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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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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.
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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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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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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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Washington Examiner and Daily Kos
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 …
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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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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Stephen Miller Sues Over Jan. 6 Subpoena of T-Mobile Family Plan
Stephen Miller Sues Over Jan. 6 Subpoena of T-Mobile Family Plan
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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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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney Pledges $5 Million to Protect LGBTQ Rights, CEO to Meet With Florida Gov to Discuss 'Don't Say Gay' Bill … Disney CEO Bob Chapek said Wednesday the company is pledging $5 million to the Human Rights Campaign and other organizations protecting LGBTQ rights following backlash …
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
How the GOP, horrifically, succeeded with “Don't say gay”
How the GOP, horrifically, succeeded with “Don't say gay”
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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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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
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.
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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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The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Task & Purpose and Raw Story
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.
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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Washington Examiner, Slate, Breitbart and Reason
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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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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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 …
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Daily Kos
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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Dallas Morning News, Detroit Free Press, The Hill, Raw Story, Forbes, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth and Washington Examiner
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.”
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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.
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.
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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BizPac Review, Mediaite, HuffPost, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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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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.
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COVID-19 Policy Update, WND and HotAir
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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KXAN-TV, Daily Kos and Media Matters for America
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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Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and Atlantic Council