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Nathaniel Herz / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young has died at age 88 — Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young died Friday, his office said. — His wife, Anne, was by his side, his office said in statement. — “It's with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young, the Dean of the House …
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden warns Xi of global backlash if China helps Russia's attack on Ukraine — President Joe Biden spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping for nearly two hours on Friday morning, largely about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — Moscow has asked Beijing for assistance in its war …
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The White House:
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Call with President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China — President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The conversation focused on Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
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Foreign Policy:
How Putin Bungled His Invasion of Ukraine — Faulty assumptions, terrible logistics, and a ferocious Ukrainian resistance have turned Russian President Vladimir Putin's Ukrainian adventure to ashes—for now. — Three weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, social media around the world …
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
How the US should deter Vladimir Putin's nuclear brinkmanship
How the US should deter Vladimir Putin's nuclear brinkmanship
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John Simpson / BBC:
Ukraine conflict: Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call
Ukraine conflict: Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
GOP senators push misleading portrayal of Ketanji Brown Jackson's record on child porn cases — (CNN)Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's writings, remarks and decisions as she wrestled with the highly sensitive issue of child pornography crimes are the focus of a new GOP line of attack on President Joe Biden's pick for the Supreme Court.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
How low will the GOP go in taking on Ketanji Brown Jackson? Josh Hawley lets us know.
How low will the GOP go in taking on Ketanji Brown Jackson? Josh Hawley lets us know.
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Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America:
Baseless OAN attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson echoes QAnon conspiracy theory
Baseless OAN attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson echoes QAnon conspiracy theory
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John Ismay / New York Times:
Ukraine Is Wrecking Russian Tanks With a Gift From Britain — In video after video taken in Ukraine, a puff of smoke and a brief flash of light signal that another clutch of Russian troops are about to die. — Sometimes it is only a split second before that light streaks to a tank …
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David French / The Atlantic:
What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About the Right — Contrarians aren't critical thinkers. They're gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories. … I want to share with you two remarkably similar numbers. At first glance, they should have nothing to do with each other.
Washington Post:
It's 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. … The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal.
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times editorial board should retract and resign — It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misreading of the freedom of speech - or an organization whose credibility depends more on understanding it correctly - than today's lead editorial from the New York Times editorial board.
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America Has a Free Speech Problem
America Has a Free Speech Problem
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Charlie Parker / The Times:
Specialist Ukrainian drone unit picks off invading Russian forces as they sleep — An elite Ukrainian drone unit has destroyed dozens of “priority targets” by attacking Russian forces as they sleep, The Times can reveal. — Aerorozvidka, a specialist air reconnaissance unit within the army …
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly come to blows at Ohio candidate forum — Ohio Republican Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly came to blows during a candidate forum Friday evening. — Mandel, a former state treasurer and an early front-runner in the race …
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Breaking Defense:
Ukraine is getting Switchblade. It should be just the first wave of loitering munitions for Kyiv. — Loitering munitions — essentially small suicide drones capable of tracking a target and then striking it — have been around for years, but the technology emerged as a key weapons in the 2021 conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Bryan McBournie / Axios:
Why are Switchblade drones called “kamikaze drones”?
Why are Switchblade drones called “kamikaze drones”?
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CNN:
‘Madison is wrong’: GOP backlash over Cawthorn grows after Zelensky insult — (CNN)When House Republicans gathered on the baseball field Friday morning for their weekly practice, members were abuzz about one topic: Rep. Madison Cawthorn. — The North Carolina Republican infuriated members …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law l ast year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state's inability to procure lethal injection drugs.
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Inside the transfer of foreign military equipment to Ukrainian soldiers … ON THE POLAND-UKRAINE BORDER — There were no passport officers on the dirt road, no customs lane, no signs marking this isolated patch of farmland for what it has become: a clandestine gateway for military supplies entering Ukraine.
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Researchers warn that Christian nationalists are becoming more radical and are targeting voting — New research linking Christian nationalism with a desire to limit voting. People citing their faith as the reason they support trucker convoys that shut down the border over covid protections.
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Mixed signals from Ukraine's president and his aides leave West confused about his end game … The mounting death toll in Ukraine has forced President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider concessions to Russia in order to bring an end to the devastating conflict, but the specific elements …
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Maria Cramer / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Owes $300,000 in Legal Fees After Another Failed NDA Case — The award stems from an arbitration claim that was dismissed in part because of the “vague and unenforceable” provisions of a nondisclosure agreement. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
People's Convoy Reveals Ridiculous New Goal: ‘Take Back’ Black Lives Matter Plaza — ‘TAR & FEATHERED’ — On Friday morning, the so-called “People's Convoy” seemed to reveal a new goal for the right-wing trucker movement: Reclaim the two-block-long Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Dr. Oz's Heritage Is Targeted as Rivals Vie for Trump Backing — The Senate candidate's Turkish background has emerged as a focus of David McCormick's attacks in Pennsylvania's G.O.P. primary. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Late last year, before he had formally entered …
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Charles R. Davis / Insider:
The socialite daughter of Putin's spokesman complains US sanctions are ‘unfair’ but thinks they won't make a difference … - Elizaveta Peskova is the daughter of Vladimir Putin spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov. — The US government sanctioned her and the rest of her family on March 11.
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
Ex-West Virginia legislator pleads guilty in Jan. 6 case — A former West Virginia state lawmaker who livestreamed the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the Capitol pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge of civil disorder over his involvement in the uprising. — Derrick Evans, 36 …
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Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Will ‘Trump Enablers’ Eat Lunch in This Town Again? — As the clock ran out on the profoundly unfamiliar year of 2020, Washington settled — briefly, awkwardly — into a profoundly familiar Beltway ritual: a presidential transition. Appointees of the outgoing administration looked for onward employment.
Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
Putin Turned to a Chechen Warlord to Intimidate Ukraine. It Hasn't Worked. — Ramzan Kadyrov's forces had been a feared fighting force, but Ukraine's defenders are proving to be a match — In the first days of his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin looked …
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John Reinan / Star Tribune:
Minnesota native killed in Ukraine was getting food for hospital patients — Jimmy Hill, a psychologist and lecturer originally from Mahtomedi, was killed in an attack. — TEXT SIZE — MORE — Jimmy Hill's last act was gathering food for hospital patients in Ukraine.
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