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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.
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How Biden sparked a global uproar with nine ad-libbed words about Putin … WARSAW — During his presidential campaign, President Biden often reminded his audience about the heavy weight that the words of a president can carry. — “The words of a president matter,” he said more than once.
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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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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
White House Rushes to Clarify Joe Biden Call to Remove Vladimir Putin from Power
White House Rushes to Clarify Joe Biden Call to Remove Vladimir Putin from Power
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Associated Press:
Biden lashes at Putin, calls for Western resolve for freedom
Biden lashes at Putin, calls for Western resolve for freedom
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ABC News:
Full transcript of President Biden's speech in Warsaw on Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Full transcript of President Biden's speech in Warsaw on Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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Washington Post:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in forceful speech in Poland
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in forceful speech in Poland
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New York Times:
Zelensky renews his call for planes and tanks from NATO.
Zelensky renews his call for planes and tanks from NATO.
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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
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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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden to Include Minimum Tax on Billionaires in Budget Proposal — The tax would require that American households worth more than $100 million pay at least 20 percent on their full income, as well as unrealized gains in the value of liquid assets like stocks. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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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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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
Fortenberry resigns from Congress after felony convictions
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CBS News:
Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry announces resignation after being found guilty in illegal contribution case
Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry announces resignation after being found guilty in illegal contribution case
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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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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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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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HotAir and The Daily Wire
David French / The Atlantic:
The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas
The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas
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Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine:
QAnon's Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete
QAnon's Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete
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Raw Story
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
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:
Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate — The war in Ukraine is proving extraordinarily lethal for Russian generals, the gray men bedecked in service medals, who are being aggressively targeted by Ukrainian forces and killed at a rate not seen since World War II.
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Telegraph, The Right Questions and Political Wire
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 …
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Prosing on War and Peace
Maya King / New York Times:
In Georgia, Trump Tries to Revive a Sputtering Campaign — The former president held a rally in rural Georgia on Saturday in an attempt to jump-start David Perdue's campaign to unseat Gov. Brian Kemp. — Give this article- - - Read in app — COMMERCE, Ga., — When Donald Trump recruited David Perdue …
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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.
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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