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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
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Joe.My.God., Raw Story and Bloomberg
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 …
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 …
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Axios, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Raw Story, National Review, NBC News, CBS News, CNN and CBS San Francisco
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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ABC News:
Jared Kushner expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee this week
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Russia Vows to Reduce Attacks in Northern Ukraine — Talks in Turkey yielded progress, as Russia also said a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine could occur once a draft peace agreement was ready.
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Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Metro.co.uk, National Review, UPI and Political Wire
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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.
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Bloomberg, CBS News, Politico, Al Jazeera, Outside the Beltway, Ted Rall on What's Left …, nationalinterest.org and The New Arab
Politico:
U.S. training Ukrainian troops in Poland, Biden seems to reveal — President Joe Biden appeared to reveal that the U.S. is training Ukrainian forces in Poland — stating for the first time since the war began that American troops are actively teaching Ukrainians to fight and kill Russians.
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Lucid, Salon, Breitbart, RedState, New York Post, New Republic, New York Times, Twitchy, YouTube and Graham's Newsletter
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.
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Biden used cheat sheet while doubling down on unscripted message to oust Putin
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CBS News, Liberty's Torch, BizPac Review, RedState, New York Times, Power Line, Breitbart, Todd Starnes, National Review and NPR
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Don't Let Up Now — Russia appears to be revising its strategy in Ukraine.
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The Birdsnest, New York Times and Responsible Statecraft
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
President Macron's Unending Russia Diplomacy
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Mercury News and Foreign Affairs
NewsTrends KE:
Activists publish list of Ukrainian civilians abducted by Russian forces as part of campaign to free ‘The Taken’
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv
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EL PAÍS in English, Graham's Newsletter and The US Sun
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.
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Reason, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Nebraska Examiner
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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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
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NBC News and Ohio Capital Journal
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:
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New York Times:
Will Smith Apologizes to Chris Rock After Academy Condemns His Slap
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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 …
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Pitt's Newsletter, Mock Paper Scissors, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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 …
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Raw Story and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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The Crime Report
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 …
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Raw Story, The Guardian and Conservative Brief
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 …
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 …
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Georgia Recorder, WTOP News and Political Wire
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 …
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Reporters Without Borders, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Joe.My.God., Argus Leader, Raw Story and WTOP News
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.
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