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11:00 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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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Democrats in Congress ask Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases  —  Top Democrats on the Senate and House judiciary committees issued a letter to the Supreme Court on Monday requesting that Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from any future cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021 …
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 …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Merrick Garland Has More Than Enough to Investigate Trump  —  A federal judge thinks that former President Donald Trump likely committed fraud — and probably knew it — when he and one of his lawyers, John Eastman, plotted to block Congress's certification of the 2020 presidential election so Trump could hold on to power.
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Associated Press:
After Russian forces pull back, a shattered town breathes
Discussion: RedState and Breitbart
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Don't Let Up Now  —  Russia appears to be revising its strategy in Ukraine.
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Biden used cheat sheet while doubling down on unscripted message to oust Putin
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
High risks at low altitude: Ukraine's pilots reveal tactics giving them the edge in the skies
Discussion: Task & Purpose and Just The News
Financial Times:
Russia no longer demanding Ukraine be ‘denazified’ in ceasefire talks
NewsTrends KE:
Activists publish list of Ukrainian civilians abducted by Russian forces as part of campaign to free ‘The Taken’
Discussion: Graham's Newsletter
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Future of Trumpism … In late February, as daily deaths from COVID-19 tallied in the thousands across the country, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced his latest effort to dismantle his state's response to the coronavirus pandemic.  Private businesses, he insisted, should stop requiring their employees to wear masks at work.
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  —  Misinformation about the 2020 election dominated a debate between Ohio's Republican U.S. Senate candidates on Monday as they angle for former President Donald Trump's seal of approval.
Discussion: VICE, NBC News and Ohio Capital Journal
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., Raw Story and Bloomberg
Joe Sneve / Argus Leader:
Jason Ravnsborg should not be impeached, investigation committee says  —  PIERRE — South Dakota's attorney general should not be impeached.  —  That's according to a formal recommendation by the state House Select Committee on Investigation, which Monday concluded a months-long probe …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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 …
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 …
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Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:   ‘Moderate’ Conor Lamb Paid BLM-Linked Firm Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Vogue, Bon Appétit and other Condé Nast staffers form union … For years, employees at Condé Nast — the influential publisher of glossy titles such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ — have been trading notes with each other about their increasing workloads and what they discovered to be differing salaries.
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Mullin introducing resolution to expunge first Trump impeachment: ‘Perfect phone call’  —  Mullin says Democrats ‘abused our Constitution for their political gain’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 29  —  FIRST ON FOX: Oklahoma GOP U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Markwayne Mullin Tuesday …
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.
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Local Election Officials in Georgia Oppose G.O.P. Election Bill  —  As Republicans rush to pass a second round of new voting and election rules, a bipartisan group of election officials is fighting back.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  ATLANTA — A year ago …
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, USA Today, Variety and Forbes
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.
Discussion: The Crime Report
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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The White House:
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Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
The Trumps Did Business With an Oligarch Linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. They'd Like You to Forget.
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather K. Gerken / Yale Law School:
A Message From Dean Gerken on the March 10 Protest
Los Angeles Times:
Vice President Kamala Harris, in her toughest hour, is keeping a tighter circle
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
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Discussion: The Times of Israel
Steven Monacelli / Rolling Stone:
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NBC News:
‘Biggest fraud in a generation’: The looting of the Covid relief plan known as PPP
Discussion: The Daily Caller and HotAir
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Why U.S. Population Growth Is Collapsing
Rachel Aviv / New Yorker:
How an Ivy League School Turned Against a Student
Discussion: Althouse