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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’

Discussion: New York Post, The Daily Caller, United States Department … and Insider

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

EXCLUSIVE: Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial “victory” to Russia in Ukraine — In an internal email obtained exclusively by Popular Information, Stand Together, the influential non-profit group run by right-wing billionaire Charles Koch, argues that the United States should seek …

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.

Discussion: NPR, The Moscow Times, The Daily Beast, NBC News, New York Times, The Hill, Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS News, NPR, New York Times, Associated Press, New York Post, Just Security, Insider, BBC, Forbes, Metro.co.uk and The Rooney Report

Lawrence Freedman / Comment is Freed:

The Russo-Ukraine War: Phase Two — On 24 February as they began their invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces began shelling Mariupol, a port city of over 400,000 inhabitants. The next day they began to advance to its outskirts. By 2 March the city was surrounded and the shelling had become routine and deadly.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post

CNN:
Russian troops leave behind trail of dead civilians, flattened apartment blocks, and V signs in Ukraine's Borodianka

Discussion: The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera

Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Why Tracking Putin's Wealth Is So Difficult

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post, UPI and Foreign Affairs

CNN:
It's too soon to say Putin has given up on capturing Kyiv, despite strategy shift, Western officials warn

Discussion: Washington Post, Al Jazeera, National Review and NBC News

Washington Post:
A weary Zelensky challenges U.N. to act with graphic video for diplomats

CNN:

January 6 committee obtains emails that former Trump attorney John Eastman sought to keep secret — Washington (CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret.

Discussion: American Greatness, HuffPost, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Associated Press, Political Wire and New York Times

ABC News:

Trump White House lawyer expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee — Eric Herschmann defended President Trump during his first impeachment trial. — Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is expected to appear Wednesday before the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the Capitol attack …

Politico:

Court orders Jan. 6 defense lawyer disbarred — A Virginia state court has disbarred Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who has represented a slew of high-profile Jan. 6 defendants, including a member of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy, as well as several targets …

Discussion: Raw Story

Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:

Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Interviews Longtime Steve Bannon Associate Alexandra Preate — Bannon's so-called “consigliere” and “shadow press secretary” was among those in attendance at the pre-attack rally in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021 — Alexandra Preate …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Boston Herald, Raw Story, New York Times, UrduPoint News and Althouse

Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Ivanka Trump testified for 8 hours before House panel investigating Jan. 6 riot

Discussion: Axios, UPI, CBS News, Insider, Forbes, Breitbart, UrduPoint News, Bloomberg, The Guardian, NPR and CNN

HuffPost:

What's A Woman? GOP Senators Stumble On Their Own Question To Ketanji Brown Jackson. — Some mentioned body parts. Some cited chromosomes. Others didn't want to talk about it at all. — WASHINGTON ― Republicans mocked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson last month …

Discussion: Raw Story and Al Jazeera

Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Sens. Hyde-Smith, Wicker Voting ‘No’ On Ketanji Brown Jackson For Supreme Court

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, UpCurrent and Colorado Newsline

David French / The French Press:
Against the ‘Groomer’ Smear — It's not ‘pro-pedophile’ to back Ketanji Brown Jackson …

Discussion: HotAir, Mediaite, BernardGoldberg.com and Washington Post

Samantha Cole / VICE:

Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country — Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. — Samantha Cole — One year ago this month, Apple unveiled the AirTag …

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Giorgio Leali / Politico:

How Marine Le Pen closed the gap on Emmanuel Macron — PARIS — Emmanuel Macron can't rest easy just yet — Marine Le Pen is inching closer. — With just days to go before France heads to the polls for the first round of the presidential ballot, a new survey by Harris Interactive …

Discussion: Jacobin, The New Arab and Breitbart

Sylvie Corbet / Associated Press:
Macron leads polls but turnout a big question in French vote

Discussion: The New Arab and UrduPoint News

Tim Miller / The Bulwark:

The Republican Party Is Trump Steaks — Truth Social, the president's latest private sector scam to flop was promoted relentlessly by official GOP accounts. — It's been an inauspicious start for TRUTH Social, the former president's new Twitter knock-off, helmed by bovine ex-Congressman Devin Nunes.

Discussion: Insider, Washington Examiner, CBS News and Talking Points Memo

Matt Egan / CNN:

Deutsche Bank is the first big bank to forecast a US recession — New York (CNN Business)The Federal Reserve's fight against inflation will spark a recession in the United States that begins late next year, Deutsche Bank warned on Tuesday. — The recession call — the first from a major bank …

Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller, Board of Governors …, Breitbart, Washington Post and Instapundit

William A. Galston / Wall Street Journal:
How Will Inflation End? — Larry Summers forecasts a major recession and high unemployment.

Discussion: Wide World of News

Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:

Wisconsin Voters Oust a Fake Trump Elector — Kelly Ruh was part of a string of candidates running for local office today after casting doubt on Biden's win—or attempting to actively thwart it. — Kelly Ruh, a Wisconsin official who two years ago posed as a presidential elector …

Discussion: Insider and Raw Story

Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:

Election claims dominate lively night for Trump, allies at Mar-a-Lago — PALM BEACH — Former president Donald Trump and a coterie of his top allies, donors and paying club members gathered at his palatial beachfront club Tuesday night for a reunion of sorts: to sip Trump-branded wine …

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Mark Kelly's breaks with Biden pile up — He helped sink one of Joe Biden's labor nominees, pushed the president to open new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and hammered the administration over lifting pandemic-era restrictions on the southern border. — No, it's not a Republican. It's Mark Kelly.

Discussion: HotAir, Washington Post, Twitchy and CNN

Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Sinema throws cold water on Build Back Better revival

Discussion: The Western Journal

Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:

Roberts Joins Liberals In Opinion Criticizing Conservative Majority's Use Of Shadow Docket — Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberals in a dissent Wednesday perhaps most striking for its final paragraph: a critique of the conservative majority's frequent use of the shadow docket …

Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and pjmedia.com

Joshua Green / Bloomberg:

The Bridgewater CEO Who Went Full MAGA — If you were to pick the high point of David McCormick's career in finance, it might've come on a bright summer day in 2019 at the Belle Haven Club, a Gatsby-esque waterside retreat in Greenwich, Conn., that's popular with local billionaires.

Lindsay Kornick / Fox News:

MSNBC's Joy Reid calls Republicans the ‘pro-rape, pro child marriage party’ — Reid has repeatedly demonized Republicans — MSNBC host Joy Reid argued that Republicans are now appealing to a pro-rape and pro-child marriage base. — On Tuesday, Reid tweeted out a thread condemning the Republican Party …

Andrea Widburg / American Thinker:

Proof has emerged from the White House that Biden's presidency is over — Barack Obama was at the White House yesterday, making it clear, as did others at the reception held in Obama's honor, that Biden's presidency is over. Watching Obama suck the oxygen out of the room made me wonder …

Discussion: pjmedia.com, The Blue State Conservative, Breitbart, WINK NEWS, New York Post, Power Line, Jack's Newsletter, Townhall, Washington Times, BizPac Review, Washington Examiner, RedState, TheGrio, The Western Journal, Metro.co.uk, The Guardian and Just The News

Erin Doherty / Axios:

DNC chair: Republican Party is “built on fraud, fear and fascism” — Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison on Wednesday slammed the Republican Party, saying “it is a party built on fraud, fear and fascism” in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Discussion: Insider, ArkansasTimes, Mediaite and Raw Story

Fox News:

CNN, MSNBC dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ until liberal narrative was deflated — ‘CNN and MSNBC... need to come clean in a manner befitting their media malpractice,’ William A. Jacobson said — Flashback: CNN, MSNBC frequently called Hunter Biden laptop ‘Russian misinformation’

Alina Selyukh / NPR:

Chris Smalls started Amazon's 1st union. He's now heard from workers at 50 warehouses — Chris Smalls is president of the newly minted Amazon Labor Union. — It is the behemoth company's first U.S. union, and was born on Friday after a dramatic and unexpected victory over Amazon by a ragtag grassroots movement.

Discussion: NewsOne and Jamil Jivani

Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:

U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs to retire amid primary battle forced by redistricting — WASHINGTON, D. C. - U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs, an amiable farmer elected to Congress in a 2010 sweep that brought the Republican Party into power in the U.S. House of Representatives, on Wednesday announced his retirement …

Discussion: NBC News, Washington Examiner, CNN, Bloomberg, Politico, The Hill, Fox News, The Daily Caller and RRH Elections

Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:

FBI has names of hundreds more Jan. 6 rioters. DOJ needs more lawyers to prosecute them. — WASHINGTON — Aided by citizen sleuths who keep identifying Jan. 6 rioters, the Justice Department is finding that it has more cases than lawyers to prosecute them.

Discussion: Hackwhackers and Raw Story