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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump's Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise and a politically conservative worldview aligned with the former president …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Truth Social Is Doing Even Worse Than You Thought — The engagement numbers are truly awful. — The app that Donald Trump once hoped would avenge his exile from social media and make him a MAGA Mark Zuckerberg has instead plummeted to the 28th most popular social media platform …
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin — PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government's sanctions enforcement initiative to …
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Catherine Belton / Washington Post:
Exiled oligarch calls on other Russian tycoons to break with Putin … LONDON — Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the self-exiled Russian oligarch and vocal Kremlin opponent, has called on Russian billionaires and officials who have fled Russia to publicly denounce President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine as criminal.
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The Hill and The Times of Israel
New York Times:
In a Kyiv Suburb,'They Shot Everyone They Saw' — With Russian forces retreating, Ukrainians in Bucha are finding scores of bodies in yards and on the roads amid mounting evidence of intentional and indiscriminate killings of civilians. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Associated Press:
Live updates | US urges Russia's ouster from UN rights body — GENEVA — The United States plans to seek a suspension of Russia from its seat on the U.N.'s top human rights body in the wake of rising signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador …
Washington Post:
U.S. weighs tougher Russia sanctions after evidence of Bucha killings
U.S. weighs tougher Russia sanctions after evidence of Bucha killings
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New York Times:
‘This Is True Barbarity’: Life and Death Under Russian Occupation
‘This Is True Barbarity’: Life and Death Under Russian Occupation
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ABC News:
Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden — The luxury rental property has “gorgeous ocean views,” according to its listing. — Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father's presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail.
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Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in Twitter After Hinting at Shake-Up — Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc. to become the platform's biggest shareholder, a week after hinting he might shake up the social media industry. — Twitter shares surged about 26% in premarket trading …
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Associated Press:
Suddenly, Tesla's Elon Musk is Twitter's biggest stakeholder — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform's dedication to free speech. — The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats' two-do: Confirm Jackson, land Manchin — DRIVING THE DAY — LOOK WHO'S BACK — Former President BARACK OBAMA will join President JOE BIDEN at a White House event Tuesday celebrating the Affordable Care Act, the first time Obama's going back to 1600 Penn since leaving office, NBC's Mike Memoli scooped.
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Politico:
Dems have an opening for a midterm villain. Donald Trump, you're hired!
Dems have an opening for a midterm villain. Donald Trump, you're hired!
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Washington Post, Robert Reich, The American Spectator, Raw Story, Breitbart and Human Events
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dems plot spring sprint for party-line spending deal with Manchin
Dems plot spring sprint for party-line spending deal with Manchin
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Politico:
Jan. 6 panel wonders: Is Trump criminal referral necessary? — Should the Jan. 6 committee ask the Justice Department to pursue a criminal case against Donald Trump? It's a question with political heft but no practical effect — and some panel members are increasingly skeptical.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack panel scores two major wins as it inches closer to Trump's inner circle
Craig Howie / Politico:
Trump endorses Palin in Alaska House special election
Trump endorses Palin in Alaska House special election
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ABC News:
Border politics worsen for Biden: The Note — Over two year old border restrictions, known as Title 42, end next month. — A deteriorating political environment means no shortage of small things that can become big things as well as big things that become all-encompassing and devastating.
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Beast
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Adam Beam / Associated Press:
California mass shooting: 6 dead, 12 injured in Sacramento — SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — Six people were killed and 12 injured in a mass shooting early Sunday as bars and nightclubs were closing in downtown Sacramento and police in California's state capital were searching for at least one suspect.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
David Perdue, Trump's Sacrificial Lamb — He's killing his career in honor of Trump's election grievances. — The thing about sacrificial lambs is that they can only be sacrificed once. What makes David Perdue's political career unique is that, in honor of Donald Trump's 2020 election grievances, Perdue is killing it twice.
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Raw Story
Washington Monthly:
Inside Tucker Carlson's Brain — On February 22, as tensions that would soon spill into war mounted on the Ukrainian border, Fox News' Tucker Carlson opened his show—the most popular cable news program in the country—with a searing monologue ripping into the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Marty Makary / Wall Street Journal:
FDA Shuts Out Its Own Experts in Authorizing Another Vaccine Booster — Decisions like this only reinforce the perception that Covid policy is driven by groupthink and politics. — The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized Americans 50 and over to get a fourth Covid vaccine dose.
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Reason, Steve Kirsch's newsletter and Cafe Hayek
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Biden called Murdoch the ‘most dangerous man in the world,’ new book alleges — New York (CNN Business)In a forthcoming book, a pair of New York Times reporters and CNN political analysts report that President Joe Biden “assessed” Fox News “as one of the most destructive forces in the United States.”
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Liz Cheney Can't Rely On Democrats To Save Her In Wyoming's Republican Primary — Despite being a reliable Republican vote for most of two-plus terms in the U.S. House, Rep. Liz Cheney hasn't been afraid to buck her party when it comes to former President Donald Trump.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate eyes historic week with a vote to put Jackson on Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — The Senate is poised to vote this week on whether to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and she is in good shape to win a lifetime appointment and become the first Black woman on the court.
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Kevin Daley / Washington Free Beacon:
Ketanji Brown Jackson Wanted to Empty Jails at Start of Pandemic
Ketanji Brown Jackson Wanted to Empty Jails at Start of Pandemic
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The Hill and Washington Post