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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget … The White House will unveil a new minimum tax targeting billionaires as part of its 2023 budget Monday, proposing a direct tax on the richest 700 Americans for the first time, according to five people with knowledge …
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden budget to trim $1T from deficits over next decade — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to propose a fiscal 2023 budget Monday that would cut projected deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Condemns Putin, Saying He ‘Cannot Remain In Power’ — WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine, declaring “for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power” and casting the war as the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle to defend democracy.
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Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’; White House walks back remark — The president also reassured Warsaw of Washington's commitment to NATO and the security of its allies bordering Russia during the last day of his trip to Europe.
Washington Post:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in forceful speech in Poland … WARSAW — President Biden forcefully denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, casting Moscow's aggression as “the test of all time” for democracy before ending his sunset speech here by saying …
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New York Times:
Azerbaijan Moves Troops Into Disputed Region Where it Fought With Armenia.
Azerbaijan Moves Troops Into Disputed Region Where it Fought With Armenia.
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Washington Post, HotAir, The Western Journal, New York Post and UPI
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ginni Thomas' West Wing contacts raise new questions for another Trump ally: John Eastman — Ginni Thomas' unfettered access to Donald Trump's chief of staff — and potentially others in his West Wing — raises new questions about another figure at the center of Trump's gambit to subvert the 2020 election: attorney John Eastman.
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David French / The Atlantic:
The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas — Mark Meadows and the dangerous religious zeal of “Stop the Steal” … Yesterday evening, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa broke a rather extraordinary and disturbing story. Ginni Thomas, the wife …
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Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal and The Daily Beast
Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine:
QAnon's Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete — QAnon's infiltration of the Republican Party has proceeded with frightening steadiness over the last couple years, its growing foothold marked by the arrival of conspiratorial politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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New York Times:
Texts Show Ginni Thomas's Embrace of Conspiracy Theories
Texts Show Ginni Thomas's Embrace of Conspiracy Theories
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The Daily Wire, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Outside the Beltway and Slate
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Legal scholars and lawyers who know Justice Thomas say he can no longer ignore his wife's activism
Legal scholars and lawyers who know Justice Thomas say he can no longer ignore his wife's activism
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The Hill and New York Magazine
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas texts reveal fears, motivation to overturn 2020 election
Ginni Thomas texts reveal fears, motivation to overturn 2020 election
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HotAir, The Western Journal, Simple Justice and NPR
Ben Tobias / BBC:
Russian general Yakov Rezantsev killed in Ukraine — Ukraine's defence ministry says another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, was killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson. — Rezantsev was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry resigns after being found guilty of lying to FBI … Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) said Saturday he will resign from Congress after he was convicted Thursday on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign billionaire.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Fortenberry resigns from Congress after felony convictions — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) announced Saturday he is resigning from Congress after being convicted of three felonies related to a federal probe of illegal campaign contributions. — His decision, which he announced …
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign following felony convictions
Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign following felony convictions
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Maya King / New York Times:
In Georgia, a Campaign Fueled by Trump's Revenge Sputters — The former president plans to rally Republicans on Saturday in an attempt to jump-start David Perdue's campaign to unseat Gov. Brian Kemp. — Give this article- - - Read in app — ATLANTA — When Donald Trump recruited David Perdue …
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Making of Vladimir Putin — Tracing Putin's 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant. — Give this article- - - Read in app — PARIS — Speaking in what he called “the language of Goethe, Schiller and Kant,” picked up during his time as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic … Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) looked briefly into the future and saw a calamitous confirmation process for Supreme Court justices and other federal judge nominees: a near total blockade. — With Republicans needing …
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
This isn't the U.S. Senate. It's more like day care.
This isn't the U.S. Senate. It's more like day care.
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The Skeptical Idealist
Washington Post:
Russia's failures in Ukraine imbue Pentagon with newfound confidence — For more than a decade, the Pentagon, pinned down in Afghanistan, followed China's rise as a global power and Russia's ambitious military modernization program with growing alarm. The consensus in Beijing …
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Telegraph
Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee ‘Locked In’ on Proud Boys — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building has been examining the role far-right militant groups played in efforts to overturn President Trump's election loss and the violence that erupted that day.
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