We witnessed Mariupol's agony and fled a Russian hit list  —  MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down.  They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.  —  We had been documenting the siege of the Ukrainian city by Russian troops for more than two weeks …

Exclusive: Witness Claims Trump's Chief of Staff Was on Phone Call Planning Jan. 6 March on Capitol  —  Trump's team agreed it would encourage supporters to march, but try to “make it look like they went down there on their own,” Scott Johnston tells Rolling Stone

Read the Letter Biden's SCOTUS Pick Wrote Calling a Journalist ‘Irredeemably Evil’  —  While clerking for a federal judge, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denounced a Boston Herald columnist as “irredeemably evil” for criticizing unrestricted immigration.

Senator Hawley's Disingenuous Attack against Judge Jackson's Record on Child Pornography  —  He distorts her record on ‘sex offenders.’  —  would oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because of her judicial philosophy, for the reasons outlined by Ed Whelan last week.  I address that in a separate post.

It's Never a Good Time for the Hunter Biden Story  —  Gail Collins: Bret, here's one question I don't think I ever asked you before: What do you think of daylight saving time?  —  Bret Stephens: About the same way I feel about Volodymyr Zelensky.  The light of the West.

Putin's lover Kabayeva faces expulsion from Switzerland  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's mistress Alina Kabayeva faces expulsion from Switzerland, where she is likely hiding with her children.  Citizens of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus appealed to the Swiss Confederation with a petition under the slogan …

How Texas' election law affected primaries in Tarrant County  —  Texas' new election law resulted in confusion and hundreds of votes uncounted as officials scrambled to prepare for the changes.  —  The March 1 Democratic and Republican primaries were the first Texas elections with a wide-reaching voting law in effect.

Russian Strike Reduces Kyiv Mall to Ruins  —  Russian forces had given a predawn deadline for the surrender of the port city, pummeled since the start of the war.  A shopping center was reduced to ruins by one of the heaviest strikes to hit the center of the capital.  —  Here are the latest developments in Ukraine.

The One Trump Lawyer the Rest of Trump's Legal Team Loathes  —  Alina Habba has developed quite the reputation among Trump's team of lawyers.  —  Facing high-stakes investigations that could cripple his business empire or even mean jail time for him and close associates …

Super PAC signals Pennsylvania primary could get rough  —  A super PAC backing Pennsylvania Senate candidate Conor Lamb is warning prospective donors that he is trailing frontrunner John Fetterman by 30 percentage points in the Democratic primary — and that the public's perception …

U.N. secretary general says global climate target ‘is on life support’ … The head of the United Nations on Monday warned that the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe,” as the ongoing pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a lack of political willpower undermine humanity's efforts to slow the warming of the planet.

‘We have your daughter’: The terrified father paid the ransom.  Then he found his kid where he least expected her. … Last year, at about 11 in the morning on July 29, Richard Mendelstein was working in his home office in Princeton, New Jersey, when his phone rang.  The caller ID read “unknown.”

'People's Convoy' provoked and motivated by D.C. police roadblocks  —  The “People's Convoy” of truck drivers and supporters that has been honking its way around D.C.-area roads and highways, backing up traffic in protest of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic …

How to defeat the MAGA cult: Build a coalition that transcends party  —  The GOP has unabashedly fanned violence, propagated a parallel universe of lies and conspiracy theories and sought to subvert elections by limiting who votes and undermining nonpartisan election administration.

How Russia's aggression in Ukraine in 2014 and 2015 is shaping Biden's actions today … The former diplomats and defense officials who visited the U.S. Naval Observatory in early 2015 were seeking a receptive audience — and they found one in Vice President Joe Biden.

How could any American patriot back Putin?  —  Where does it come from, this Trumpy admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin?  —  Is it theatrical, driven by journalistic contrarianism?  Is it simply about wanting President Joe Biden to lose?  Or is there something deeper and more malign going on?

Teetering with Trump, Brooks calls for McConnell's ouster  —  Alabama Republican Mo Brooks is calling for Mitch McConnell to be ousted as Senate GOP leader, making him the party's third major Senate candidate to come out in favor of booting the Kentucky Republican.

Russia, Failing to Achieve Early Victory in Ukraine, Is Seen Shifting to ‘Plan B’  —  Tactical shift seeks to pressure Ukraine into accepting neutrality and Russian territorial claims, U.S. officials say  —  After Russian forces failed to secure a quick victory over Ukraine …