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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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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.
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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
Rep Madison Cawthorn of NC facing misdemeanor license charge
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Pariah? Hardly. Banks are still willing to lend to Trump
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
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Stephen Miller Sues Over Jan. 6 Subpoena of T-Mobile Family Plan — Trump White House senior advisor Stephen Miller sued the House Jan. 6 committee to block a subpoena of his parents' T-Mobile family plan which provides him with a number. — The federal suit filed Wednesday in Washington …
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Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Miller's Jan. 6 Lawsuit Reveals He's Still on Mom and Dad's Phone Plan
Stephen Miller's Jan. 6 Lawsuit Reveals He's Still on Mom and Dad's Phone Plan
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
New York Times:
How Western Firms Quietly Enabled Russian Oligarchs — Investment, law and lobbying firms have helped enmesh Kremlin-linked oligarchs into the Western financial and legal systems. — Behind a set of imposing metal doors in an easy-to-miss office building in a New York City suburb …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Graham signals he's a likely no on Biden SCOTUS pick — Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), an influential Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is signaling he's leaning toward voting “no” on President Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court …
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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.”
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.
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
N.C. GOP Senate candidate launches ad accusing primary rival of supporting Putin
N.C. GOP Senate candidate launches ad accusing primary rival of supporting Putin
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Texas regulators seek punishment for pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell — Texas legal regulators have asked a judge to discipline attorney Sidney Powell for filing lawsuits they say were frivolous in support of former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud.
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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.
Jo Yurcaba / NBC News:
‘Our state is terrorizing us’: Texas families of transgender kids fight investigations — Texas targets trans youth and their families — L., a mom who lives in Austin, Texas, said she was excited and relieved when her transgender son turned 18 last month, because “he made it.”
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
GOP pushes for an ‘earthquake in American electoral power’ — A legal argument lurking in two Supreme Court cases could give Republican legislators in battleground states sweeping control over election procedures, with ramifications that could include power over how states select presidential electors.
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 …
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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.”
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A judge uses Tucker Carlson's own words against Fox News — It's a pretty remarkable state of affairs when a judge is approvingly citing Tucker Carlson's journalistic rigor, but that's precisely the situation we find ourselves in now. — And rather ironically, that could be bad news for Fox News.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Xi Jinping promised Trump he wouldn't invade Taiwan — and Trump believed him — Promises of peaceful intentions from dictators are at best worthless; at worst, they're dangerous lies designed to lull us into complacency, as Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has underscored.
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
General Mark Hertling: Why the Russians Will Lose — Russia won't be able to take large Ukrainian cities. But that won't stop them from bombing them into rubble. Americans say ‘make it end,’ but it won't until Putin accepts defeat in a war he can't win.
Politico:
MAGA-world fails to flock to Truth Social — At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida speculation of a 2024 presidential bid by former President Donald Trump loomed large. But fanfare about his Truth Social app that had launched earlier that week? There was hardly any.
New York Magazine:
Russia's Antiwar Protesters Are Terrified — And still marching. — The day after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Denis, 25, made his way to an antiwar protest in the heart of St. Petersburg. Denis had protested after the opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned and imprisoned …
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Democrats forced to delay vote on $1.5T omnibus spending bill, Ukraine aid — Pelosi is also removing COVID-19 funding from the package due to objections from Democrats — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 9 — House Democrats' plan to take a quick vote to fund the government …
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
MiGs for Ukraine: Who will send them — and how? — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An awkward dispute between the United States and NATO ally Poland is casting doubt on Ukraine's hopes to obtain the MiG fighter jets it says it needs to defend against Russia's invasion.