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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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Comment is Freed, Puck, The Daily Caller, New York Post, CNN, National Review, New York Times, CNN, The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: United States, G7 and EU Impose Severe and Immediate Costs on Russia — Today, the United States, with the G7 and the European Union, will continue to impose severe and immediate economic costs on the Putin regime for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.
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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, NPR, Al Jazeera 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
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial “victory” to Russia in Ukraine
EXCLUSIVE: Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial “victory” to Russia in Ukraine
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Political Junkie and Outside the Beltway
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
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HotAir, Forbes, New York Post, The Guardian, Associated Press, Florida Politics, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Bloomberg
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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CBS News, CNBC, Abraham Stein's Newsletter and Wall Street Journal
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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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
Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
White House hits Republicans on COVID-19 funding as Biden officials test positive
White House hits Republicans on COVID-19 funding as Biden officials test positive
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Washington Free Beacon and NPR
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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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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The Hill, New York Times, UPI, CNN, RedState, The Western Journal, Associated Press, Radix's Newsletter and lewrockwell.com
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, Insider, Breitbart, Vanity Fair and Raw Story
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
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
House votes to hold ex-Trump aides Navarro, Scavino in contempt of Congress — The committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob has been rebuffed by former Trump aides Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino Jr.
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Washington Examiner, Politico, CNN and Political Wire
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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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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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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.
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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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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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and New York Times
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 Hill
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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Washington Post, Twitchy and Kevin Drum
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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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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Washington Examiner, The Stanford Review, Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
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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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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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
WFLA-TV:
Florida lawmaker wants to ban transgender drugs, surgery for minors — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida lawmaker wants to ban giving drugs to or performing surgery on minors for “gender assignment.” — Florida Rep. Randy Fine, R-Brevard County, tweeted on Monday that he will introduce legislation …
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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 …
New York Times:
The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’ — Rituals of Christian worship have become embedded in conservative rallies, as praise music and prayer blend with political anger over vaccines and the 2020 election. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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