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New York Times:
As Russia's Military Stumbles, Its Adversaries Take Note — President Vladimir Putin could still reduce cities in Ukraine to rubble, officials say. But European countries that once feared Russia say they are not so scared anymore. — CONSTANTA, Romania — When it comes to war, generals say that “mass matters.”
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Politico, Raw Story, Letters from an American, Yasha Levine and Washington Examiner
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Washington Post:
Odessa braces for Russian assault as humanitarian conditions deteriorate — Twitch streamers in Russia lose livelihoods as sanctions hit home — Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens to derail Iran nuclear talks — In appearances from presidential office in Kyiv, Zelensky says Russian forces are ‘all war criminals’
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The Guardian, Raw Story, Althouse, Boston.com, Washington Free Beacon, CBS News, The Hill, UPI, Breitbart, IJR, Washington Examiner and Vanity Fair, more at Mediagazer »
Yuras Karmanau / Associated Press:
People flee embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors — LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Evacuations of people fleeing embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors began Tuesday, while U.N. officials said the exodus of refugees from Russia's invasion reached 2 million.
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Wall Street Journal, BBC, Associated Press, The Guardian, Insider and WFLA-TV
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin — First came the shock: the sight of missiles and artillery shells slamming into apartment buildings, helicopters pirouetting in flames, refugees streaming across the border, an embattled and unshaven president pleading with anguished political leaders abroad for help …
Dmytro Kuleba / Washington Post:
Ukrainian foreign minister: The world can do more to help us fight Russia
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Associated Press, The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos and New York Times
New York Times:
Russia, Blocked From the Global Internet, Plunges Into Digital Isolation
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Safety Propaganda
Bloomberg:
Biden Set to Announce Ban on U.S. Import of Russian Oil Today — The Biden administration will impose a ban on U.S. imports of Russian energy on Tuesday without the participation of its European allies, according to people familiar with the matter. — The ban will include Russian oil …
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Insider, USA Today, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, ABC News, New York Post, Forbes and Common Dreams
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Mark Thompson / CNN:
Shell won't buy any more Russian oil and gas — London CNN Business — Russia is finding it ever harder to sell its oil and gas. — Shell (RDSA)said Tuesday it was breaking completely with Russia's giant energy industry, halting all purchases of Russian crude oil immediately and shutting its service stations in the country.
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Shell Global, National Review, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, ABC7 and One America News Network
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Vast Majority Of Americans Say Ban Russian Oil, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly 8 In 10 Support U.S. Military Response If Putin Attacks A NATO Country — mail_outline — At nearly the end of week two of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as the U.S. and its allies consider ratcheting …
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, POLITICUSUSA, Bloomberg, Newsweek, TheBlaze, New York Post, Fox News, RedState, HotAir, CBS News, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and Politico
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden's Approval Rating Improves After State of the Union as More Back His Tack in Ukraine — 45% approve of Biden's job performance; 46% support his handling of Ukraine — President Joe Biden posted his best approval rating in months following his first State of the Union address …
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Mediaite
Politico:
Biden warms to a Russian oil ban. Congress may not give him a choice. — President Joe Biden is racing to avoid a fight with Congress over banning Russian oil imports as he faces the increasing possibility that his own party will act if he doesn't. — The White House's posture …
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Raw Story, Reuters, American Thinker, Supercreator, Issues & Insights, The Guardian, HotAir, Politico, NPR, Politico, Morning Consult, Fox News, Washington Examiner, Commentary Magazine and The Hill
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Two Days of Russian News Coverage: An Alternate Reality of War — To watch news broadcasts of the fighting in Ukraine on the main state channels in Russia is to witness the extent of the Kremlin's efforts to sanitize its war. — At a televised gathering with female pilots and crew members from Aeroflot …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Power of False War Propaganda Divides Families
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Axios
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
With New Limits on Media, Putin Closes a Door on Russia's ‘Openness’
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Fox News, Althouse and Wall Street Journal
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Congress Gives Final Approval to Make Lynching a Hate Crime — The bill's unanimous passage in the Senate ended more than a century of failed attempts to explicitly criminalize lynching. — WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime …
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Washington Post, NPR, Axios, Voice of America, The Guardian, Associated Press, New York Post, UPI, Washington Examiner, Chicago Sun-Times, The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Gabriel Noronha / Tablet Magazine:
This Isn't Obama's Iran Deal. It's Much, Much Worse. — The last thing the world needs is another nuclear-armed dictatorship flush with cash and attacking its neighbors. But that's what President Biden and his Iran envoy Robert Malley are creating in the deal they are about to close in Vienna …
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Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Chief Negotiator Unexpectedly Leaves Vienna as Nuclear Talks Hit Standstill
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CarolineGlick.com, Power Line and Political Wire
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Clarence Thomas' Strange Pick to Promote His Book Says It All — Right-wing judicial activist Leonard Leo has been exerting influence over the Supreme Court for three decades. So why is Clarence Thomas hiring Leo's firm to do public relations? — When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …
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Raw Story
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Bryan Anderson / WRAL-TV:
Former NC congressman registered to vote in home where he purportedly never stayed — RALEIGH, N.C. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, one of North Carolina's most prominent political figures, is registered to vote using the address of a mobile home in which the former property owner says the Republican never lived.
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Ben Turner / Scientific American:
Millions of Palm-Sized, Flying Spiders Could Invade the East Coast — A huge invasive spider that invaded Georgia from East Asia could soon take over most of the U.S. East Coast, a new study has revealed. — New research, published Feb. 17 in the journal Physiological Entomology …
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CBS News, Althouse and Boston.com
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal? — The United States reported more deaths from COVID-19 last Friday than deaths from Hurricane Katrina, more on any two recent weekdays than deaths during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more last month than deaths from flu in a bad season …
Politico:
Judge tosses obstruction charge against Jan. 6 defendant — A federal judge has thrown out an obstruction charge against a defendant charged with breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a ruling that could reverberate across hundreds of cases stemming from the attack on Congress.
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Prosecutor tells jurors ‘ecstatic’ Jan. 6 defendant bragged about carrying gun
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BuzzFeed News, Insider, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Taylor Lorenz Introduces Her Brand to the Washington Post — Today is Taylor Lorenz's first day at the Washington Post, and she's already doing, arguably, exactly what she was hired to do: She's stirring up trouble on social media. “Oh my God, can you stand all the drama?” she says, giggling on a phone call with me last night.
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Politico, The Daily Beast and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Beijing is re-writing the Ukraine narrative — The Chinese government is scrubbing the country's internet of sympathetic or accurate coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and systematically amplifying pro-Putin talking points. … - Online comments expressing sympathy for Ukraine have been deleted …
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What China Wants
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
States Aren't Waiting for the Supreme Court to Tighten Abortion Laws — In anticipation of the court's decision, a frenzy of legislative activity to shut down access to abortion forms a picture of a post-Roe America. — Both sides of the abortion debate anticipate that come July …
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FiveThirtyEight and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A 459-Foot Mystery in a Tuscan Port: Is It a Russian's Superyacht? — As European authorities seize the luxury assets of oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin, a superyacht cloaked in secrecy has come under investigation. — From Germany's North Sea ports to the French Riviera, open season has been declared on superyachts.
Maria Elena Vizcaino / Bloomberg:
Morgan Stanley Says Russia's Set for Venezuela-Style Default — The odds of Russia making its foreign debt payments are diminishing as bond prices fall, recession in the nation looms and various payment restrictions pile up after the invasion of Ukraine, according to Morgan Stanley & Co.
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The Kyiv Independent
Axios:
The new silent majority: People who don't tweet — Most people you meet in everyday life — at work, in the neighborhood — are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter or watch the news, and you'd think we were all nuts and nasty. … We dug into the data and found that, in fact …
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