms, thousands of Russians joined antiwar rallies across the country on Sunday in a striking show of the pent-up anger in Russian society about President Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: UPI
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New York Times:
U.S. is exploring how to send Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
CBS News:
Transcript: Ambassador Kurt Volker on “Face the Nation,” March 6, 2022  —  The following is a transcript of an interview with Kurt Volker, the former ambassador to NATO and special representative for Ukraine, that aired Sunday, March 6, 2022, on “Face the Nation.”  —  MARGARET BRENNAN: We're joined now by Kurt Volker.
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Blinken says U.S. weighing Russian oil ban ‘in coordination’ with allies
about.americanexpress.com:
American Express Suspends Operations in Russia and Belarus  —  NEW YORK - In light of Russia's ongoing, unjustified attack on the people of Ukraine, American Express is suspending all operations in Russia.  As a result, globally issued American Express cards will no longer work at merchants or ATMs in Russia.
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Visa Inc:
Visa Suspends All Russia Operations
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden can hope the worst is behind him  —  President Biden just had one of his better weeks.  He delivered a well-received State of the Union address.  His stewardship of the unified democratic alliance has exceeded expectations, while heroic Ukrainians have set off an unexpected outpouring of public excitement and admiration.
Discussion: Bloomberg
CNN:
Rep. Paul Gosar's lengthy ties to White nationalists, pro-Nazi blogger and far-right fringe received little pushback for years  —  Last spring, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and a small group of volunteers traveled to the southern border city of San Luis, Arizona, to clean up the city's trash.
NBC News:
Meet the Press - March 6, 2022  —  CHUCK TODD:  —  This Sunday, the Russian onslaught.  —  UKRAINIAN WOMAN:  —  It's destroyed.  Russia destroyed it all.  —  CHUCK TODD:  —  Russia seizing territory and laying siege to Ukraine's cities as Valdimir Putin says Ukraine may lose its statehood.
Discussion: RedState and Townhall
Boris Johnson / New York Times:
Russia's War on Ukraine Must Fail  —  Mr. Johnson is the prime minister of the United Kingdom.  —  LONDON — Over the past week, in response to the gut-wrenching scenes in Ukraine, Western unity has been impressive and heartening.  I know from my near-daily conversations with President Volodymyr Zelensky …
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Foreign Affairs:   America Must Do More to Help Ukraine Fight Russia
Wall Street Journal:
How War in Ukraine Drives Up Inflation at U.S. Farms, Supermarkets, Retailers  —  The global supply chain is slow, but the economic fallout from the invasion of Ukraine is swiftly raising prices for producers and consumers world-wide  —  Russia's invasion of Ukraine has set the stage …
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Andrew Cuomo blames ‘cancel culture’ for ouster from office  —  Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who resigned last year amid multiple accusations of workplace sexual misconduct, spoke out in public about his exit from office for the first time on Sunday and blamed “the cancel culture mentality” for his decision to leave.
Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
Russia's Military Chief Promised Quick Victory in Ukraine, but Now Faces a Potential Quagmire  —  The close Putin ally modernized Russia's forces, but those troops have run into ferocious Ukrainian resistance  —  When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country's nuclear forces …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
On Ukraine's Border, Moldovans Wonder: Where Will Putin Stop?  —  Moldovans fear that Transnistria, a region run by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Moldova, might be the next target after Ukraine.  —  ON THE DNIESTER RIVER — Just eight miles from the Ukrainian border …
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
'People's Convoy' plans to slowly loop around the Beltway on Sunday  —  Organizers of the “People's Convoy” say they are planning to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.
 
 
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Biden urges return to office
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Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
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