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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.
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 …
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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
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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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Film Crew Recorded Illicit Pre-Insurrection Meeting Between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: Court Document
Discussion: Insider and Politico
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
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Zelenskyy's pitch to Congress puts more pressure on Biden to expand U.S. role  —  As his nation tries to withstand a Russian onslaught, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to use his Wednesday address to Congress to beseech Washington to do more to help …
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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 …
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 …
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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Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
Mississippi governor signs bill banning critical race theory in public schools
Discussion: ABC News and The Root
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.
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 …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A Fox News crew was attacked in Ukraine, leaving two journalists dead.
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.
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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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 …
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
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.
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.
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: The Atlantic and CNN
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Elections Commission won't sanction Republicans who posed as presidential electors in 2020  —  MADISON - The state Elections Commission unanimously decided not to sanction 10 Republicans — including one of the commissioners — for falsely claiming to be presidential electors in 2020, according to a letter released Tuesday.
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 …
New York Times:
Submarine Spy Couple Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Brazil  —  Jonathan and Diana Toebbe pleaded guilty last month in the espionage case, but until now the identity of the nation they had approached had remained publicly undisclosed.  —  WASHINGTON — In 2020, a United States naval engineer …
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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Josh Israel / The American Independent:
Marco Rubio isn't posing as a gay ally anymore
Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
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Kathryn Joyce / Salon:
How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools
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