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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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Vanity Fair, Mike Klonsky's Edu/Pol, No More Mister Nice Blog and Rolling Stone
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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 …
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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.
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Occupy Democrats, Rolling Stone, Outside the Beltway 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.
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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.
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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 — Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced it is suspending its Russia operations. — Effective immediately, Visa will work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days. Once complete, all transactions initiated …
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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.
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Associated Press and The Guardian
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Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times:
Scattered corpses. A rain of rockets. A week inside Russia's war against Ukraine
Scattered corpses. A rain of rockets. A week inside Russia's war against Ukraine
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CBS News and New York Times
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.
New York Times:
U.S. is exploring how to send Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine. — The Biden administration is discussing how to supply Polish Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, American officials say, after President Volodymyr Zelensky made a passionate plea to American legislators on Saturday for assistance …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ukrainian President Asks Congress to Help Secure Russian-Made Jet Fighters
Ukrainian President Asks Congress to Help Secure Russian-Made Jet Fighters
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Politico, Louder With Crowder, Fox News, V$M's Newsletter, The Hill, NPR, HotAir, Political Wire and Washington Post
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Blinken Arrives in Poland to Gauge Additional US Aid for Ukraine
Blinken Arrives in Poland to Gauge Additional US Aid for Ukraine
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Euractiv and Al Jazeera
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 …
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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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.
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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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BizPac Review and Raw Story
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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 …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Mike Lindell Claims He Will Sue ‘All Voting Machines’ to Prove Big Lie — HERE WE GO AGAIN — MyPillow CEO and Big Lie booster Mike Lindell found himself on yet another platform Saturday, this time in support of Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
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Raw Story, BizPac Review, Insider and HuffPost
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
WTF: Trump rages to friends about his social network's problems, says report — The disgraced former President Trump's Wall Street-fueled Twitter knockoff is two weeks old, and the rollout is going so badly reports say he's cursing the venture to his friends.
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The Daily Beast and Politico
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Pretty Much No One Is Using Trump's New Social Media App (Not Even Trump)
Pretty Much No One Is Using Trump's New Social Media App (Not Even Trump)
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Insider and Raw Story