Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson  —  On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson.

Brent Renaud, an American Journalist, Is Killed in Ukraine  —  Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist, was killed in Ukraine on Sunday while reporting in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, according to Ukraine's Interior Ministry.  —  Mr. Renaud, 50, had worked …

‘His act is wearing thin’: North Carolina Republicans gripe about Madison Cawthorn  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn is stumbling at home and abroad as his bid to play Republican kingmaker falls flat with voters and alienates colleagues.  —  The 26-year-old, first-term North Carolina Republican saw …

TV coverage amplifies the GOP's false claims about gas prices  —  Unsurprisingly, the most egregious examples of the media regurgitating right-wing talking points on gas prices often come from Fox News.  White House reporter Peter Doocy has parroted oil industry talking points at White House briefings …

Trump Says He ‘May Have To’ Run in 2024 During Rambling, Lie-Filled South Carolina Rally Speech  —  “In 2024 we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful White House,” the former president said.  “I wonder who will do that.  I wonder.  I wonder.”  —  Donald Trump didn't even speak …

Missiles target US consulate in north Iraq, no casualties  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — As many as 12 missiles were fired Sunday toward the U.S. consulate in Iraq's northern city of Irbil, Iraqi security officials said.  A U.S. defense official said missiles had been launched at the city from neighboring Iran.

Fox News host: ‘If I was Zelenskyy right now, I would think, I wish Trump was in charge’  —  Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday asserted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would rather be fighting a war while Donald Trump was president even though the former American leader …

Police: Woman stabs date in Las Vegas-area hotel room in retaliation for U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian leader  —  21-year-old faces attempted murder charge, among others  —  HENDERSON, Nev. (KLAS) — A woman is accused of stabbing her date she had met online in retaliation …

Could Putin actually fall?  —  What history teaches us about how autocrats lose power — and how Putin might hang on.  —  As Russia's war in Ukraine looks increasingly disastrous, speculation has mounted that President Vladimir Putin's misstep could prove to be his downfall.

Bodies of Russian Soldiers Filling Up Belarusian Morgues, Residents Say  —  The bodies of Russian soldiers killed in battle in Ukraine are filling up morgues in Belarus, local residents told RFE/RL.  —  Russian soldiers killed in battle are being brought by truck to the morgues and then sent …

Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China's Choice  —  Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor's Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute …

‘I Bought Four Bottles of Wine in Case We Need to Prepare Molotov Cocktails’  —  Russian forces surround Ukraine on three sides.  The U.S. warns that an invasion is imminent.  Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy declares a state of emergency.  —  Aleksey, 26, a printing manager in Kyiv

Victims in crash outside Chevy Chase restaurant identified … Jane Bloom was having lunch with a table of artists who had gotten to know each other online during the pandemic.  It was a sunny Friday, the first day the Parthenon had opened its patio for outdoor seating …

Orwell Was Right  —  From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted  —  This weekend I re-read 1984, a book I tend to reach for when I get Defcon-1 depressed about the state of the world.

Kidnapping of Ukrainian Mayor in Melitopol Met With a Show of Resistance  —  The 33-year-old mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fyodorov, encouraged defiance.  Then he was arrested, and hasn't been heard from since.  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Ivan Fyodorov, as his name suggests, is an ethnic Russian …

O'Rourke calls Abbott a “thug” and an “authoritarian” who's “got his own oligarch here in the state of Texas”  —  The Democratic nominee for governor slammed the Republican incumbent in harsh terms, presaging a bitter lead-up to an election nearly eight months away.  —  Copy link

Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day for terrorism, other offences  —  Saudi Arabia executed 81 men including seven Yemenis and one Syrian on Saturday, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom's biggest mass execution in decades.  —  The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020.