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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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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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Politico, Fox News, Insider, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Daily Mail and Forbes
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 …
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.
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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Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Blinken sets a standard for lifting sanctions: an ‘irreversible’ Russian withdrawal
Blinken sets a standard for lifting sanctions: an ‘irreversible’ Russian withdrawal
YouTube:
WATCH LIVE | Ukraine's Zelensky addresses U.S. Congress
WATCH LIVE | Ukraine's Zelensky addresses U.S. Congress
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HotAir, CBC News, TheBlaze, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
NBC News:
Biden to commit new military aid to Ukraine following Zelenskyy plea to U.S. for more support
Biden to commit new military aid to Ukraine following Zelenskyy plea to U.S. for more support
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Washington Post, USA Today, Insider, The Kyiv Independent, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News and KyivPost
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, Graham's Newsletter and Politico
Washington Post:
Zelensky to the U.S.: ‘Do more’ — Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here.
Moira Warburton / Reuters:
U.S. Senate unanimously condemns Putin as war criminal
U.S. Senate unanimously condemns Putin as war criminal
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Politico, NBC News, Fox News, Cartas de una estadounidense, New York Post, UPI, The Kyiv Independent and Letters from an American
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.
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National Journal and Insider
Politico:
Top Trump ally gears up for Romney primary challenge — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, who backed Donald Trump's efforts to challenge the 2020 election results, is preparing for a 2024 Senate run that could pit him against Sen. Mitt Romney in a GOP primary.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
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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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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RedState, Washington Post, Insider, Raw Story, Mediaite and LGBTQ Nation
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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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Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk and Political Wire
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The Fed is charting a course to stagflation and recession
The Fed is charting a course to stagflation and recession
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Reuters, Cafe Hayek and Alex Domash
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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New York Times and New Republic
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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 …
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Texas Standard, Gideon Knox Group, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Vanity Fair
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Which party is more ruthless? It's not even close.
Which party is more ruthless? It's not even close.
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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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New York Post, BBC, Raw Story, Reuters and The Guardian
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 …
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
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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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 …
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New York Post, Washington Examiner, Justice News, RedState, The Daily Caller and CBS Boston
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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ArkansasTimes, Occupy Democrats, Alternet.org and Djelloul Marbrook's Prism
Jessica Garrison / Los Angeles Times:
The ex-Hollywood filmmaker bankrolling a far-right political revolt in rural California — Reverge Anselmo, a former U.S. Marine, former novelist, ex-filmmaker, former vintner and guardian of a vast fortune, abandoned his stunning Shasta County estate in 2014 in a huff.
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Raw Story
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
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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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 …
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Washington Examiner, Reuters, CNBC and Ace of Spades HQ
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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