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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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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 …
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.
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CNN:
Russian troops leave behind trail of dead civilians, flattened apartment blocks, and V signs in Ukraine's Borodianka — This story contains graphic imagery. — Borodianka, Ukraine (CNN)Oksana Kostychenko walks down a narrow pathway, leading to her back garden in Borodianka.
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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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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Why Tracking Putin's Wealth Is So Difficult
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CNN:
It's too soon to say Putin has given up on capturing Kyiv, despite strategy shift, Western officials warn
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Washington Post:
A weary Zelensky challenges U.N. to act with graphic video for diplomats
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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.
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Sens. Hyde-Smith, Wicker Voting ‘No’ On Ketanji Brown Jackson For Supreme Court
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David French / The French Press:
Against the ‘Groomer’ Smear — It's not ‘pro-pedophile’ to back Ketanji Brown Jackson …
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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William A. Galston / Wall Street Journal:
How Will Inflation End? — Larry Summers forecasts a major recession and high unemployment.
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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 …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Sinema throws cold water on Build Back Better revival — Last year, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) publicly sounded the death knell for President Biden's Build Back Better agenda. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), his fellow holdout, is privately concurring, Axios has learned.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mark Kelly's breaks with Biden pile up
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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 …
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 …
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.
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’
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 …
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.
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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 …
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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.
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BuzzFeed News:
Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With “The Orb.” Now They Feel Robbed. — As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends, a small crowd caught his attention. At its center, three men held up an otherworldly silver sphere that spoke in a brisk, business-like voice.
Fox News:
Biden wrote college recommendation letter for son of Hunter's Chinese business partner, emails reveal — Biden's recommendation letter for Chinese executive's son was sent directly to Brown's president, email says — Hunter Biden probe has DOJ in ‘untenable’ position, case for a special counsel is ‘absolutely clear’: Turley
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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.
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Katie S. Phang / MSNBC:
Ginni Thomas, Trump and America's worst-kept secret — The Ginni Thomas saga gets even more interesting — With so much wild and crazy news inundating us each day, it can be easy to quickly move from one shocking and outrageous story on to the next. But in the case of Ginni Thomas …
LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
Stand back, because Lindsey Graham keeps flip-flopping like crazy — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to be confirmed this week after a bipartisan group of senators voted on Monday to advance her nomination. So far only three Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine …
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