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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Texas Court Halts Abuse Inquiries Into Parents of Transgender Children — A judge said the governor's order to consider medically accepted treatments for transgender youth as abuse had been improperly adopted and violated the State Constitution. — HOUSTON — Investigations of parents …
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The Guardian, The Daily Caller and The Texas Tribune
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Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Judge temporarily blocks Texas investigations into families of trans kids — District Judge Amy Clark Meachum said the governor's directive for the state child welfare agency to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children was “beyond the scope of his authority and unconstitutional.”
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Off the Kuff, Common Dreams, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Bloomberg, National Review and Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Jerusalem Post:
Bennett advises Zelensky to surrender to Russia, Zelensky refuses — Vladimir Putin made an offer to end the Russian war with Ukraine, but the offer includes many Ukrainian sacrifices. — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that he recommends Ukraine …
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Haaretz, The Times of Israel, Lawyers, Guns & Money, HotAir and Washington Post
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Ukrainian official: Bennett told Zelensky he should take Putin's proposal to end war — A senior Ukrainian official said that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday that he should take Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for ending the war.
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
‘Cuomo-W. Trump-L.’: How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News — Texts, email exchanges, and 36 sources tell the true story behind the downfall of TV's ultimate operator — On the rainy morning of March 28, 2020, President Trump addressed a phalanx of journalists outside …
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Townhall, HotAir, New York Post, Twitchy, RedState and TheBlaze, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
American Officials Believe They Have Located Putin's Yacht — They say they have indications that the $700 million, 459-foot yacht, which is in dry dock in Italy, is associated with the Russian president, backing an earlier claim by a former crew member. — WASHINGTON — American officials …
Juliet Chung / Wall Street Journal:
Roman Abramovich U.S. Hedge Fund Investments Are Frozen — Hedge funds told to freeze Russian oligarch's assets after he was sanctioned by the British government — A number of U.S. hedge-fund firms that have investments from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich have been told to freeze …
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The Kyiv Independent, One America News Network and РИА …
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Lucian Kim / Wilson Center:
Putin's Colossal Intelligence Failure … Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a grave miscalculation, the magnitude of which we are just beginning to understand. — Putin is still trying to package his pitiless assault on Ukraine as a preemptive strike to take out a rival that would one day threaten the existence of Russia.
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Financial Times, The Daily Beast, The National Interest, The Guardian and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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Francis Fukuyama / American Purpose:
Preparing for Defeat — I'm writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I've …
Preparing for Defeat — I'm writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I've …
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Rolo Slavskiy's Newsletter and The Times of Israel
Chris Geidner / Grid News:
States are looking at banning travel for certain types of healthcare. The Supreme Court may let them. — It's possible the court will make fundamental changes to traditional rules that states respect the laws of other states. — Deputy Editor, Legal Affairs
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Roll Call, USA Today and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Trump touted a contest for small-dollar donors to dine with him in New Orleans. But no winner met him. — Former president Donald Trump's political group sent at least 15 emails in recent weeks offering small-dollar donors the chance to win a coveted prize if they gave money: dinner with Trump in New Orleans last Saturday.
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Insider, Rolling Stone, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump to rally in South Carolina, taking aim at two House Republicans — Former president holding a rally on Saturday in Florence, South Carolina — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 11 — On the eve of his Saturday evening rally in Florence, South Carolina, former President Donald Trump …
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Washington Examiner, NPR and Associated Press
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
With Trump in Her State, Haley Finds Some Political Distance (Gently)
Washington Post:
U.S. explores sending Ukraine more advanced weapons after scuttling Polish jet deal — The Biden administration, under pressure to expand the arsenal of weapons that Ukraine has in its conflict with Russia, is working with European allies to expedite more sophisticated air-defense systems …
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The Kyiv Independent and Deseret
Washington Post:
Putin's pre-war moves against U.S. tech giants laid groundwork for crackdown on free expression … Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September: take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian President Vladimir Putin within 24 hours or be taken to prison.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Weakness of the Despot — An expert on Stalin discusses Putin, Russia, and the West. — Stephen Kotkin is one of our most profound and prodigious scholars of Russian history. His masterwork is a biography of Josef Stalin. So far he has published two volumes—"Paradoxes of Power …
Washington Post:
Two dead after vehicle crashes outside Parthenon restaurant in D.C. — Two women died and at least nine other people were injured when the driver of a small SUV crashed into patrons at an outdoor seating area of a restaurant along Connecticut Avenue in Northwest Washington at lunchtime Friday …
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DCist, UPI, The Daily Caller and The Hill
Michael Weiss / New Lines Magazine:
Putin's Worsening Problems — Sign up to our mailing list to receive our stories in your inbox. — Russia's unprovoked war on Ukraine is now entering its third week and the much-anticipated fall of Kyiv, estimated by various Western officials last month to be likely within the space of about 72 hours, has not yet occurred.
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Raw Story
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney pauses political donations in Florida, CEO Chapek apologizes for silence over 'Don't Say Gay' bill — Disney CEO Bob Chapek is doubling down on comments he made supporting the LGBTQ+ community during the company's annual shareholder meeting. — The executive apologized for not being a …
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Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Examiner, UPI, WSVN-TV, Daily Kos, Florida Politics, The Verge, Mediaite, Politico, Rolling Stone, The Wrap and WFLA-TV, more at Mediagazer »
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Reuters:
Disney to pause Florida political donations over law limiting LGBTQ discussion
Disney to pause Florida political donations over law limiting LGBTQ discussion
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Financial Times, Boston.com, Variety, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, Forbes and Hollywood Reporter
Bruce Lam / The Walt Disney Company:
Statement On Disney's Support For The LGBTQ+ Community
Statement On Disney's Support For The LGBTQ+ Community
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National Review, The Hill and KRON4
Tom Sims / Reuters:
Deutsche Bank to wind down Russia business — Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) said on Friday that it would wind down its business in Russia. — Deutsche had faced stinging criticism from some investors and politicians on Friday for its ongoing ties to Russia after saying that leaving would go against its values …
Washington Post:
ICE report shows sharp drop in deportations, immigration arrests under Biden — Deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fell sharply last year under President Biden to the lowest levels in the agency's history despite record-high border crossings, according to statistics released Friday in an annual report.
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New York Post, Breitbart, UPI, Kevin Drum, The Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Judge: Trump delays on rape accuser's claims in ‘bad faith’ — NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's legal moves aimed at delaying a rape accuser's defamation claims from reaching trial are in bad faith and, so far, succeeding, a judge said in a decision released Friday as he rejected an attempt by Trump to countersue.
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HillReporter.com and The Daily Beast
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Yes, voters ‘deserve to know’ this GOP plan would raise taxes by $1 trillion — Suppose, for a moment, that the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the group overseeing the 2022 campaigns of all Democratic senators and Senate candidates, announced that Democrats …
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DSCC
New York Times:
Facebook's Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry — The company told workers on Friday that it will reduce or eliminate some of its famous perks as it prepares for a return to the office. — The salad days of Facebook's lavish employee perks may be coming to an end.
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Engadget and Protocol, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
Putin's Challenge To The American Right — An invasion in Europe has exposed the flimsiness of post-liberalism. — It would perhaps be too glorious an irony if it were Vladimir Putin who finally buzz-killed the American and European right's infatuation with post-liberalism.