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12:15 PM 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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin: GOP treatment of Jackson ‘disgraceful,’ ‘embarrassing’  —  Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said the way Republican senators treated Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson at last week's hearings was “disgraceful” and “embarrassing” after they repeatedly brought up her record of sentencing child pornography offenders.
Discussion: WFLA-TV
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 …
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
White House omitted light Jackson child porn sentence in document given to senators, GOP says: ‘Cover-up’
Discussion: Lurker's Newsletter
New York Times:
Even with signs of progress in peace talks, the fighting continued on several fronts.  —  The gains in negotiations came as Ukrainian troops appeared to push back Russian forces around Kyiv.  Russia said a meeting between President Vladimir V. Putin and President Volodymyr Zelensky could occur once a draft peace agreement was ready.
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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
US intel assess ‘major’ strategy shift by Russia as it moves some forces away from Kyiv  —  (CNN)Russia is beginning to withdraw some forces from the area around the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv in what the US assesses as a major strategy shift by Moscow, two senior US officials tell CNN.
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
High risks at low altitude: Ukraine's pilots reveal tactics giving them the edge in the skies  —  ‘We are trained to do some crazy s—’, says MiG pilot, whose daredevil ploy is to fly ‘faster and lower’ than Russians know how to handle  —  Russian fighter pilots are unable to handle …
Politico:
U.S. training Ukrainian troops in Poland, Biden seems to reveal
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
NewsTrends KE:
Activists publish list of Ukrainian civilians abducted by Russian forces as part of campaign to free ‘The Taken’
Discussion: Graham's Newsletter
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Significant’ evidence suggests Trump Organization misstated asset values for more than a decade, NY AG says  — The New York Attorney General's probe of the Trump Organization “uncovered significant evidence” suggesting that the company's financial statements for more than a decade relied …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: National Review
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Second Booster Dose of Two COVID-19 Vaccines for Older and Immunocompromised Individuals  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech …
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
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: VICE, NBC News and Ohio Capital Journal
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 …
John Solomon / Just The News:
Exclusive: Trump calls on Putin to release info on Hunter Biden's dealings with oligarchs  —  “I think we should know that answer,” America's 45th president says.
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 …
Errol Louis / New York Magazine:
AOC's Warning for Democrats: 'We're in Trouble'  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks President Biden got played by Senator Joe Manchin — and that the president's nostalgia for a bygone era of backroom dealmaking could prove disastrous for Democrats in the midterms.
Discussion: Insider
Washington Post:
Biden to sign bill making lynching a federal hate crime  —  President Biden is poised to sign legislation Tuesday that would make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts against racial violence.
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Madison Cawthorn says DC is orgy-filled, cocaine-fueled ‘House of Cards’  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn says his fellow lawmakers have invited him to take part in orgies in Washington and snorted lines of cocaine right in front of him.  —  Cawthorn, a 26-year-old Republican from North Carolina …
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 …
Discussion: Jacobin
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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.
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.
Libby Casey / Washington Post:
Remembering Alaska's Rep. Don Young … One of the great stories of Capitol Hill folklore goes like this: Early in John A. Boehner's career — back when he was a freshman congressman, long before he became Speaker of the House — he gave a floor speech railing against earmarks …
Discussion: UPI and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
 
 
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