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James Marson / Wall Street Journal:
Execution of Village Mayor Becomes Symbol of Russian Brutality in Ukraine — A beloved mayor and her family helped townspeople resist Russian occupation. They paid for it with their lives. ‘Why were they killed? Because they were Ukrainians’
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Puck, Comment is Freed, The Daily Caller, New York Post, CNN, NPR, National Review, CNN, New York Times, The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera
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Washington Post:
U.S. widens sanctions against Russia as questions about effectiveness mount
U.S. widens sanctions against Russia as questions about effectiveness mount
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HotAir, Associated Press, New York Times, CBS News, Al Jazeera, NPR and Deseret News
ABC News:
US targets Putin's adult daughters in new round of Russian sanctions
US targets Putin's adult daughters in new round of Russian sanctions
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Washington Post, Insider, CBS News, Michael-In-Norfolk and Politico
New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Civilians Flee Eastern Regions as the West Ramps Up Sanctions on Russia
Ukraine Live Updates: Civilians Flee Eastern Regions as the West Ramps Up Sanctions on Russia
James Beardsworth / The Moscow Times:
China Calls on U.S to Lift Russia Sanctions to Resolve Ukraine Invasion
China Calls on U.S to Lift Russia Sanctions to Resolve Ukraine Invasion
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HotAir, Associated Press, CBS News, NBC News, Abraham Stein's Newsletter and CNBC
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Judge acquits federal defense contractor on Jan. 6 charges — WASHINGTON — A federal defense contractor with a top-secret security clearance who admitted he entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack was found not guilty at trial on Wednesday. — Matthew Martin was acquitted …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post, CBS News, Washington Post, The Federalist, Ace of Spades HQ, Twitchy and Just The News
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Politico:
Judge issues first outright acquittal of Jan. 6 riot defendant — A judge has issued the first outright acquittal of a defendant charged in the Capitol riot. — Following a two-day bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin was acquitted Wednesday …
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New York Times, The Hill, UPI, RedState, CNN, The Western Journal, Associated Press, Radix's Newsletter and lewrockwell.com
Washington Post:
After Gridiron Dinner, a covid outbreak among Washington A-list guests … It was supposed to be an evening of lighthearted political satire and bipartisan fellowship among an elite cadre of politicians, journalists and public officials, just as it has been for much of the past 137 years.
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The Hill, HuffPost, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Insider and Washington Examiner
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Politico:
Elite D.C. appears to be getting pummeled with Covid — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday revealed they had tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the latest D.C. figures to contract the virus in what is taking on signs of a new wave pummeling the capital city.
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, USA Today, Deadline and CNN
New York Times:
Dissatisfied With Their Party, Wealthy Republican Donors Form Secret Coalitions — Eager to offset a Democratic advantage among so-called dark money groups, wealthy pro-Trump conservatives like Peter Thiel are involved in efforts to wield greater influence outside the traditional party machinery.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
False election claims dominate party for Trump, allies at Mar-a-Lago
False election claims dominate party for Trump, allies at Mar-a-Lago
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New York Magazine, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, Vanity Fair, Insider and Raw Story
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers — WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady's security detail.
Jerod Macdonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
Paul Gosar to attend white nationalist social gathering on Hitler's birthday — Prescott Republican Congressman Paul Gosar is set to be a “special guest” with the white nationalist American Populist Union at an event that will be on a date popular among white nationalists and Neo-Nazis: Hitler's birthday.
Washington Post:
House votes to hold ex-Trump aides Navarro, Scavino in contempt of Congress — The House voted Wednesday to hold two former aides to President Donald Trump in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
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ABC News:
Trump White House lawyer expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee
Trump White House lawyer expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee
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Washington Examiner and The Status Kuo
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
House to vote on contempt referral for Trump aides Navarro and Scavino
House to vote on contempt referral for Trump aides Navarro and Scavino
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Bloomberg, MSNBC, BuzzFeed News, Washington Times, Talking Points Memo, Townhall, UrduPoint News, UPI and CBS News
Max Schaub / EUROPP:
Do Russians tell the truth when they say they support the war in Ukraine? Evidence from a list experiment — Survey evidence indicates a majority of Russian citizens support their country's military action in Ukraine. But does this give an accurate picture of public opinion?
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Washington Post and The Sun
Julia Martin / NorthJersey.com:
Eric Boehlert, well-known writer and media analyst, killed by train in Montclair — A Montclair bicyclist who was killed by a New Jersey Transit train near the town's Watchung Avenue station Monday night was writer Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of Press Run, a blog about the media, according to his wife, Tracy Breslin.
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Washington Post, New York Daily News, Deadline, Breitbart, Hollywood Reporter and New Jersey Online, more at Mediagazer »
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy. Then they tried. … Before we get to the fact that I spent my lunch hour emailing with an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to find out whether “tallywhacker” was an officially recognized euphemism for “penis,” a brief recap of how we got here:
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Twitchy and Vanity Fair
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As vile as it gets: J.D. Vance goes full ‘great replacement theory’ — J.D. Vance wants you to know that only one invasion should overwhelmingly preoccupy your attention right now. It's not the invasion of Ukraine, where war crimes are mounting and we're seeing horrifying imagery of murdered civilians littering the streets.
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America's Voice and Mediaite
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Ending Title 42 Is Biden's Most Unpopular Move Yet
Ending Title 42 Is Biden's Most Unpopular Move Yet
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TheBlaze, Breitbart, RedState, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller, Townhall, Twitchy and Politico
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Steve Bannon Said Trump Reminded Him of Hitler. He Meant It as a Compliment. — If you doubt we've grown too accustomed to aberrant behavior in the political class, consider this anecdote from the recently published Insurgency: How the Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything …
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New York Times:
U.S. Says It Secretly Removed Malware Worldwide, Pre-empting Russian Cyberattacks — The operation is the latest effort by the Biden administration to thwart actions by Russia by making them public before Moscow can strike. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower who handed Hunter's abandoned laptop to congressmen and DailyMail.com reveals he has 450 gigabytes of DELETED material including 80,000 images and videos - and has fled to Switzerland fearing retaliation from White House — Whistleblower Jack Maxey gave DailyMail.com …
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Biblical Truths …
Peter Pomerantsev / TIME:
Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future — Pomerantsev is the author of This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. He is a Senior Fellow at SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. — As she lay dying in a North London hospital, my grandmother started to hallucinate scenes from her Ukrainian childhood.
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New York Times and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Congressional Republicans Now Lead Generic Ballot Among Child Tax Credit Recipients — 46% of voters who received the expired pandemic-era benefit say they'll back a Republican in the midterms — Voters who received expanded child tax credits payments in 2021 ended the year more likely …
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TheBlaze, Washington Post, Twitchy and Kevin Drum
Jill Tucker / San Francisco Chronicle:
California math wars get ugly: Accusations of racism and harassment ignite battle between Stanford and Cal profs — Two professors at rival Bay Area colleges — UC Berkeley and Stanford— landed in a social media feud this week, trading accusations of racism and harassment.
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The Stanford Review, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
At least five shooters involved in Sacramento massacre, gang ties likely, police say — Sacramento police said Wednesday that it appears at least five shooters fired guns during Sunday's massacre in downtown, which killed six people and injured 12. — Officials are still trying to determine …
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The Guardian, The Hill, WINK NEWS, New York Post, USA Today, UPI, Associated Press, Reason, UrduPoint News, Breitbart and Metro.co.uk
Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
Officials Captured And Euthanized The Capitol Hill Fox, Then Found Her Kits — There's a tragic twist to the story of the Capitol Hill fox accused of biting and nipping multiple people earlier this week — the adult female was euthanized after her capture on Tuesday afternoon.
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New York Times, CBS News and The Gateway Pundit
Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Bannon Loses Bid to Claim Lawyer Said He Could Ignore Jan. 6 Subpoena — A federal judge rejected political strategist Steve Bannon's plan to argue he was justified in refusing to comply with a subpoena from lawmakers investigating U.S. Capitol riot because he was acting on the advice of his lawyer.
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Washington Post:
Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine … KYIV, Ukraine — Inside a warehouse, in a bustling section of this capital, the incessant cracking sound of gunfire echoed off walls. Men in olive-colored camouflage were training for war. Most wore helmets and bulletproof jackets.
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Russia's failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages — WASHINGTON (AP) — Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages. The fight started poorly for the invaders and went downhill from there. — When President Vladimir Putin launched his war on Feb. 24 after months of buildup on Ukraine's borders …
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CBS News, nationalinterest.org, Vatican News, Substack, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos and HotAir
Anna Brown / Pew Research Center:
Most Americans who are ‘single and looking’ say dating has been harder during the pandemic — As the pandemic enters its third year, most U.S. adults who are single and looking for a relationship or dates say dating during the coronavirus outbreak is harder than it was before.
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The Hill and The Federalist
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Dystopia: Drone warns desperate locked-down Shanghai residents to “control your soul's desire for freedom” — Imagine how jealous Fauci was when he was told about this. — The stress of being under what's now an indefinite lockdown has led people in Shanghai to seek whatever meager relief is available, sometimes in familiar ways.
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Twitchy
Minyvonne Burke / Associated Press:
Man found guilty of sex trafficking, extortion of daughter's Sarah Lawrence schoolmates — “Let me be very clear. Larry Ray is a predator. An evil man who did evil things,” the prosecutor's office said. — A New York man was convicted Wednesday on charges that he moved …