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10:01 AM ET, March 29, 2022

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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls … Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes …
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New York Times:
New Focus on How a Trump Tweet Incited Far-Right Groups Ahead of Jan. 6  —  Federal prosecutors and congressional investigators are documenting how the former president's “Be there, will be wild!” post became a catalyst for militants before the Capitol assault.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's January 6 plot appears darker and more dangerous by the day  —  Reporter: Why judge's comment about Trump is a big deal  —  (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election is being revealed week-by-week to be deeper and broader than it initially appeared …
Politico:
‘Do your job’: Jan. 6 committee presses DOJ as push for Meadows contempt charge languishes  —  The House's Jan. 6 select committee vented frustration with the Justice Department on Monday for not criminally charging former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for contempt of Congress …
ABC News:
Jared Kushner expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee this week
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee recommends former Trump aides Navarro and Scavino face contempt charges
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Moderate’ Conor Lamb Paid BLM-Linked Firm Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars  —  Lamb's communications consultant, Fireside Campaigns, improperly solicited funds for BLM  —  The self-described “moderate” in Pennsylvania's Senate race, Conor Lamb, has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars …
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The Lever:
The Corporate Threat In Dems' Must-Win Senate Race  —  A health insurance consultant's super PAC wants to tilt a Democratic primary against John Fetterman, who backs Medicare for All.  —  An outside group planning to attack Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman …
Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:   “Designed to End Protesting”: Louisiana Supreme Court Makes Protesters Guilty by Association
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Financial Times:
Russia no longer demanding Ukraine be ‘denazified’ in ceasefire talks
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv
Discussion: Graham's Newsletter and The US Sun
CNN:   Pentagon will accelerate production of missiles Ukraine has requested to refill US stockpiles
Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Md. state Sen. Will Smith missed the Oscars.  He woke up to chaos.  —  Maryland state Sen. William C. Smith Jr. went to bed early Sunday night.  He was startled Monday morning when he awoke to a phone that wouldn't stop dinging.  —  That's when he learned the following:
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News, IJR and Variety
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New York Times:
Will Smith Apologizes to Chris Rock After Academy Condemns His Slap
Sara Nathan / New York Post:
Could Will Smith lose his Oscar? Explaining the Academy's code of conduct
Grant Schulte / Associated Press:
Nebraska lawmaker apologizes for debunked litter box claim  —  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state lawmaker apologized on Monday after he publicly cited a persistent but debunked rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in school bathrooms to accommodate children who self-identify as cats.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
GOP headaches grow as infighting roils Senate primaries  —  Republican frustrations are growing as multiple GOP Senate primaries have descended into infighting, threatening the party's chances of retaking the upper chamber in November.  —  In recent weeks, Senate primaries in Missouri and Ohio have turned volatile.
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Haley BeMiller / The Columbus Dispatch:
False claims about 2020 election dominate debate between Ohio GOP U.S. Senate candidates
Discussion: NBC News and Ohio Capital Journal
New York Times:
Live Updates: Russia Vows to Reduce Attacks in Northern Ukraine  —  In a sign of progress at cease-fire talks in Turkey, Russia also said a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine could be held once a draft peace agreement was ready.
Andrew Meldrum / Associated Press:
Ethiopian court orders journalist to be released on bail  —  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An Ethiopian court has ordered Ethiopian journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be released on bail after being imprisoned for four months without charges.  —  A judge in the capital, Addis Ababa …
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Don't Let Up Now  —  Russia appears to be revising its strategy in Ukraine.  In place of the go-for-broke attempt to swallow the country in a hundred-hour war, to be completed with a tank parade in the Kyiv Maidan and a semi-annexation, some Russian leaders now talk more modestly of operations in the Donbas.
Associated Press:
After Russian forces pull back, a shattered town breathes  —  TROSTYANETS, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of two Russian soldiers lie abandoned in the woods.  Ukrainian forces piled atop a tank flash victory signs.  Dazed people line up amid charred buildings to reach for aid.
Discussion: WSVN-TV
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Jon Karl Talked With Fox About Replacing Chris Wallace  —  In this week's edition of Source Material, we reveal how ABC's chief Washington correspondent toyed with the idea of taking over Fox News Sunday. … Chris Wallace poured a bucket of verbal manure over Fox News on Sunday …
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Thousands of Afghans were evacuated to the U.S. Will America let them stay?  —  NEWARK, Calif. — On the day Kabul fell, Taliban fighters scouring the city for government loyalists arrived at the home of Mohammad Khisraw Noori and executed his brother-in-law.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Fox Nation's Lara Logan Suggests Theory of Evolution Is a Hoax Funded by Jews  —  Lara Logan's latest anti-Semitic dog whistle is a claim that Charles Darwin only came up with the idea of evolution because Jews paid him to  —  It wasn't long ago that Lara Logan was a correspondent for CBS News …
Politico:
Rand's latest stand undercuts GOP's Ukraine message  —  Republicans have spent weeks hammering President Joe Biden as too slow in responding to Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.  Enter Rand Paul.  —  The idiosyncratic GOP senator is undermining his own party's message by single-handedly delaying …
Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
Attorney General Who Killed a Man Manages to Dodge Impeachment  —  Jason Ravnsborg is now not likely to face any consequences after a special investigative committee of the South Dakota House of Representative voted against his impeachment.  —  More than a year and a half after he ran down and killed a man …
Mike Elk / Payday Report:
Irwin's Law Firm Fought Against College Athletes Unionizing & Crazy Mocha Workers Organizing  —  PITTSBURGH, PA - Over the past week, Pittsburgh Congressional candidate Steve Irwin, who has won the support of most of Pittsburgh's Democratic establishment, has attempted to refute Payday's reporting …
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
A former congressman and a lobbyist look for work in Kremlin-allied Belarus  —  Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) was on a trip several weeks ago to Belarus when a D.C. lobbyist, with whom he was sharing an Airbnb in Minsk, woke him up with alarming news: Russia was invading the country next door.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and ABC News
 
 
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