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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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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 …
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New York Times:
Shelling Halts Mariupol Evacuation as Conditions Deteriorate — The police detain thousands at antiwar protests across Russia. Four people, including two children, are killed in an attack outside of Kyiv as concern grows that civilians are being targeted. An airport in western Ukraine also comes under attack.
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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.
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Washington Examiner, Mercury News and UPI
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Zelenskyy gets (some) results
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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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Washington Post, Twitchy and Political Wire
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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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New York Times:
Ukrainian Family's Dash for Safety Ends in Death — Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine. Four people were killed. — IRPIN, Ukraine — The bridge was just a shell of its old self, blown up days earlier by Ukrainian soldiers intent …
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Artillery Kills Ukrainian Civilians Fleeing Kyiv Suburb
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Lynsey Addario / New York Times:
At Least 4 Civilians Killed in Shelling by Russian Forces Near Kyiv
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New York Times:
Inside the U.S. Race to Arm Ukraine Against Russia — The United States has walked to the edge of direct conflict with Russia in an operation that is reminiscent of the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, but far more complex. — On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning …
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal, Musings of a Social Worker, The National Interest and CNN
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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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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Boston.com, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Political Wire
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russian Prisoners and Ukrainian Soldiers Describe Two Sides of the Conflict
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Associated Press, The Guardian and Los Angeles Times
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.
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Of Course Journalists Should Interview Autocrats — Anyone who tells you otherwise does not understand the purpose of journalism. — About the author: Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State.
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.
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Raw Story
Ben Judah / UnHerd:
The Russia we have lost — There were a lot of us in Moscow, back then. Silly, millennial Euro-Brits, trying to be journalists, floating through a boozy world of “hackpack” drinks and Russian liberals. We were there on cooked visas — fixed in Kyiv — dreamers and weirdos who had OD'd …
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 …
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Raw Story
Scott Powers / Florida Politics:
Gov. DeSantis spokesperson labels sex ed bill's opponents ‘groomers’ — Daniella Levine Cava meets with students leaving Sunday for “Proud to Say Gay” rally at the Capitol … Scott Powers — Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years' experience …
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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
Washington Post:
More than 4,500 anti-war protesters arrested in one day in Russia, group says — More than 4,500 protesters were arrested Sunday at antiwar demonstrations across Russia, according to the independent human rights organization OVD-Info, as people risked jail time to denounce the nation's war with Ukraine.
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