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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 …
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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White House under pressure from Congress and Zelensky to find ways to deliver Soviet-made weapons to Ukraine
White House under pressure from Congress and Zelensky to find ways to deliver Soviet-made weapons to Ukraine
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Washington Examiner, Изв …, National Review, POLITICUSUSA, WHTM-TV, New York Times, USA Today and Reuters
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
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
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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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Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio jailed pending trial in Jan. 6 Capitol attack — MIAMI — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a longtime leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, to remain jailed pending trial on charges that he conspired with followers who planned …
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Associated Press, BuzzFeed News, WFLA-TV, CBS News, Raw Story, NBC 6 South Florida and Political Wire
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Proud Boys leader indicted in Jan. 6 conspiracy ordered detained until trial
Proud Boys leader indicted in Jan. 6 conspiracy ordered detained until trial
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Insider, CNN, The Status Kuo, New York Times, HillReporter.com, NBC 6 South Florida and WSVN-TV
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 …
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Raw Story
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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
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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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 …
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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Washington Times
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Kate Davidson / Politico:
Raskin withdraws as Biden's Fed nominee
Raskin withdraws as Biden's Fed nominee
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Washington Examiner, NBC News, Bloomberg, Human Events, New York Times and Associated Press
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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The Hill, Associated Press and The Daily Wire
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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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The Daily Beast, UPI, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Townhall, We Love Trump and Metro.co.uk
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Russia imposes sanctions on Biden and Secretaries Blinken, Austin
Russia imposes sanctions on Biden and Secretaries Blinken, Austin
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Wall Street Journal, Human Events, Big League Politics, The Daily Wire and IJR
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 …
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The Present Age
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
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 …
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Christopher Six's Pick Six
John Ismay / New York Times:
Russia Deploys a Mystery Munition in Ukraine — Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles are releasing a previously unknown decoy designed to evade air-defense systems, an American official said. — American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia …
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Alternet.org, Raw Story and Casual Cyber Security
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
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 …
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
Marco Rubio isn't posing as a gay ally anymore — The Florida Republican is defending his party's harmful 'Don't Say Gay' legislation. — In 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) advised his fellow Christian conservatives to show tolerance toward LGBTQ people. Six years later …
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.
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CNN
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 …
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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Washington Examiner, Oklahoman and The Hill
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, Breitbart, Political Wire and The Daily Caller
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
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
CENTCOM commander: ISIS attacks will ‘ramp up’ in summer as Taliban struggles to keep them at bay — Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said Taliban is even less effective at controlling al Qaeda — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 15 — Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command …
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Wire
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
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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Breitbart, Washington Post, Insider, The Guardian and Morning Shots
Allahpundit / HotAir:
A key concession: Zelensky says Ukraine understands that it can never join NATO — Formal neutrality by Ukraine towards NATO was one of the demands made by Russia eight days ago, after it stepped back from Putin's pledge to settle for nothing less than “denazification” and demilitarization of the country.
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Newsweek, Financial Times, Louder With Crowder, Common Dreams and Raw Story