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Zach Dorfman / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Secret CIA training program in Ukraine helped Kyiv prepare for Russian invasion — Ukrainian snipers had a problem: Russian forces in eastern Ukraine were trying to blind them. — As the Ukrainians were looking through their scopes in order to find their targets …
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Kori Schake / Washington Post:
Russia's military is incompetent. That makes it more dangerous. … Last month, Russia's position on Ukraine's borders looked promising: Moscow had amassed an invasion force with nearly as many troops as Ukraine has in its active-duty military, had spent two decades modernizing its weapons and organization …
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Washington Examiner, Financial Times, Euractiv, National Review, Forbes, Task & Purpose, The Kyiv Independent and Paul's Defense News
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Digging Into Russia's Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’ — Context and contrition. — From the start of the Ukraine/Russia conflict in 2014, claims that the new post-Euromaidan Ukraine—or at least its leadership—was a neo-Nazi wolf in liberal clothing figured prominently in pro-Kremlin discourse.
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Raw Story, KEYE, Joe.My.God., RedState and The Times of Israel
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Stop buying from these companies. They're funding Putin's war.
Stop buying from these companies. They're funding Putin's war.
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Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, HotAir, Ace of Spades HQ, The Liberty Loft and Washington Times
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Ukraine Speech Biden Should Give Now
The Ukraine Speech Biden Should Give Now
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Euractiv, Washington Post, Washington Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Guardian and Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:
Even if Zelenskyy Accepts a Humiliating Peace Deal, Putin Won't Abide by It
Even if Zelenskyy Accepts a Humiliating Peace Deal, Putin Won't Abide by It
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Today's Edition Newsletter and Washington Post
New York Times:
Jeff Zients to Leave as Biden's Covid Czar and Be Replaced by Ashish Jha — The choice of Dr. Jha, an outspoken public health expert, is a sign that the White House believes the country is entering a new phase of the pandemic. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Living in red America can be life-threatening — It should come as no surprise that the highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states. A political mind-set that prioritizes racial resentment, anti-science zealotry and manufactured cultural wedge issues …
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Balloon Juice, Breitbart, Alternet.org, ArkansasTimes and Third Way
Axios:
Scoop: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end — U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border if COVID-era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are ended …
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CNN, Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Semi-Pro Pilgrim, Townhall and The Federalist
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
New federal ventilation guidelines mark next step in fight against COVID
Inside Edition:
Fearing Poisoning, Vladimir Putin Replaces 1,000 of His Personal Staff — Kremlin Questioned Protesting Russian TV Producer for 14 Hours After Arrest — Russian Speakers Make Cold Calls to Thwart Putin's Ukraine Propaganda — Parents of Ex-Marine Jailed in Russia Say Putin Is Using Him as a Political Pawn
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Althouse
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Everyone Was Surprised By The Senate Passing Permanent Daylight Saving Time. Especially The Senators. — WASHINGTON — The Senate's unanimous passage of a bill to make daylight saving time permanent stunned many Americans, not least of which the senators themselves.
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Washington Times, WHTM-TV and Alternet.org
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place — Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world's pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart.
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, Foreign Affairs, Ivan's Newsletter, TheBlaze, Joe.My.God. and New York Times
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War's Most Decisive Routs
A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War's Most Decisive Routs
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Outside the Beltway, Al Jazeera, New York Times, Balloon Juice, Raw Story and HotAir
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin Assails Russians Who Back the West, Signaling More Repression
Putin Assails Russians Who Back the West, Signaling More Repression
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’
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New York Times:
Hunter Biden Paid Tax Bill, but Broad Federal Investigation Continues — The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president's son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hannity's clownish contortions on Ukraine reveal the rot at Trumpism's core — Donald Trump's most slavish propagandists have a problem. Trump withheld military aid from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an extortion scheme of unfathomable corruption and depravity.
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Insider and POLITICUSUSA
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push ‘big lie’ — Report on Dominion voting machines produced after 2020 election was not the work of volunteer in Trump's post-election legal team — Weeks after the 2020 election, at least one Trump White House aide was named …
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Brittney Griner's detention extended until May, Russian news agency says — American basketball star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia has been extended until May, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region. — “The court granted the petition …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Insider, NPR and The Guardian
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: RNC down to two 2024 convention finalists — DRIVING THE DAY — ZELENSKYY'S APPEAL FALLS SHORT (FOR NOW) — No one was surprised by the request: a no-fly zone — and if not that, then access to those Soviet-style fighter jets in Poland that could help them “close the sky.”
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Michael Warren / CNN:
RNC narrows 2024 convention finalists down to Nashville and Milwaukee
RNC narrows 2024 convention finalists down to Nashville and Milwaukee
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UPI, The Hill, Fox News and Just The News
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Chinese Officer Charged With Harassing N.Y. Congressional Candidate — Yan Xiong, a Chinese dissident who immigrated to America and is now a political candidate in New York, was targeted by an agent of the Chinese government, federal prosecutors said. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Sally Ho / Associated Press:
U.S. Olympian Alysa Liu, father targeted in Chinese spy case
U.S. Olympian Alysa Liu, father targeted in Chinese spy case
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Insider, The Daily Caller, CNBC and Bloomberg
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
How Putin's Oligarchs Bought London — From banking to boarding schools, the British establishment has long been at their service, discretion guaranteed. — Roman Abramovich was thirty-four years old—baby-faced, vigorous, already one of Russia's richest oligarchs—when he did something seemingly inexplicable.
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Raw Story
David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
Is Free Speech In American Law Schools A Lost Cause? — Recent controversies at UC Hastings and Yale Law—Yale, shocking, I know—don't provide much reason for hope. … On March 1, at the UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, the law school's chapter of the Federalist Society attempted …
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Washington Examiner, National Review, Yale Daily News, BizPac Review and American Greatness
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders camp quietly pushes Khanna presidential bid — Top figures from Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign are privately encouraging Ro Khanna to run for president in 2024 if Joe Biden doesn't seek a second term, giving the California congressman an important stamp of approval from progressives …
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Common Dreams
Politico:
House liberals start asking Biden to sidestep Congress — months before the midterms — Nearly eight months out from the midterms, some House Democrats are acting like they've already lost their majority. — Liberal Democrats in the lower chamber are so frustrated by Senate standoffs …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
With legislation languishing and midterms approaching, Democratic lawmakers pressure Biden to issue executive orders
With legislation languishing and midterms approaching, Democratic lawmakers pressure Biden to issue executive orders
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Fox News and Washington Examiner