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New York Times:
Live Updates: Civilians Flee as Battered Russian Forces Bear Down on Eastern Ukraine — Civilians are leaving eastern Ukraine amid warnings of escalating fighting there. The Justice Department charges a Russian oligarch with violating U.S. sanctions, and the Pentagon trains Ukrainian soldiers …
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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
Luke Mogelson / New Yorker:
Collecting Bodies in Bucha — A team of Ukrainian volunteers say that, since the Russian retreat, they have picked up three hundred corpses. — Iryna Havryliuk was one of thousands of Ukrainians who fled Bucha in early March, after Russian forces occupied a northern suburb of Kyiv.
ABC News:
US targets Putin's adult daughters in new round of Russian sanctions — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's wife and daughter were also sanctioned. — Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters — Maria and Katerina — are included in the latest round of sanctions on Russia the U.S. announced on Wednesday.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House passes bill to document Russian war crimes in Ukraine
House passes bill to document Russian war crimes in Ukraine
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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, Abraham Stein's Newsletter, CNBC and New York Times
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.
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Liberal media critic Eric Boehlert dies in bicycle collision — Eric Boehlert, a liberal critic who offered blistering takedowns and analysis of mainstream and conservative media, died Monday in a bicycle collision in his New Jersey hometown. He was 57. — “Through his journalism …
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James Fallows / Breaking the News:
Framing: In Honor of Eric Boehlert. — I just got the news this afternoon that Eric Boehlert, author of the popular Press Run site on Substack, had died in a bicycle accident in New Jersey, at age 56. This is heartbreaking and terrible. I send my condolences, sorrow, and support to his wife …
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Eric Boehlert Dies: Media Critic For Media Matters & Salon, Founder Of Press Run Newsletter Killed In Bike Accident At 57 — Eric Boehlert, a media critic devoted to calling out right-wing misinformation through his writing at Media Matters for America, Salon, Daily Kos and most recently …
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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.
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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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Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast:
Congresswoman Who Downplayed the Capitol Riot Is Very Concerned About a Slap Joke — CALL THE GAZPACHO! — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) downplayed the violence at the Capitol, voted against awarding congressional medals to Capitol Police officers injured in the insurrection …
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Leader of West Virginia's Proud Boys chapter pleads guilty in Jan. 6 case
Leader of West Virginia's Proud Boys chapter pleads guilty in Jan. 6 case
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, CNN and Human Events
Timothy Snyder / Washington Post:
By denying a Ukrainian culture, Putin flattens his own … In his 1926 poem “Debt to Ukraine,” Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote: “It's hard to crush people into one. Don't raise yourself so high.” After all, the poet continued: “Do we know the Ukrainian night? No, we do not know the Ukrainian night.”
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Max Schaub / EUROPP:
Do Russians tell the truth when they say they support the war in Ukraine? Evidence from a list experiment
Do Russians tell the truth when they say they support the war in Ukraine? Evidence from a list experiment
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Washington Post and The Sun
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Russia's failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages
Russia's failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages
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Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Elon Musk delayed filing a form and made $156 million … Elon Musk was 11 days late in publicly declaring he had amassed a large stake in Twitter. That omission may have earned him $156 million, according to a half-dozen legal and securities experts. — That's because of a 50-year-old law …
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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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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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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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Insider, Raw Story, New York Magazine, MindWar and Washington Post
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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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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Politico:
Judge rejects Trump's demand he step back from suit against Hillary Clinton — A federal judge — nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1996 — on Wednesday emphatically rejected Donald Trump's demand that he recuse from Trump's sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton …
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:
MSNBC:
‘Continuous drumbeat that sounds like genocidal language’ on Russian state TV journalist says — The White House unveiled a severe, new round of punitive measures aimed squarely at Vladimir Putin's regime on Wednesday, as clear statements from Russian media signal the probable intent …
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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Washington Post, Axios and New York Times
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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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida's Scott exposes fissures with DeSantis — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott on Wednesday showed an unwillingness to embrace the harsh rhetoric of Gov. Ron DeSantis over Disney's rejection of Florida's “Parental Rights in Education” bill, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill by opponents.
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Raw Story and Florida Politics
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, Mediaite and Fox News
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
House GOP: Why is Title 42 ending when other COVID-19 mandates remain in place?
House GOP: Why is Title 42 ending when other COVID-19 mandates remain in place?
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Axios, NH Journal, Immigration News, New York Post, Roll Call, Fox News, RedState, New York Post and The Federalist