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4:15 PM ET, March 16, 2022

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Financial Times:
Ukraine and Russia explore neutrality plan in peace talks  —  Fifteen-point draft deal would involve Kyiv renouncing Nato ambitions in return for security guarantees  —  Ukraine and Russia have made significant progress on a tentative peace plan including a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal …
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Russia to Ukraine: How about pledging neutrality like Sweden as a condition to ending this?  Ukraine to Russia: How about no?  —  The fact that the aggressive party in this conflict has backed waaaay off its initial demands while the defensive party is rejecting peace offers out of hand should give us a clue as to who's winning.
Associated Press:
‘Why?  Why?  Why?’  Ukraine's Mariupol descends into despair  —  MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.  —  There's 18-month-old Kirill …
Shashank Bengali / New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Zelensky Asks Congress for More Weapons as Civilian Casualties Rise
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Blinken sets a standard for lifting sanctions: an ‘irreversible’ Russian withdrawal
Politico:
Biden announces fresh aid to Ukraine but stops short of Zelenskyy's demands
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Ukraine's Zelenskyy addresses Congress, invokes 9/11, Pearl Harbor, MLK as he pleads for pivotal aid
CNN:
‘We all will be judged.’ Russian prisoners of war voice disquiet, shame over war in Ukraine
Discussion: Graham's Newsletter and HotAir
Moira Warburton / Reuters:
U.S. Senate unanimously condemns Putin as war criminal
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump says Pence partnership over as ex-president eyes 2024 comeback bid  —  EXCLUSIVE — Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican nomination.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Mo Brooks is disappointing’: Trump mulls pulling Alabama Senate endorsement  —  EXCLUSIVE — Former President Donald Trump is unhappy with Rep. Mo Brooks, the Republican he endorsed for Senate in Alabama, and is mulling a switch to primary rivals Katie Britt or Mike Durant.
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Quarter Point Increase, With More Expected as Inflation Persists  —  The Federal Reserve lifted its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday as policymakers took their first decisive step toward trying to tame rapid inflation by cooling the economy.
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Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
Fed announces first interest rate hike in years as inflation looms large
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns' new Biden book  —  President Biden confessed in private that he didn't understand Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who helped stymie his biggest legislative dreams, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns write in the first major book …
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Grace Panetta / Insider:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema made fun of Biden and praised GOP Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Andy Biggs at a closed-door fundraiser, book says
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Alternet.org
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers running against Kathy Hochul despite opposition from his own party  — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been fielding calls from supporters about a possible campaign against his replacement and fellow Democrat, Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Discussion: National Review and New York Times
Associated Press:
‘Right in the trash’: Texas ballot rejections soar, AP finds  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation's first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign …
Discussion: Vox
Slate:
Idaho's New Anti-Abortion Law Offers Cash Bounties to Rapists' Family Members  —  The slow impending death of Roe v. Wade at the hands of the Supreme Court has encouraged red states to experiment with different approaches to tormenting abortion patients.  In the months since it became clear …
BuzzFeed News:
Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Invested At Least $1.3 Billion With US Financiers, Secret Records Show  —  European governments have frozen the Russian oligarch's assets, including mansions and a soccer team.  But how much he poured into the US has stayed secret.  —  Copy
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge orders DOJ to produce documents related to decision to prosecute Steve Bannon  —  A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce internal records related to its decision to prosecute Steve Bannon, a win for the former Trump adviser, who maintains that he had a sound legal basis …
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
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ABC News:   Jan. 6 committee not planning to subpoena members of Congress, sources say
The Boston Globe:
Founder of Violence in Boston and husband charged with fraud in federal indictment  —  Prosecutors alleged they pocketed money intended for the needy  —  In a June 2019 ceremony at the Suffolk district attorney's office, Monica Cannon-Grant was handed a check for $6,000, a grant awarded to her nonprofit …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor on “Stone Age” Indigenous people, South Asian immigrants, “rootless cosmopolitans,” and more  —  Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a frequent Fox News guest, has denigrated South Asian immigrants as insufficiently patriotic, described Indigenous Americans displaced …
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall safely out of Ukraine after suffering serious injuries  —  Bill Hemmer told viewers, ‘Ben is alert and said to be in good spirits’  —  Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was injured this week while covering the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
GOP senator gives trucker protesters a Capitol tour  —  Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) gave truckers in the so-called “People's Convoy” a tour of the Capitol last week — even as the building remains mostly closed to the public.  —  A senior congressional aide alerted the Department of Justice …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Boing Boing and IJR
Wall Street Journal:
Four Russian Generals Killed in Three Weeks Show Moscow's Vulnerabilities in Ukraine  —  Russia's fighting style and troubled communications are leading to deaths of high-ranking officers on the front lines  —  Four Russian brigadier generals have died in three weeks on the battlefield in Ukraine …
NBC News:
Justice Department accuses Chinese agents of trying to intimidate critics in the U.S.  —  Justice Department to charge Chinese agents with intimidating critics in the U.S.  —  The Justice Department planned to unseal criminal charges Wednesday involving three separate efforts …
The Guardian:
The evidence is clear: it's time to prosecute Donald Trump  —  On the supposedly difficult question of ‘criminal intent’, prosecutors should have no trouble convincing a jury.  Full speed ahead is the only proper course  —  n 8 March, a jury took three hours to render a guilty verdict against Guy Reffitt, a January 6 insurrectionist.
The White House:
Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine  —  President Biden today announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine to $1 billion in just the past week, and a total of $2 billion since the start of the Biden Administration.
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Majority Approve Of NATO Decision Not To Enforce No-Fly Zone, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Public Figures In U.S. Praising Putin Are Viewed Negatively  — mail_outline  —  As NATO holds steadfast in refusing to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, explaining …
Discussion: Insider
Gillian Tett / Financial Times:
Why I should have listened to Garry Kasparov about Putin … A few years ago, the exalted Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov came to dinner at my house in New York.  It was a memorably intense evening.  As we dug into our desserts, Kasparov regaled the assembled group of American policymakers …
George T. Conway III / The Bulwark:
George Conway: Claiming to Be ‘Completely Insane and Stupid’ May Be Trump's Best Defense  —  But “he's never going to bring himself to do that.” … Mona Charen: You see this among the Trump defenders.  They'll say, If he had a good-faith belief that the election was stolen …
 
 
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