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Joel Burgess / Asheville Citizen Times:
Madison Cawthorn charged with driving with revoked license for 2nd time; court dates set  —  Congressman Madison Cawthorn has been charged with driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor that carries up to 20 days in jail.  —  The 26-year-old Henderson County Republican was pulled …
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Danielle Battaglia / The Charlotte Observer:
Rep Madison Cawthorn of NC facing misdemeanor license charge
Discussion: WRAL-TV
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump plane made emergency landing after weekend speech to GOP donors  —  Former President Donald Trump's plane made an emergency landing on Saturday evening following his speech at a Republican National Committee-hosted donor retreat in New Orleans, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Washington Post:
Plane carrying Donald Trump made emergency landing in New Orleans after engine failure over Gulf of Mexico  —  A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday evening over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.
Discussion: NBC News, New York Post, CNBC and The Hill
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Silicon Valley tech worker was the Ukrainian mom lying dead on street in brutal photo that sparked outrage  —  A Silicon Valley employee and her children are the subjects of photos so devastating that they shocked the world: A Ukrainian family lying dead on the pavement, killed by Russian mortar fire while trying to flee the conflict.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and New York Post
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Colorado county elections official Tina Peters is indicted in probe of alleged tampering with voting equipment  —  A Colorado county clerk who embraced election-fraud conspiracy theories has been indicted on state criminal charges following an investigation into her alleged efforts …
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Bente Birkeland / NPR:
Colorado clerk is indicted for election tampering and misconduct  —  A grand jury in Colorado has indicted Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters and her deputy on counts related to election tampering and misconduct.  —  The indictment of Peters and Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley on felony …
Sarah Mimms / BuzzFeed News:
An Elections Official Who Promoted 2020 Conspiracy Theories Has Been Indicted For Election Tampering
Discussion: Associated Press
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Colorado County Clerk Indicted in Voting Security Breach Investigation
Discussion: CNN and Associated Press
New York Times:
A family's dash toward safety in Ukraine ends tragically.  —  Andrew E. KramerPhotographs by Lynsey Addario  —  KYIV, Ukraine — They met in high school but became a couple years later, after meeting again on a dance floor at a Ukrainian nightclub.  Married in 2001, they lived …
Discussion: KRON4, Mediaite and Los Angeles Times
Axios:
Scoop: RNC to sue Jan. 6 committee over Salesforce subpoena  —  The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed Salesforce, the customer relationship management giant and a major Republican National Committee vendor, for sensitive information about the RNC's fundraising, Axios has learned.
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
How the GOP, horrifically, succeeded with “Don't say gay”  —  The Florida law passed after anti-LGBTQ Republicans reframed failed efforts of the past.  And they've now stacked the courts. … The Florida Senate yesterday passed the grotesque “Don't say gay” bill, following on the Florida House passage.
Discussion: The Week
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney Pledges $5 Million to Protect LGBTQ Rights, CEO to Meet With Florida Gov to Discuss 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Disney CEO says he will meet with Ron DeSantis to oppose 'Don't Say Gay' bill
Washington Post:
Russia's ‘imminent’ default would be catastrophic.  Here's why. … Russia is at “imminent” risk of defaulting on its debts as Western economic sanctions choke off its access to dollars and other global currencies to pay lenders, a move that would have devastating economic ripple effects.
Discussion: HotAir
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Refinances $100 Million Mortgage On Trump Tower With A Bank Headed By A Political Supporter  —  Donald Trump refinanced Trump Tower in February, taking out a $100 million loan, according to documents recorded Tuesday by New York City's Department of Finance.
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Insider
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:   Pariah? Hardly. Banks are still willing to lend to Trump
Ken Bensinger / BuzzFeed News:
Sidney “Release The Kraken” Powell Is Secretly Funding The Legal Defense Of Oath Keepers  —  As the government's prosecutions of members of the Oath Keepers — by most measures, the most significant of any to come out of the Jan. 6 insurrection — move toward trial, defense lawyers face a daunting task …
Karri Peifer / Axios:
Giant spiders expected to drop from sky across the East Coast this spring  —  An invasive species of spider the size of a child's hand is expected to “colonize” the entire East Coast this spring by parachuting down from the sky, researchers at the University of Georgia announced last week.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Russian Agent Maria Butina Claims Ukrainians Are Bombing Themselves  —  “We have tons of evidence that the Russia army does not touch, does not bomb civilian populations,” the former darling of the NRA said of her absurd bit of Putin propaganda  —  Maria Butina, the Russia agent who infiltrated …
New York Daily News:
NYPD silent after judge questions cops' credibility in Bronx assault case against teen drill rapper C Blu  —  A judge's stunning comments questioning the credibility of officers involved in the near-deadly arrest of teen drill rapper C Blu were met with outrage Wednesday from criminal justice reform advocates …
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
We can't find John Fetterman  —  Sign up for PA 2022, The Inquirer's Election Newsletter, for news and analysis about Pennsylvania's big 2022 elections, delivered right to your inbox.Welcome back!  It's another week in Pennsylvania politics, and we're taking a look at John Fetterman's game of campaign dodgeball.
Max Read / Read Max:
How to have a career as a journalist in 2022  —  It's the Read Max Career Corner … Over the weekend, a fight erupted on Twitter between current Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman and former Times social-media reporter Taylor Lorenz.  The short version is something like …
Discussion: Puck
Associated Press:
Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots for rejection in primary  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans alike and in counties big and small …
Discussion: Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A strange new defense of Trump's coup effort is both wrong and dangerous  —  Ever since Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, we've heard endless variations of a particularly pernicious claim: Trump and many GOP voters really believed the election was stolen from him.
Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021  — The Extreme Right's Pivot to (Live) Video  — A White Nationalist's Journey Through Alt-Tech  — What We Do Now: Policy Recommendations  —  The Year in Hate and Extremism 2021  —  In this section  —  • Meeting the challenge of the hard right
Discussion: Raw Story
Freya Parr / Classical Music:
Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky from programme in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine  —  The orchestra had an all-Tchaikovsky concert scheduled for next week, but has decided to change the programme having deemed it to be ‘inappropriate’ at this time
James Jeffrey / Defense One:
Put US Boots in Ukraine to Defend a UN-Approved Security Zone  —  It worked in Syria.  —  CHAIR, MIDDLE EAST PROGRAM, WILSON CENTER  —  President Biden's State of the Union address, which called for the rest of the world to emerge stronger than Russia out of the Ukraine crisis, captures well an actual American strategy.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Fox News reporter rebukes Greg Gutfeld for saying media wants ‘emotional response’ in Ukraine coverage  —  Moments after Fox News host Greg Gutfeld accused media outlets of seeking an “emotional response” in their coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the network turned …
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boys Leader Dragged Out of Bed in His Underwear to Face Conspiracy Charge  —  RUDE AWAKENING  —  Apparently taken by complete surprise, former Proud Boys ringleader Enrique Tarrio was handcuffed in nothing but his skivvies early Tuesday morning, as police arrived at his Miami home …
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Drag Queen Who Says Biden Is a ‘Senile’ ‘White Supremacist’ Scheduled To Perform at Dem Retreat  —  The drag queen invited to perform for congressional Democrats during their policy retreat referred to President Joe Biden as “senile” and a “white supremacist” and called his voters “dim-witted.”
Project Veritas:
Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Reporter: January 6 Media Coverage ‘Overreaction,’ FBI Involved, Event Was Not Organized Despite Ongoing Narrative  — NYT National Security Correspondent, Matthew Rosenberg, contradicts his own January 6 reporting: “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.”
NBC News:
U.S. warns Russia could use chemical weapons in false-flag operation in Ukraine  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say they are concerned Russia could potentially be preparing to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine after the Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of possibly planning a false-flag chemical weapon attack.
Discussion: The Hill and Hoaxlines
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Reëxamining Putin's Military Interventions in the Middle East  —  Can Russia's conduct in Syria and Libya predict what's in store for Ukraine?  —  In September, 2015, President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to intervene on behalf of the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad …
 
 
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Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America:
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New York Magazine:
Russia's Antiwar Protesters Are Terrified
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
General Mark Hertling: Why the Russians Will Lose
Sky News:
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Emily Oster / The Atlantic:
Masking Policy Is Incredibly Irrational Right Now
Discussion: New York Post
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
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New York Times:
How Western Firms Quietly Enabled Russian Oligarchs
Discussion: Washington Post
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A judge uses Tucker Carlson's own words against Fox News
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
GOP pushes for an ‘earthquake in American electoral power’
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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