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Washington Post:
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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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.
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
White House Rushes to Clarify Joe Biden Call to Remove Vladimir Putin from Power  —  The White House on Saturday moved quickly to clarify President Joe Biden's comment about removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from power in a dramatic speech in Warsaw, Poland.
Associated Press:
Biden lashes at Putin, calls for Western resolve for freedom
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
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden budget to trim $1T from deficits over next decade
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:   Biden to Sidestep ‘Build Back Better’ Proposals in His Budget
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
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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The Guardian:
Russian soldiers release Ukraine town's mayor and agree to leave after protests  —  Russian forces agreed to leave town of Slavutych if those with arms handed them over to the mayor  —  Daniel Boffey in Lviv and Shaun Walker in Kyiv  —  A mayor in a Ukrainian town occupied by Russian forces …
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
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Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine:
QAnon's Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete
Discussion: Raw Story
David French / The Atlantic:
The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Legal scholars and lawyers who know Justice Thomas say he can no longer ignore his wife's activism
Discussion: The Hill and New York Magazine
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 …
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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John L. Dorman / Insider:
Trump's mood ‘soured’ after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp revealed he had already decided to appoint Kelly Loeffler to the Senate before consulting with the president: book
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Just The News
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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 …
Discussion: nationalinterest.org
 
 
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