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10:15 PM ET, March 8, 2022

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland:
Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in connection with the statement by the US Secretary of State on providing airplanes to Ukraine  —  The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Goverment, are ready to deploy …
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Washington Post:
U.S. all-but declines Poland's offer to give Ukraine its old warplanes … The United States all-but declined an offer from Poland on Tuesday to deliver an unspecified number of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine so that the warplanes could be used against invading Russian forces.
Politico:
‘Surprise move’: U.S. stunned by Poland's fighter jet offer  —  The Polish government stunned Washington on Tuesday by announcing it was ready to transfer its 28 MiG-29 fighter planes to the U.S., with the understanding that they would be handed over to Ukrainian pilots fighting off the Russian invasion.
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis  —  Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won't help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere  —  The White House unsuccessfully tried to arrange calls between President Biden …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Mark Meadows Spread Trump's Voter Fraud Claims.  Now His Voting Record Is Under Scrutiny.  —  The former Trump aide listed a mobile home in rural North Carolina as his residence at the same time that he was running operations at the White House.  —  Mark Meadows, the White House chief …
Discussion: Washington Post and Mother Jones
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ Poll: 79% of Americans Back Ban on Russian Oil Even if Energy Prices Rise  —  A wide majority of Americans, 79%, said they favored a ban on Russian oil imports even if the prohibition increased energy prices in the U.S., according to data from a new Wall Street Journal poll.  Just 13% said they opposed it.
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NBC News:
Republicans cheer Russian oil ban and jeer Biden for rising gas prices
Bloomberg:
U.S. and U.K. Poised for Ban on Imports of Russian Oil Today
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Gibbons and Mandel lead Ohio GOP Senate primary  —  The race is unsettled, though, with one-quarter of voters saying they are undecided  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 8  —  Businessman Mike Gibbons and former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel lead the pack among Ohio …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: McCormick tops Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania GOP senate primary poll
Discussion: Breitbart
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Kemp leads Perdue in Georgia's GOP primary race for governor
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Longtime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio charged with conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol  —  Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a leader of the extremist group the Proud Boys, has been indicted on a conspiracy charge in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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New York Times:
Venezuela Releases Imprisoned Americans After Talks With U.S.  —  The release of at least two Americans came after the Biden officials moved to thaw relations with Venezuela, long a steadfast Russian ally.  —  At least two Americans who were imprisoned in Venezuela were released on Tuesday …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CBS Miami
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Financial Times:
US demands shale industry does ‘whatever it takes’ to ease oil crisis
Washington Post:
Arizona lawmaker speaks to white nationalists, calls for violence — and sets fundraising records … Midway through a white nationalist's conference in Orlando last month, one speaker drew applause calling for gruesome violence against “traitors” after excoriating critics of the “honorable” …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Arizona Mirror and Overtime
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Missouri lawmaker seeks to stop residents from obtaining abortions out of state … The pattern emerges whenever a Republican-led state imposes new restrictions on abortion: People seeking the procedure cross state lines to find treatment in places with less-restrictive laws.
Amelia Lucas / CNBC:
Iconic U.S. brands Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's and Starbucks suspend business in Russia  — PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks each said Tuesday they are suspending business in Russia after that country's invasion of Ukraine.  — It's a symbolic move by the iconic U.S. brands …
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Washington Post:
Guy Reffitt guilty on all counts in first Capitol riot trial  —  The first trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach ended with a guilty verdict on all counts, a victory for federal prosecutors handling one of the largest investigations in U.S. history.  —  After three days of testimony and three hours …
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Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: ‘No two countries run by women would ever go to war’  — “No two countries run by women would ever go to war,” Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Tuesday.  — If half the world were run by women, Sandberg believes the world would be “safer” and “much more prosperous.”
U.S. Department of Justice:
Dual U.S. / Russian National Charged With Acting Illegally As A Russian Agent In The United States  —  Elena Branson Allegedly Willfully Evaded FARA Registration for Nearly a Decade, Working to Advance the Interests of the Russian Government While Receiving Tasking and Funding from High-Level Russian Officials
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Judge Lets $2.7B Smartmatic Suit Against Fox News Proceed, Drops Claims Against Jeanine Pirro & Sidney Powell  —  DO GO ON  —  A state judge in New York ruled that voting software company Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News to proceed on Tuesday.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Smartmatic can pursue election-rigging claims against Fox News, Giuliani
Discussion: New York Times and Bloomberg
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels  —  This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.  —  During a rare appearance in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2015 …
American Oversight:
Judge Orders Immediate Release of Wisconsin Election Investigation Records  —  Update: American Oversight has received more than 700 pages of records.  Details below.  —  A Wisconsin judge today ordered the immediate release of a set of documents sought by American Oversight …
Peter Beinart / Jewish Currents:
Justifications for Destroying a People … IN THE DAYS since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukrainians and their supporters have been lionized for the same forms of resistance to oppression for which Palestinians are routinely condemned.  Western television networks …
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Republicans would be wise to follow Tom Cotton's vision for the future  —  Tom Cotton staked a claim to the Reaganite lane of the 2024 presidential race on Monday night, only it's not the lane you might think.  —  In a speech delivered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley …
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call  —  When Hillary Clinton sought to sow doubts about Barack Obama, her rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, she ran an attack ad tarnishing him as dangerously inexperienced.  As the screen shows images from a suburban house, a husky-voiced narrator intones …
Discussion: Politico, Takes & Re-Takes and Twitchy
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Johnson blocks vote on antisemitism envoy, meets with truckers instead  —  Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration's antisemitism envoy.  Instead Johnson met with a group of truckers in Washington, D.C. …
Leslie Patton / Bloomberg:
McDonald's to Shutter 850 Russia Stores After Backlash  —  McDonald's Corp. is temporarily closing all 850 Russia locations, following mounting criticism that the fast-food chain failed to act quickly following the nation's invasion of Ukraine.  —  The company will continue paying …
Naomi O'Leary / The Irish Times:
United Nations bans staff from using ‘war’ or ‘invasion’ regarding Ukraine  —  Email on communications policy reminds staff of their responsibility to ‘be impartial’  —  The United Nations has banned its staff from referring to the situation in Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion” …
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
72-Year-Old Lawyer With AR-15 and ‘To-Do List’ Admits Threatening to Kill Senate Dems  —  GUILTY AS CHARGED  —  A former Pennsylvania attorney charged with threatening to kill Democratic members of the U.S. Senate has pleaded guilty, according to court records.
Discussion: fox43.com, Raw Story and The Hill
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Washington Post:
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