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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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NBC News:
American man killed in Ukraine while waiting in bread line, family says — Russia intensifies attacks on civilians in Ukraine — A U.S. man was killed this week in Ukraine while he was waiting in a bread line for food in the northern city of Chernihiv, his family said.
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
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
‘Scum and traitors’: Under pressure over Ukraine, Putin turns his ire on Russians
‘Scum and traitors’: Under pressure over Ukraine, Putin turns his ire on Russians
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Washington Post, Thats Another Fine Mess, Quillette and Raw Story
New York Times:
Survivors Emerge From Bombed Theater in Southern Ukraine — Rescuers began pulling survivors from the rubble of a theater hit by a Russian strike in Mariupol. The invasion's ground advance slowed, but more missile and other attacks hit civilians. The U.N. Security Council held 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.’ — In an emotional video posted across social media on Thursday, Arnold Schwarzenegger debunked Russian disinformation about the war on Ukraine and told President Vladimir V. Putin: “You started this war.
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Lia Thomas Wins an NCAA Swimming Title — With her victory in Atlanta, Thomas, who competes for the University of Pennsylvania, became the first openly transgender woman to win an N.C.A.A. swimming championship. — Give this article- - - Read in app — ATLANTA — Lia Thomas …
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John Lohn / Swimming World News:
NCAA Title For Lia Thomas Is Joke With Biological Women As Punchline; Hardly a Laughing Matter — A joke was told in Atlanta on Thursday night. — It wasn't funny. — A little more than three months after the possibility first arose, Lia Thomas captured a title while representing …
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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Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
In Ukraine's second city, a furious rain of bombs and rockets takes a toll: ‘There are no coffins left’ — KHARKIV, Ukraine — The morgue in Kharkiv was overflowing. — In the courtyard outside, scores of black and green body bags were stacked along two of its walls.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
GOP indicates plans to question KBJ on handling of sex-related offenses — Senate Republicans are offering clear indicators that they plan to make Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's handling of sex-related offenses a key line of questioning in her confirmation hearings next — week.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Marina Ovsyannikova's courage should make U.S. stop our own war against protests — It was a stunning, brave act that electrified Americans — even if no one witnessed it in real time. But the soon-to-be-viral video of a Russian state TV employee named Marina Ovsyannikova crashing …
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Wall Street Journal, Metro.co.uk and CNN
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Washington Post:
More than two dozen Senate Republicans demand Biden do more for Ukraine after voting against $13.6 billion for Ukraine … More than two dozen Senate Republicans are demanding that President Biden do more to aid war-torn Ukraine and arm its forces against Russia's brutal assault …
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Associated Press, National Review, Bloomberg and Newsbusters
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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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Mediaite, Washington Times, Political Wire, TheBlaze and Breitbart
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Mother of Hunter Biden's child testified in tax probe, lawyer handed over financial records — The Arkansas woman who had a child by Hunter Biden out of wedlock recently testified to a federal grand jury in Delaware as part of a criminal tax probe of the son of President Joe Biden.
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Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Reason and ArkansasTimes
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Glenn Greenwald:
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Indicted Congressman Blames Lying Charges on Spotty Cell Service — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is on trial for lying to the FBI. His defense team has a classic excuse. — Indicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) may have just staked his political career—and possibly his freedom—on a tried-and-true excuse: Bad cell phone reception.
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Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
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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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, Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo and HotAir
Christine Emba / Washington Post:
Consent is not enough. We need a new sexual ethic. — Rachel, 25, has the open face and friendly demeanor of a born-and-bred Midwesterner. She's lively and opinionated, and feels in control of most areas of her life. But when it comes to sex, something isn't right.
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Largest Federal Utility Chooses Gas, Undermining Biden's Climate Goals — President Biden wants electricity generated from wind, solar and other clean sources. The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to invest in fossil fuels instead. — WASHINGTON — The nation's largest federally owned utility plans …
Washington Post:
Inside Russia's propaganda bubble: Where a war isn't a war — RIGA, Latvia — Fake U.S. biowarfare labs. Fake killer birds. Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump cameos. Ukrainian “Nazis” everywhere. — Russia's domestic television propaganda machine has reached such an intensity amid …
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Evan Medeiros / Financial Times:
Ukraine gives Europe a key swing vote in the US-China rivalry — Beijing as mediator is a fantasy — European leaders must make clear the cost of China's support for Moscow — The writer is a professor at Georgetown University and served on the US National Security Council staff from 2009-2015
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CNN, Japan Times, New York Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Morning Consult, Defense One and Politico
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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Florida Times Union
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”.
Kseniya Kirillova / CEPA:
Reaching Russians: None So Deaf as Those Who Won't Hear — Attempts to counter Putin's disinformation machine will need to be carefully calibrated for Russians fed on a diet of lies. — Imagine a country that denies it has any ambition to conquer a neighbor; imagine it maintains …
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Literacy scores show widening achievement gap in D.C. during pandemic — The literacy proficiency gap between young White students and students of color in the District continued to widen during the second year of the pandemic, according to data released recently by D.C. Public Schools.
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 …
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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The Hill, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Daily Kos, KOCH Newsroom and Joe.My.God.