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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 and The Message Box
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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How Ketanji Brown Jackson's path to the Supreme Court differs from the current justices — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to fill an upcoming Supreme Court vacancy, faces four days of Senate hearings starting Monday that are sure to include questions about her career.
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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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USA Today, Raw Story and Al Jazeera
Jane Harper / Virginian-Pilot:
Virginian-Pilot reporter among those killed in Granby Street shooting in downtown Norfolk — Saturday would have been Sierra Jenkins' turn to cover the breaking news shift for The Virginian-Pilot. — When an editor learned early Saturday that several people had been shot in downtown Norfolk …
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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP eyes Hunter Biden, Fauci probes after midterms — Hunter Biden. Anthony Fauci. Afghanistan. The border. — As Senate Republicans feel increasingly bullish about November, where they are fighting to regain control of Congress, they are floating using a new majority to dig …
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Detroit Free Press:
Informant: Whitmer kidnap suspect wanted to blow up COVID-19 vaccine plants, kill doctors — The masks and shutdowns were one thing. — But it was the COVID-19 vaccines, and the thought of them becoming mandatory, that really pushed the alleged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plotters over the edge …
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It? — “We've been wearing rose-colored glasses instead of correcting our vision,” one scientist said. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Scarcely two months after the Omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers …
The Guardian:
Fury greets Boris Johnson's claim Ukraine fight is like Brexit — Prime minister says vote is ‘famous recent example’ of ‘instinct of the people ... to choose freedom’ — Boris Johnson has caused fury among political leaders across Europe - and outrage among opponents of Brexit at home …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Races to Outpace Western Sanctions — Billionaire businessman with ties to Putin tries to move chunks of his wealth out of reach of expanding dragnet — For years, Roman Abramovich braced for the day the West might turn on him.
Allan Little / BBC:
Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted — Vladimir's Putin's invasion of Ukraine has changed the world. We are living in new and more dangerous times - the post-Cold War era that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall is over.
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Outside the Beltway and The Guardian
BBC:
School sheltering 400 hit by Russian strike, Ukraine says — Updates from BBC correspondents in Ukraine: Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Andrew Harding in Odesa, Wyre Davies in Dnipro, Quentin Sommerville in Kharkiv and Jonah Fisher and Hugo Bachega in Lviv
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
A General Fights to Destigmatize Mental Health Issues: 'There's a Shame if You Show Weakness' — The military has struggled to meet the mental health needs of troops, lawmakers and service members say. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — Brig. Gen. Ernest Litynski …
BBC:
Russians board International Space Station in Ukrainian colours — Russian cosmonauts have arrived at the International Space Station wearing Ukrainian colours, in what appears to be a statement opposing the invasion. — The three men were the first new arrivals since Russia attacked its eastern neighbour last month.
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Jacqui Goddard / The Times:
Russian cosmonauts arrive at ISS in colours of Ukraine flag
Russian cosmonauts arrive at ISS in colours of Ukraine flag
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