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7:40 PM ET, March 6, 2022

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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Officials Meet With Regime in Venezuela, to Discuss Oil Exports to Replace Russia's
Discussion: Financial Times
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.
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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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.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Zelenskyy gets (some) results
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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 …
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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Jack Petocz / MoveOn:
Stop Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill
Discussion: Florida Politics
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 …
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.
Discussion: Meduza.io
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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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
 
 
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Reuters:
U.S. gasoline prices soar to highest since 2008 on Russia conflict, AAA says
Discussion: KXAN-TV
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How to Stop a Nuclear War
NBC News:
Meet the Press - March 6, 2022
Discussion: Washington Post, Townhall and RedState
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Biden urges return to office
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Eschaton
Financial Times:
Food crisis looms as Ukrainian wheat shipments grind to halt
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Andrew Cuomo blames ‘cancel culture’ for ouster from office
Discussion: Associated Press, RedState and Townhall
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden can hope the worst is behind him
Discussion: The Hill, Twitchy and Bloomberg
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
On Ukraine's Border, Moldovans Wonder: Where Will Putin Stop?
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