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New York Times:
Trump Is Guilty of ‘Numerous’ Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says  —  Mark F. Pomerantz, who had investigated the former president, left after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, halted an effort to seek an indictment.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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New York Times:
Read the Full Text of Mark Pomerantz's Resignation Letter  —  The former prosecutor who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations.”  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  The following is the full text of the resignation letter …
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Trump committed ‘numerous’ felonies, said resigning New York prosecutor - report
Discussion: Raw Story and Eschaton
New York Times:
Under Fire, Out of Fuel, No Air Support: What Intercepted Russian Radio Chatter Reveals  —  The Times's Visual Investigations team analyzed dozens of battlefield radio transmissions between Russian forces during an initial invasion of the town of Makariv, outside Kyiv.
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New York Times:
U.S. Makes Contingency Plans in Case Russia Uses Its Most Powerful Weapons  —  A team of national security officials has been assigned to sketch out responses if President Vladimir V. Putin unleashes chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Sources Say Oligarch Funded Scheme to Paint Swastikas in Ukraine  —  Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that a Ukrainian businessman offered payouts for a false flag operation aimed at bolstering Putin's claim that Ukraine was a Nazi hotbed  —  In the months before Vladimir Putin's invasion …
Discussion: Insider
Washington Post:
Biden and Europeans to announce major plan to redirect gas to Europe … BRUSSELS — President Biden and European leaders are expected to announce a major initiative to direct shipments of liquefied natural gas to Europe during his visit to Brussels this week, part of a broader effort …
New York Times:
Live Updates: Biden Arrives in Brussels for Summits as U.S. Accuses Russian Forces of War Crimes  —  President Biden will press allies to help impose even more aggressive sanctions on Russia.  NATO says it is doubling the number of battlegroups on its eastern flank to eight.
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Russia-Ukraine war fails to fuel Biden rebound: AP-NORC poll  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden meets with key allies in Brussels to coordinate a stronger response to Russia's monthlong assault on Ukraine, a new poll shows Americans have yet to rally around his leadership.
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Cory Booker Aside, Democrats Stranded Ketanji Brown Jackson  —  The third day of hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court came to a close on Wednesday following another 10-plus hours filled with character smears about child pornography from Republican senators …
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TMZ.com:
Justice Breyer Says Clarence Thomas is Fine, Jackson Confirmation Not My Business  —  JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER CLARENCE THOMAS IS FINE ... And I Got No Dog In Confirmation Fight  —  EXCLUSIVE  — 87 … Justice Stephen Breyer is reassuring folks, his colleague, Justice Clarence Thomas …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
GOP grandstanders aren't the only reason Jackson's confirmation hearings were so disgraceful  —  The only thing more stunning than the off-the-rails Republican badgering and constant interrupting of Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Wednesday was the utterly inaccurate and inapt media coverage.
New York Times:
QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson.  Democrats See a Signal.  —  Criticism of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing decisions emerged as a theme among Republicans — and renewed debate about the party's stance toward QAnon.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Cruz attacks Jackson for ‘critical race theory’ — but sends his own daughters to learn it  —  Sen. Ted Cruz seldom overlooks a chance to be underhanded, and, sure enough, the Texas Republican led the effort to imbue this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings with the latest effort …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Jackson endures questioning with racial overtones from GOP senators
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings Show Marriage Equality Is the Next Target Once Roe Falls
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CNN:
Exclusive: Inside a rare US meeting with a Russian general in Moscow  —  (CNN)A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an “outburst” of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a “revealing moment” that the Americans present believe hinted …
CNN:
Biden requests Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker resign from presidential council or be terminated  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden has formally asked two Trump-appointed members of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition to resign from their posts or be terminated.
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The White House can't just wash away the stink of Hunter Biden's laptop
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Trump endorsements slow and prompt a scramble by candidates, advisers  —  Former president Donald Trump has slowed his efforts shape the nation's most competitive Republican primaries, holding back endorsements in some of the biggest Senate races and publicly abandoning his support for the struggling Senate campaign of Rep. Mo Brooks.
Discussion: The Conntrarian
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Sue Mi Terry / Foreign Affairs:
North Korea's Nuclear Opportunism … With the entire world focused on Ukraine, the coming weeks and months will present the perfect opportunity for rogue states to make trouble, knowing that the United States and other powers are distracted.  Chief among such potential opportunists is North Korea …
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The White House:
Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Ballistic Missile Launch
Discussion: CNN
Associated Press:
Dialing up pressure, North Korea tests long-range missile
GOV.UK:
Foreign Secretary announces 65 new Russian sanctions to cut off vital industries fuelling Putin's war machine  —  New sanctions target strategic industries, banks and business elites.  —  From:  —  Liz Truss has announced 65 sanctions, targeting strategic industries, banks and business elites
Discussion: Politico, HuffPost UK and Bloomberg
Douglas London / Wall Street Journal:
Spies Will Doom Putin  —  After invading Ukraine, he's tightening the screws the way the Soviets did—and that will help the CIA recruit Russians.  —  I spent 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service, and watching Vladimir Putin's brutal war in Ukraine …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies
Lawrence Freedman / Comment is Freed:
Losing Wars and Saving Face  —  Russian flags dumped in the aftermath of a pro-war rally at the Luzhniki Stadium on the 18th March (Photo via @mbk_center)  —  The futility of Russia's war against Ukraine is matched only by its brutality.  The longer it goes on the greater the potential humiliation …
John F. Harris / Politico:
Why Trump Is Losing His Grip on the GOP  —  It strains memory now to recall that when Donald Trump first shoved his way into presidential politics seven years ago this spring, and soon after humiliated a long parade of establishment Republicans, his appeal to voters had a coherent dimension.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Madison Cawthorn Committed the One Unforgivable Sin of Politics  —  The ingredients are there for an upset.  —  If the worst thing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) did this month was call Ukraine's President “a thug,” or get caught speeding multiple times with a revoked license …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
As allies meet, splits emerge in NATO about how to deter Russia  —  As President Biden landed in Brussels on Wednesday for urgent talks about Russia's war on Ukraine, splits were emerging within NATO and in Washington about how to deter the Kremlin from further escalation.
Caitlin Byrd / The State:
In texts, SC GOP candidates picks fight with Mick Mulvaney  —  A Trump-backed South Carolina GOP congressional candidate lashed out at the former president's acting White House chief of staff in a series of text messages this week, where she twice called Mick Mulvaney a “piece of s—” …
Discussion: NBC News and Political Wire
New York Times:
Live Updates: Biden Is in Europe to Rally Allies as Ukraine Battles Russian Forces  —  As President Biden holds urgent meetings with NATO, the G7 and the E.U. in Brussels, Ukraine says it destroyed a Russian landing ship at a strategic southern port.  A U.N. agency says the war has driven half of Ukraine's children from their homes.
 
 
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These Trump judges failed Hawley's sentencing test for Jackson
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
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ProPublica:
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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