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6:30 PM ET, March 6, 2022

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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden advisers weigh Saudi Arabia trip for more oil  —  President Biden's advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned. … Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia …
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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
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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Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Zelenskyy gets (some) results  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY made an emotional pitch to more than 300 members of Congress during a Zoom meeting on Saturday morning.  He pressed the U.S. to do more to help his country stop Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN …
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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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
Wall Street Journal:
Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say  —  Moscow is looking for help from foreign fighters to take cities including Kyiv  —  WASHINGTON—Moscow is recruiting Syrians skilled in urban combat to fight in Ukraine as Russia's invasion is poised to expand deeper into cities, according to U.S. officials.
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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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CNN:
‘They shoot at anyone who tries to leave.’ Ukrainians describe terror of living under Russian occupation
Discussion: New York Post
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.
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
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Putin's Henchmen Rage About Getting Trolled With ‘Endless Photos’ of Dead Russian Troops  —  Moscow's top mouthpieces claim they're being tormented with a disturbing flood of text messages and phone calls about the neighboring war in Ukraine.  —  While Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
U.S. gasoline prices soar to highest since 2008 on Russia conflict, AAA says  —  U.S. gasoline prices jumped 11% over the past week to the highest since 2008 as global sanctions cripple Russia's ability to export crude oil after its invasion of Ukraine, automobile club AAA said on Sunday.
Discussion: KXAN-TV
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 …
New York Times:
Most Women Denied Abortions by Texas Law Got Them Another Way  —  New data suggests overall abortions declined much less than previously known, because women traveled out of state or ordered pills online.  —  The impact of the Texas abortion law was partly offset by trips to out-of-state clinics, and by abortion pills
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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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
Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
There Are Many Things Worse Than American Power  —  If there was any doubt before, the answer is now clear.  Vladimir Putin is showing that a world without American power—or, for that matter, Western power—is not a better world.  —  For the generation of Americans who came of age …
Financial Times:
Food crisis looms as Ukrainian wheat shipments grind to halt  —  Prices soar as Black Sea ports at virtual standstill amid Russian assault  —  At this time of year, Kees Huizunga is normally busy planting wheat, barley and corn on his farm in central Ukraine.
 
 
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