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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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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 …
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Stop buying from these companies. They're funding Putin's war. — In his gut-wrenching address to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the United States for more — and more he will get. — U.S. leaders across the spectrum saluted Zelensky after he spoke to them Wednesday …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Ukraine Speech Biden Should Give Now
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Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:
Even if Zelenskyy Accepts a Humiliating Peace Deal, Putin Won't Abide by It
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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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Axios:
Scoop: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end
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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
New federal ventilation guidelines mark next step in fight against COVID
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Statement by President Joe Biden on the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator
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Washington Post:
A covid surge in Western Europe has U.S. bracing for another wave
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Leana S. Wen / Washington Post:
Two years into covid-19, has Congress learned nothing?
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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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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War's Most Decisive Routs — In the two-day battle of Voznesensk, local volunteers and the military repelled the invaders, who fled leaving behind armor and dead soldiers — VOZNESENSK, Ukraine—A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder …
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin Assails Russians Who Back the West, Signaling More Repression
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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Jay Caruso / Washington Examiner:
Tucker Carlson's speech is not a crime — “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” is a quote often mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The origin is unknown, though former New York Mayor John Lindsay said something akin to that in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War.
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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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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
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Chris Cuomo blasts CNN for ‘selectively enforcing’ its rules, points to Lemon, Tapper, Toobin controversies — The ex-anchor slammed CNN's ‘long-established pattern’ of policy ‘exceptions’ in his $125M arbitration demand — Chris Cuomo goes after Don Lemon for CNN cash
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times:
Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian children in Poland — Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism …
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