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New York Times:
Replacements Come for Some Exhausted Chernobyl Workers — Here are the latest developments in Ukraine. — Firing rockets and bombs from the land, air and sea, Russian forces continued to bombard the besieged coastal city of Mariupol on Sunday and were also deporting thousands of residents …
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Washington Post, UPI, Associated Press, CBS San Francisco, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Beast
Jessica Grose / New York Times:
Who's Unhappy With Schools? The Answer Surprised Me. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Tucked into a New Yorker article by Jill Lepore about the spate of school board fights over just about everything was a statistic that caught my eye. Despite all the ink spilled lately …
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Civil War Memory, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Message Box
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 19 — Frederick W. Kagan, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko — March 19, 3 pm ET — Ukrainian forces have defeated the initial Russian campaign of this war. That campaign aimed to conduct airborne and mechanized operations to seize Kyiv …
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The Kyiv Independent, USA Today, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera and Raw Story
Politico:
The Senate's Supreme Court peacekeeper prepares for his moment — Dick Durbin is a patient senator. And his restraint will be tested during this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. — Republicans telegraphed for weeks that they wouldn't put …
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Townhall, ABC News, The Daily Wire, Washington Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and Breitbart
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David Siders / Politico:
How the GOP's dirtiest slur got a new life — In speeches, ads and on social media, it is fast becoming the defining smear of the 2022 primary campaign season: RINO. — The acronym — short for ‘Republican-In-Name-Only’ — is hardly new. But former President Donald Trump's frequent use …
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Raw Story
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The Russians Fleeing Putin's Wartime Crackdown — Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes. … In the world as it existed before Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24th …
Sharon Weinberger / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon's Work With Ukraine's Biological Facilities Becomes Flashpoint in Russia's Information War — Moscow falsely accuses U.S. of funding biowarfare in Ukraine despite Kremlin once benefiting from Pentagon program — On his first official visit abroad, the new senator from Illinois …
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The Guardian
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
A legacy of ‘secrecy and deception’: Why Russia clings to an outlawed chemical arsenal
A legacy of ‘secrecy and deception’: Why Russia clings to an outlawed chemical arsenal
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UPI, CBS News and Russia's War on Democracy
Ben Tobias / BBC:
War in Ukraine: Anti-war opinions can cost Russians their jobs — For 28-year-old geography teacher Kamran Manafly, it all began with an Instagram post. — “I don't want to be a reflection of state propaganda,” he wrote on the social media site, just a few days before it was restricted in Russia.
New York Times:
New Details Flesh Out How Project Veritas Acquired Ashley Biden's Diary — The right-wing group placed a deceptive call to the president's daughter a month before Election Day, weeks after her stolen diary was shown around at a Trump fund-raiser. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Political Wire
Financial Times:
Fierce fighting engulfs Mariupol as Russian forces tighten grip on devastated city — Kyiv and western allies sceptical of Moscow's motives for engaging in peace talks — Fierce fighting engulfed Mariupol on Sunday as Russian forces tightened their grip on the besieged Ukrainian city …
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Los Angeles Times, HotAir, Associated Press and Vatican News
Washington Post:
Russia's war for Ukraine could be headed toward stalemate … Russia's attempt to conquer Ukraine could be headed to a stalemate as heavy casualties and equipment losses take a toll on unprepared Russian forces that have failed so far to achieve any of their initial objectives, Western officials and military experts say.
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The Kyiv Independent, Daily Kos, Via Appia and Associated Press
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America has a New York Times-doesn't-get-the-First Amendment problem — It may be the most classic bit during the nine-season run of the iconic TV sitcom Seinfeld: The time that Jerry shows up at the airport car rental place with his reservation, only to be told there aren't any cars.
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The Constitutional Vanguard, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
No entry: Ukrainian Americans struggle to get fleeing relatives into United States — Every morning and every night, from her home in Falls Church, Va., Nadiia Khomaziuk messages her sister Lidiia in her hideaway in western Ukraine. — Is Lidiia still okay? How about her kids, who are 7 and 11?
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Demand for This Toad's Psychedelic Venom Is Booming. Some Warn That's Bad for the Toad. — In a sign of unintended consequences of the psychedelic resurgence, scientists say that the Sonoran desert toad is at risk of population collapse. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Althouse