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8:45 PM ET, March 15, 2022

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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the '70s.  People Hated It  —  The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974.  Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis …
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Politico:
Here comes the sun: Senate agrees on permanent daylight saving time  —  A bipartisan group of senators has tried and failed, for Congress after Congress, to keep America on daylight saving time permanently.  Until Tuesday, when their bright idea finally cleared the chamber.
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Senate votes unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent … The Senate voted Tuesday to end the biannual practice of “spring forward” and “fall back” under a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent — a move that reflects the increasingly popular view that the twice-yearly …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Herschel Walker Skeptical Of Evolution: ‘Why Are There Still Apes?  Think About It’  —  The former NFL player, who is now running for Senate in Georgia, gets some basic facts wrong.  —  Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker cast doubt on the theory of evolution in recent remarks …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board  —  Biden's nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America's powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.
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Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
Why Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin's Nomination  —  On Friday, an energetic Joe Manchin spoke to a room full of oil and gas executives in Houston.  The following Monday, after long declining to state his position publicly, he came out against Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin …
Discussion: Insider, Alternet.org and Axios
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel obtains riot footage from film crew that trailed Proud Boys  —  The Jan. 6 select committee has obtained footage from a documentary film company that captured crucial moments during the run up to the assault on the Capitol — including snippets of an encounter between leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Timeline: How two extremist groups planned for Jan. 6
Discussion: The Status Kuo and CNN
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
No to Trump in 2024  —  The GOP does not lack for better options.  So why should we put ourselves through all that again?  —  onald Trump hasn't said for sure whether he will run in 2024," reports NPR. “  But he's having a hell of a lot of fun teasing it.  Donald Trump?  In 2024?
Discussion: Bloomberg, Raw Story, Mediaite and NPR
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Russia hits Biden, Blinken and other top U.S. officials with sanctions  —  Washington — The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday it is imposing sanctions on more than a dozen Americans, including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …
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Ben Hodges / CEPA:
The Next 10 Days Will Decide This War  —  Russia's effort to conquer Ukraine may culminate within the next 10 days.  —  The Russians are in trouble, and they know it.  That's why they have reached out to China for help and why they are now recruiting Syrians.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
Health Agency Under Cuomo ‘Misled the Public’ on Nursing Home Deaths  —  The New York State Health Department presented nursing home data that concealed the deaths of 4,100 people, according to an audit by the state comptroller.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — The administration of former …
Discussion: Fox News
Fox News:
Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine  —  Pierre Zakrzewski was with Fox News journalist Benjamin Hall when their vehicle was struck by incoming fire  —  Veteran Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski has died after his vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Horenka …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A Fox News crew was attacked in Ukraine, leaving two journalists dead.
CNN:
Veteran Fox News cameraman and Ukrainian journalist killed while reporting
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 …
Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
Biden Blames the Jews for His Ukraine Policy  —  The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel  —  Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine was precipitated by assurances from China, Germany, and the United States that each …
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Yes, it's Republicans' fault Congress is so polarized  —  (CNN)The technical term is “asymmetric polarization.”  —  It means that one political party is getting more partisan (or polarized) than the other — or that one side is moving closer to its ideological pole than the other.
Discussion: The Why Axis
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Former Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn enters Oklahoma Senate race to succeed GOP's Inhofe
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence's second script rewrite  —  It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes.  —  Pence's decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
Russia business deals muddy GOP US Senate primary in Ohio  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Several Republicans competing for the party's nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Ohio are facing scrutiny for their ties to Russia as the country intensifies its war against Ukraine.
New York Times:
'I'm Not Scared of Anything': Death and Defiance in a Besieged Ukrainian City  —  The port city of Mykolaiv is being shelled by Russian forces every day.  Bodies are piled at the morgue.  But residents refuse to succumb.  —  By Michael SchwirtzPhotographs by Tyler Hicks
Discussion: CBS News
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: RNC sues Salesforce to block Jan. 6 committee data dump  —  The Republican National Committee is suing its own email vendor, Salesforce, in a last-ditch effort to stop it from turning over extensive internal data to the Jan. 6 select committee, Axios has learned.
New York Times:
Republican in Ohio Senate Primary Spoke Offensively About Asians  —  Mike Gibbons, a leading contender to succeed Senator Rob Portman, made the comments in a 2013 podcast on doing business in China.  —  The leading Republican candidate in the Ohio Senate primary employed offensive stereotypes …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and NBC News
Insider:
Putin thought Russia's military could capture Kyiv in 2 days, but it still hasn't in 20  — Putin thought Russia's military could capture Kyiv in 2 days, but it still hasn't in 20.  — Ukraine's capital city has held strong, despite fighting in the outskirts and enduring shelling.
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Everything that Tulsi Gabbard said about biolabs in Ukraine is true  —  Tucker Carlson addresses claims the US is funding biolabs in Ukraine  —  Tucker: This has unleashed something dark in the US  —  Here's something we just saw.  (We) wish we brought it to you earlier.
Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Announce $1 Billion in New Military Aid to Ukraine  —  The additional assistance comes as Ukrainian President Zelensky prepares to make an appeal to Congress  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden is expected to announce more than $1 billion in new military assistance to the Ukraine government …
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 …
Discussion: The Present Age
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.
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump is so clearly running for president that people are complaining to the FEC about it  —  Here are the clips that prompted American Bridge to accuse Trump of violating the law.  —  For the better part of a year, Donald Trump has been traveling the country telling anybody who will listen that he plans to run for president in 2024.
Kurt Volker / CEPA:
Desperate and Dangerous: Managing Putin  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is showing a growing desperation as its war against Ukraine falls further into disarray.  —  Putin knows he is losing, and is doubling down on aggressive actions even as his strategic position weakens.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘I thought he was negotiating’: Trump didn't think Putin would order Ukraine invasion  —  EXCLUSIVE — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview that he is “surprised” Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine and further cracked down on freedom inside Russia …
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Think of Trump as one of Putin's ‘oligarchs.’ It just makes sense  —  Practical gangsterism is the key to understanding.  —  The former president keeps telling on himself.  During an appearance Sunday on Jeanine Pirro's radio show on WABC, Donald Trump expressed, yet again, his sympathy for Russia's reigning kleptocrat.
Discussion: CNN and The Atlantic
 
 
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Ryan Naumann / RADAR:
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
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Brian Thompson / NBC New York:
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New York Times:
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
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