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New York Times:
She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit. — The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — As President Donald J. Trump's tenure came …
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Politico:
Is Ginni Thomas a Trumpworld power player or a gadfly? It depends on who you ask. — When news broke last week that Virginia Thomas, known as Ginni, had texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, imploring him to overturn the 2020 election results to keep Donald Trump in power, it sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C.
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Washington Free Beacon:
Call Him Big Daddy When He Walks That Gaffe Back — It would be preferable, given the raging conflict in Ukraine and the lingering threat of nuclear war, if President Joe Biden could open his mouth and say something that didn't require an immediate “walk back” or “clarification” from his panicked White House communications team.
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BBC:
French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings — The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say. — Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for …
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Seth G. Jones / TIME:
What It Will Take For Ukraine To Win the War
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Russian troops near Kyiv, Chernobyl are repositioning, Pentagon says
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
“Regime Change” Doesn't Work, You Morons
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Why Does No One Ever Say “Republicans Have to Stop Acting Crazy or Voters Will Punish Them”? — One-way voter accountability. — Come hang out with me, Tim Miller, Amanda Carpenter, and Will Saletan to talk about ALL THE THINGS. — Tonight at 8:00 p.m. right here. — Only for members of Bulwark+.
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Attorney who backs election decertification enters Attorney General race to investigate doctors who won't prescribe ivermectin — MADISON - A Chippewa Falls attorney who is a key player in a movement to take the impossible step of decertifying the 2020 election is running for Attorney General …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Ivermectin is the signature example of politics trumping health
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wusa9.com:
Five fetuses found at home of anti-abortion activist, DC Police say — Lauren Handy and eight others were indicted this week on felony charges stemming from the 2020 invasion of an abortion clinic. — WASHINGTON — Police discovered five fetuses at the home of an anti-abortion activist …
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
A Facebook bug led to increased views of harmful content over six months … A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to “integrity risks” over the past six months, according to an internal report on the incident obtained by The Verge.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Fight with Clinton campaign and DNC looms in Sussmann case — A looming legal battle could reveal new details about the decision by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign to commission a research project that produced a controversial dossier on Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Tommy Thompson meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago as he considers a run for governor — MADISON - Tommy Thompson is meeting Thursday with former President Donald Trump as he ponders another run for governor. — The get-together comes three weeks after former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Please, Merrick Garland. Don't wait for the Jan. 6 committee.
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden's Plan to Respond to Putin's Price Hike at the Pump — Americans face rising prices at the pump because of Putin's Price Hike. Since Putin accelerated his military build-up around Ukraine, gas prices have increased by nearly a dollar per gallon.
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Jack Helean / KSTU:
Workers at Starbucks in Cottonwood Heights announce plans to form labor union — COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — Workers at a Starbucks in Cottonwood Heights announced their plans Thursday to form a labor union. If successful, they would become the first Starbucks store in Utah to unionize.
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David Siders / Politico:
'We've got to stop fooling ourselves': Enthusiasm gap keeps getting worse for Dems — At the end of October, Republicans held an 11-percentage-point advantage in voter enthusiasm. By January, that margin had ticked up to 14 points. Now, according to the most recent NBC News poll …
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Los Angeles Times:
Concerns about Bruce Willis' declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years — Just days before Bruce Willis was scheduled to turn up on the set of one of his latest action films, the director of the project sent out an urgent request: Make the movie star's part smaller.
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Farida Rustamova / Faridaily:
“Now we're going to f*ck them all.” What's happening in Russia's elites after a month of war — Sanctions and propaganda have rallied even those who were against the invasion around Putin … “Since they adopted sanctions against us, we're going to f*ck them.
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A Sip of Freedom and Insider
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Daily Wire to make conservative kids' shows to rival ‘woke’ Disney — Ben Shapiro grew up loving Disney movies, he told his podcast listeners last week. The conservative firebrand passed that love on to his kids by taking them to Disneyland as soon as they were old enough — 6 months of age in the Shapiro household.
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Reuters:
Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia's annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
There Is No Liberal World Order — In February 1994, in the grand ballroom of the town hall in Hamburg, Germany, the president of Estonia gave a remarkable speech. Standing before an audience in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the values of the democratic world that Estonia then aspired to join.
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Politico:
Senate closes in on $10B Covid aid deal despite Dem frustrations — Key senators are nearing a deal on a roughly $10 billion package of coronavirus relief, setting Congress on a path to deliver funding Democrats had hoped to pass weeks ago. — But some in the majority party are deeply unhappy …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What explains the suspicious gap in Trump's call log? … From the moment we learned the extent of the 7.5-hour gap in White House records of President Trump's phone calls on Jan. 6, 2021, the question has been: How did this happen? Could it just be sloppy record-keeping …
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J. Seth Huston / Fox News:
NCAA swimming chooses inclusion over integrity, fairness — Does the NCAA think it is treating biological women student-athletes with dignity and respect? — NCAA ‘erasing women from sports’ by allowing transgender competitors: Former USA Swimming official
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Wisconsin lawmaker held in contempt over 2020 election records … A Wisconsin judge has ordered one of the state's top Republican lawmakers to be held in contempt after he failed to produce records from an investigation he had launched into the 2020 presidential election.
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