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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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Raw Story, Alternet.org, Balloon Juice, Breitbart, Third Way and ArkansasTimes
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
The Coronavirus Funding Collapse Is a Disaster
The Coronavirus Funding Collapse Is a Disaster
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Becker's Hospital Review, Deseret News and Mic
Axios:
Scoop: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end
Scoop: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end
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BuzzFeed News, CNN, Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Semi-Pro Pilgrim and Townhall
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi says White House should request $45B in new COVID aid
Pelosi says White House should request $45B in new COVID aid
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Louisiana Illuminator and Washington Examiner
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator
Statement by President Joe Biden on the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator
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Washington Post, CBS News, Washington Times, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Becker's Hospital Review and Politico
Washington Post:
A covid surge in Western Europe has U.S. bracing for another wave
A covid surge in Western Europe has U.S. bracing for another wave
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Balloon Juice, Deadline, Deseret News, The Clay Travis & …, The Guardian and New York Times
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
New federal ventilation guidelines mark next step in fight against COVID
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’
Digging Into Russia's Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’
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CNN, Raw Story, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Kyiv Independent and Joe.My.God.
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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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Ukraine Speech Biden Should Give Now
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
Even if Zelenskyy Accepts a Humiliating Peace Deal, Putin Won't Abide by It
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Raw Story and Chicago Sun-Times
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
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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The Full Belmonte, 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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Molly McKew / Great Power:
Escalating fears that Putin might do something crazy — A brief note on a very strange day … I think there are two points worth dwelling on. — First, there will always be fresh terror from Putin. A show trial. Chernobyl. Chem/bio insinuations.
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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Daily Kos, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
New York Times:
Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn't Exist: Voter Fraud — Election fraud is exceedingly rare and often accidental. Still, G.O.P. lawmakers and prosecutors are promoting tough new enforcement efforts. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration — Marie Yovanovitch recounts her career in public service and the experience of testifying during President Trump's first impeachment. — Buy Book ▾
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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RedState
Sarah L. Kaufman / Washington Post:
Bolshoi star ballerina quits famed Moscow company: ‘I never thought I would be ashamed of Russia’ … Bolshoi ballerina Olga Smirnova, an international ballet star who recently publicly denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has quit the famed Moscow ballet company and joined the Dutch National Ballet …
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
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.
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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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Semite on Your TV — Fox News host Tucker Carlson's favorite foreign policy expert has a history of echoing anti-Jewish ideas. … Today, Jews celebrate the holiday of Purim, a festival of revelry that commemorates their deliverance from an ancient genocidal plot.