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Financial Times:
Ukraine and Russia draw up neutrality plan to end war — Fifteen-point draft deal would involve Kyiv renouncing Nato membership ambitions in return for security guarantees — Ukraine and Russia have made significant progress on a tentative 15-point peace plan including a ceasefire …
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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 …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
‘Do More,’ Ukraine Leader Says, With Kyiv Under Attack — After the Ukrainian leader's video address to lawmakers, President Biden announced $800 million in new military aid. Ukrainian forces launched a counteroffensive as cease-fire talks between Kyiv and Moscow continued.
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Politico:
Biden announces fresh aid to Ukraine but stops short of Zelenskyy's demands — President Joe Biden announced an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine Wednesday, bringing the total amount of funding allocated this week to Ukraine to $1 billion. — Biden's announcement came …
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Blinken sets a standard for lifting sanctions: an ‘irreversible’ Russian withdrawal — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that merely stopping the invasion of Ukraine may not be enough for Russia to gain relief from Western economic sanctions. The U.S. also wants an assurance that there will never be another such invasion.
YouTube:
WATCH LIVE | Ukraine's Zelensky addresses U.S. Congress
WATCH LIVE | Ukraine's Zelensky addresses U.S. Congress
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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?
Russia to Ukraine: How about pledging neutrality like Sweden as a condition to ending this? Ukraine to Russia: How about no?
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CNN:
‘We all will be judged.’ Russian prisoners of war voice disquiet, shame over war in Ukraine
‘We all will be judged.’ Russian prisoners of war voice disquiet, shame over war in Ukraine
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HotAir and Graham's Newsletter
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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Politico:
Top Trump ally gears up for Romney primary challenge
Top Trump ally gears up for Romney primary challenge
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘I thought he was negotiating’: Trump didn't think Putin would order Ukraine invasion
‘I thought he was negotiating’: Trump didn't think Putin would order Ukraine invasion
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Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
Vladimir Putin Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap — In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin—a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic “genius”—managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine's little-known president into a global hero …
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
World War III ‘may have already started’ with Russian invasion, Zelenskyy says — Exclusive: Zelenskyy speaks on Biden's World War III concerns — Russia may have already started World War III, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday.
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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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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
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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Media Matters for America, Mediaite and Outgunned
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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Political Wire
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. weighs deal to remove Iran's IRGC from terror blacklist — The Biden administration is considering removing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from a terror blacklist in return for a public commitment from Iran to de-escalation in the region, three Israeli officials and two U.S. sources tell me.
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The Fed is charting a course to stagflation and recession — When the long-awaited process of raising interest rates begins Wednesday, market observers will fixate on the precise words used in the Fed statement and during Chair Jerome H. Powell's news conference.
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Reuters, Cafe Hayek and Alex Domash
Third Way:
The Red State Murder Problem … Takeaways — The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions.
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Occupy Democrats, Alternet.org and Djelloul Marbrook's Prism
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Romney stirs ugly treason talk — ROMNEY STIRS UGLY TREASON TALK. It's one thing for the usual suspects in over-the-top commentary — the Keith Olbermanns, the cast of The View, the Lincoln Project, and others — to call their fellow Americans traitors. They're not known for thoughtful, measured opinion.
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Geoff's Newsletter, The Liberty Loft, BizPac Review and Louder With Crowder
James Salzer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp signs midyear spending plan with raises, bonuses, tax refund — State, university and k-12 school employees should see a bump in their paychecks next month after Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed a $30.2 billion midyear budget that includes raises and bonuses for workers and a $1 billion tax refund for Georgians.
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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Raw Story and Alternet.org
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 …
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Reuters:
U.S. Senate votes to overturn transit mask mandate; Biden vows veto — The U.S. Senate voted 57 to 40 on Tuesday to overturn a 13-month-old public health order requiring masks on airplanes and other forms of public transportation, drawing a quick veto threat from President Joe Biden.
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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.
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