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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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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle
America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle
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Becker's Hospital Review, Digby's Hullabaloo and Deseret News
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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Washington Post:
N.C. investigates Mark Meadows after reports that he never lived where he registered to vote — State investigators in North Carolina are probing Mark Meadows over his voter registration, after news organizations reported that the former White House chief of staff registered to vote in 2020 using …
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Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
State investigators asked to probe Meadows' voter registration — The North Carolina attorney general's office has asked the State Bureau of Investigations to look into former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows' voter registration in North Carolina, an office spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
Danielle Battaglia / Raleigh News & Observer:
Ex-Trump aide Mark Meadows faces criminal voter-fraud probe
Ex-Trump aide Mark Meadows faces criminal voter-fraud probe
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Talking Points Memo and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Russian Forces Take Losses on Battlefield, but Civilian Toll Worsens — Russia's ground advance slowed, but more missile and other attacks struck civilians. As cease-fire talks continued with uncertain prospects, the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Ukraine.
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Shawn Hubler / New York Times:
Why Arnold Schwarzenegger taped an impassioned video to Russia, telling Putin: ‘Stop this war.’
Why Arnold Schwarzenegger taped an impassioned video to Russia, telling Putin: ‘Stop this war.’
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Reason, Los Angeles Times, HotAir and Raw Story
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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Political Wire, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Mediaite and Washington Times
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Durbin, White House slam emerging GOP attack on KBJ sex offender rulings — Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin and the Biden White House on Thursday derided a new GOP attack on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, centered on her handling of sex offenders.
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Foreign Policy:
Republican Senators Block Confirmation of Key Biden Officials, Stymying Ukraine Response — A Democratic lawmaker accuses Sen. Rick Scott of “single-handedly undermining” the United States' full response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. — In recent weeks, the Biden administration …
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Blinken joins Biden in calling Russian attacks ‘war crimes’
Blinken joins Biden in calling Russian attacks ‘war crimes’
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Yahoo News:
Russian billionaire's yacht is docked in St. Augustine — St. Augustine is home to a Russian billionaire's $7 million yacht. — Igor Makarov's 128-foot yacht, called Areti I, has been in St. Augustine at Camachee Cove for years, a spokesman for his firm, Areti International Group, said.
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Steven Monacelli / The Daily Beast:
Prosecutors Try to Jail MAGA Fanatic After Daily Beast Report — Joshua Macias has been in the thick of Stop the Steal chaos since November 2020. Now prosecutors say he is violating his bail conditions. … Philadelphia prosecutors have filed a motion seeking to revoke the bail of Joshua Macias …
CNN:
Biden calls Putin a ‘murderous dictator’ and ‘pure thug’ — (CNN)President Joe Biden on Thursday called Vladimir Putin a “pure thug” and “murderous dictator,” his latest pointed attack against the Russian President as the war in Ukraine rages on. — Speaking at the annual Friends …
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Anna Venarchik / The Daily Beast:
Pelosi Says She'll Honor Ukraine—With a Bono Poetry Reading
Pelosi Says She'll Honor Ukraine—With a Bono Poetry Reading
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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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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Digging Into Russia's Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’
Digging Into Russia's Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’
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Jeremy Pelzer / Plain Dealer:
Gov. Mike DeWine's suggestion to break Ohio's redistricting impasse: have mapmakers collaborate on bipartisan plan — COLUMBUS, Ohio — The morning after the Ohio Supreme Court threw out a third Republican-backed legislative redistricting plan, Gov. Mike DeWine suggested having Democratic and GOP mapmakers …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
2022 GOP showdown: New Hampshire Gov. Sununu to veto redistricting map written by Republicans
2022 GOP showdown: New Hampshire Gov. Sununu to veto redistricting map written by Republicans
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CBS News and Associated Press
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Journalists Love War — Some press corps members are so fired up, they're almost ready to take up arms in the Ukraine fight. — NBC News reporter Richard Engel, a veteran foreign war correspondent, dropped a tweet a few days after the war began that appeared to lament that U.S. forces …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: RNC down to two 2024 convention finalists
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: RNC down to two 2024 convention finalists
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Invitation / The Economist:
Daniel Yergin on Russia losing its status as an “energy superpower” — The energy analyst and award-winning author of “The Prize” and “The New Map” says Vladimir Putin is destroying the foundation of his country's economic power — Vladimir putin once said that he did not like hearing Russia described as an “energy superpower”.
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Putin Likely to Make Nuclear Threats If War Drags, U.S. Says — President Vladimir Putin can be expected to brandish threats to use nuclear weapons against the West if stiff Ukrainian resistance to Russia's invasion continues, draining conventional manpower and equipment …
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story and Political Wire
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
Washington Post:
Koch Industries to stay in Russia, says exiting does ‘more harm than good’ — Koch Industries, the American manufacturing giant that employs 122,000 people across the world, said Wednesday it would not exit its operations in Russia because doing so would put its “employees there at greater risk and do more harm than good.”
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Vanity Fair, New York Times, KOCH Newsroom, Popular Information and Joe.My.God.
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
‘Scum and traitors’: Under pressure over Ukraine, Putin turns his ire on Russians — One expert said the Russian leader was telling his country's elite: “Don't think about having second thoughts. We're all in this together, and if I go down, you go down.” — President Putin calls Russians against invasion ‘scum and traitors’
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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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Glenn Greenwald:
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic — The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.
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Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Move over Iowa. New Jersey Democrats vie to hold early presidential primary. — They wrote a letter to the DNC making the request. — As the Democratic National Committee considers changes to its primary calendar, New Jersey Democrats are pitching themselves for consideration as one of the early presidential primary states.
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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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Financial Times:
Russia edges closer to averting default as JPMorgan processes bond payment — Bank sought approval from US Treasury before passing on coupons on two dollar bonds — JPMorgan has processed interest payments sent by the Russian government for two of the country's bonds …
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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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CBS News:
Trump's EPA chief Scott Pruitt weighing Senate run in Oklahoma — Scott Pruitt, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is weighing a run for an open Senate seat in Oklahoma. According to three sources, Pruitt has been making calls to gauge support if he declares his candidacy for the already-crowded GOP primary.
Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Negative View of State of the Union — Americans describe country as ‘divided,’ ‘mess,’ ‘chaos’ — West Long Branch, NJ - Divided. That is the most commonly mentioned description of the country today, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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