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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital — IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings. Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …
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HotAir, Insider, HuffPost, Paul's Defense News, The Guardian, nationalinterest.org and The Independent
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CNN:
White House under pressure from Congress and Zelensky to find ways to deliver Soviet-made weapons to Ukraine — Washington (CNN)Nearly three weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still assessing the most effective way to get military aid into the country without triggering a wider war.
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National Review, Изв …, POLITICUSUSA, New York Times, WHTM-TV and USA Today
Tom Cotton / Fox News:
Biden's timid leadership in Ukraine on full display in Poland MiG fiasco
Biden's timid leadership in Ukraine on full display in Poland MiG fiasco
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Washington Times and IJR
Iain Rogers / Bloomberg:
Ukraine Update: Biden Due in Europe Next Week; Putin Blames Kyiv
Ukraine Update: Biden Due in Europe Next Week; Putin Blames Kyiv
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Reuters, Associated Press, GOV.UK and Voice of America
Washington Post:
Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say — A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …
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The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Telegraph, Forbes, Reuters, Mediaite, TheBlaze, NPR, The Morning Missive, Raw Story, New York Post, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, Insider, The Daily Beast and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously) — It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working. — After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …
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POLITICUSUSA and Outside the Beltway
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales — Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington — Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan …
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Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, The Truth Verified Think Tank, The Gateway Pundit and CoinDesk
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Film Crew Recorded Illicit Pre-Insurrection Meeting Between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: Court Document — A documentary team picked up audio of attendees of the extremist meetup discussing the Capitol, per a new court filing — A documentary film crew attended an illicit …
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Politico:
White House, Congress blame game heats up as Covid funding stalls — The Biden administration and members of Congress are pointing fingers at one another over the stalling out of more than $15 billion in pandemic funds that are needed to continue combating Covid-19 in the U.S. and around the world.
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NBC News, ABC News, The Hill, CNN, New York Post, Financial Times, New York Times and Iowa Capital Dispatch
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Kathryn Joyce / Salon:
How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools — Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge — The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb …
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint — Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe from meltdown are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief — It was 10 a.m., 16 days into Russia's war on Ukraine …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Ukrainian Special Forces Have Plans for an Insurgency Against Russia — “Ukraine has a long history of national resistance against occupation,” a special forces soldier told VICE World News. — Ben Makuch — LVIV, Ukraine — Even if Russia succeeds in its invasion of Ukraine and achieves …
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Raw Story, Washington Post and ABC News
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Putin Killed Trump's ‘America First’ Movement — In 2016, Trump wooed disaffected Republicans by bashing Bush's wars. But Russia's bombardment of Ukraine has changed things. … In political campaigns, we are always fighting the last war. — Donald Trump's election in 2016 was …
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Frederick's Newsletter, Boston Herald and Matt Lewis & the News
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Former Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn enters Oklahoma Senate race to succeed GOP's Inhofe … Former Oklahoma Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn is mounting a bid for the Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe. — Horn's candidacy, first reported by the Oklahoman newspaper …
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Oklahoman, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
SF is now boycotting most of the United States — Gavin Newsom likes to say that San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality. Well, okay then. In reality, he's actually ripping off a line from Jefferson Airplane's Paul [...] — SF is now boycotting most of the United States
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Instapundit
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Gov. Reeves Claims Critical Race Theory ‘Humiliates’ White People At Bill Signing — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state's public schools and community colleges.
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Washington Examiner, The Root and The Daily Wire
Jacob Bacharach / New Republic:
Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy? — I have been reading David Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student …
Julie Creswell / New York Times:
He's American, He Oversees Papa John's in Russia and He's Staying — Christopher Wynne's company controls the franchise agreements for the 190 Papa John's locations in the country. “At the end of the day, they appreciate a good pizza,” he said. — Papa John's International said last week …
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The 21 Hats Morning Report
Samuel Benson / Politico:
U.S. sanctions Belarus president, more Russian officials — The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced additional sanctions targeting the president of Belarus, his wife and a number of Russian officials, the latest in a package of penalties intended to punish the Kremlin and its allies for Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record — Republicans looking to run in 2024 once lived in fear of crossing former President Donald Trump. — That's starting to change. — Over the past few weeks, three would-be presidential candidates who hail …
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FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Biggest Lie About Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill Erases One Crucial Word — In the week since Florida lawmakers passed H.B. 1557, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill, the law's most prominent supporters have refused to publicly tell the truth about what the measure actually says.
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Vox, American Greatness and The Racket News
New York Times:
Global Economy Sinks Deeper into Turmoil as Fed Prepares to Raise Rates — Federal Reserve officials are set to raise interest rates to control inflation, but the return to normal they had hoped to see remains painfully elusive. — WASHINGTON — When Federal Reserve officials raise interest rates …
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann Calls For Detaining Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard: ‘They Are Russian Assets’ — Keith Olbermann suggested on Monday that Tucker Carlson and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) should both be arrested and tried by the military. — Per the former cable TV host, both are guilty of being Russian “assets.”
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Glenn Greenwald, Washington Post, RedState, The Moderate Voice, Ace of Spades HQ and Twitchy
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC Almost Brought Back Olbermann to Replace Maddow
MSNBC Almost Brought Back Olbermann to Replace Maddow
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New York Post, LGBTQ Nation, Raw Story, Newsbusters, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Half of Americans Doubt Biden Will Run in 2024, WSJ Poll Shows — The president says he is planning for another campaign; some fellow Democrats worry about his age and energy level — President Biden enters this year's midterm elections with roughly half of Americans doubting …
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CNN, Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Political Wire and The Daily Caller
CNN:
Veteran Fox News cameraman and Ukrainian journalist killed while reporting — New York (CNN Business)Two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday, including Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox News photojournalist. — Zakrzewski's death was announced on Tuesday …
Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Diplomats, Some in War Zones, Struggle to Get Paid — New State Department accounting system has resulted in missing payments for Foreign Service employees — WASHINGTON—A new payroll system at the State Department introduced last year is causing thousands of U.S. diplomats …
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The Hill
Jennifer C. Berkshire / The Nation:
How Progressives Won the School Culture War—in New Hampshire! — An upset victory last week in a red state suggests that the Republican Party's game plan for attacking public education may not be a winning strategy. — It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.
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Washington Post
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Wild Kremlin TV Hosts Threaten the U.S. With Nuclear Strikes Unless Sanctions End and Reparations Are Paid — Russian state media has shut down last week's minor dissent and now demands an end to sanctions and even reparations for affected Russians. Or else.
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Politico
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
‘Liberal Hack Tournament’ returns, tourney all-stars compete with newcomers for viral glory — Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin made history last year as the first woman to win #HackMadness — CNN faces new turmoil amid Cuomo probe — One of the most viral events of the year is underway …
Robert Costa / CBS News:
In private speech, Romney warns of “extraordinary challenge” to preserve American democracy — McLean, Virginia — Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, offered more than 200 Republican donors a stark message on the fragility of American democracy during private remarks on Monday night at a fundraiser in Northern Virginia.
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Insider, UPI, The Guardian and Morning Shots