Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
CNN, Insider, UPI, New York Post, One America News Network, The Daily Wire and The Hill
RELATED:
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
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, CBS News, Financial Times, Politico, CBS San Francisco, Bloomberg and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden budget to trim $1T from deficits over next decade
Biden budget to trim $1T from deficits over next decade
Discussion:
CANNONFIRE
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.
Discussion:
Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Hill, Mediaite, RedState, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and CNN
RELATED:
ABC News:
Full transcript of President Biden's speech in Warsaw on Russia's invasion of Ukraine — “It's from the darkness moments that the greatest progress follows.” — President Joe Biden delivered forceful remarks Saturday from Poland that reiterated the United States' and its allies' support …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Clean Copy, The Guardian and The Reyna Files
New York Times:
Biden Condemns Putin, Saying He ‘Cannot Remain In Power’
Biden Condemns Putin, Saying He ‘Cannot Remain In Power’
Discussion:
BizPac Review, Washington Examiner, NPR, Financial Times, Outside the Beltway, The Guardian, Washington Times, The Drive, One America News Network, Rolo Slavskiy's Newsletter, Washington Post, TMZ.com, Louder With Crowder, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Daily Wire, NBC Connecticut and Reuters
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.
Discussion:
The Atlantic, Althouse, BizPac Review, Fox News, Bloomberg, Progress Pond, Insider and CBS News
RELATED:
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
Discussion:
New York Post, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Current, Washington Examiner, RedState and Power Line
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
Discussion:
Politico, CNBC, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Super Macro, CNN, New York Times and Bloomberg
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ as he assures Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ as he assures Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’
Discussion:
Politico, Associated Press, BizPac Review, NBC News, Insider and Townhall
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
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Daily Wire, Instapundit, robertspencer.org, Washington Examiner and TheBlaze
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.
RELATED:
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Fortenberry resigns from Congress after felony convictions
Fortenberry resigns from Congress after felony convictions
Discussion:
Roll Call, Washington Times, New York Times and UPI
Grant Schulte / Associated Press:
US Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska announces resignation
US Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska announces resignation
Discussion:
Insider and The Daily Caller
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
Discussion:
Nebraska Examiner and Bloomberg
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign following felony convictions
Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign following felony convictions
Discussion:
Omaha World-Herald, New York Post, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
The 2022 campaign story was set. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. — (CNN)Russia's invasion of Ukraine opened up a new front in the 2022 US midterm cycle, with America's role in the conflict taking a place alongside the culture war clashes, economic worries and fights over pandemic policy that had driven the early stages of the election.
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden's job approval falls to lowest level of his presidency amid war and inflation fears — NBC News poll: Biden hits lowest disapproval number yet — Amid Europe's largest land war since World War II, 7 in 10 Americans express low confidence in President Joe Biden's ability to deal …
Discussion:
The Hill
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox News Became ‘Unsustainable’ — As he starts a new streaming show at CNN, the longtime TV anchor reflects on his decision to leave Fox News after 18 years. — Give this article- - - Read in app — “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”
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 …
Discussion:
Althouse and Prosing on War and Peace
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.
Discussion:
Global Dispatches, The Right Questions, Telegraph, Political Wire and The Daily Wire
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.
Discussion:
The Guardian, The Chief Brief, Raw Story, Streams of Crunchiness and The Hill
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Fox News, The Guardian, Raw Story, New York Post, Washington Times, Bloomberg, Bangor Daily News, Insider, Right Side Broadcasting … and NBC News
RELATED:
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Republican Senators Play the QAnon Game — Give this article- - - Read in app — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have spent the last week smearing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court, as indifferent to (and soft on) child sexual abuse.
Discussion:
Insider, Los Angeles Times, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story and On the Media
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