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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 …
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Washington Post:
Democrats embrace politically risky strategy on rising gas prices … President Biden and congressional Democrats united Tuesday behind a ban on Russian oil and natural gas imports, embracing a politically risky strategy that is expected to drive up already-rising fuel prices while seeking …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Thank God Trump Isn't President Right Now — Biden isn't perfect, but he beats the alternative. — Joe Biden is not a very good president. His communication skills are subpar, e.g. when he found himself praising the “Iranian” instead of the Ukrainian people in his State of the Union speech.
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Raw Story
Financial Times:
US puts pressure on shale industry to do ‘whatever it takes’ to ease oil crisis
US puts pressure on shale industry to do ‘whatever it takes’ to ease oil crisis
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ Poll: 79% of Americans Back Ban on Russian Oil Even if Energy Prices Rise
WSJ Poll: 79% of Americans Back Ban on Russian Oil Even if Energy Prices Rise
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
How Dems Helped Spike Gas Prices
How Dems Helped Spike Gas Prices
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Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Kemp leads Perdue in Georgia's GOP primary race for governor — Gov. Brian Kemp receives 50% compared to 39% for former Sen. David Perdue, whom Donald Trump endorsed — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 8 — Over a year after narrowly losing re-election to the U.S. Senate …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Trump's man in North Carolina struggles in Senate primary — Donald Trump's pick in North Carolina's contentious Republican Senate primary is struggling to gain traction, raising concerns among his powerful backers about his prospects in a race that is key to control of the Senate.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: McCormick tops Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania GOP senate primary poll — A Fox News survey of Pennsylvania GOP primary voters finds McCormick tops Oz by 9 points — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 8 — Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick has a clear advantage …
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CNN:
Pentagon says Polish proposal to transfer jets to US to give to Ukraine isn't ‘tenable’ — (CNN)The Pentagon on Tuesday evening dismissed Poland's proposal floated hours earlier to transfer its MiG-29 fighter jets to the United States for delivery to Ukraine.
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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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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
The World Needs to Prepare for a Long Ukraine War
The World Needs to Prepare for a Long Ukraine War
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Intelligence Tells Congress Putin Is ‘Unlikely to Be Deterred’
U.S. Intelligence Tells Congress Putin Is ‘Unlikely to Be Deterred’
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 …
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
The sad, strange saga of Mark Meadows's dream home
The sad, strange saga of Mark Meadows's dream home
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Raw Story
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's Ship, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctica — Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915. — The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic …
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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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Leslie Patton / Bloomberg:
McDonald's to Shutter 850 Russia Stores After Backlash
McDonald's to Shutter 850 Russia Stores After Backlash
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Will Leitch / New York Magazine:
Why Isn't Brittney Griner the Biggest Sports Story in the Country? — The second-best player in every sport is a superstar at a level that 99.999 percent of professional athletes — who are already the elite of the elite of the elite — will never come close to achieving.
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Cindy Wang / Bloomberg:
Flipping Wrong Switch and Not Hackers Caused Outage in Taiwan — Flawed design and poor communication — including an operator's decision to flip a switch marked “Do Not Operate” — were the main causes of an island-wide power outage in Taiwan last week, according to a government investigation.
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Political Wire
Shweta Sharma / The Independent:
DC ‘freedom convoy’ gets defeated by regular traffic for second day in a row — Some vehicles of convoy broke down while others were separated from each other — Trucker convoy protest in Washington DC fails as no-one shows up — An American truckers' rally inspired by the self-styled …
The White House:
Statement of President Joe Biden on the Return of American Detainees from Venezuela — Tonight—two Americans who were wrongfully detained in Venezuela will be able to hug their families once more. — We are bringing Gustavo Cardenas and Jorge Fernandez home.
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Bloomberg
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Biden signing cryptocurrency executive order that paves way for US government ‘coin’ — President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Tuesday that moves the U.S. government one step closer toward launching a digital currency tied directly to the central banking system.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Travels with Milley: The general brings his ‘big green map’ to NATO's flank — CONSTANTA, Romania — Gen. Mark A. Milley carries what his staff calls the “big green map” of Ukraine with him everywhere he goes — inside the Pentagon, at White House meetings with President Biden and on foreign trips …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russia Set to Ban Commodity Exports Following Western Sanctions — President Putin's decree didn't specify which commodities and countries would be subjected to the export ban — Russian President Vladimir Putin is banning exports of certain commodities and raw materials, according to a decree issued Tuesday evening in Moscow.
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Outside the Beltway, Conservative Daily News and The Daily Caller
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Do Covid Precautions Work? — Yes, but they haven't made a big difference. — Daily life in red and blue America has continued to be quite different over the past few months. It's a reflection of the partisan divide over Covid-19. Consider: — In the country's most liberal cities, many people are still avoiding restaurants.
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
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Invasion Turns Ukraine's Local Politicians Into Resistance Leaders — Governors and mayors fight to keep spirits up and information flowing as they run territorial defense — KYIV, Ukraine—Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, now facing a Russian advance …
Shirin Ali / The Hill:
Disney CEO addresses silence on Florida 'Don't Say Gay' bill — “I firmly believe that our ability to tell such stories — and have them received with open eyes, ears, and hearts — would be diminished if our company were to become a political football in any debate.” — Story at a glance
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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. …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Putin Has No Good Way Out, and That Really Scares Me — If you're hoping that the instability that Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine has wreaked on global markets and geopolitics has peaked, your hope is in vain. We haven't seen anything yet. Wait until Putin fully grasps that his only choices left …
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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.”
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