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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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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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Fox News, Insider, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Political Wire
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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HotAir, Reuters, Washington Post, Mediaite, New Republic, Fox News, Rolling Stone, New York Post and CNN
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.
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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Politico, Washington Examiner, Daily Mail and Forbes
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
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The Hill, Politico, NBC News, Letters from an American and Raw Story
YouTube:
WATCH LIVE | Ukraine's Zelensky addresses U.S. Congress
WATCH LIVE | Ukraine's Zelensky addresses U.S. Congress
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CBC News, Wall Street Journal, TheBlaze, Mediaite, The Hill and Today's Edition 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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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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Mediaite, National Journal and Insider
Politico:
Top Trump ally gears up for Romney primary challenge
Top Trump ally gears up for Romney primary challenge
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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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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, The Western Journal, Cafe Hayek and Alex Domash
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Federal Reserve approves first interest rate hike in more than three years, sees six more ahead
Federal Reserve approves first interest rate hike in more than three years, sees six more ahead
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Board of Governors …, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller and Mercury News
Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
Fed announces first interest rate hike in years as inflation looms large
Fed announces first interest rate hike in years as inflation looms large
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Politico and Washington Times
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, Raw Story, Mediaite, Insider, LGBTQ Nation and Washington Post
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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.
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National Review and New York Times
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
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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BBC, New York Post, Raw Story, Reuters and The Guardian
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 …
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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 …
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CNN and Political Wire
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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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Washington Post, Pew Research Center, New York Times, New York Times, New Republic, Insider and The Editorial Board
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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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Alternet.org, HillReporter.com and Raw Story
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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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 …
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, Townhall, The Daily Caller, RedState and CBS Boston
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.
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Politico, National Review, Bloomberg, Townhall, Los Angeles Times and NPR
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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Boing Boing and IJR
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
Kay-Ann Henry / Bolts:
Florida Is Set to Create a New Police Force to Investigate Elections — The reform will add to a wave of Republican laws that are criminalizing the voting process under the pretense of cracking down on fraud. — Jim Crow-era election laws are getting a facelift in Florida.
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