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8:05 AM ET, March 23, 2022

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Financial Times:
Russia chokes major oil pipeline in further threat to global supplies  —  Repairs to storm-damaged loading terminals could cut up to 1mn b/d of shipments through CPC network  —  Russia is throttling back capacity on a major pipeline that sends crude oil to global markets …
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Sanction Hundreds of Russian Lawmakers, U.S. Officials Say  —  Biden administration preparing sanctions on more than 300 members of Russia's lower house of parliament as soon as Thursday  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is preparing sanctions on most members of Russia's State Duma …
Alexander Ward / Politico:
Russia launched hypersonic missiles due to a low stockpile, sources say  —  The leading theory for why Russia launched hypersonic missiles into Ukraine last week is that it's running out of precision-guided weapons to strike faraway targets, a senior U.S. defense official and a Western official familiar with assessments told POLITICO.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Plans Sanctions on Russian Lawmakers as He Heads to Europe
Tom Mutch / New Lines Magazine:   In Kharkiv's Rubble, Hatred for Russia Is Strong
New York Times:
Judging a Judge on Race and Crime, G.O.P. Plays to Base and Fringe  —  Grilling Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, conservative senators painted her as a jurist who had coddled criminals and embraced “woke” education.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Supreme Court Nominee Jackson's Support Tied for Highest  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Initial public support for judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court ties as the highest Gallup has measured for any recent nominee.  Fifty-eight percent of Americans say the Senate should vote …
Discussion: CNN and Boston Herald
Washington Post:
Ketanji Brown Jackson passionately defends her sentencing of sex offenders
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Graham walks out of Jackson's hearing after rant over indefinite detention at Gitmo
Fox News:
Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on board of school that promotes critical race theory
Kaitlin Lange / Indianapolis Star:
Braun walks back comments that interracial marriage ruling should have been left to states … Sen. Mike Braun said during a media call Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage decades ago.  —  That decision should have been left to individual states, he said.
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Mariel Padilla / The 19th:
Oklahoma's House passes a near-total abortion ban  —  Oklahoma took a step toward becoming the first state to ban most abortion — no matter how early in the pregnancy.  —  Oklahoma's state House on Tuesday voted 78-19 to pass a near complete ban on abortions, legislation that far surpasses Texas' six-week ban.
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Politico:
When Anna Wintour pissed off Kamala  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Tensions between Vice President KAMALA HARRIS and President JOE BIDEN and their teams began before inauguration …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Debra Meadows appears to have filed three false voter forms  —  “What we do know is a number of times as we have mail-in ballots, if there is not a chain of custody that goes from the voter to the ballot box, mischief can happen.”  — Then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in an interview on ABC's “This Week,” July 26, 2020
Protean Magazine:
Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster's COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education  —  Abigail Cartus, Ph.D, MPH Justin Feldman, Sc.D, MPH  —  Of the numerous political battles sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most bitterly contested have taken place over K-12 education.
Discussion: New Republic
Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
Hillary Clinton tests positive for COVID-19  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Tuesday evening that she has tested positive for COVID-19.  —  “I've got some mild cold symptoms but am feeling fine,” Clinton said in a statement posted to Twitter, adding that she was …
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CNN:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for Covid-19
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump shares his misguided ideas for resolving the war in Ukraine  —  Trump suggested he had a secret plan to end the crisis in Ukraine.  Now that he's elaborated on the details, he probably should've kept it under wraps.  —  About a month ago, a reporter asked Donald Trump …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
BuzzFeed investors have pushed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down entire newsroom, sources say  — Several large shareholders have urged BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down the company's news organization.  — BuzzFeed News has won awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, but is now shrinking through voluntary buyouts.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A month into war, Putin's mind-set is complex — and dangerous  —  As the Ukraine war nears a month of brutal fighting, Vladimir Putin is obsessed with Ukraine, angry at his generals, paranoid about enemies at home and abroad, and wrapping his bloody deeds in spiritual language almost mystical in its vision of Russia's past and future.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump's vendetta against Kemp escalates ahead of his Georgia rally  —  Donald Trump's vow to exact revenge on Brian Kemp has morphed into an all-out effort to also punish the governor's closest allies.  —  For the second time in as many weeks, the former president endorsed …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Aleksei Navalny Found Guilty of Fraud by Russian Court  —  A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even more of a liability for President Vladimir V. Putin.
New York Times:
Russia and Far-Right Americans Find Common Ground With Ukraine War  —  Some conservatives have echoed the Kremlin's misleading claims about the war and vice versa, giving each other's assertions a sheen of credibility.  —  After President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia claimed that action …
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's refusal to endorse Mike Lee is a betrayal of his party  —  Trump acolytes have long labeled Sen. Mitt Romney a “RINO” — “Republican in Name Only.”  This is an unfair charge, given Romney's conservative credentials.  But Romney is lending credence to his critics by not endorsing …
Associated Press:
4 weeks, still defiant: Ukraine fights into 2nd month of war  —  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One month of war, still defiant.  With its government still standing and its outnumbered troops battling Russian forces to bloody stalemates in multiple places, Ukraine is scarred, wounded …
 
 
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Jane Burbank / New York Times:
The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War
Discussion: Althouse
Jacob Siegel / Tablet Magazine:
Invasion of the Fact-Checkers … In the past five years, a cadre of fact-checkers …
Steven Allen Adams / Intelligencer/Wheeling …:
Poll: McKinley Has Slight Edge on Mooney
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Biden approval rating drops to new low of 40%, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Todd Stacy / Alabama Daily News:
New ADN-Gray TV poll: Durant leads Britt, Brooks falls far behind
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Capitol riot suspect is granted refugee status in Belarus after fleeing US
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Schools nationwide are quietly removing books from their libraries
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Disney employees across the U.S. are walking out today. Here's why.
John Kenneth White / The Hill:
Being president means expecting the unexpected
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Project Veritas says feds secretly accessed its emails
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
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