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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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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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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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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 …
Lynsey Addario / New York Times:
At Least 4 Civilians Killed in Shelling by Russian Forces Near Kyiv
At Least 4 Civilians Killed in Shelling by Russian Forces Near Kyiv
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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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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 …
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
Russian Prisoners and Ukrainian Soldiers Describe Two Sides of the Conflict
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.